This was my favorite number until recently. I had no idea. Fucking nazis ruin everything.
Now, I’m horrified at all the times anyone might have asked me to pick a number between 1 and 100 before I knew.
Wish them a happy birthday (with appropriate number) and see if they self-report.
Cashier: That’ll be 11.88 Me: Whoa what the fuck
Luckily it wasn’t 3 more dollars.
“I was born in 1988, and made this account when I was 14” Born after 2000, frequently posts dogwhistles and bigoted stuff.
I’ve long use “2015” appended to my initials for screen names. It has no particular significance. I started using it over a decade before 2015. I was signing up for an account, and I added my age then to the current year. Thus, I ended up with 2015 as “my” number.
Early on, it was no problem. It was still well in the future. Around 2015, it became impossible to use the number. Inevitably someone would claim the number for a username before I did. Now, 2015 is easy again to claim appended to my initials. Unfortunately, now when I use it, I get accused of being 10 years old.
Hey, what’s this 10 year old “scientist” doing on Lemmy? Get outta here kid
88 is such a fun number to say, too. Nazis ruin everything.
88 is a really tasty ice cream in Sweden
So is Sitting Bull. Swedish confectionery isn’t terribly woke.
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Even its Bingo call is starting to look dated.
Even if I were born in 1988, I surely wouldn’t use the number in a username. Same if my initials would AH or HH.
Unfortunately most people are completely clueless about dogwhistles.
Which is exactly why they’re called dog whistles. It’s so only certain people (the ones in the know) are able to find the true message. The entire point is to signal solidarity and find like-minded bigots, without exposing yourself. Because they know that if they just come out and blatantly say it, they’ll face a lot of backlash. So instead, they hide behind dog whistles.
Ngl I had no idea about 88 until now.
True. I was born in 1988, I used to have 88 in a username until someone pointed it out to me.
which is why they are so effective!
Seconded, if I wasn’t married, interfaith I wouldn’t know even half the dog whistles.
People with 88 in their usernames are probably people who’ve been rocking the same username for 20+ years at this point. I think my username naming scheme hasn’t changed since I was single digits in age logging intk AIM and MSN Messenger
I dunno, if I had a username (I don’t care how old) and found out it had a racist dogwhistle, I’d change accounts.
Like how my fiance came home onr day and threw out his Punisher shirt because “asshole cops are co-opting the Punisher, even though they’re exactly whose asses the Punisher would be beating on!”
That’s how appropriation works though, by forcing out the people who used it in its original context.
However, I think Marvel redesigned the Punisher’s skull logo thing purely because of that. Those who use the old one are guaranteed to be asshole cop and trump supporters who completely missed the memo.
That’s how appropriation works though, by forcing out the people who used it in its original context.
I’d argue that by making it so only the people who use dogwhistles use it, it now becomes a fog horn. No one in 1910 cared about a Hindu symbol for peace. People cared a lot by the end of 1945.
Very good point.
Mine is old enough to drink (21+ in USA)…
Wait are we supposed to ask if you are dog whistling or not? Now I don’t know.
I made mine long before learning about the connection between “88” and the Nazis, and at this point, anyone who sees my username and immediately jumps to “nazi” is a certified moron.
Also, advertising concrete details about yourself in the most public field of a user profile
I was in a tf2 clan called the Hampshire Heavies, guess what the handle was… Luckily we were pretty well known, but incidentally some thought I was a sympathizer.
That’s how I found out that HH (and 88) were dog whistles, I had no idea before.
Now I will never look at my Helly Hansen rain jacket the same way again.
Don’t ask what Hugo Boss was doing during the Second World War in Germany
There was a time around the 00s in Germany where they were used as a dogwhistle, at least that was the story going around back then. Anyone wearing one of these was being looked upon with a lot of suspicion by the general youth
What’s wrong with Humbert Humbert? A man with a poetic sould who did nothing wrong except shooting that guy (no, really, is HH a thing outside of Lolita?)
Derek Dash. Derek, the name, suprisingly peaked in popularity (in the US) around the 80s so according to my calculations, you were born then.
Why yes, I was born in 1988 but luckily when I first started making usernames in middle school, I decided to use the random number 45 in them instead. Yup, good old 45, nothing awful or related to white supremacists associated with that number… Sigh.
I stole this name from the b3ta front page, and honestly I’m incredibly lucky it gained an association with kittens and pornography.
