8channer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the imageboard website 8chan.
Example Sentences
- "8channers discuss the best way to terrorize “social justice warriors,” or SJWs."
- "In June 2019, I stumbled across a thread on 8chan in which users expressed their concern about the number of “shills” who had begun to surveil the anonymous board after it served as a platform for Brenton Tarrant, a mass shooter who murdered over fifty Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, to post his manifesto. As a result, 8channers were looking for other options to express their opinions online and reach one another; Discord had proved too easy to infiltrate."
- "Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever."
- "When one asked for suggestions, the first reply was: ‘Shoot up a Synagogue. Be a hero.’ Less than a month later, an 8channer carried out just such an attack."
- "And just as his idol Brenton Tarrant did, Earnest called on fellow 8channers to use their common culture to amplify his words: / Make sure that my sacrifice was not in vain. Spread this letter, make memes, shitpost, FIGHT BACK, […]"
- "The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t. It proved you were a true 8channer: based and red-pilled, committed to one another whatever the reputational cost, having ascended above the petty demands of an off-line world that, in truth, terrified you."
Etymology
From 8chan + -er.