A few comments below taught me that it apparently originates from this meme where it was a mix of a typo and a loving description of a suicidal person.
iirc it comes from a someone posting about thier son who killed themselves and made a typo saying “he was an hero” so naturally 4chan turned the phrase “an hero” into a way to say “to commit suicide”.
This is the most awkward fragment I’ve ever seen. Was it a typo? Autocorrect? Pasted in the wrong spot? All 3??
I can’t seem to fix it. Not what this post is about but it annoyed me, so now you have to be annoyed as well.
EDIT: Got it, it’s celebrating suicide. I never got into 4chan or their specific culture, and right now, that’s my sole source of comfort.
‘An hero’ is an old 4chanism that means committing suicide
A few comments below taught me that it apparently originates from this meme where it was a mix of a typo and a loving description of a suicidal person.
‘an hero’ means to suicide
iirc it comes from a someone posting about thier son who killed themselves and made a typo saying “he was an hero” so naturally 4chan turned the phrase “an hero” into a way to say “to commit suicide”.
Thank you. That’s… awful.
Thats 4chan