‘An hero’ is an old 4chanism thateans committing suicide
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Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
was actually going to an hero
This is the most awkward treatment I’ve ever seen. Was it a typo? Autocorrect? Pasted in the wrong spot? All 3??
I can’t seem to fix it. Not what this post is about but it annoyed me, so now you have to be annoyed as well.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
iirc it comes from a someone posting about thier son who killed themselves and made a typo saying “he was an hero” so naturally 4chan turned the phrase “an hero” into a way to say “to commit suicide”.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Thank you. That’s… awful.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thats 4chan
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuckin hell I’m old lmao. Anyone else with me? This was the standard speak of 4chan back in like… '07…'08?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Like '05, it’s old. Fuck. I’m old.
psud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
‘an hero’ means to suicide
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It isn’t exactly celebrating suicide, it’s kinda making fun of it in a way.
It started from some myspace post long long ago, in which some kid named Mitchell had killed himself and one of their friends or family members made a memorial myspace page about it including the typo “He was such an hero, to take it all away.” The post continues to use “an hero” multiple times, (h/o I bet I can find it, brb.)
/b/tards latched onto it pretty quick, and the meme became that people who killed themselves are “an hero” just like Mitchell.
tweeks@feddit.nl 1 month ago
A few comments below taught me that it apparently originates from this meme where it was a mix of a typo and a loving description of a suicidal person.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
wow, just when you think 4chan can’t sink any lower
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Lol ‘sink lower’.
4chan is the bottom, there is no lower to sink.