Hello there. My name's Alberto Barbosa. I'm a longtime progressive community organiser and activist.
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We wuz Cardposting n sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
Wagies
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the word wagie and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. Simply put, in the terminology of online alt-right trolls and provocateur, wagie is a derogatory way to refer to essentially anyone who works a job. A lot of online trolls and image board shut-ins hate, for lack of a better term, normal people and this extends to anyone who participates in society and this term wagie literally means someone who works for a wage. Now crucially reactionaries aren't using this sort of term to make any critique of wage labor under capitalism like a leftist might. It's a product of the edgy, nihilistic, antisocial, online far rightwing worldview and the people who parrot this phrase do so basically just because they spurn the real world and feel personally grieved. It's like how a lot of far right incels can't get over the fact nobody wants to date them so they go all sour grapes and incorrectly start to look down their nose at anyone who does have a healthy social life. Unemployed reactionaries cope by calling anyone who has found gainful work a wagie. If you see this term online somewhere its user is most likely a ne're-do-well who's washed in from an image board website like 4chan or 8chan where, of course, the term wagie is very common. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to overlook. So if you ever happen to see the word wagie somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why and it should register to you as a pretty big red flag."
Card don't get no wage to take down the vile alt-right. He does it for free. When a leftist critiques wage labor under capitalism it's a good thing because it's from a leftist's point of view because they hate capitalism. When the far right does it it's edgy, nihilistic, and antisocial and they do it because they're unemployed. Knowing the difference will help keep your safe space safe!
"Mystery Meat"
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the term "mystery meat" and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. In short, the phrase or term "mystery meat" is one of the little coded ways racists and hardcore alt-right types will refer to people they don't like without most normal people catching on. Were a racist willing to be openly bigoted towards a minority group group on a big mainstream website like Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, for instance, they pretty quickly get called out and likely face the consequences of being racist like getting banned or excluded from those bases. One of the racial minority groups the alt-right hates in particular is mixed race people and what alt-right types have taken to doing especially in the past few years is to refer to mixed race people as "mystery meat", pejoratively referring to their mixed ethnic background of course. This is a way for racists to communicate their anti-race mixing beliefs to one another with the slightest veneer of abstract obfuscation away from what they really mean and to give themselves a tiny bit of plausible deniability in the event someone does try to point out that they're they're a racist. So if you see someone online describing someone else as a mystery meat or curiously mentioning how much they dislike meat of an unknown background, all apropos of nothing, now you know the reason why and it should register as a pretty big red flag."
Does racism know no bounds? I will eat three tins of Spam, straight out of the can, to show my solidarity to all of those mixed race children and to let the Nazis know that I mean business!
Excessive Tipping
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about allusions to excessive tipping and how that's become a contemporary reactionary signal of sorts, particularly in online spaces. In short, when reactionaries complain about excessive tipping, as in giving a service worker a gratuity as reward for their work, they might appear to be merely critiquing the growing social expectation in some places, especially in the US, to tip very generously or to tip for services that historically didn't involve tipping. However, when you see this online it's often actually one of the little coded ways alt-right types signal their real beliefs to one another online without most normal people catching on. See when reactionaries complain about excessive tipping it's actually an illusion to a core element of the alt-right's social mythology. They believe that an unseen group, which is to say a global Jewish cabal, is secretly conspiring to make the service provided in businesses like restaurants and cafes worse all while normalizing the expectation that customers pay more and more as part of an elaborate humiliation ritual on the rest of mankind. Modern far right-wing types really believe this and they believe that if they all fight against the further normalizing of tipping culture that will be a win for them against the Jews. Now, crucially, it must be pointed out that the reactionaries aren't making any sort of serious critique of tipping or of the surface industry or of the reliance of many people on receiving tips in the same way a leftist, who is against tipping culture, might. It's all purely a product of their insane conspiracy theorist mindset. It may be possible for some with genuinely good intentions to levy a critique of the economic systems which perpetuate the need to tip service workers of course but at the same same time just be aware that this is something the alt-right also feels strongly about and for entirely the wrong reasons. So if you ever happen to see someone online complaining very conspicuously about tipping it could potentially be something of a red flag so maybe take a closer look at what else they say so you can sus out their intentions properly."
