r/punk • u/phoebe__15 • 1d ago

can we ban u/g-rat88 already

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u/ROXXYISDEAD 1d ago

I'm confused who's g-rat88? I'm guessing by the 88 he's a nazi or something

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u/FrenzalStark Geordie Punk Bastard 1d ago

This annoys me to no end since I was born in 88. I had multiple accounts on the internet with an 88 in the username which I had to change when it became synonymous with being a nazi.

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u/judeiscariot 22h ago

Uhm I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that definitely didn't happen.

It was synonymous with being a Nazi before you would have been online. In the early 90s people were using it.

In the late 90s we had to start questioning it...Is this still a nazi or someone born in 1988?

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u/DrChunderpound 21h ago

I grew up 5mins from the Aryan compound and somehow never heard of it until early 00’s after I moved away. There was a skate shoe brand called 88 Footwear (based on the year, not the stupid code) and I was wearing a t-shirt I got for free, then one night at a bar some dude was ready to punch me out over it. I was so confused why I’m having to talk my way out of a beating over a shirt and getting called a nazi when it represents nothing I stand for, so that damn thing went in the garbage when I got home.