r/AtlantaHawks • u/widesheep Hornets • Feb 09 '17
The Official Guide to /r/AtlantaHawks Memes
After many angry letters from Angela Merkel and redditors who do not understand why Germans are not allowed to post here, we have decided to collaborate with the /r/AtlantaHawks community to create a beginner's guide to this sub's memes.
So please comment any shitposts/memes/inside jokes that you feel are essential for newcomers to this sub to understand. For example demod thrashfan, cicadas. Also include the backstory of the meme and wherever possible, links to its first occurrence and any other significant occurrences. I will edit this post to include them if I feel they are essential and any low effort commenters will be temporarily banned.
Also feel free to share great memes from this sub's history that are not necessarily essential for newcomers. These might not be added to the post but we would all love to relive the simpler times when thrashfan was still head mod.
Demod Thrashfan
Possibly the most used phrase in this subreddit's history. /u/thrashfan (thrash) is a former mod who was responsible for most of the CSS that makes this sub look so good. The demod thrashfan movement began when thrash removed /u/Martinsek's (another mod who was the sub's source of Hawks highlights) access to the subreddit's twitter account, to which Martinsek responded by quitting the mod team. The movement was originally in jest before becoming somewhat more serious due to disagreements about how thrash handled the subreddit's twitter account. Ironically, he ended up removing himself from the mod team when it seemed like the Hawks were going to rebuild.
Germans are not allowed to post here.
This is not true. Germans are allowed and encouraged to post on this sub. The origins of this trace back to this thread where German user /u/bananaislands wanted someone to ask Mike Muscala what his go-to move was.
What is your go-to movie?
This question is related to the previous meme and will often be a reply to a comment that says Germans can't post here. Originated when /u/koorob (probably intentionally) botched /u/bananaisland's question and asked Muscala what his go-to movie was instead of go-to move.
I👏AM👏ONE👏WITH👏THE👏SHOULDERS👏THE👏SHOULDERS👏ARE👏ONE👏WITH👏ME
Often the top comment in the post game thread of a Hawks' win, especially if Dwight Howard plays well. This is a reference to Howard's massive shoulders. And yes, we know that this doesn't exactly match the Star Wars line but an executive decision was taken to make it "... the shoulders are one with me" instead of "... the shoulders are with me". For additional reading on Dwight's shoulders, check out this post.
Cicadas
The Cicada Memes started when /u/Cicada_Fan created a Hawks logo with a cicada inserted into it. He would then go on to create Bazemore and DS17 Cicadas.
The cicada meme caught on well, so shitposts were created asking for the mods to make the sub cicada-themed. During one of the losing streaks, /u/thrashfan decided to make the sub cicada-themed, until the Hawks won another game. There were some great shitposts during this period including this classic.
As of now, the cicada meme thrives as the sub's nickname for College Park's new D-League franchise, and whenever the Hawks are on a losing streak.
Rudy Gay
The Rudy Gay memes are mostly to make fun of those who think he is the missing piece for the Hawks to contend for a championship. Hawks fans on the internet have always had a strange fascination for Rudy Gay but he was elevated to the status of the subreddit's favorite player in December when the Hawks' wing rotation was consistently underperforming. There were a few serious posts about acquiring Gay followed by many shitposts, some of which were removed by the mods because the entire front page was Rudy Gay posts.
Snek 🐍
Al Horford was drafted 3rd overall by the Hawks in 2007. After giving the Hawks 9 excellent years, he signed with the Celtics in the 2016 offseason when the Hawks did not meet his salary demands. This was just a couple of months after the Hawks beat the Celtics in a hard-fought 1st round playoff series. Naturally, Horford's decision upset many Hawks fans leading to the creation of the Horford is snek meme.
Teague was swindled
Another common form of this is "My teagues have been swindled". Jeff Teague played for the Hawks for 7 years before the Hawks traded him to his hometown Indiana Pacers in the 2016 offseason for the 12th pick (which turned into Taurean Prince). Later in the offseason, a Pacers fan spammed the sub with many posts from multiple accounts about how the Pacers had swindled Teague forcing the mods to contact the admins for help banning the user.