You can only complain about tipping if you're doing it as a leftist who's critiquing capitalism. All other forms of tipping complaining are bigotry created in the crucible of Jew hate.
"Muh"
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the word "muh", spelled M-U-H, as well as what it means and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of dog whistles used by right wingers online are simply old memes and in jokes from image board websites like 4chan and 8chan. The reason for this is that these sorts of pseudo anonymous, edgy online forums have been favorite online spaces of the Internet savvy alt-right for as long as the alt-right has been a thing and, therefore, being able to readily quote and reference a bunch of old obscure image board jokes has essentially become a way to demonstrate your extensive familiarity with sites like 4chan and 8chan and so on and if you know the meme culture of these sorts of sites then 99 times out of 100 that can be taken as meaning that you're also familiar with and likely sympathetic to the far right-wing political worldview long nurtured there. It's not a big leap then that a lot of online reactionaries use knowledge of these old jokes and references as a way to signal their alt-right bona fides to one another anytime they're posting or commenting somewhere online where they can't be so open about their extreme and really nasty beliefs. If you say something obviously bigoted on a big mainstream site like Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or YouTube people will notice and you'll suffer the consequences but if you couch your bigotry behind coded jokes that only the other 8chan nerds will get you can find friends and spread your messaging without most normal people being any the wiser. To this end, one of the bits of terminology which online alt-right types frequently use is the word "muh". This is a sarcastic way a lot of online reactionaries will express their belief in the allegedly trivial or overly emotional nature of social justice messaging which they believe or at least claim is a big problem. The word is meant to be a dismissive way of ignoring progressive or liberal causes and it's something that a lot of 4chan types like to parrot, thinking that they're making some sort of point, when in actuality, of course, there's nothing wrong with someone caring about progressive issues. The way it will be used is most commonly as a prefix of sorts before a topic which a reactionary is dismissive of. For example, suppose an alt-righter sees a post made by a leftist talking about the importance of green environmental policy then the alt-righter will simply comment "muh environmentalism" or on a post or in a public online forum space talking about the vital need for access to abortion related healthcare a reactionary might just spam "muh baby killing" or if the topic is the long history of anti-Semitism in the west a Neo-Nazi might say "muh 6 million" or "muh Holo hoax" because they're just being dismissive and disrespectful of the topic. Like a lot of stuff the online rightwing does this is dumb but this is a way alt-right types signal their beliefs to one another they want their buddies to know how much they don't like progressive causes but in a way that most progressives still seem to turn a blind eye to. So if you happen to see someone online using the word "muh", all apropos of nothing, it should be a pretty big red flag."
They alt-right only uses "muh" to attack and trivialize progressive issues. They have never used it to be dismissive of anything other than progressive issues. If someone "muh"s you, block, report, and do not feel bad because in actuality, of course, there's nothing wrong with someone caring about progressive issues. 8chan nerds WISH they could care about something as cool as abortion or going over the holocaust for the infinite time!
