I'm a moderator of a meme sub on Reddit. (I know, but I have friends there).
So I am a moderator of /r/dankmemes. A day ago an insider posted to our mod team that there was to be a massive marketing campaign using popular meme formats to spread across the web to promote not only Lego/Disney holiday product sales but also the new Rogue One film set to release in a few days.
We blew it off at first. Then today… BOOM! Lego Star Wars Memes everywhere. Not just the normie markets of Facebook and Twitter; but various subreddit's here on Reddit too.
You've likely seen this meme by now. They're using all the popular meme formats from the last year and blending in the Lego Star Wars themes.
Most of the accounts I've seen do this on Reddit are older accounts that were inactive for a year or so. Some less, some more. Never before had they posted in /r/dankmemes (we're an underground sub fill of OC memers from around the chans etc) and we have a close community.
It hit us like a shitstorm today. Every other minute is another Lego Star Wars meme being posted. We have 116k+ subscribers and we do have exclusive OC content (usually winds up elsewhere on the web within a day or so. Anyways today was shocking.
We @ /r/dankmemes are declaring war on Corporate Marketing Forced Meme Campaigns. We've even set up a sub as a base @ /r/FuckLego. I've also temporarily modified the CSS on our page to display the [Fuck Lego](i.imgur.com/gSyWabs.png) message you see here.
I can't produce evidence that these are in fact paid shills posting and likely normies are picking up on it and spreading them as well unknowingly. Which is also probably the plan of the cuckold corporate masters behind this ploy.
Stand up and fight back against marketing that is shoved down your throat.
THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR MEMES!
I'm not sure if Reddit is involved in this. Some of the accounts are brand new posting these sure. Zero posts then they're coming straight to our sub? Seems odd. What's even more odd is many of these accounts are several years old and haven't had a single post in over a year and suddenly are coming back to life.
THEY KNOW MEME MAGIC IS REAL AND THEY'RE (LE DISNEY JEWRY) TRYING TO USE IT TO FORCE FEED PRODUCTS DOWN THE THROATS OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN.
I expected some of that. Not that it isn't deserved. That being said this isn't a game or a joke.
It's something I take great offense to. Kikery schemes like this are serious ploys to manipulate the youth that we've spent thousands of hours redpilling.
Gavin Wilson
as if there was any doubt.
Colton Williams
That's in fact part of the problem. I have more than enough reason to believe Reddit is selling accounts to these companies. There's no explanation for accounts which were dead over a year to spring to life here. If a link can be found providing evidence of such actions; one can without a shadow of a doubt assume they also provide CTR (or the highest bidder) with Shill accounts as well.
Levi Phillips
ask halfchan if they give a shit
Ian Carter
I thought I clarified that twice. :p
Brayden White
I'll bite.
This is not new at all, reddit mod. This has been going on for a long time, especially on many shit-tier sites. Want a fix to your problem? Leave Reddit. It's beyond cucked. Any shady shit happening there is certainly (((their))) doing.
Ryder Anderson
that made me burst out laughin
James Gomez
oh what a revelation, I don't see w
Connor Wright
Duly noted.
Not trying to use a format that has several million users to redpill seems counterproductive in my eyes however.
If there are no voices of dissent and open arms to embrace the masses flocking for answers then you're basically losing an information war.
Sebastian Russell
Corporate memes are not new, even on imageboards
Kevin White
what the fuck oh what a revelation, I don't see why anyone in their right mind would ever go to reddit,especially now
Carter Gray
I can't say I disagree with that rhetoric.
Samuel Taylor
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Asher Gutierrez
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Owen Howard
The easy answer to your problem is to leave Reddit. Now, I doubt you'll do that because you're stupid, so my advice would be to fight memes with memes. Start creating memes that portray lego star wars in a bad light. You could even take the Pepe route and turn it into a Nazi meme, Lego corporate sure as shit wouldn't like that.
Sebastian Green
don't start going here though, go to that other reddit clone or halfchan instead
Michael Clark
Only place I know on reddit that isn't is r/altright cuz it has the coontown mods and some Holla Forumsacks. It'll be banned any day now though.
Aaron Lewis
You seem to be under the impression that we believe any decent memes come from reddit in the first place. The fact it's so easily commandeered by corporations is the exact reason it's so shit. You have to go back.
Benjamin Richardson
Did you do English lessons at school? It's called paragraphs user they're useful for writing something that's actually readable.
Aiden Brown
It's called "shilling" you newfag Reddit cancer.
