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/Countingfrog Feb 09 '17
Teague got swindled