![]() ![]() He graduated with a degree in literature from Chuo University in 2000. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners KK with Ichirō Yamamoto, which was involved in 2channel's management, but later left. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. Nishimura was born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, but raised in Tokyo. ![]() After a dispute with 2channel's hosting provider, Nishimura no longer administrates 2channel, but instead operates a competitor to it, 2ch.sc. Ĭhristopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, formally announced on 21 September 2015 that he had sold the website to Nishimura. Until February 2013, he was a director of, and advisor to, Niwango, best known for its service Nico Nico Douga. : PT38 He is often known by his given name, hiroyuki ( ひろゆき), which he uses, rendered intentionally in lowercase, both as a pen name and as a username. He is also a self-help author and TV personality. Hiroyuki Nishimura ( 西村 博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born 16 November 1976) is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan. The original headbanging pigeon is still just an image that some people love and many others are irritated by.Administrator of 4chan, 2ch.sc self-help author TV personalityįounding 2channel, owning 4chan since 2015 Although some trolls may add Nazi iconography (or Make America Great Hats) to it, that’s just a tactic to annoy liberals. After all, you can put a swastika on anything.Īs Frey’s satirical piece makes clear, the same thing is happening to Trash Dove, and calling it a “low-key Nazi symbol” is probably an exaggeration. Last year, Miles Klee argued on the Daily Dot that Pepe the Frog is not inherently a Nazi or fascist-he’s an every-meme that people will always tie to the most controversial, edgy developments of the moment, from the Holocaust to 9/11 to the Trump campaign. Previously, 4chan considered Trash Dove to be a cancerous “normie” meme-that is, nothing more than annoying-but as soon as their political opponents decided the bird was “alt-right,” it turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy and /pol/’s idea of a good joke. Pek is here.Īs soon as the Trump memers discovered that liberals were concerned about possible alt-right cooption of Trash Dove, they took the opportunity to “trigger” the left with the bird. Previously, 4chan made the Thoth connection with a different, totally racist meme, Moon Man, but never mind that for now. Now the Trash Dove is being hailed as a potential reincarnation of Thoth, the bird-headed god. When Trump was elected, many shitposters credited “ meme magic” for his victory. So, naturally, Pepe the Frog was the reincarnation of Kek, who became the patron god of the pro-Trump meme campaign. ![]() Last year, 4chan discovered the Egyptian god Kek, whose name happens to be the same as common 4chan slang for laughter or amusement. It’s even got a new name, “Pek,” which takes a little bit of explaining. Soon, they’d made plans to turn Trash Dove into an alt-right meme instead of a leftist one and started Photoshopping the bird with swastikas and other Nazi insignia. “Why does the left suck at meme magic?” asked one poster. ![]() But on 4chan‘s /pol/, the politics board that’s now largely dominated by the alt-right, Trump supporters, and blatant Nazi iconography, the right has decided that a leftist Trash Dove is not going to fly. ![]()
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