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It was popular enough for me to have known about it before I saw the emoji.
Because the Hexbear creator of emojis decided it'd be fun to add it, and it was almost immediately used to summarize bleak and terrible future outcomes, especially in reference to this moment mocking the tendency of tech billionaires to miss the point of the fiction they consume and make announcements about how they want to make the bad things in such fiction come true:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/386/548/92f.jpg
I read it years ago. The computer game version had AM voiced by the author himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EddX9hnhDS4
That's just a little jab at Reddit itself for its cryptofascist leanings. The emoji that Hexbear marks as "Reddit" uses the text of Reddit's old Stormfront community, which was itself a nazi hangout until it was mod-raided to become a weather forecast community, but the name's meaning persisted.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=EddX9hnhDS4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/dgo-As552hY
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.