I mean at least its when they lost.
There’s an orange fascist associated with that now
It took me a moment to realize it wasn’t about 1945
It doesn’t help that prowe is an anagram for power.
Shit, hadn’t considered that either. Not a whole lot I can do about that either since it’s based on my name.
The pope just died on Hitler’s Birthday at the age of 88. COINCIDENCE!?
Also oh no, I just posted the 88th comment!
Hitler was born on the 20th though.
lol oh damn I thought he died on the 20th. But I guess it was technically the 21st.
88 was a cool number, but then Nazis came and ruined it. It was the equivalent of drawing that S letter you all did in high school. Edgy cool shit. They ruined my birth year and back to the future, and the name of a band I played in when I was a teenager.
Also they are pieces of shit in every other aspect, of course, specially regarding, you know, humanity.
lol that’s so stupid who would put their birth year in their username
Those of us who were lucky to get whatever email we wanted before everyone else got to the internet.
sudden concerns over username
1988 is fine, but if you were 500 years older there’d be a problem.
Oof 😅
Its not that hard to come up with a name that doesnt include random numbers at the end
Nah. I’ve had this username for over 20 years. I’m good.
ok sir Videos
Pretty common in the earlier days of the internet.
I was calling myself stupid but you beat me
Ah, I can’t see the 02 unless I look at your account directly. On sync it just shows stebo.
ahh right my display name is different, sorry about that
In fairness, you did say you were stupid.
Oh damn. I’m an idiot.
time to create a newnewnewaccount
Woah you were born in 1902?
Wiiiiild you’re old af
yeah I’m basically a fossil actually
Whoosh
I am a dumbass and thought you were joking that you were 123 years old.
wdym joking? I am!
It’s an honor to have an interaction with the oldest living person in the world!
Also when I see a Black Metal band with “wolf” in its name
“Oh hey, Demons & Wizards has the singer from Blind Guardian? Who else is in this side proj-- FUCK.”
Also when I see a Black Metal band
with “wolf” in its nameIt’s indeed a genre where you need to do some background check
But you can find Black Metal bands that hate all humans equally
we found out what the real hatred was all together. It was misanthropy 🖤
Bad history, but it’s like my second favorite genre man… and most (uhhh) of the new ones are fine 😬
Music video of WW2 German marching song. Big anti-nazi disclaimer at the start. Then immediately the video starts to a swastika flag waving.
Displaying a swastika or other human horrors in a video/artwork doesn’t mean you’re promoting it (maybe it was in your example)
My friend’s birthdate includes both “14” and “88”. I also remember being much younger and the '88 kids were all about “double infinity”, usually stacked, and some even got it tattooed.
One sailor to another, 1931: “Check out this Hindu good luck symbol!”
Damn imagine getting shit on for being born almost 500 years before most of that shit was relevant.
I’m not going to lie. One of my old reddit accounts had 88 in its username. Not because for malicious reasons though. It was a random number I came up with since the username I wanted was already taken. I got banned from r/comicbooks for that despite proof that I was NOT connected with any racist content.
I caught a ban from there for talking about alien ethnicity.
There’s some cover depicting the 616 Justice League opposite their equivalents from another Earth. The Doylist view is: how these characters look is arbitrary. All changes are an excuse for costume edits and better representation. But in-universe, these are not characters. They’re people with backstories. And some of those backstories make the changes a head-scratcher. Green Lantern, nah, he’s just a guy. Could be anyone. Wonder Woman, Themyscira’s basically Cyprus, of course Amazons could look African.
But Superman’s a fucking alien. Most aliens do not look human. Mars is right next door, and the Manhunter is green. Matching a single ethnic group on Earth is already a miraculous coincidence. Does Krypton fit our species’s entire spectrum? Are there exceptions? Could Supergirl have shown up colored blue, and gone “wow, hair can be red?” An alternative is that their universe’s Krypton is an entirely different monoculture - and if nothing else changed, that might raise some questions for Ma & Pa Kent.
Meanwhile: they left Batman almost identical. Even though Bruce Wayne is just a product of his rich parents.
But yeah, I think those mods are just touchy. God forbid you ask follow-up questions.
You can’t really prove you’re not secretly pro-Hitler though. It’s simply not possible for anyone to do.
Sounds like something someone secretly pro-hitler would say.
