In the NYTimes, I think over the weekend, there was an article about people who post to Stormfront, the racist, neo-Nazi’s messageboard. At least a couple of the usernames mentioned end in 88. That was my first exposure to “oh, this is a thing on those types of messageboards.”
I had never heard of this. Just say: 8 is pronounced similarly to “get” (money) fa ( ) in Kantonese and 8 is therefore lucky nbr for all Chinese. (Olympics starting 8/8-08, 8:08 etc) They hardly register one phone nbr without at least a few 8:s in China. The more 8:s the more expensive etc etc
Must also consider this when evaluating.
Sorry if someone already said this.
Only from this message board. I believe there was a racist doper with 88 as part of their name, as well as a non-racist doper who said it just referred to the year or something with ham radio. Maybe this all came up in the Pit thread Dex mentioned.
I also learned that 8 is a lucky number in Japan, and so some things will be deliberately modified to have 8 of them. (Apparently in China, too. Makes sense.)