Nolan Taylor
tip top kek
Jeremiah Roberts
We control the memes of production. Our memes are strong, corporate and leftist memes are weak.
Our influence spreads automatically across the web, from faggots crossposting from here to 4chan, reddit, twitter, facebook, etc.
Awareness of this faggotry isn't bad, but don't be a retard and think that this threatens us. This isn't even meme warfare they are practicing, this is the flailing of a dying empire.
Robert Lee
Did you finish your homework?
Parker Cruz
Delete the subboard or redditsub or whatever. You're onyl giving leddit more money.
Nathaniel Ward
user, this is interesting. doesn't look like you're going to get much traction here, but you might try Holla Forums or Holla Forums as I imagine they might be able to lend a hand.
Joshua Green
Maybe on halfchan… They're the bottom of the barrel.
Jordan Parker
I don't expect them to care about leddit either, maybe halfchan does
Nolan Carter
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Gavin Torres
oy vey
Brody Davis
I guess my point here is as simple as if there were any doubt Reddit is a cucked social media platform directing specific narratives to fill their own pockets; then it's now three thousand times confirmed. First the obvious intrusion of paid CTR shills and downvote python bot accounts before the election (very simple to do on Reddit btw), then the admittance of editing user comments by CEO spez (Steve Huffman), now very obvious selling of accounts to benefit corporate marketing; Reddit is completely fucking cucked. Anyone searching these boards fleeing from the sinking ship; let it be known. The kike driven media machine is alive and well and has long since absorbed Reddit. RIP Reddit.
Daniel Fisher
Just spoil the new Star Wars movie for them all.
Charles Garcia
Am I the only one that's never used this oprah winfrey tier platform?
Jason Hernandez
ITT: a million shills and newfags jump on the "reddit" meme and prevent any discourse on the topic at hand.
Anthony Nguyen
I feel a compulsive need to flood the redditboard with star wars shit auti.st
Jaxson Green
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Elijah Lee
I like this spacing more.
Kevin Taylor
If we could quickly and efficiently redpill the population, we wouldn't have these kinds of issues. I agree with the fact there are a ton of people on Reddit that could use a solid redpilling, but keep in mind you're 100% on (((their))) turf when interacting on that site (though I think you know that already).
Back to the memes… Didney and other MSM outlets know of the power of memes/viral marketing. They've known about it and used it for marketing and political purposes for years. Only over the past decade or so have they really doubled down on memes. The accounts are either given to marketers, purchased by marketers, or created a while ago with the explicit purpose of doing exactly this. The only thing you can do is exactly what you seem to be doing - bring attention to the bullshit and hotpocket the fuck out of these accounts. Know this - they cannot win in the long term, as memes require an organic human element to spread and actually catch on.
Daniel Clark
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Ayden Adams
A platform that is shit because it is so easily taken over by any interest that decides to gets taken over by an interest that decided to.
What is the news here?
Nathan Morgan
Let's not go insulting someone who came here to verify cuckoldry.
I've been fighting using the memetic warfare tactics of kek longer than two thirds of you calling me a newfag likely have jumped off the porch.
The problem is the platform (which has 116 thousand users) is beyond cucked at this point. Disgracing my efforts to redpill the next generation of voters with memes is somewhat insulting to the cause. You
Luke Morris
You're on 8ch Holla Forums mate… what did you expect?
Julian Hill
those "memes" gave me cancer
Gavin Russell
Wow bye
Christopher Jones
That's basically the message I'm portraying here. I've come to the conclusion Reddit is for the most part a lost cause.
Justin Nelson
Cool. They also are effective in driving the narrative into the hearts and minds of normies abroad. Pizzagate is being fed to them as fake news and this is what they understand: meme formats.
Adrian Bennett
Wasn't there some kind of reddit alternative you can move to? Something with "v" or "y" i think
Adam Brown
I expected nothing less. That being said I needed to get it off my chest m8
Nathan Bailey
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Aiden Flores
Voat
Logan Hernandez
Then keep that shit in the normiesphere and don't expect us to give you credit for cancer
Michael Young
>reddit spacing
Ian Foster
Voat isn't an alternative. It's a joke. Let's be real. They can't afford the funding to handle the traffic. Mark my words some disinfo faggot like Milo will sweep in (he's already doing it) and takeover VOAT and spread his jewfaggery.
Elijah Gutierrez
Theres a subreddit for reddit cuckoldry, why dont you go there and complain, OP? /r/HailCorporate
Jeremiah Jenkins
This. Viral spoilers as memes and make them regret trying to exploit meme magic.
Jonathan Robinson
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Aaron Long
Holy fuck you are a cuck.