Dog Disparity
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about allusions to supposed differences and disparities between breeds of dog as well as what that means and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of the online, far right congregate most of the time on dedicated reactionary forums and image boards where they're free to be as openly bigoted as they want to be but whenever they're on the normal, regular side of the Internet they'll often reuse a lot of the same alt-right jokes and memes and talking points they would with other reactionaries but they'll couch it all in abstract language and obtuse references so that it flies over the heads of most normal people. If you consider yourself a socially conscious progressive you should try to familiarize yourself with a lot of the general references and talking points online reactionaries will bring up so that you don't let them fly under your radar when they're trying to spread their ideology and signal their beliefs to one another online. After all, knowing is half the battle. In particular, a lot of the reactionary content you might see posted online that you should be aware of are hateful racist jokes and tropes that have simply been lifted straight from neo-Nazi forums and the like and given the slightest veneer of obfuscating abstraction away from what they really mean. To this end, one of the ways alt-right types and other racists will covertly or interpersonally attempt to communicate their racist ideas is to substitute the names of types of dogs for types of people in their racist online screeds. For instance, if an online racist just openly said they think white people are better than black people and that we ought to kill or remove all black people they'd very quickly get called out for being racist and suffer the consequences like uh getting banned or blocked from whatever platform they're using and people would know that they're a racist *jump cut* but if that same online racist said that they think golden retrievers are better than pitbulls and that we ought to impound all the pitbulls almost no one except the other racists who get the subtext would pick up on what they really mean. This is the a sort of way modern online racists will code their language and once you start to pick up on it it's easy to understand. They might call white people golden retrievers or Aryan whites, in particular, German Shepherds. Black people become pitbulls because of the stereotype that pitbulls are genetically predisposed towards violence and aggression and can't be trained well. They call Jews borzois because of the borzoi's long nose and curly hair to stereotypically Jewish traits and they might rephrase their anti-Semitic conspiracy theory so that it sounds more like the borzois are subverting golden retriever Society by bringing in more chihuahuas to diminish the breeding stock of Western kennels. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it all means it might still be easy to overlook. So if you ever see different breeds of dog being invoked like this somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know the reason why and it should register to you as something of a red flag."
This is why cat ladies are inherently good and the future because dogs and noticing that there are differences in the breeds is racist.
"An Hero"
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the term or phrase "an hero" as well as what that is, what it means, and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of dog whistles used by right wingers online are simply old memes and in jokes from image board websites like 4chan and 8chan. The reason for this is that these sorts of pseudo anonymous, edgy online forums have been favorite online spaces of the Internet savvy alt-right for as long as the alt-right has been a thing and, therefore, being able to readily quote and reference a bunch of old obscure image board jokes has essentially become a way to demonstrate your extensive familiarity with sites like 4chan and 8chan and so on and if you know the meme culture of these sorts of sites then 99 times out of 100 that can be taken as meaning that you're also familiar with and likely sympathetic to the far rightwing political worldview long nurtured there. It's not a big leap then that a lot of online reactionaries use knowledge of these old jokes and references as a way to signal their alt-right bona fides to one another anytime they're posting or commenting somewhere online where they can't be so open about their extreme and really nasty beliefs. If you say something obviously bigoted on a big mainstream site like Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or YouTube, for example, people will notice and you'll likely suffer the consequences but if you couch your bigotry behind coded jokes that only the other 8chan nerds will get you'll you'll be able to find friends and spread your messaging without most normal people being any the wiser. To this end, in the terminology of online alt-right trolls and provocateurs, to "an hero" is to commit suicide and a "an hero" is someone who has. The term itself comes from the image board site 4chan which in 2006 discovered the online obituary of a teenager named Mitchell Henderson who tragically took his own life that same year. A message left on Henderson's public obituary by a grieving family member described him as "such an hero" which people on 4chan evidently thought was funny and the 4channers focused on this slight error of phrasing to the point where it became something of a stock term to throw around ironically to describe deceased people *jump cut* then once it faded out of relevance it just became an obscure term people might only really use if they wanted to make it known they knew old 4chan means, which is how the term is primarily used to this day. If you see someone online telling you to become "an hero" they're telling you to kill yourself in old 4chan lingo uh and specifically they want other old 4chan dorks to know that they are also an old 4chan dork. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know it means it might still be easy to overlook. So if you ever see the phrase "an hero" somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why and it should register to you as a pretty big red flag."