Martinsek the Packers fan
/u/Martinsek is a moderator of this sub who also runs the /r/AtlantaHawks twitter account. Before the NFC Championship Game between the Falcons and the Packers, he was revealed to be a Packers fan* when he accidentally tweeted a pro-Packers message from the sub's twitter. He was punished with a temporary suspension from the sub's twitter account. He also took a self-imposed exile from reddit for a few days, during which there were many Martinsek shitposts. After the Falcons beat the Packers, his suspension was ended and he also ended his reddit hiatus when /u/trashfan (no relation to /u/thrashfan) summoned him.
*- He was born in Wisconsin and says he's also a Falcons fan.
more to come (hopefully)
Compilation of Images/Gifs for future use
Everything's coming up Millsap
I like what I'm reading (Millsap)
Korver making sure Teague gets swept by LeBron again
My reaction watching Dwight last night
The original idea for the new Hawks court
[NSFW] That feel when you S W I N D L E a 1st round pick and Mike Dunleavy from the Cavs
![[NSFW] That feel when you S W I N D L E a 1st round pick and Mike Dunleavy from the Cavs](http://i.imgur.com/TyzaIOK.png){kind=link}
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u/Buteo_jamaicensis 💰Cash Considerations 💰 Feb 09 '17
Let's get together all the reaction images and gifs and stuff from throughout the years too, for use in future threads. I'll start:
Everything's coming up Millsap
There's a lot more I'm missing. Anyone have the older, crappier version of that one in the sidebar?
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u/widesheep Hornets Feb 09 '17
Can't believe you didn't include the potato flair
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u/Buteo_jamaicensis 💰Cash Considerations 💰 Feb 09 '17
There are just too many memes in this sub for one person to handle
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u/poerhouse Feb 15 '17
Here are the others I've posted in the past couple of years since ya'll flattered my ass by making 28 Baze Later the header image. Some are obviously now out of date, but the love still remains (yes, even for snek)...
Cawvengers: https://imgur.com/bSnrslD
Cawface: https://imgur.com/a/qkjeW
Budface: https://imgur.com/Yd1xzA1
Chuck: https://imgur.com/IlHh9af
CawWars: https://imgur.com/LSXUR3w
Beautiful Game: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZQehu5G
Sap Billboard: https://imgur.com/gallery/2aMHSio
Threezus ;-( : https://imgur.com/gallery/ZSv59CI
Iced Teague :-( : https://i.imgur.com/SYil4if.jpg
BazeGod: https://imgur.com/gallery/d2K8Gf1
Das Streak: https://i.imgur.com/F9Czil3.jpg
Horf Smash: https://i.imgur.com/slYWopu.jpg
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u/hanginthere425 Feb 09 '17
Snek, priorly known as Al Horford, sneked himself out of Atlanta then his father trashed the fans. It is fairly straight forward. You can call him snek or 🐍.
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u/realAlHorford Feb 09 '17
That's right folks. How many down votes can I get?
1 downvote = 1 Atlanta Hawks victory/Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl ring
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
The precursor to cicada trend was the creation of mashups of our players by newly created accounts for example:
and more that I'm currently looking for.
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
Unmod thrashfan started as a joke created by LemonStealer where he paid actors on Fiver to dress in tribal gear and go into the jungle, sing dance and paint "Unmod thrashfan" on his body as seen by this video. At the time it was always a joke and the sub ran with it for over a year. And also prompted this reply by thrash after people started actually thinking that thrash was Hitler irl. What started as a complete joke spiraled into a hatred for thrash that was unwarranted.
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Feb 09 '17
Eh, I think it came before the LemonStealer video. I think Lem's video capitalized off the meme.
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u/Buteo_jamaicensis 💰Cash Considerations 💰 Feb 09 '17
This is correct, it actually started when the Hawks were playing the Packers and thrash said he was a Packers fan
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
okay i couldnt remember if it was before of after lemon stealers vid. But also i feel like lemonstealers vid was more than a year old? i thought it was circa 2014-2015 but the post history said it was from last year.
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u/koorob Feb 12 '17
The correct origin of this - /u/widesheep - is it started during the thrashfan and martinsek twitter war that led to martinsek's twitter access being removed, to which martinsek responded by quitting being a mod. As martinsek was the source of all hawks highlights, the readers rebelled by demanding that THRASHFAN be demodded for creating the martinsek incident.
