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Another 4chan hoax. https://np.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/rwpli5/anon_has_an_idea/ https://np.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/rwpli5/anon_has_an_id... See also t

Another 4chan hoax. https://np.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/rwpli5/anon_has_an_idea/ https://np.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/rwpli5/anon_has_an_id... See also the OK hand symbol hoax: The “OK” hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-...

slowhand09 5y ago
Careful lest the conspiracists say you are gaslighting them. Everybody chooses to be offended by something, even if they have to invent it themselves.
- tata71 5y ago
  Genuinely can't tell if you mean conspiracy theorists, or conspirators. ..can you?
  - slowhand09 5y ago
    conspiracy theorists. Poor choice or words on my part. Thank you.
malermeister 5y ago
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mecha_ghidorah 5y ago
I still think it is amazing that the OK gesture being racist started as a prank, basically "these idiots on twitter see racism everywhere, lets make the some of them think the one of the most innocuous gestures imaginable is racist" and it spread so well now a lot of people think it genuinely is racist... including some actual racists by the seems of things. It kind of scares me to think about how vulnerable culture is to this kind of thing. A small number of people say this is true, not enough people question it, so now it's true. It's inane
panarky 5y ago
> originated as one of these hoaxes The origin story of a thing tells us very little about the thing as it actually exists today. "It's dumb that people pay real money for Dogecoin because it started as a joke." It may or may not be worth anything, but its origin story doesn't help figure out if it is or not. "Look at the woke mob freaking out about the OK hand sign, its origin was a chan/kun hoax." Meanwhile, racists and actual Nazis routinely use the symbol with each other.
- tata71 5y ago
  They likely use the thumbs-up, too....
- readthenotes1 5y ago
  As do scuba divers

slowhand09 5y ago

Careful lest the conspiracists say you are gaslighting them. Everybody chooses to be offended by something, even if they have to invent it themselves.

tata71 5y ago
Genuinely can't tell if you mean conspiracy theorists, or conspirators. ..can you?
- slowhand09 5y ago
  conspiracy theorists. Poor choice or words on my part. Thank you.

malermeister 5y ago

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mecha_ghidorah 5y ago

I still think it is amazing that the OK gesture being racist started as a prank, basically "these idiots on twitter see racism everywhere, lets make the some of them think the one of the most innocuous gestures imaginable is racist" and it spread so well now a lot of people think it genuinely is racist... including some actual racists by the seems of things. It kind of scares me to think about how vulnerable culture is to this kind of thing. A small number of people say this is true, not enough people question it, so now it's true. It's inane

panarky 5y ago

> originated as one of these hoaxes The origin story of a thing tells us very little about the thing as it actually exists today. "It's dumb that people pay real money for Dogecoin because it started as a joke." It may or may not be worth anything, but its origin story doesn't help figure out if it is or not. "Look at the woke mob freaking out about the OK hand sign, its origin was a chan/kun hoax." Meanwhile, racists and actual Nazis routinely use the symbol with each other.

tata71 5y ago
They likely use the thumbs-up, too....
readthenotes1 5y ago
As do scuba divers