Only 4chan dorks and 8chan nerds will tell you to become "an hero". Chad Card and his Cardstock will stare into your eyes and tell you "Hello there. You should engage in the act of self harm most commonly known as suicide. Suicide is a term that has been around for awhile now and refers to the act of ending one's own life and you should do that, preferably in the more violent the better. Hope this helps." Keep your safe spaces and iPods safe from Nazis.
Cornflakes
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I want to talk about pointed allusions to liking Cornflakes the breakfast cereal as well as how that's become a contemporary reactionary signal and meme of sorts, particularly in online spaces. In short, Cornflakes, the well-known breakfast cereal, were invented in the late 19th century by John and Will Kellogg, a pair of strident 7th Day Adventists who had a big interest in promoting bland and unstimulating food stuffs because of their beliefs that that sort of diet would promote more moral behavior. Cornflakes and the Kellogg's brand persists to this day, of course, although the overt moralizing has been dropped from their advertising but many people on the online hard right wing know this little factoid about the origin of Cornflakes and they've turned it into something of a symbol of their politics because many online alt-rightists consider themselves Christian moralist types and think that a return to 19th century moral values would be a good thing for the world and they express this belief amongst themselves by referencing among other things eating Cornflakes. They convey their political allegiances to each other by saying things like they want to return to Cornflakes values or by making memes with Kellogg's iconography in them because they all think is funny and true and they know it'll fly completely over the heads of most normal people online. All that said, now if you happen to see people online loudly or conspicuously mentioning how much they like corn flakes specifically, all apropos of nothing, now you know the reason why. Maybe look for some more context clues but you can be pretty confident it's likely just reactionary posturing."
You may think that Card is desperately reaching with this video but that's because your brain is weak from eating slop like oats, steak, eggs, or Wheaties. If you see someone eating a bowl of bigotry like this
then you should kick them out your house and potentially make them a ward of the state. True progressives feed their wife's kids breakfast cereal with the most
sugar flavor per spoonful.
They are the future, after all.
Grabblers
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about images of a character commonly referred to as the Grabbler as well as what that is what it means and how it's become part of contemporary reactionary iconography, particularly in online spaces. In short, a lot of the online alt-right terms and memes that the altright uses are just modern digital rehashes of tired old neo-Nazi content. To that end, one of the most enduring and reused online far right-wing symbols is this image which is commonly referred to as the Happy Merchant.
This picture was created by a prominent neo-Nazi cartoonist, being designed to play off of old anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews like they're covetous or greedy and it's essentially a stand-in for the archetypal Jew in the alt-right imagination. However, it should be noted that this isn't the only image like this which is based off of anti-Semitic stereotypes which the alt-right likes. In 2009 the satirical comedy news outlet The Onion released a sketch where the punchline to the whole thing is essentially that one character ends up unwittingly drawing an anti-Semitic caricature as the supposed personification of financial stress in their life. This is that caricature
It's referred to in the sketch as the Grabbler and ever since neo-Nazis and other far rightwing types have been using it earnestly as an anti-Semitic of sorts. Often they'll even use the fact it's from a comedy show as something of a defense if they ever get called out on their blatant anti-Semitism but make no mistake if you see this posted somewhere online it's because a Neo-Nazi thinks it's funny."
Anit-Semitism is never funny and Ben Collins should be ashamed of himself for buying such a horrific site as The Onion. If you find Card posting posting images right over his own face like it's a low effort photoshop funny then you are probably racist too.