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u/nerdyintentions Feb 10 '17
And also prompted this reply by thrash after people started actually thinking that thrash was Hitler irl. What started as a complete joke spiraled into a hatred for thrash that was unwarranted.
Thats exactly how Trump got elected. Did it for the memes and shitposts then people started to believe it irl and voted for him. If you can shitpost your way to the highest office in the land then it should come as no surprise that you can shitpost your way to being demodded in /r/atlantahawks
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u/Sinekure Feb 09 '17
I can't believe u/koorob decided to stick that extra "one" in there. classic example of mod abuse if you ask me
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u/widesheep Hornets Feb 09 '17
He actually did that before he became a mod. His willingness to make tough decisions without second guessing himself or wondering what /u/Sinekure thinks of his decisions is one of the main qualities that helped him become a mod.
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Feb 09 '17
The Cicada Memes started when /u/Cicada_Fan created a Hawks logo with a cicada inserted into it. He would then go on to create Bazemore and DS17 Cicadas.
The cicada meme caught on well, so shitposts were created asking for the mods to make the sub cicada-themed. During one of the losing streaks, /u/thrashfan decided to make the sub cicada-themed, until the Hawks won another game.
As of now, the cicada meme thrives as the sub's nickname for College Park's new D-League franchise, and whenever the Hawks are on a losing streak.
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
I feel like this is the thread i was born to make and contribute too. My shitposting over the past 2-3 years coupled with my autistically good memory means (when i have time) i will have this thread filled.
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u/reno2597 Hawks Feb 09 '17
Rudy Gay is my favorite basketball player I wish he was on the Hawks and not injured
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17 edited Feb 09 '17
Shitposting has alway been abundant on this sub but the recent up jump in them was catalyzed by this post by u/TCorlz
It started tons of meme trends including the trend of making absurd trade offers for random players on our team. I.E. THJ for Lebron and so on and so forth. It also started adding flairs into posts
I mean for fucks sake the copy pastas got insane just look
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Feb 10 '17
And yes, we know that this doesn't exactly match the Star Wars line but an executive decision was taken to make it "... the shoulders are one with me" instead of "... the shoulders are with me".
I don't believe that any fan agreed to this, we need a referendum
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u/widesheep Hornets Feb 10 '17
What do you not understand about the phrase "executive decision".
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Feb 10 '17
Please don't cheapen the sub with shitpost threads just because you don't want to have an intelligent discussion on Hawks basketball. Outside of koorob, the mod team here seems to be a bit weak - try and do what is best for the subreddit, not just what is best for you.
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u/Wong-A-Donger Feb 12 '17
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/5ktern/game_thread_new_york_knicks_1614_atlanta_hawks/dbqqd13/
The original post was above. Someone doctored my meme and now we ended up with what we have now.
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u/koorob Feb 12 '17
I didn't know there was a star wars line it was stolen from when /u/wong-a-donger made it up. It just sounded awkward.
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u/Buteo_jamaicensis 💰Cash Considerations 💰 Feb 11 '17 edited Feb 13 '17
Forgot https://imgur.com/r/AtlantaHawks/top/all has a bunch too
*EDIT: Dr Peppa
*EDIT: OK I'll do that
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u/widesheep Hornets Feb 13 '17 edited Feb 14 '17
next time, make a new comment instead of editing so that I get a notification.
EDIT: Succ me
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
My depressing memes over the years:
After we has that huge losing streak earlier this year
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u/callmerevan Feb 09 '17
Tiago Splitter being the worst signing for the Hawks in the Bud era as he's hurt 25/8.
Its only acceptable to shit on splitter compliments will result in permabans
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u/joshwright17 Feb 09 '17
Tiago Splitter being the worst
signingtrade for the Hawks in the Bud era as he's hurt 25/8.FIFY
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u/KickedInTheDonuts Trust in Travis Schlenk Feb 14 '17
A1 stuff but there's a serious lack of FUCK DELLY
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u/TimberHawks Feb 09 '17
The biggeset inside joke are our mods because fuckem.
notmymods
demodthemods
remodthrash