Even if I were born in 1988, I surely wouldn’t use the number in a username. Same if my initials would AH or HH.
People with 88 in their usernames are probably people who’ve been rocking the same username for 20+ years at this point. I think my username naming scheme hasn’t changed since I was single digits in age logging intk AIM and MSN Messenger
Mine is old enough to drink (21+ in USA)…
Wait are we supposed to ask if you are dog whistling or not? Now I don’t know.
I’ve long use “2015” appended to my initials for screen names. It has no particular significance. I started using it over a decade before 2015. I was signing up for an account, and I added my age then to the current year. Thus, I ended up with 2015 as “my” number.
Early on, it was no problem. It was still well in the future. Around 2015, it became impossible to use the number. Inevitably someone would claim the number for a username before I did. Now, 2015 is easy again to claim appended to my initials. Unfortunately, now when I use it, I get accused of being 10 years old.
Hey, what’s this 10 year old “scientist” doing on Lemmy? Get outta here kid
Chinese never cared, 88 is “double prosperity” to us chinese and it will never change. Western gatekeeping is annoying as heck.
Right, everything is somehow going to offend someone. Honestly. I had no idea of 88 being offensive until a few years ago, and it was on Reddit/Lemmy echo chambers; I have never heard or seen 88 being used intentionally offensively IRL; I have never been made aware of it, anyway.
Yes, I’ve used 88. I was born in 88.
I think in Greek culture it’s offensive to “show your palms”/an open hand, they treat it like a middle finger. Americans accidentally do that all the time.
I want to say maybe 8 years ago now they tried to sound the alarm about the OK symbol (👌) being a dogwhistle for “White Power”, and they listed off a number of weak examples. And I think everyone collectively said shut the fuck up, nobody cares, the OK symbol is used everywhere & the great majority of people don’t use it to express “White Power”. How ridiculous.
Don’t ask for permission to do painfully basic things. They’ll take everything from you, they’ll take your 88s, your OK symbols, and idk anything else they feel like being offended about. I hear Nazis breathe oxygen & drink water. Damn, guess we need to stop that, too. Or maybe, just maybe…just don’t be a Nazi & live your life. ¯\(°_o)/¯
88 is not offensive. It’s a nazi dogwhistle. There’s a big difference.
I also assure you that Americans don’t do the Greek “mountza” all the time.
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Pretty common in the earlier days of the internet.
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Oh damn. I’m an idiot.
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Woah you were born in 1902?
Wiiiiild you’re old af
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Ah, I can’t see the 02 unless I look at your account directly. On sync it just shows stebo.
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In fairness, you did say you were stupid.
I’m not going to lie. One of my old reddit accounts had 88 in its username. Not because of malicious reasons though. It was a random number I came up with since the username I wanted was already taken. I got banned from r/comicbooks for that despite proof that I was NOT connected with any racist content.
I caught a ban from there for talking about alien ethnicity.
There’s some cover depicting the 616 Justice League opposite their equivalents from another Earth. The Doylist view is: how these characters look is arbitrary. All changes are an excuse for costume edits and better representation. But in-universe, these are not characters. They’re people with backstories. And some of those backstories make the changes a head-scratcher. Green Lantern, nah, he’s just a guy. Could be anyone. Wonder Woman, Themyscira’s basically Cyprus, of course Amazons could look African.
But Superman’s a fucking alien. Most aliens do not look human. Mars is right next door, and the Manhunter is green. Matching a single ethnic group on Earth is already a miraculous coincidence. Does Krypton fit our species’s entire spectrum? Are there exceptions? Could Supergirl have shown up colored blue, and gone “wow, hair can be red?” An alternative is that their universe’s Krypton is an entirely different monoculture - and if nothing else changed, that might raise some questions for Ma & Pa Kent.
Meanwhile: they left Batman almost identical. Even though Bruce Wayne is just a product of his rich parents.
But yeah, I think those mods are just touchy. God forbid you ask follow-up questions.
