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Originally Posted By u/SwimParking At 2025-09-13 10:07:33 AM | Source


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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 24 points 17 hours ago

The internet allows for us to experience the entirety of digitally recorded human knowledge.

creates groyper wars

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 17 points 17 hours ago

Alright, I think we're done here. Time to shut down the Internet.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 17 hours ago

Thanks for the detail.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all got any sources on these claims?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I know what a groyper is. I'm asking for proof of those memes being popular red herrings used for accelerationism.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io -3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Cool, do your own search, then. And let us know.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

The post made a claim. I'm questioning the claim. Not my job to prove it. Seems unrealistic.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Okay, guess I've done some searching limiting it to before this month. There's nothing between groypers and bella ciao. The only results that include both terms are old threads with new posts about Charlie Kirk. So unless you have Actual evidence I'm going to call this bullshit.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago

Zero mention of Bella ciao, Helldivers or furries.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The second two panels smell like bullshit. Particularly the claim that OwO is "hateful" and used to "harass furries", wtf is this nonsense?

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean you could just look it up for yourself. There are groyper wars playlists on Spotify with the remix of bella ciao that they co-opted. It's also in at least one Helldivers II mods. Also, this is one of their most well known memes:

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I think it's pretty obvious it isn't meant to be kind to furries.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

you could just look it up for yourself

There's a comment here with links that say nothing about any of these supposedly co-opted memes/motifs. And besides, what's the point of an "informative" comic if it barely informs and I have to look up the stuff myself anyway?

There are groyper wars playlists on Spotify with the remix of bella ciao that they co-opted.

So they didn't co-opt Bella ciao, but a remix of it, ok. I've found two playlists but only one of them has the song. How that proves that it's a "theme song of the groyper wars" is unclear to me. Seems like an inconclusive connection to me.

That picture is no proof that OwO is hateful or that it's a whole meme in itself. It's shown as just one of the phrases used by furries and LGBT folk (and they are used indeed, though half-jokingly). The insult is based on representing furries as, you know, fat sweaty neckbeards, and the OwO is just there for contrast to make it more absurd, it's not itself an insult. (Also that pic was made before Trump's first term, it's not groypers' work.)

It all looks dangerously close to "the hacker known as 4chan" style reporting. Experts on right wing discord/4chan memes popping up left and right. Sorry, I'll need something more substantial to buy it, we're in the middle of a storm of online bullshit. Hopefully over the following days things might start to clear up...

[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

I agree with you, this comic triggers all my bullshit detectors. It might be true, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago

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Oh yeah, the right wing has never appropriated memes or left culture. Image related.