Hot Pockets
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about pointed allusions to Hot Pockets, an American brand of microwavable sandwich product, as well as what they mean and how they've become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of dog whistles used by right wingers online are simply old memes and in jokes from image board websites like 4chan and 8chan. The reason for this is that these sorts of pseudo anonymous, edgy on online forums have been favorite online spaces of the Internet have the alt-right for as long as the alt-right has been a thing and, therefore, being able to readily quote and reference a bunch of old obscure image board jokes has essentially become a way to demonstrate your extensive familiarity with sites like 4chan and 8chan and so on and if you know the meme culture of these sorts of sites then 99 times out of 100 that can be taken as meaning that you're also familiar with and likely sympathetic to the far right-wing political worldview long nurtured there. It's not a big leap then that a lot of online reactionaries use knowledge of these old jokes and references as a way to signal their alt-right bona fides to one another anytime they're posting or commenting somewhere online where they can't be so open about their extreme and really nasty beliefs. If you say something obviously bigoted on a big mainstream site like Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or YouTube, for instance, people will notice and you'll suffer the consequences but if you couch your bigotry behind coded jokes that only the other 8chan nerds will get you can find friends and spread your messaging without most normal people being any wiser. Firstly, it must be noted that online alt-right trolls and provocateurs absolutely hate Internet forum and website moderators. Naturally, online trolls hate anyone whose role is to prevent people from ruining a website or a forum with their presence or their actions. A lot of the time if you see really vocal anti-website moderator sentiment online the person posting it is most likely a ne'er-do-well who's washed in from an image board Forum like 4chan or 8chan. To this end, one of the longstanding memes of the sort, which online alt-right trolls acknowledge between themselves and use to demean moderators, is to strongly associate them with Hot Pockets, which is a brand of inexpensive, low-end, microwave cooked sandwich like food stuff. They make this comparison insultingly. The implication being that if you liked or ate lots of Hot Pockets it must be because of your poor core standards for food or your reliance on only eating the most easily cookable food on the market or some combination of the two. There's a lot of material out there alt-right types directly vent their hatred of online moderators with and this is one of the themes or pieces of iconography they most frequently invoke, online moderators eating lots of Hot Pockets. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to overlook. So if you ever see Hot Pockets being directly associated with Internet moderators somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why and it should register to you as something of a red flag."
You hear that racists? Stop talking about Hot Pockets, a brand of inexpensive, low-end, microwave cooked sandwich like food stuff. You demeaning unpaid moderators by reminding them that they can only afford to eat slop like Hot Pockets is bigotry and will no longer be tolerated!
Burger King Crown
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about cardboard Burger King crowns
and how they've become an element of contemporary reactionary iconography, particularly in online spaces. In short, in 2020 an American man named Ryan Brewer was removed from an airplane after he began shouting racial epithets at other passengers. Footage of this soon went viral online and given his language Brewer himself became particularly popular with posters of the infamous image board website 4chan. In the footage, Brewer is seen wearing, strangely enough, a cardboard Crown distributed as promotional merchandise for the fast food chain Burger King.
Ever since these crowns have become something of a symbol of reactionary grievance and they soon began getting incorporated into the memes and alt-right propaganda imagery made by the sorts of online reactionaries who frequent image boards like 4chan. The crown itself becoming a symbolic representation that the person wearing it has the sort of world view that would lead someone to shouting racial slurs publicly which the online far right sees as very laudable. If you've ever seen someone online posting pictures of people or characters wearing the sort of cardboard Burger King Crown at the very least now you know the reason why and it should register to you as something of a red flag."
True progressives eat at Taco Bell. In the future, all restaurants will be Taco Bell.
Poison Dart Frogs
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the term poison dart frogs, what it means and how it become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. In short, poison dart frog is one of the little coded terms internet reactionaries use to describe or label people they don't like. It's a reference to a real type of animal, poison dart frog, which is a whole sub type of highly toxic very brightly colored amphibians native to South America.
A lot of online right-wing types like to conflate these frogs with progressives, particularly progressive women, or at least the stereotypical image of a progressive women these people have in their heads. This is an allusion to the notion that progressive women are toxic in their eyes and to the stereotype that a progressive woman, uh, would have loud, unnaturally dyed hair so they're like the frogs, supposedly. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to overlook though. So if you ever happen to see the term poison dart frog being used to describe people online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why. It's a term straight from misogynistic, women hating, incel forums and the like which they use to describe the imagined Lefty chick archetype but a lot of guys online seem to live in constant seething fear of. As with any dog whistle or obtuse reactionary internet term it does help to be able to spot these sorts of things so you can sus out any online situation properly which you can only do if you know what these sorts of terms and bits of iconography mean in the first place."
