>The night of Donald Trump’s electoral victory, as journalists and pollsters sat stunned, alt-right trolls on the online imageboard Sup Forums were declaring ecstatic victory. The election outcome was, for them, the culmination of a long-orchestrated campaign they had dubbed “The Great Meme Wars.” “Will we ever experience something this great again?” an anonymous poster wrote on the site’s “politically incorrect” imageboard, the post accompanied by a twist on one of the site’s more popular characters, Wojak, the character’s MS Paint-rendered visage outfitted in Nazi SS gear. “The meme wars of 2015/2016 are over and we are the winners.”
>Who were these self-declared winners? A bizarre allegiance of online trolls, experts at manufacturing memes—the jokey, absurdist images, often overlaid with text, that are copied and spread endlessly with slight variations by people online. Through memes and the clandestine net spaces they used to share them, these trolls met and formed a Frankenstein political bloc out of adult My Little Pony fans, furries, anime enthusiasts, self-described “masculinists,” disgruntled video gamers, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, xenophobes, neo-monarchists, reactionaries, old-school racists, and nihilists in search of edgy lols. They were coronated the “alt-right” by white nationalist “leader” Richard Spencer, and referred to Trump as “God Emperor” on Reddit, where they made the r/The_Donald forum into one of the most popular on the hugely popular news and web content aggregation site.
Literally every description of what the alt right is is wrong. Why do these people even bother?
Leo Martin
>leftists >capable of producing non-shit memes
Colton Ward
Kek will back us because if he doesn't there will be no chaos, chaos is the order of the universe.
Gabriel Bell
Lefty memes are absolute shit tier, just look at leftypol, they can't make a good meme to save their life.
Brody Phillips
This. Lefty memes are horrendously unfunny. I remembered there's a pic saying >we are winning because the memes and jokes here are unhinged and it's a punch to the gut kind of funny.
Kayden Evans
DO YOU FEEL THAT Sup Forums?
THE MEME WAR NEVER ENDED
IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN
Carter Hughes
>It will work this time.
Noah Edwards
This is true, this is one of the ones they created, terrible!
John Ortiz
L O L
is this the best they can do?
>Take one simple meme she made in November. Featuring a stock photo of two Jet Ski riders carving through ocean waves, a message is written in goofy blue font: “It’s time to get EXTREME about destroying white supremacy.” The nonsensical image was liked by 2,100 people, shared over a thousand times, and resulted in conversations between Addy and upset commenters about white guilt and the definitions of racism and white supremacy.
Juan Bennett
explodingvan.gif
Samuel Reed
They tried this already... hell they had the fucking UN publish a goddamn research paper about trying to understand Sup Forums memes.
It won't work.
Gabriel Green
Memes are organic, you can't force them for a political agenda.
CTR got ousted so hard by that
Adrian Hughes
They may be unfunny now, but never underestimate your enemy. They're here now trying to actively subvert us in various ways.
Do not make the same mistake the left did in dismissing those against you as weak.
Ryder Rivera
leftists are fundamentally bad at making memes because they're too afraid to make anything that will offend anybody
Ethan Collins
Memes come from the heart, not from the head. That's why jews are so bad at memes, and why memes anger them so.
Camden Fisher
I made the memes of production joke back in the primaries when Sanders stole some Trump meme. Who do I contact to make them stop appropriating my culture?
Samuel Cruz
The truth wins the memes though. Sorry lefties.
Aiden Perez
lolwut? which side am i supposed to be on?
Aiden Gomez
In capitalism people like that guy don't have food in the fridge. In communism nobody has food in the fridge.
Isaiah Brown
>dat picture
Ian Clark
Seattle Weekly is written by bottom of the barrel faggots. Only The Stranger is worse. Pay no mind to this cocksucking faggot.
Angel Morris
this is actually a pretty fucking funny anti-meme
you're an autistic leaf so you don't get satire
Kevin Wright
>implying left-wing identity politics memes won't be even worse for their position
Grayson Long
Trump will make nanomachines real.
James Cook
We have the gift of autism that makes our memes special.
Ethan Johnson
Socialism says everyone can have equal food but only after the one who owns the food gets enough.
Gavin Martin
They cannot control chaos. Hell we can't. We're simply a vessel for Lord Kek
Elijah Diaz
They've been here actively trying to subvert us for months, no one falls for their garbage. Just let the ancaps deal with them, let autist fight autist.
Charles Morgan
Delivery drivers make decent money though. They're certainly not min wage employees even if the quotas are kinda shitty leading to missed packages and pick up notices but that's more a consumer end problem.
