“notices bulge, what’s this”
I was aware that this was an anime and furry meme (I’m into animation too, not much of a perv) did a search for the animated example and the earliest one is this very short one: BOLGY WOLGY | (Original) Animation Meme (SFW, cute animation, but with very disturbing implications, you were warned)
“If you read this you are gay”
This is many times a joke from homosexuals towards very anti-gay persons that come close to where they are, but I also have seen many times in the past from arch conservatives being used as a form of homophobic trolling that weaponizes the term “gay” as an insult.
“Catch this fascist”
Here, I wonder if the line was directed to Kirk, or in reference to himself.
“Bella ciao”
As noted in another thread, this comes from an old leftie partizan song from WWII, but reading the lyrics, one of the first lines of the song refers to a partizan ‘waking up and discover that the invaders are coming’…
I think that is why it is not well known or sung by many lefties in the US nowadays, that theme would be more in tune with the Neo-fascists of today in the US.
There is literally no chance Republicans take that message. That is not how humans work. Charlie Kirk’s whole thing was debate and persuasion; they are taking his assassination, and examples of people celebrating it, as the left’s rejection of these, and embrace of force as the only way to effect political change.
I wonder if the 3 down arrows is Iron Front. It’s kind of a stretch, but it’s seen some popularity online in the past couple of years, though the accounts using it tend to be fairly vanilla liberals, not especially unhinged or irony-poisoned 4-chan dorks.
I wonder which show you’re talking about, but I know it from Casa De Papel (English: The Money Heist). here’s the link in which the heist ringleaders are singing it.
Honestly the use of the song in the show didn’t make a ton of sense to me, just sort of “we’re like badass resistance guys who are about to stick it to the man”. It’s a fun show, but a lot of it doesn’t really make a lot of sense other than propelling the plot from cliffhanger to cliffhanger.
It’s a reference to the game Helldivers. You fight bugs or robots as a Starship Troopers like soldier, and you call in airstrikes and stuff with key combos.
“Hey fascists! Catch!” is clearly meant to be directed at fascists (presumably Kirk in particular), and “catch this” is in reference to a bullet. The Helldivers reference, which is about dropping a bomb on aliens, is referenced because it’s a kind of military strike against an enemy.
“Catch this fascist”, as reported before, might have been interpreted as saying, “catch me”, but the more recent information makes it clear that this wasn’t the intended message.
It’s a direct quote from helldivers which is a very ironic game where the main characters are all fascist ultra-nationalists calling other people fascists. The meaning the shooter intended is absolutely not straight forward.
Yep. Like I said before, the memes seem consistent with a terminally online Leftie, which could mean either that they are a terminally online Leftie that they are an edgelord playing into Leftie memes.
I think a 22 year old internet edgelord who is basically a random number generator repeating random memes with no real cohesive meaning is pretty on brand for gen z.
“Hey fascist” is being said by a fascist ultra-nationalist in an explicitly ironic game. That’s incredibly weak. I’m not familiar with how the song is used in current culture so no comment.
It’s incredibly premature to ascribe politics based on what’s been revealed.
I see now that I made a type; I said “either” and listed two options, but the word “or” is missing. If that’s the source of confusion, that should read:
which could mean either that they are a terminally online Leftie or that they are an edgelord playing into Leftie memes.
This reminds me to a family that was formerly left of center, that became MAGA (IIRC, because authorities were recommending some control, and well, the right wing message is to remove those guidelines) and ignored the very ugly messages and images the gun trained kid was making.
I’m very familiar with the game. I have friends who love the first game, and the second was recently released. The trailer for the game is pretty funny, and done as a ridiculous recruitment video. It’s very reminiscent of Starship Troopers, which also portrayed a miltaristic authoritarian society fighting armies of alien bugs.
I’m not sure if that meant he identified with the fascist protagonists of the game or was unaware of the game’s nuances.