This term is so vile that it is both misogynistic AND women hating! I cannot believe that racists are fearful of dyed hair like this!
Alberto Barbosa
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about images of a man commonly referred to as Alberto Barbosa as well as what they mean and how they've become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. In short, this image of a black man wearing a Portuguese flag head scarf is known as Alberto Barbosa by online alt-right propagandists and provocateurs.
It was made in in 2015 by users of the infamous image board website 4chan and the image itself is simply a photoshopped piece of promotional artwork from the computer game Age of Empires 2 but the this picture was made as a way to signal its posters beliefs in the alt-right worldview. The meaning conveyed by the photoshopped Alberto Barbosa image is meant to be so obtuse that typically only other reactionaries would pick up on it if it gets posted somewhere but what it conveys is a belief in the great replacement conspiracy theory, which is a core element of modern reactionary thought and what that is is essentially the notion that white Europeans are being replaced by non-white foreigners for the benefit of some unseen global cabal and the idea that this Alberto Barbosa picture speaks to, in a somewhat tongue and gek fashion, is that this is now supposedly what a typical Portuguese person looks like where he still got a typical normal Portuguese name, Alberto Barbosa, but he's visibly of African extraction. If you see someone online invoking the name Alberto Barbosa or posting this image or some variation of it where it'll have perhaps replaced the standard Portuguese flag design on the head scarf with that of another countries the reason it's being posted is because some image board ne'er-do-well wants to let all the other image board ne'er-do-well who might see it know that they're in on this conspiracy theory. That's the reason this image exists it's a direct reference to the great replacement Theory."
If you've only seen and known this image being used with the We Wuz Kangs meme and have never heard the idea that it somehow represents the great replacement theory
The you're just fucking stupid and need to educate yourself more gooder.
"Current Thing"
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the phrase "I support the current thing", what it means and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of dog whistles used by right wingers online are simply old memes and in jokes from image board websites like 4chan and 8chan. The reason for this is that these sorts of pseudo anonymous, edgy online forums have been favorite online spaces of the Internet savvy alt-right for as long as the alt-right has been a thing and, therefore, being able to readily quote and reference a bunch of old obscure image board jokes has essentially become a way to demonstrate your extensive familiarity with sites like 4chan and 8chan and so on and if you know the meme culture of these sorts of sites then 99 times out of 100 that can be taken as meaning that you're also familiar with and likely sympathetic to the far right-wing political worldview along nurtured there. It's not a big leap then that a lot of online reactionaries use knowledge of these old jokes and references as a way to signal their alt-right bona fides to one another anytime they're posting or commenting somewhere online where they can't be so open about their extreme and really nasty beliefs. If you say something obviously bigoted on a big mainstream site like Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or YouTube, people will notice and you'll suffer the consequences but if you couch your bigotry behind coded jokes that only the other 8chan nerds will get you can find friends and spread your messaging without most normal people being any the wiser. To this end, one of the bits of terminology which the online alt-right frequently uses is the phrase "I support the current thing". This is a sarcastic way a lot of online reactionaries will allude to the supposedly disingenuous or performative nature of social justice messaging which they believe, or at least claim, is a big problem. The phrase is meant to refer to the way progressive advocates will supposedly begin to support whatever pressing new issues become the subject of media attention and it's something that a lot of 4chan types like to parrot, thinking that they're making a point, when in actuality of course there's nothing wrong with someone caring about a new subject. Once they become aware of it like a lot of stuff the online right-wing does this is dumb but this is a way alt-right types do signal their beliefs to one another online so if you see someone on online using the phrase "I support the current thing", all apropos of nothing, it's a big red flag. They are an image board shut-in who wants all the other image board shut-ins to know they revel in their disinterest about current events."
