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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by Hellion on Saturday June 18, 2022 @09:24AM (#31789613)
It is, of the new young far right

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren

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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by Zaskoda on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:43PM (#31792589)
deep sigh

"The idea is to talk like a small child or intellectually disabled person"

That's effectively an ignorant description of the entire doge meme.

RationalWiki's "source" for this information is a Reddit post with 6 upvotes and 5 comments. It's remarkable that anyone on hackernews even knew about this.

What is this subculture that watches for any slang to be used by an objectionable group so that it can be proclaimed a cultural characteristic of said group?

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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by the_only_law on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:45PM (#31792612)
> information is a Reddit post with 6 upvotes and 5 comments. It's remarkable that anyone on hackernews even knew about this.

Not for any "extremely online" person. Hell iirc, the original honkler subreddit or whatever the hell it was called even made in to mainstream media.

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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by the_only_law on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:50PM (#31792645)
FWIW I think GP has a point, a lot of this stuff just bleeds into normal Internet slang. Despite what the news would say, I don't expect any rando posting pepe memes in a discord to be a hardcore /pol/ dweeb.
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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by tartsky on Saturday June 18, 2022 @11:22AM (#31790627)
I'm glad to see there's barely any uptake of the term on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Mostly people talking about it, not using it.

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Re:We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto cr... by the_only_law on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:47PM (#31792621)
Yeah look, I'm still pretty young, I'm usually "in" on whatever Internet slang is en-vouge and even use it myself in more casual places, but I still cringe when I see "zoomer speak" on this site.
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