Meaning of 8channer | Babel Free

Definitions

A member of the imageboard website 8chan.

Examples

“8channers discuss⟳ the best way to terrorize “social justice warriors,” or SJWs.”

“In June 2019, I stumbled across a thread on 8chan in which users expressed their concern⟳ about the number⟳ of “shills” who had begun to surveil the anonymous board⟳ after it served as a platform for Brenton Tarrant, a mass shooter who murdered over fifty Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, to post⟳ his manifesto. As a result⟳, 8channers were looking for other options to express⟳ their opinions online and reach⟳ one another; Discord had proved too easy to infiltrate.”

“Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever.”

“When one asked for suggestions, the first reply⟳ was: ‘Shoot⟳ up a Synagogue. Be a hero.’ Less than a month later, an 8channer carried out just such an attack.”

“And just as his idol Brenton Tarrant did, Earnest called on fellow 8channers to use⟳ their common culture to amplify his words: / Make⟳ sure that my sacrifice was not in vain. Spread⟳ this letter, make⟳ memes, shitpost, FIGHT⟳ BACK, […]”

“The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t. It proved you were a true 8channer: based and red-pilled, committed to one another whatever the reputational cost⟳, having ascended above the petty demands of an off-line world that, in truth, terrified you.”

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