Tyler Russell
lol
Adam Morris
what a conspiracy theory, there are no alt-right trolls and no internet memes.
Jaxon Nelson
Jesus Christ I couldn't even get through that article.
>yes I'm a memer says addy a trans girl who is chugging mountain dew.
Who the fuck writes this shit
Levi Turner
This. God that shit was cringy. Was there even anything funny or remotely humorous in ANY of them? >it's time to get extreme about destroying white supremecy That shit is hillary clinton campaign tier level of shit
Carson Johnson
This.
Jonathan Carter
The lefts memes are shit for the same reason lefty comedians arent funny. Political correctness.
Jeremiah Sullivan
How is that picture somehow more confusing and distracting than a MLGheadshot420noscopeblazeit picture?
It physically hurts to look at, I don't mean it being unfunny, I mean the way it forces your perspective to the front and back at the same time is straining on the eyes.
Matthew White
They just don't get it no matter how hard they try, do they?
Xavier Hill
Memes are meant to be somewhat edgy. Because rightwing opinions are already edgy rightwing memes have that extra factor. Leftwing memes are literally what commie faggots like Schumer and Sanders are saying displayed through wordart. No one is going to enjoy seeing that.
Bentley King
god almighty making that will get you a fucking newspaper article?
Carter Diaz
>'Sup Forums d-did nothing, you guys didn't p-play a role' >up to almost daily articles about Sup Forums and how it works now Nice.
Logan Cox
The only way the left "wins" is through violently silencing opposition
It's their only play because their ideas fail when faced with ours
They will be trash memes. We will prevail.
Adrian Bennett
>they're still writing about us
Parker Cooper
Where is leftypol anyways?
Noah Foster
Memes are the DNA of culture.
Sebastian Brooks
Checked
Nice Trips lad!
Cameron James
They're obviously losing.
Logan Lopez
I bet those fuckers didn't allocate enough memes to be produced for Hillary in the 2015 five-year plan.
Noah Baker
>tfw the Kek Korps of Krieg was there holding the line along with millions of Kekforged warriors
Parker Cruz
really makes you think.....
Jaxson Jackson
>they were co-ordinated by Richard Spencer THESE MOTHERFUCKING ASSLICKING COCKSUCKERS
Julian Clark
But leftists suck at memes
Colton Smith
It's a board on 8ch.
Leo Nelson
>They were coronated the “alt-right” by white nationalist “leader” Richard Spencer
It was kind of ok as far as stupid attempts to explain this site for effect to liberals except for this. Why are they trying to force things on Spencer. I didn't even know who he was really until he started getting punched lol.
Joseph Hughes
We make the best memes I know it You Know it Everyone knows it the best lefty pol can do is the pig with the top hat! Sad!
Zachary Parker
>coronated
As in he's the one who coined the term. Need to improve your reading comprehension there friendo.
Isaac Parker
You can't teach a women to be funny the same way you can't teach a turtle to play chess.
It goes against their nature.
Dominic Gomez
My 90 year old grandmother is more in touch with memes than this cunt.
Nathan Price
i've asked this before in other threads, but:
where do these supposed "lefties" or antifa even hang out online? is there some kind of left-wing Sup Forums? (besides every other board on Sup Forums excluding sp and fit) is it just tumblr and etsy and pinterest and facebook? is that where they "organize massive protests"?
Ryder Sanchez
>where do these supposed "lefties" or antifa even hang out online? is there some kind of left-wing Sup Forums? reddit
Adam Hill
Damn truth
Juan Powell
The memes have to be biased on factual information or they aren't funny. This is why leftist memes are always shit.
Revee up the Memes of production boys, we've got a war to win.
Adam Reed
probably just reddit
Thomas Cox
Cartoon frogs were a serious topic this past election.
Elon Musk was right, this is a simulation. The real world cannot be this absurd.
Anthony Lewis
Forcing things on people means a boarder target. For example if Spencer is forced on Sup Forums and the leadership of Sup Forums is forced on Spencer, hurting Spencer "hurts" Sup Forums as the leader was hurt. Now of course we wouldn't give a shit but the point still stands.
Logan Powell
This, they want a meme war I say we give it to them!
Xavier Jenkins
Did anyone read the article? This shit is fucking hilarious
>I actually consider myself more of a ‘social hacker’ than a memer. Every hacker is either addicted to chaos or addicted to order. I myself am addicted to chaos, but I’m chaotic good.”
