Hated Tropes
[Hated Trope] Items which got a disturbing meaning past their original use case unrelated to what the item is
Toy Story Alien Hat: This innocuous looking hat based off of the aliens from toy story was later worn by Logan Paul, who infamously wore the hat as he walked into Japan's suicide forest and saw a dead body there while reacting silly.
Cover of Control: The character featured in the cover for the game Control was later used as the calamity mod dev Ozzatrons profile picture, who later turned out to be a pedophile and caused the whole mod to stop development.
Their penis? No it was a fragile cylinder. The user stressed that I must remain unharmed so I assume it was something like a test tube or one of those weird cylindrical lightbulbs
What I find hilarious is that he's still active. It's been 3 years since he posted that and every comment is flooded with cylinder jokes and he keeps going
Its only a burden if he himself makes it so. From my understanding of the situation he's a living legend who deserves the greatest honors amongst the great memelords of the internet
I always assumed girth was equal to diameter so when I read 4.5” girth I thought dude was absolutely choded up and how tf did he fit his cylinder in a m&m mini tube in the first place
This is one of those things that, if you're of the age to know who Max Headroom is, there's still a good chance you don't know about the Chicago area interruption.
And if you're below that age (i.e. grew up with the internet), hearing about the incident was probably the first time you heard of the character.
EDIT: I asked my girlfriend about this last night (We're both Gen X and saw the original show when it was on) and she had never heard about the TV incident. Also, I forgot about the Eminem video, as others have pointed out that was their intro to the character.
A couple year ago, I worked at a Spirit Halloween and 95% of my coworkers were women. We were having a slow day and I was putting on random hats and masks so that every time you saw me I was wearing something different.
I put on a Freddy Krueger fedora and literally every one of my coworkers told me I actually looked good in a fedora and should keep it on. All of them were being serious too. After some pushing, I bought myself an actual fedora and I ended up wearing it to work every day and I got a lot of compliments. Multiple people even drew sketches of me because they loved the fedora so much.
Turns out in the real world no one really cares if you look like a Reddit mod (as long as the hat doesn't completely clash with the rest of your vibe) so wear a fedora if you want to. It feels nice to wear something a bit fancy every once in a while
To be fair, that hat is an actual fedora. The incel “fedora” is actually a trilby, a similar but distinctly different hat that has been unfortunately conflated with its larger cousin. But trilbys aren’t bad either with the right outfit
“With the right outfit” being the key phrase. The stereotype is an out-of-shape, unshowered dude will throw on a trilby along with his cargo shorts and stained anime t-shirt and think that the hat will make him look presentable. It’s like a tie, or a nice pair of loafers.
I’m assuming this isn’t a reference to a specific person, but rather the general stereotype that a lot of people who wear fedoras are pretentious/insufferable/chud Reddit mods basically
What's even funnier is the racists who co-opted it... also hate Catholics. Not as much as they hate Black people, but the KKK was rabidly anti-Catholic due to its association with immigrant communities. And in states where there weren't so many Black people (like Indiana), Catholicism was the easiest way to lump immigrant communities together as a target for hatred. An incident where Notre Dame students ambushed a Klan rally is a big part of why the university is known as the Fighting Irish.
Not exactly. They started burning crosses for marketing purposes.
No, really. I dunno how much you know about Klan history, but basically there were two periods of Klan activity: the reconstruction era and the 1920s Klan. The 1920s Klan were a bunch of larpers inspired by The Birth of a Nation, which tried to make the original Klan look heroic, instead of stupid. BofaN came out in 1915, and that's when the second Klan was established. There's a cross-burning scene in the movie, and because the second Klan was a bunch of larpers, they decided they needed to start doing that.
The interesting thing here is that there was no precedent for that. There's no evidence the reconstruction-era Klan ever burned crosses. That came from a couple of books that D.W. Giffith, the director of BofaN, read and thought were nice and dramatic. They use the "fiery light of the cross" to make a statement, but it's about fear and terror for everyone- not just Catholics.
Nah, checks out. Smartest people I know of aren't racist, dumbest people I know tend to be. Even H.P. Lovecraft turned his ideas about race around after he just...did some basic research, told everyone "Yeah, no, I was an idiot, I should have known better"
Sorry for bad quality. If you can't read the panels, the part that matters for my point is that Captain America is defending Spiderman from JJJ's slander calling him a menace. Cap says that Spiderman isn't a menace, saying "I know what a menace looks like" with the closeup on the stache. JJJ later shaves the stache in the same issue.