Tyler Anderson
BTFO
Nicholas Stewart
This is no different than the faggot bringing up some shitty new SW movie here recently. Let it die, burn the board. They deserve no push from either direction.
Mason Powell
Oh great the cancer is multiplying, thanks OP
Isaac Jenkins
Alright, look… I'm not going to be a dick to you.
The development of kek is like last week to most people here. It's incredibly recent in the scheme of things. I'm glad you've been around for 2/3rds of the time since. Keep pushing anti-sjw material, as douche chilling as it is, to the other kids. Yes, it is a necessary function of cultural warfare. So, go for it. But understand Reddit is shit. Not because we're better than it. Because the entire way it's set up WELCOMES the exact thing complained about in the OP. The correct answer is to redpill others into not using Reddit at all.
Charles James
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Kayden Adams
This is the one thing you niggers need to shut the fuck up about. Seriously. Other then that you are on reddit. What did you expect? People have known that reddit was a site ran by outside interests and noone on the high floors gave a single shit about reddit. They only care about their ideologies and their progressive values. They dont care about ANYTHING you have or what you are about. You are posting on site that is ran like its a corporate site. Its not a forum but a corporate message board. Its ran how you would expect any other place to be ran. You dont own shit even if it is "your board". The CEO himself said he edited content. Your posts are probably not yours in that fact either. So lets just learn that you should never ever post on places that dont give a single shit about you.
On a side note: Memes are not just "funny pictures with words on them" Memes are internet jokes usually made for more close knit groups that if you were to take that inside joke anywhere else, no one would probably understand it. Yet you niggers just constantly spout "MEMESMEMESMEMES" like 12 year old autistics. Every time i see someone type memes referring to a joke I cringe. I cringe every single fucking time you autistic sacks of shit spout this retarded garbage. Grow the ever living fuck up.
Jaxson Anderson
We've had a problem for a long time with some shill constantly keeping hollywood threads in the catalog. I think the vols have been doing a better job at killing it lately but it was a problem for quite awhile.
Camden Fisher
I'm not complaing. I'm archiving activities for future reference. Fuck Reddit. Me posting in this board was the final fuck you that tipped me over the edge. It's well known now that such faggotry exists on Eddit. Breitbart covered the cancer and the controversy surrounding the censorship. Pizzagate is no longer bidden and it I expect many more of my kind to finally call it off and leave the platform.
You're 100% right. People tend to forget this sometimes and that's fine.
Luis Thomas
Wew. Calling you guys for shills. In the case you're uninformed newfags who fell for the reddit meme: reddit's a useful propaganda tool and it's a way for our useful idiots to reach normies. We're not falling for your shit despite all your spam.
Aaron Bailey
LEWK AT MY NEW DANK MEME POSTED TO RADDIT??! XDDD
Brayden Martin
Thanks for the confirmation, redditfag, now go back
Blake Robinson
Accurate
Alexander Harris
it's time to go back
Angel Garcia
This fagtitude is likely why you don't accomplish anything. As I've said before you have to think big. The rise of the anarcho commoe is a reality. It's happening all the fuck around you. They're using memetic warfare. Bernfags are going to rally around him in 2020. You want to think big league? Fight the faggotry with whatever you can. Which is what Reddit dissenters such as myself have done for years redpilling the fuck out of would be voters. We're winning a war here. You want to drivel over MUHHHH BOARD WAAAH GO BACK feel free. Meantime were creating a fucking army.
Kayden Taylor
Your site is a place for marketing and control What did you expect?
your boss will not give you proof since they should be having some benefits from this
You have the logs of those accounts? spread them not only in reddit but everywhere not as a mod
There must be people on twitter or youtube willing to shit on it if you can find more evidence you could start something
Nobody likes to be used, showing how they are being toyed with may help But making a thread there will only lead to ban or dox Again maybe in social media?
Jose Murphy
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Ian Evans
Upboated xdd
Gabriel Thomas
OMG at last I truly see, you really opened my eyes there oh initiated one Bernie is probably dead by then or will shill them out of their money and nothing else, once again Damn, you sure a bad dude OP, how about you keep building your army of ledditors then and stop trying to get credit from us for it?
John Adams
My man, that is your community. If you want to save or burn it, it is up to who remains of worth.
Easton Howard
Are… are those your weaponised memes? That's what passes for memetic fitness on Reddit?
Is this a psyop? I've never been to Reddit but I cannot believe that this could be what gets used there. These are below subhuman.
