• VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    My understanding of the event:

    • 4chan jokes they should pretend the okay hand sign is a white supremacist dog whistle to trigger libs.
    • They do and it works.
    • Online shitters who’s whole personality is “triggering sjw’s” pick up on this and perpetuate the joke to continue to trigger people.

    Basically people getting mad at a joke caused it to become a real thing to some degree. While not a supremacist symbol it was heavily used by them for a time.