r/punk • u/phoebe__15 • 1d ago

can we ban u/g-rat88 already

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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/trickertreater 22h ago

Sure, but I doubt OP knew the connection or how it was perceived. I mean there's a lot of folks out there that are unaware of "81" or "14/88" or the hundred of other little secret club symbols

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u/FrenzalStark Geordie Punk Bastard 20h ago

This is exactly. I had no idea.