Nathan Diaz
Social media outside of Reddit I've long since abandonded. Yes I've spread the account names and their history through all the channels I could and hoping those other conspiratorial truth seekers spread it further. Doxx is always a risk sure and most normies don't take the precautions necessary to protect themselves. I can proudly say that we have several thousand members which we've redpilled to the fullest out of a little over a hundred thousand subscribers. I hope those use The power of Kek to continue the plight because the war is long from won.
Nicholas Brown
Hey cool. Sit in your chair and remain an out of touch oldfag. That's your prerogative. Tomorrow's youth would laugh at you. You have nothing but words and can't connect to their culture. That's fine. Do you. The red pilling isn't coming from old faggotry this much I assure you. It's using memetic warfare of popular and understandable meme formats as well as the Vidyas coming out of groups like Murdoch Murdoch. You're like a backseat driver at this point. No initiative or leadership.
Jayden Torres
If they were they wouldn't be using reddit
Caleb James
whoops
this was for u
Benjamin Hall
You should have fixed your own communities. This isn't your home. You don't force recognition and attempt to create moments of feels. I couldn't hate you anymore for not knowing how amorphous and quickly moments come and go beyond whatever your fagbox was. This all plays as forced and unnatural.
Landon Turner
Better late than never
Lucas Bennett
And this is what you call culture?>>8451998
Samuel Gonzalez
Aw. Old fags hate being irrelavant. It happens though. Alphas won't cuck down to you. They'll take overm
William Young
One day you'll realize how much of a larper you were in your youth.
Charles Peterson
Oh boy, what a lack of comprehension.
Ayden Murphy
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Joseph Wood
It's not about culture alone. It's about the infiltration of the culture and using it as a tool to gain ears to listen to your message.
Alexander Rogers
And they finally show their true colours
Colton Gomez
So this is where everyone is tonight. Really?
Jace Mitchell
Would have thought they'd realized it was a lost cause after the false pizza.
Anthony Fisher
Well atleast I'm having fun
Adam Campbell
You fucking blew your thread and any chance of sympathy by acting like an enormous faggot. Please leave and spare yourself this suffering cuckboy.
Justin Wood
I'm not doubting anyone's influence. Not am I criticizing the methods they choose to use to speak. However speaking to the same circle or already awakened old fags accomplishes very little. It's the misguided youth which are questioning the force fed propaganda that need guidance. If you're not using their platform then guess where they're turning? To the altleft. Wake up. They have anger and rage and frustration and they need an outlet and a guide to the RIGHT path. They're basically standing there wanting to battle; and its up to us to draft them into the cause. Or we can sit around like faggots at a campfire recollecting muhhh member berries amongst the same people. Really up to you what you want to do.
Leo Green
There's never a bad time to BTFO of Reddit.
Kayden Diaz
You really could not be any more normalfaggot, could you? Great, now I'm getting sucked in.
Brandon Barnes
I'm just having fun. You expect me to cuck the fuck down? Nah fam. Nah. I have a message and I've fought in my share as well as anyone else. The only smirky responses I've given are to those who came at me fucked up. You're on the same team here. We all are. Tactics of division will lose the war. Remember that.
Kayden King
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Owen Bell
Is this the product of this generation? That they have such limited focus on a singular topic? For the initiated there are many threads rolling presently and on fire on many back burners. There is no misdirection from how deep we have gone and being attempted to be moved away from. In one user here there may be at least five threads of yuge digest in mind and this is just a thread to laugh at.
Jason Russell
Kek
Xavier Wilson
As much as I hate repeating myself:
I'm just having fun. You expect me to cuck the fuck down? Nah fam. Nah. I have a message and I've fought in my share as well as anyone else. The only smirky responses I've given are to those who came at me fucked up. You're on the same team here. We all are. Tactics of division will lose the war. Remember that.
Isaiah King
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
OP IS A COMMUNIST FROM A COMMUNIST SUBREDDIT
Brody Ramirez
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Lincoln Perry
I took what most of you had to say. Don't get butthurt because I defended my mantra. Let's not lose sight of the endgame
Jonathan Rogers
Proof of the thousands you've redpills. Show us screenshots of your achievements. Otherwise you just a role-playing faggot who doesn't understand his naivety.
Joshua Rodriguez
Sage or get the oven.
Tyler Reed
Everyday on the reddit frontpage all news and happenings are hidden behind facebook-tier shit like cute animal gifs and "facts u didnt kno :DD" clickbait news, how do i know /r/dankmemes isn't sliding the frontpage as well? We don't care if you're a le redditor, what we care about is that you keep using reddit.