Slacktivism IS activism and anyone who says otherwise is 8chan nerd shut-in who's jealous of progressivism.
Crabs' Legs
How is it racist?
"Today specifically I wanted to talk about crabs' legs and how they become a part of contemporary reactionary iconography, particularly in online spaces. Anonymous image board websites like 4chan and 8chan are home to a lot of far right-wing people who use something of an ever evolving cannon of esoteric memes to communicate. Usually people like that largely just congregate on the designated political boards of image board websites like those, where they talk amongst themselves and share resources and sometimes make plans for things to do offline. Theoretically it should be easy or an outsider to observe these particular areas of these image board websites and sus out what people are doing there and even potentially infiltrate the online communities which start off as merely collections of image board posters but in order to prevent this easily happening, regular posters on the political sections of these websites will co-opt the obtuse lingo and memes of other parts of the site in order to make it that much more difficult for someone unfamiliar with these terms to follow along with anything that's being said. Additionally, by doing this online alt-righters will be able to recognize one another on the rest of the Internet by referencing these terms and jokes and if they're ever called out for openly referencing a reactionary image board term because these terms and memes don't often appear to be openly offensive they get a bit of undue plausible deniability to try and wiggle out of the accusation. On a site like 4chan, for example, users of the infamous pol board have adopted many of the terms and jokes created and popularized by the television and film subsection of the website. To that end, one strange meme poll regulars will use to communicate amongst themselves and locate one another on other websites is to reference purchasing crabs' legs at a cinema concession stand. Among 4chan users, buying crabs' legs at the cinema was originally just a surreal joke which played off the idea of there being melted butter at cinema concession stands for popcorn but now this old meme is just something of a way for really hardcore, experienced 4chan users to reference something really oblique most people won't get and that's why alt-right types started to use it because it's something you would only properly know about and recognize if you had been on 4chan for a while. So if you happen to see people online referencing the idea of buying crabs' legs of all things at the cinema it may sound like just a dumb joke but it's actually something they would have picked up from being in some pretty noxious places online and they're likely referencing it in the hopes that someone with views similar to them will notice it and pick up on the fact they're familiar with alt-right terminology and likely at least sympathetic to their views."
You hear that, 4chan dorks and 8chan nerds? Card is sick of you stealing memes from /tv/ and making them racist n sheeeeeeeeeeeeit! Theoretically, he's already infiltrated your ranks and knows of your plans of doing stuff offline! He will track you. He will find you. You will know your bigotry has come to an end when he stands over your broken body and whispers "Hello there".
For some reason I just assumed Cardposting wasn't consequential enough to have a thread lmao.
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I made it purely for his videos. They are so autisticly robotic that I find them pretty fascinating. I don't know much of anything about who Card is as a person but I find him to be very silly in his ridiculous attempts to save the world, one kind greeting and pointless/wrong explanation at a time. Like, look at the "an hero" vid. He made the conscious decision to include an iPod in it, which is part of the lore I forgot until I went back and looked it up, but he never explains it or even mentions it. Look at the Barbosa video. He's convinced that it's purely in reference to the great replacement. I have never once in my life heard of it being used like that. Maybe it's a newer thing but I have only seen it used as a We Wuz Kangz joke or blacks pretending they were always part of some other, non-black, country or culture. The original was done to mock the inclusion of Portugal in the AoE2 expansion The African Kingdoms. That's in the opening paragraph of the Know Your Meme article. Two or so weeks ago he did a video on "do not redeem". Not only was he convinced that the Kit Boga video that the phrase originated from was completely staged, he was convinced that purpose of the phrase was to create a racial stereotype that pajeets are impatient. That is so unbelievably wrong that it's staggering. That video alone is what convinced me to just copy down his "explanation" of video's topic because nothing I write will be as funny as letting him speak for himself. Card is an unbelievably silly man and I hope this thread inspires more people to become Cardstock and do their own Cardposting.
I saw this comment on the Crabs' Legs video and I lol'd.