The most recent one, posted Wednesday, announced he was in Seattle and asked if anyone wanted to meet up. In general, Eggman’s videos are about his life: his loneliness, his struggle to find a job after dropping out of college, and his views about women vis. He reckoned at the time that he’d had “about all that I can take of r9k. Unfortunately, that only led to a bunch of trolls pretending to be him. “Eggman appreciation threads” were not unusual:īut, as Eggman explained in a video posted in August, he got sick of the fame at one point, and dropped his tripcode. He was basically in on the joke, and even posted more photos of himself to feed his fans. One well-known “tripfag” is Toby “Eggman” Reynolds, who became a meme because of his funny-looking head, and started making YouTube videos for his robot audience. EggmanĪlthough 4chan is mostly anonymous, some prominent users drop that anonymity in favor of tripcodes that identify their posts. Or top keks, or whatever they’re calling fun these days. There was nothing in particular to tie it to this week’s tragedy.īut, with the 4chan meme spreading on social media and getting mentions on national news reports, it appears trolls on /r9k/ took the opportunity to frame some of the board’s best-known posters for the shooting, just for the lulz. The Mirror didn’t mention that the thread was from May of this year, on the first anniversary of Rodger’s shooting spree. The horrible kind of normies will pay for their misdeeds, and the world will be bettered.” Tabloids like the U.K.’s Mirror even cited a separate /r9k/ thread that wished everyone “an enjoyable Elliot Rodger day” and threatened, “Personally I will mark this day’s celebration of our Hero’s deeds by announcing that I have an elaborate plan.Needless to say it shall be glorious. It now seems that a “beta uprising” wasn’t part of the shooter’s motivation, but in the hours after the shooting, the media took it and ran with it. “Is beta uprising finally going down?” someone else responded, referring to the robots’ shared fantasy of a violent retaliation against the normies, in the vein of California mass shooter Elliot Rodger. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning,” the anonymous poster wrote the night before the UCC shooting. “Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest. That’s the context for this screengrab, which you may have seen attributed to Chris Harper Mercer (although the FBI has confirmed they’re investigating it, no official source has linked it to Mercer directly):
Robots look upon normies with a mixture of envy and hatred, and they can be hostile to anyone displaying normie characteristics on the board. He easily navigates the same society that robots experience as fucked-up and unfair. The natural nemesis of a robot is his polar opposite, the “normie”: a socially adept “normal” guy who, although he is boring, has no trouble attracting women.
Only one rule really seems to be agreed upon: “If you have no friends and no gf you are a robot.” Posters on the board are locked in an ongoing debate about who can be one of them- a “robot.” Can white guys be robots, despite their privilege? Can black guys? Women love them! It goes on and on. It’s the 4chan messageboard where dudes who identify as “beta” males lament that they’ve been dealt an unfair hand by a world where women have all the power and only “alpha” bad boys and assholes ever win. The confusion started with a couple of troubling posts on /r9k/, a.k.a. For a couple of hours, though, mobs on Twitter and Facebook believed these were the guys, and openly speculated about what drove them to do it. 4chan gave them two, both of whom turned out to be alive, and neither of whom has been named by authorities in connection with the tragedy.
In the hours between the shooting spree at Umpqua Community College and the moment news networks were able to name Chris Harper Mercer as the alleged gunman, crowds on social media clamored for a name to fill the informational void.
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