What is this place? Who are we, and how did we get here as a community? What was some of our milestones or big historical events?
What is this place? Who are we, and how did we get here as a community? What was some of our milestones or big historical events?
That was something people referred to on 4chan in the mid 2010s, when memes from 4chan started to seem like they were affecting real life. Think pepe the frog being declared a hate symbol, the bit about drinking milk and making the ok hand symbol being white supremacist, all these trolls that started on /pol/ making their way onto local news channels and real life in general. The whole thing hit its climax in 2016 with the Trump campaign, especially when Trump tweeted that picture of pepe. People on /pol/ legitimately (as far as I could tell anyways) thought that by "winning the meme war" they were winning the election for Trump. When he actually won, they thought that they "memed him into the white house", etc.