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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

Anonymous are the heroes. Thanks for posting the article!

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably too old a reference for most lol

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

It's an older meme, but it checks out

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

Us Scots can say our aitches - always annoys me to hear "an hospital" on the BBC.

Faaking Laanduners - that's who'll be saying "an hero".

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“An hero” is an old 4chan meme that is referring to a child who killed himself. There was an old MySpace memorial page made for a kid who shot himself. Someone posted a long comment that started with “He was such an hero to take it all away.” It continued to call him “an hero” several more times.

Instead of telling someone “kys” when they made a bad post, you’d tell them to become an hero.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny you say a child, as a kid at that time on 4chan (yeah yeah) it didn't come across as a "child" as they were older then me at the time.

Dark humor be like that though.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they were older then me at the time.

The an hero kid was 14 at the time (for context).

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Yep, I was 12-13 when I discovered b