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"Frens" in particular is, yes.
by Ixiaus 4y ago
"Frens" in particular is, yes.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoGo on.
- tartsky 4y ago"far-right ethno-nationalists"
- tmaly 4y agoHmm learned something new. All this time I thought it was just lingo of the younger generation
- Hellion 4y agoIt is, of the new young far right https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren
- tartsky 4y agoI'm glad to see there's barely any uptake of the term on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=frens&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Mostly people talking about it, not using it.
- the_only_law 4y agoYeah look, I'm still pretty young, I'm usually "in" on whatever Internet slang is en-vouge and even use it myself in more casual places, but I still cringe when I see "zoomer speak" on this site.
- Zaskoda 4y agodeep sigh "The idea is to talk like a small child or intellectually disabled person" That's effectively an ignorant description of the entire doge meme. RationalWiki's "source" for this information is a Reddit post with 6 upvotes and 5 comments. It's remarkable that anyone on hackernews even knew about this. What is this subculture that watches for any slang to be used by an objectionable group so that it can be proclaimed a cultural characteristic of said group?
- the_only_law 4y ago> information is a Reddit post with 6 upvotes and 5 comments. It's remarkable that anyone on hackernews even knew about this. Not for any "extremely online" person. Hell iirc, the original honkler subreddit or whatever the hell it was called even made in to mainstream media.
- the_only_law 4y agoFWIW I think GP has a point, a lot of this stuff just bleeds into normal Internet slang. Despite what the news would say, I don't expect any rando posting pepe memes in a discord to be a hardcore /pol/ dweeb.
- freiherr 4y agoIt makes sense, but wouldn't think about that myself. But still it's just a word from Apu Apustaja memes that rightwingers try to take for themselves.
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- cecilpl2 4y agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though.
- cratermoon 4y ago> It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though. So does the "OK" gesture. The swastika existed for almost 2000 years, and was a good luck symbol, even in the west, until 1930s. The sonnenrad, the othal rune, the Celtic cross, and the triskele.
- Zababa 4y agoI don't remember "frens" being used as a symbol by a country/ideology commiting war crimes during a world war.
- robonerd 4y ago> So does the "OK" gesture. P(uses the OK gesture) dwarfs P(is alt-right). Plug it all into Bayes theorem and you'll find that P(is alt-right|gestures OK) must be small. In other words, you're falling for a manufactured hysteria. One that is designed to make people jump at shadows, level unjustified accusations, and generally make you seem uncredible and neurotic.
- stickfigure 4y agoOnly fringe ideologues desperately searching for outrage think the OK gesture has anything to do with white supremacy. This is the McMartin Preschool of the present day. The swastika, on the other hand, was used in living memory by an organization that murdered millions of people. Like the toothbrush mustache, it will be generations before that can come back in style.