Asher Collins
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Tyler Murphy
So you're either reddit.com/user/VanillaSkyHawk/ or reddit.com/user/emersonic420 You're such a fucking faggot, talking about memetics like you know shit.You're posting gook porn on your reddit so much its funny. And if you're not that account then you're the other one that's spamming cuck over and over like a TRS poster. I'm serious, take a look at the shit these faggots post
Ethan Evans
That's exactly what I'm going to do. Post screens of my achievements. Nice try tho.
I just said I've left the platform. Today was the final straw for me fam. I resigned already before posting.
Jacob Cooper
Has there EVER been a more Cancerous post? Just fucking kill yourself OP. Has friends on Reddit, is underground sub… just one fucking thing after another with this cunt.
Chase Harris
Neither one fam. I left before posting here. I'm not a fucking idiot.
Robert Torres
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Tyler Allen
Yeah yeah. Eat it up. Former Redditor comes in BTFO I've heard it already.
David Ramirez
Selective posting on compromised outlets isn't changing anything.
Michael Kelly
I knew I recognized that autistic larping style of post
Easton Price
you have to go back
Luke Allen
And you're a mod of /r/communismiseninevitable and /r/flashingporn
Benjamin Jones
You could have had something nice here, pointing out how shills are trying to use memes to advertise, but you had to fuck it up. Of course, you're a redditfag so no surprise there.
Bentley Powell
wat, i'm talking about pic related
Nathaniel Brown
LEL
Lucas Sullivan
Their plan to false flag did not work.
Michael King
HAHAHAHAHA
James Roberts
Non-anonymous internet communities; not even once.
Luke Foster
Yeah no, eat shit, how did you think reddit makes money?
Jeremiah Bell
Don't worry, there won't be any headlines because no one cares about you and your shitty reddit board. Don't come back.
Jaxon Reyes
Those were all meme subs. Most inactive. Also MemersForTrump. The sidebar had not been changed in a while
My message is still the same.
Brandon Gomez
Yet you commented. Yawn
Elijah Thomas
Bro I guess I'm just shocked as the end result is confirmation it's occurring. I guess I shouldn't have been at all. In enjoyed the BTFO from most of you. It was fun.
Jonathan Butler
True. I got defensive. Point is still the same though.
Andrew Perez
YOU CAN TAKE OUR SUBREDDITS BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE OUR PROLAPSE!
David Price
I literally laughed out loud
John Lopez
This thread shows us once again why non anonymous Internet communities are absolute cancer. They create manchildren like OP with egos so big they think they're prophets of some kind for creating a couple of recycled garbage tier memes
Angel Harris
Thx for noticing
Christian Campbell
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Andrew Torres
Can't keep a story for 5 fucking minutes
Evan Ramirez
here ya go op, use this dank, weaponized, lego anti-corporate memetic at your own risk
Jace Hall
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Benjamin Rogers
WOA WOA WOA WOA you got a license for that level of memetics?
Cameron Moore
Thx for noticing
Story is the same.
Elijah Green
(checked) you got a license for those dubs?
Gabriel Brooks
I posted on this board to rant I'm beyond with it now. Let it serve as a reminder I got BTFO. Carry on.
Luis Myers
You should tell us your name and where you live
Ian Ramirez
It's ok, OP. You're now moderator of my heart.
Isaac Miller
this tbh fam
Charles Ortiz
fuck off faggot
Nicholas Campbell
John Doe 2, Saint Catherines Walk, Carmarthen SA31 1QY, UK
Thx fam
Parker Cooper
haha you a bich
Nolan Miller
I may have brought these faggots from omegle. Go wild.
Anthony Sanders
Is every redditor this pathetic or is OP just a special cause? He actually thinks he's relevant is any way what so ever.
Adam Lewis
Here is another shocker for you goys who are new to online stealth marketing: Wham! Bazinga!
I know for a fact that when the last Disney Star Wars was released they had backroom deals with huge retailers (like Target and Walmart) to have uniform marketing for the movie.
They also asked the media to put Star Wars toys in all of their "Top Holiday Toys" guides. That's why you had fucking Star Wars Target commercials, Star Wars plugs on Good Morning America, as well as traditional Disney Star Wars advertising during the commercial break. BOOYA!
For real tho, it's cute watching OP see through the matrix for the first time. Hopefully he becomes more vigilant after this experience.
Luke Price
defcon is a really fun game, any Holla Forumsacks want to play?
Ian Fisher
Calm your tits shitlord Im buying a ton of Lego products and on the26th will join the march to aleppo for peace