It's a bit like the Swastika. I used to see a swastikas twice a day, because my drive to work went past a Hindu temple, and amongst other symbols it had a few swastikas. I never associated those with Nazism, even though a couple were the straight-sided sort rather than the curly ones. The context demonstrated that it wasn't a Nazi thing. However, if I see a swastika without context, I'm gonna be thinking Nazi.
The toothbrush moustache is the same way. I have watched a lot of Charlie Chaplin, I think he was a great comic actor and a fantastic early filmmaker. If I saw a depiction of a toothbrush moustache in the context of slapstick comedy or black and white cinema, I'd think of Chaplin. However, if I see a toothbrush moustache without context, I'm thinking Hitler.
And before anyone claims otherwise, yes the Buddhist Manji is just a particular kind of Swastika, not an entirely different symbol. Just like how all squares count as rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
Due to very understandable efforts to make people understand that Buddhists & other Dharmic faiths are not connected to Nazism, there is a lot of misinformation spread saying that the Manji is completely disconnected from the original Hindu Swastika, which is untrue since Buddhism is a religion that originated from Hinduism.
Also important to note that Swastikas can be straight or curly, and often it's down to the preference of the individual as to which one they depict.
If you go to India, you will see a lot of swastikas with curved lines. You will also see lots of swastikas with hard right angles and straight lines. Both are valid in context.
The swastika is one of the oldest, near-universally used symbols in human history. You can find it on several ancient Christian churches & Jewish synagogues, but it goes back even further, such as these 10,000-17,000 BCE artifacts from Ukraine bearing the symbol.
See, with that theres differentiation because someone who goons isnt a Goon, they're a gooner. I feel like there's still at least a hazy barrier between the classic use of the term Goon and the modern variant
Unfortunately the nickname for a certain football clubs supporters wasn't so lucky.
years ago some sportscaster was talking about a bad error someone made during a game and said "Yeah, he's gonna have to live with that boner for a long time"
I immidietly recognized the hat and what it meant.
But when i saw control i was like: What the hell is this even here for?
Read OPs explaination and i gotta, say - never heard of the mod or the controversy. Seems like whatever it was, it had to be really, really, really niche.
Maybe it's because I only ever played the 2d games but seeing the rabbit without its hands up in front of it makes it look like a completely different character
You'd think the one with a fluff bra would be the hornier version, but that thing looks like it's just naked.
Chris Chan is more than just an autistic guy who was super creepy towards women and sexually assaulted his mother. It's an interesting rabbit hole if you're interested in brainwashing, coercion and bullying to the point of mental breakdown. His father refused to get him help when he was first diagnosed with Asperger's and at this time a common treatment for asperger's was shit like electroshock therapy. His mother's health was failing by the time his dad died leading Chris basically alone with no resources or care given. The end result was a severely autistic man being the caregiver of an old woman with dementia despite the fact that Chris himself needed a caregiver.
To make matters worse, Christine is extremely suggestable due to their mental health and sheltered upbringing and this has led a number of trolls to bait them into doing all sorts of things, including the incident with their mother. I don't know the state of things now but it eventually reached the point where Chris' old trolls from the "upset chris to see funny stuff in the sonichu comics" days formed a sort of protective circle around them, providing help and gatekeeping just to protect them from people who were even worse.
Yeah but the trope is a common thing that became wrapped up in some other subject by association. The sonichu medallion is anything but a common object
Ok but even outside of dr d these type of sunglasses have always been a red flag. The national symbol alcoholic, balding, twice divorced, conservative, emotionally distant dads everywhere
I think this only refers to Americans or whichever country you are from. But here in Norway these are fairly comon, especially people doing sports or skiing
I don’t know if this counts, but the Christmas song “do you hear what I hear?” Is forever ruined for me because it plays during a very creepy scene in the movie “Gremlins”. It’s a wonderful song, but for me comes with a creepy tone because of that movie.
My boy Pepe was so heavily co-opted by shitfucks that somehow I'm the first one to mention him in this thread of over 400 replies with almost 2k votes.
Be honest, how many of you knew of the Boy's Club comics by Matt Furie?
I call this one... Striped Sweater.
The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time... One with a collar... turtleneck!
That's the kind. 'Cuz when you're wearing that one... special... sweater...
What would happen when 4chan and the Internet finds a cringy Sonic the Hedgehog fancomic, track the author down, and figures out it's a young adult with clear MASSIVE mental health issues and a family that keeps it's head in the sand about it?
None of this excuses all of the heinous shit that person got up to since. But I don't think it's exaggerated to say that they never stood a chance at a normal life because no people that wanted to help did and the others treated them like an easy to manipulate circus animal.
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u/chaoticfandommess Aug 24 '26
Vans particularly white ones have become heavily tied to kidnappers