Right-militant symbolism encountered in the last two months playing the Battlefield franchise of online shooters:
One Nazi flag profile image, all colors and proportions on-model
A wide variety of South American users and private servers with 4-letter clan tags and logos (frequently in quartered unit patch format with skulls and lightning bolts as prominent elements) that map to local paramilitaries
A few Rising Sun flags and uyoku dantai slogans
(just now) one profile tag consisting of a large silver police shield bearing an image of a modern rifle above the large numbers “88″ in blue
Left-militant symbolism:
One profile image of a red flag with yellow hammer and sickle flapping in the wind
A swastika made of right-facing handgun stamps that was actually the most novel take on the subject I’ve seen in a while
A LOT of Blue Lives Matter iconography - the American flag (often subdued color) with one blue stripe, the Punisher skull, often with “first responder” subculture signifiers like the numbers 5.11, etc.
Today alone:
A member of clan WYTE with a Klan hood profile picture
Yo lately I’ve seen multiple icons of like a gold T-square crossed with an L on a red field
And I have no idea what it’s about but the fact it’s EXACTLY halfway between Soviet hammer/sickle and Nazi swastika flags is suggestive
(no, I didn’t report it, but that’s the best way to get a clean shot. The fact that there’s technically a “report” function but it requires you to remember which player, then during a match open an obscure menu and wait through like a 20 second delay is a great fake solution)
It’s from Girls und Panzer anime where there’s a school with soviet-themed sporting team. It’s rulers and a scissor arranged to look like hammer and sickle.
プラウダ高校 Purauda Kōkō
the Pravda High School girls’ tank warfare club, huh
