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 Silicon Valley titan is putting money
behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and
circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.
Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbesestimates his current net worth to be $700 million.
The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym
“NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given him to by the
organization’s founders.
Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,”
according to the company’s introductory statement, and has taken credit
for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a
cartoonishly large image of Clinton’s face alongside the words “Too Big
to Jail.”
Flashback to those innocent times four months ago when the notion that frog memes would play a part in this election was a lighthearted jest.
