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0 pointsthrowanem7mo ago0 comments

I actually did see one, while the site was #1 and well before the overnight excitement. (Good grief, even at this late age I have something to do with my Friday evenings...)

I don't really know what you want me to tell you about it. The swastika per se as I recall had to be drawn backwards, because there is no meaningful overlap between its outline and that of a fish, so unlike the penis case this is very easy for the classifier. It wasn't clever and it wasn't funny. Several people reported it and it quickly disappeared, whereupon apparently someone decided we shouldn't have nice things, or not for a little while at least.

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stavros7mo ago

Yes but what was the incident like, in general? Was it just swastikas, or words too, or what? When I saw it, it was just normal fish.

ofjcihen7mo ago

I got you.

So think of 4 Chan but fish. Like the entire screen.

50 of the fish are just regular fish with slurs written in them.

There’s like 10 swastika fish moseying around.

And then you have the odd fish with like an Isreali flag with…let’s say stereotypical features for the face.

stavros7mo ago

Hahaha that is an excellent description, well done. It's as if I was there.

throwanemOP7mo ago

Quoting from the article's third paragraph:

> But if you had the displeasure of viewing my website between the hours of 2AM (20 minutes after I went to sleep) and 8AM (when I woke up) EST on Aug 3, then you would have seen chaos. Every single username was transformed to a heinous slur, many unsavory fish had made it into the fishtank, and many beautiful fish were gone.

At some point, asking for more starts to seem like rubbernecking at a car crash, you know?

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0 pointsthrowanem7mo ago0 comments

I actually did see one, while the site was #1 and well before the overnight excitement. (Good grief, even at this late age I have something to do with my Friday evenings...)

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stavros7mo ago

Yes but what was the incident like, in general? Was it just swastikas, or words too, or what? When I saw it, it was just normal fish.

ofjcihen7mo ago

I got you.

So think of 4 Chan but fish. Like the entire screen.

50 of the fish are just regular fish with slurs written in them.

There’s like 10 swastika fish moseying around.

And then you have the odd fish with like an Isreali flag with…let’s say stereotypical features for the face.

stavros7mo ago

Hahaha that is an excellent description, well done. It's as if I was there.

throwanemOP7mo ago

Quoting from the article's third paragraph:

At some point, asking for more starts to seem like rubbernecking at a car crash, you know?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse