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Does hexbear not know about groyper culture? From what I’ve read, there are quite a few trans people who are firmly in the alt right. Apparently, incels have an obsession with fem boys and even nick fuentes has engaged in erotic behavior.
Part of me believes that this shit is way too nuanced for the MSM to report on accurately. Seems like it’s a wash and again, people are going to believe whatever confirms their beliefs
I honestly think that there's an above average chance he's a groyper and the MSM and FBI just don't understand these Nazi freaks can be chasers.
The sexual liberalism merged with fash really is something that MSM/liberals are unprepared for.
They absolutely know and that's why they're trying to find a way to make that angle fit.
They are not misunderstanding anything here. They're trying to manufacture consent for a trans genocide the same way they've been manufacturing consent for ethnic/religious xenophobia and it's actually not working as well so they're having to shove it into the public consciousness even harder to make it work.
This is about divide and conquer and there's no benefit to targeting conservative white boys (their in-group) so of course they're ignoring that evidence.
The (now deleted) reddit account that's being used to "confirm" that the roommate is trans belonged to some far-right truscum 4chan poster in Utah who liked cryptocurrency and Jordan Peterson, so unless somehow the cishet white boy cop brat who used groyper memes and targeted someone only groypers gave a shit about somehow simultaneously had better politics than his trans roommate/landlord but also not better enough politics to understand why throwing your life away to remove a literal nobody grifter is a bad move, the safe bet is they were both far-right 4chan addicted gamer chuds regardless of their relationship.
The noticed a bulge OwO in its actual context is straight up a groyper meme
I don't believe this is true. At worst it's ironic and anti-furry. You could make that claim about the 2nd and the 3rd bullet, though, and even there it's intentionally pretty dubious. They're all floating signifiers.
Furries have reclaimed this?
AFAIK yeah, "OwO" is not really tied to its original pejorative connotation.
Yes, but the casing didn't just say "OwO".
Sure, it said "Notices bulges(?) OwO what's this" which is a meme that everyone from regular old queer people to groypers uses. It's a symbol that vaguely refers to deviant horniness at this point.
I'm not nearly as online as a lot of folks, so I'm not trying to portray expertise or certainty. I will say that I've seen a lot of 'OwO' and very little 'notices bulge' over the years.
Fair enough, that part is probably more explicit than most people would go with it, but I definitely remember seeing the full thing posted on reddit in contexts that had nothing to do with the far right around 2018-2019.
What is it's "Actual context" then? Because that meme was originally used to make fun of furries, and then was subsequently reclaimed by said furries. All before Groypers were ever even a thing
https://hexbear.net/comment/6504795
Still not a Groyper meme. Groypers aren't just "young internet chuds" They're a specific breed of young internet chud who follow Nick Fuentes. Words, in fact, mean things.
groypers love internet chud band kid memes. also some of the bullets were directly groyper memes. nick fuentes already did the "i disavow" meme. he knows it's him
Leftists also love repurposing lib memes and chud memes sometimes, though. None of the bullets had anything that's exclusive to groypers. There is not enough direct evidence to land at any conclusions, just circumstantial and contextual evidence. Fuentes is covering himself but the fact that not many people have turned against him (think about it, Zionists could just point to his straight up antisemitism, boomer chuds could just look at his general aesthetic, and they'd hate him, so this isn't a matter of "ape doesn't kill ape") should tell you that this isn't so cut and dry.
I don't think we should be intellectually dishonest; I was one who immediately thought he must be a groyper but the truth is you have to force one interpretation of symbols that are inherently vague and whose meaning depend on how much irony you assign to them.
yeah but the whole thing is some niche shit. the victim is niche groyper bellyaching, the memes are niche groyper shitposting. it's like badempanada getting shot and the shooter drew a picture of a pig shitting on its own balls on the bullet. i would bet money it's a groyper
I think you're overextending the word groyper to mean chud in general. Charlie Kirk was not even close to a groyper.
i know but groypers hated him. they thought he was spreading hate against the white race. they declared groyper war on him and the other more mainstream conservative personalities
Yeah, absolutely, but you still can't really arrive at any conclusions from that.
idk it's groyper memes and charlie kirk is really only worth thinking about for groypers
I kinda feel like we're going in circles here. Helldivers 2 is not a groyper game. Bella ciao is just a song. I've heard parodies of it in advertisements. "Notices bulge OwO what's this" is just a meme. None of that stuff is exclusive to groypers.
idk it's just the totality of everything makes it feel like groypers
I also feel like it's likely the kid is groyper adjacent. But feeling is one thing, having solid evidence any which way is another. Lots of chuds also probably feel the totality of everything makes it feel like he's a communist; and they have just as much proof!
the groypers feel like it's one of them. separately, i'm inclined to think our groyper understanders here are better than the conservatives' communism understanders. idk though i guess in the end i've gotten myself in a number of internet arguments over the past few days about things i barely understand
It's too nuanced and straight up bizarre even for people who are lgbtq unless they're very far into rabbit holes and obscure online subcultures. Reactionary and nazi femboys specifically hasn't been a rare thing for years, they seem (especially to cishets) like they'd overlap with trans women but that's not really the case. They're far closer to very misogynistic incels culturally than they are to tg and it's a complicated phenomenon but the thing with some people being into "men in uniforms" etc and other lowkey psychopaths because supposedly they're more macho and masculine is more well known and understood. It can be as stupid and shallow as that but disguised by tons of esoteric memery and terminally online slang. Maybe some pretense of ideology but it's just confused shit used as vibes and aesthetics. They still network and parrot far right crap though so functionally there's no real difference.
Transmedicalist binary trans people can also be comedically conservative and reactionary but we also don't talk about that openly.
They are pushing “he was a leftist” so hard. But I doubt it
Extremely irony poisoned ones may
"The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate."
the reporting is unclear
It's not just hey fascist, the whole phrase is 100% a helldivers 2 meme about the eagle 500kg bomb. He even added the arrows.
im now more convinced that he was just nihlistic and terminally online (so still a right winger lol)
I think there's a chance we won't. Feds might just completely cover up any evidence that actually narrows down his ideology if they don't like it; and I don't think it'll be necessary for them to do that because at this point it's looking like this guy doesn't have an ideology that we can parse. It'll just be reading tea leaves.
You are repeating news lies. Read the police report, family member said that.
Neither of those things happened though. See what I mean? You’re misconstruing two separate events, one based on memes and the other based on conversations from a family member
He could still be a groyper but hated kirk because he fell in love with his trans roommate and "made a exception for her", he is still quite young. Usually most people arent very coherent in their ideology anyway.