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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.
which is why they are so effective!
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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.
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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
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
Derek Dash. Derek, the name, suprisingly peaked in popularity (in the US) around the 80s so according to my calculations, you were born then.
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lol that's so stupid who would put their birth year in their username
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
Oh damn. I’m an idiot.
time to create a newnewnewaccount
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Those of us who were lucky to get whatever email we wanted before everyone else got to the internet.
sudden concerns over username
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.
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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 mean at least its when they lost.
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Also when I see a Black Metal band with "wolf" in its name
Also when I see a Black Metal band ~~with “wolf” in its name~~
It's indeed a genre where you need to do some background check
But you can find Black Metal bands that hate all humans equally
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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.
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.
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.
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 of 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.
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.
The pope just died on Hitler’s Birthday at the age of 88. COINCIDENCE!?
Also oh no, I just posted the 88th comment!
Unfortunately, 1988 was a bumper year for future fascist fucks.
Chinese never cared, 88 is "double prosperity" to us chinese and it will never change. Western gatekeeping is annoying as heck.
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It's impossible to talk about this subject without giving away my entire birthday, but - in short - yes, I was born in 1988. And the rest of the numbers in my birthday have other significant historical meanings.
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