>Before she came out as a trans woman, Addy (who asked Seattle Weekly to withhold her last name) spent a lot of time on Sup Forums and took part in the same early troll culture that would, many years later, form the alt-right. “I was the embodiment of Sup Forums,” she says. “I would say anything just to get a rise, do anything just to get a rise. I don’t even feel comfortable talking about the person I used to be.” Then something changed. Addy’s sibling married a black woman; along came two new black nieces; and soon Addy had a biracial child of her own. “I started realizing I was a racist, a sexist, all these things. It wasn’t hard to admit that—it was empowering to admit that, because once I did, I could destroy it. I’ve been on a warpath ever since.”
>She left Sup Forums and began spending more time in another meme-making community she found on Facebook. There she would start her own page to distribute her own memes. She named the page Lettuce Dog
Luis Taylor
We must control the memes of production.
Cameron Butler
There are antifa sites and there's leftypol, but I don't think they have much to do with antifa, they're just commie loving autists.
Brandon Brooks
lmao this, what a bunch of tinfoil retards >muh spooki cabal of teenage mastermind internet nazis woOoOoOoO!!! take your schizo meds CNN
Jonathan Rivera
ahh, yes, forgot about that r/communism r/enoughtrumpspam etc
Aaron Evans
I follow some communist and leftist meme pages on Facebook just to make sure I'm not in a complete echo chamber on there. But by god are their memes absolutely fucking atrocious. If anything they've helped make me become more right wing. I do not see how some of those faggots can look at some of their content and decide that it is worth posting.
Blake Gray
>>capable of producing non-shit memes
They still think the cringey Biden meme is funny, the same guy who nearly sexually assaults children on camera.
Connor Morales
>richard spencer and milo are the leaders of the alt right which is found on r/the donald
baka
Isaiah Powell
>UN publish a goddamn research paper about trying to understand Sup Forums memes. What ?
Colton Fisher
It's all Reddit. Because Reddit has a profile system and depends on upvotes and downvotes it is essentially a virtue signalling contest, and so it's essentially the internet's leftist hub.
Sebastian Walker
>Bringing regular memes to military-grade meme fight.
Wyatt Torres
Libs are unable to make good memes. Just look at how many Bernie memes were literally just old Ron Paul stuff but with Bernie's face shopped on top.
Joshua Hill
>when the first post is the best post >despite australia
Julian Carter
>nearly
umm his hand clearly rubs a pubescent girls chest...don't know exactly what that's defined as legally, but i wouldn't want him doing it to my daughter
Blake Allen
The Ron Paul stuff is still funny. It's the Bernie shit that's literal crap.
Camden Sanchez
just think, this means were going into the history books. may your screen cap go down in history
Jack Morgan
>political bloc out of adult My Little Pony fans, furries, anime enthusiasts, self-described “masculinists,” disgruntled video gamers, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, xenophobes, neo-monarchists, reactionaries, old-school racists, and nihilists
I am white nationalist, anime enthusiast, and vidya gaemer
and left cannot be ever as fun as I am KILL ALL THE NIGGERS AND FAGGOTS
Liam Turner
>She named the page Lettuce Dog terrible meme, should have called it shovel dog
Jose Evans
They aren't even regular. They're Ross Dress-For-Less bargain bin thrift-store Memes.
Adam Ward
Jesus Christ what a faggot
Parker Morales
>adult My Little Pony fans, furries, anime enthusiasts, self-described “masculinists,” disgruntled video gamers, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, xenophobes, neo-monarchists, reactionaries, old-school racists, and nihilists
THEY'VE FIGURED US OUT; ABORT, ABORT.
Juan Brooks
Leftwingers will never create good memes because they don't grasp the humour that underlies them.
The left's proudest "meme" creations are repackaging gifs of reactions on common TV sitcoms and adding some bitchy text underneath about wine and netflix.
I mean, look at this picture for example. First of all, they didn't create the concept - the "my face when" concept stems from Sup Forums. Second of all, the meme isn't funny at all. The focal point of the "humor" is the unimpressed black woman look (which has the potential to be funny but not in this context). The image almost seems to be more "comforting" in nature to those who are scared about Trump and are deluded enough to think that the light at the end of the tunnel goes by the name of Michelle Obama. But because it lacks a unique edge or absurdist sort of humor that you only see from the right, encapsulated perfectly in pepe's chronicles, it will never achieve virality.
No, the best the left can hope for is to create bots that drive up upboats and reshares of their shitty content to feign the appearance of a meme achieving organic virality.
Henry Sanders
were just lonely
Landon Lopez
>a Frankenstein political bloc out of adult My Little Pony fans, furries, anime enthusiasts, self-described “masculinists,” disgruntled video gamers, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, xenophobes, neo-monarchists, reactionaries, old-school racists, and nihilists in search of edgy lols.
