To be fair I don't think this particular symbol is very mainstream known at all. I'm on GAF all day every day which is pretty in tune with this sort of thing and I'd never heard of it before today
I'm colour blind so I'm not 100% sure --- background's obvs green, but is that lettering a muted shade of purple? (As in the 'piccolo dick' green & purple rape joke meme?)
I'm colour blind so I'm not 100% sure --- background's obvs green, but is that lettering a muted shade of purple? (As in the 'piccolo dick' green & purple rape joke meme?)
The ๖ۜBronx;248731931 said:Good job on Bungie for getting on top of it and fixing it. Intentional or otherwise it's close enough to draw recognition and comparison and to that extent draw the same feelings for people that are targetted by it.
If it was intentional, then I have no idea how a designer expected it to go unnoticed in a game played by millions. It's not like its hidden in a belt buckle or something.
It was, originally. "Kekekeke" was the Korean version of "Hehehehe". That spread via online games, and I assume eventually turned into the shorthand "kek" like "lol". No idea how it got attached to white supremacy via 4chan though. (Aside from it being popular on 4chan, and there being white supremacists that visit 4chan)
I think his intention was for it to be found
I saw the gauntlet and thought that it was being removed because it had two KKs that could've maybe been a reference to the KKK.
I thought that it was ridiculous.
Then I saw the flag.
Oh, yeah, that shit was on purpose.
It pisses me off that both Pepe and "kek" have become white supremacist shit, I liked early Pepe stuff when it was just idiotic memes, now it's been stolen by racists and white supremacists.
STOP RUINING EVERYTHING WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
Is this some kind of "both sides" post or what?I get so confused by these things. So this is an alt right symbol. Got it. What is the far left/antifa symbols I need to be aware of?
I need to get caught up on all the hate, lol. I am seriously oblivious to this.
I guess, just career suicide to that extent is mind boggling to me.I think his intention was for it to be found
The person who did this needs to be fired. This kind of crap shouldn't be tolerated in the industry.
It's in WoW as a reference to Starcraft which as you probably know was very popular in South Korea.That may be true, but Ive always heard kek came from World of WarCraft. In game Alliance players spoke Common and Horde players Orcish, making it impossible to communicate with words cross-faction. When a Horde player typed "lol" the Alliance player would see it as "kek"
I mean I'm not positive myself. Those are after all just chevrons.
I'm sure Bungie is looking into it with due diligence but god damn....maybe people should know the details before they call for the ruination of someones job and possibly life.
I mean if the guy did it on purpose then sure, hang his ass out to dry. But leaping to conclusions is dangerous and uncalled for.
I mean I'm not positive myself. Those are after all just chevrons.
I'm sure Bungie is looking into it with due diligence but god damn....maybe people should know the details before they call for the ruination of someones job and possibly life.
I mean if the guy did it on purpose then sure, hang his ass out to dry. But leaping to conclusions is dangerous and uncalled for.
The ๖ۜBronx;248733755 said:I guess, just career suicide to that extent is mind boggling to me.
The ๖ۜBronx;248733755 said:I guess, just career suicide to that extent is mind boggling to me.
How did they not catch this?
Hmm, had no idea KEK was a hateful thing now. Yes, I've been living under a rock. It's very unfortunate that someone put that in to Destiny 2 but at least they are removing it now.
Hmm, had no idea KEK was a hateful thing now. Yes, I've been living under a rock. It's very unfortunate that someone put that in to Destiny 2 but at least they are removing it now.
I guess HAKKE manufactures are in trouble
I guess HAKKE manufactures are in trouble
uhh...wasn't 'kek" some stupid shit 4channers came up with, it became a white supremacist symbol?? holy shit
Why is everything turned into a white supremacist thing? Wasn't kek translated lol in WoW when you were the other faction? How do we go from that to white supremacy? And who decides who owns something? Who makes the most memes?
Huh, wonder if Blizzard had lol translated into kek because of the Korean laugh connection.That may be true, but Ive always heard kek came from World of WarCraft. In game Alliance players spoke Common and Horde players Orcish, making it impossible to communicate with words cross-faction. When a Horde player typed "lol" the Alliance player would see it as "kek"
The internet does a poor job policing its communities
not surprised but some communities prefer the wild west "anything goes" mentality
I mean.. no one thought twice about the antics on reddit and 4chan until their communities started negatively impacting people in real life
have you frequented 4chan?
They dont police anyone
hence why anything created there can be copted by hate groups with little to no resistance
Im not sure why people are surprised.
Explain how would you "accidentally" run into the Kekistan racist meme flag on the internet and then be so inspired that you would borrow the iconography for your gauntlet design.
Kek is what happened when Hangul lol comes up if you lack the korean language support on Starcraft it became a Blizzard in joke afterwords.uhh...wasn't 'kek" some stupid shit 4channers came up with, it became a white supremacist symbol?? holy shit
You can't really police the Internet.
4chan mods even pushed out some of the most egregious stuff off their boards from time to time - communities like this just move to smaller platforms.
Why is everything turned into a white supremacist thing? Wasn't kek translated lol in WoW when you were the other faction? How do we go from that to white supremacy? And who decides who owns something? Who makes the most memes?
Why would anyone want to frequent tbat shithole? Honestly.