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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

was actually going to an hero

This is the most awkward fragment I've ever seen. Was it a typo? Autocorrect? Pasted in the wrong spot? All 3??

I can't seem to fix it. Not what this post is about but it annoyed me, so now you have to be annoyed as well.

EDIT: Got it, it's celebrating suicide. I never got into 4chan or their specific culture, and right now, that's my sole source of comfort.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

'An hero' is an old 4chanism that means committing suicide

[-] tweeks@feddit.nl 21 points 10 months ago

A few comments below taught me that it apparently originates from this meme where it was a mix of a typo and a loving description of a suicidal person.

[-] itslilith 5 points 10 months ago

wow, just when you think 4chan can't sink any lower

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Lol 'sink lower'.

4chan is the bottom, there is no lower to sink.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

iirc it comes from a someone posting about thier son who killed themselves and made a typo saying "he was an hero" so naturally 4chan turned the phrase "an hero" into a way to say "to commit suicide".

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone 17 points 10 months ago

'an hero' means to suicide

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Fuckin hell I'm old lmao. Anyone else with me? This was the standard speak of 4chan back in like.... '07...'08?

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Like '05, it's old. Fuck. I'm old.

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