Wish them a happy birthday (with appropriate number) and see if they self-report.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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"I was born in 1988, and made this account when I was 14" Born after 2000, frequently posts dogwhistles and bigoted stuff.
This was my favorite number until recently. I had no idea. Fucking nazis ruin everything.
Now, I'm horrified at all the times anyone might have asked me to pick a number between 1 and 100 before I knew.
Cashier: That'll be 11.88 Me: Whoa what the fuck
Luckily it wasn't 3 more dollars.
88 is such a fun number to say, too. Nazis ruin everything.
88 is a really tasty ice cream in Sweden
So is Sitting Bull. Swedish confectionery isn't terribly woke.
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Even its Bingo call is starting to look dated.
I've long use "2015" appended to my initials for screen names. It has no particular significance. I started using it over a decade before 2015. I was signing up for an account, and I added my age then to the current year. Thus, I ended up with 2015 as "my" number.
Early on, it was no problem. It was still well in the future. Around 2015, it became impossible to use the number. Inevitably someone would claim the number for a username before I did. Now, 2015 is easy again to claim appended to my initials. Unfortunately, now when I use it, I get accused of being 10 years old.
Hey, what's this 10 year old "scientist" doing on Lemmy? Get outta here kid
The pope just died on Hitler’s Birthday at the age of 88. COINCIDENCE!?
Also oh no, I just posted the 88th comment!
Hitler was born on the 20th though.
lol oh damn I thought he died on the 20th. But I guess it was technically the 21st.
88 was a cool number, but then Nazis came and ruined it. It was the equivalent of drawing that S letter you all did in high school. Edgy cool shit. They ruined my birth year and back to the future, and the name of a band I played in when I was a teenager.
Also they are pieces of shit in every other aspect, of course, specially regarding, you know, humanity.
Why yes, I was born in 1988 but luckily when I first started making usernames in middle school, I decided to use the random number 45 in them instead. Yup, good old 45, nothing awful or related to white supremacists associated with that number... Sigh.
I stole this name from the b3ta front page, and honestly I'm incredibly lucky it gained an association with kittens and pornography.
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Even if I were born in 1988, I surely wouldn't use the number in a username. Same if my initials would AH or HH.
Unfortunately most people are completely clueless about dogwhistles.
Which is exactly why they’re called dog whistles. It’s so only certain people (the ones in the know) are able to find the true message. The entire point is to signal solidarity and find like-minded bigots, without exposing yourself. Because they know that if they just come out and blatantly say it, they’ll face a lot of backlash. So instead, they hide behind dog whistles.
Ngl I had no idea about 88 until now.
True. I was born in 1988, I used to have 88 in a username until someone pointed it out to me.
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People with 88 in their usernames are probably people who've been rocking the same username for 20+ years at this point. I think my username naming scheme hasn't changed since I was single digits in age logging intk AIM and MSN Messenger
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lol that's so stupid who would put their birth year in their username
Those of us who were lucky to get whatever email we wanted before everyone else got to the internet.
sudden concerns over username
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Pretty common in the earlier days of the internet.
I was calling myself stupid but you beat me
Ah, I can't see the 02 unless I look at your account directly. On sync it just shows stebo.
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Also when I see a Black Metal band with "wolf" in its name
"Oh hey, Demons & Wizards has the singer from Blind Guardian? Who else is in this side proj-- FUCK."
Music video of WW2 German marching song. Big anti-nazi disclaimer at the start. Then immediately the video starts to a swastika flag waving.
Displaying a swastika or other human horrors in a video/artwork doesn't mean you're promoting it (maybe it was in your example)
Also when I see a Black Metal band ~~with “wolf” in its name~~
It's indeed a genre where you need to do some background check
But you can find Black Metal bands that hate all humans equally
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My friend's birthdate includes both "14" and "88". I also remember being much younger and the '88 kids were all about "double infinity", usually stacked, and some even got it tattooed.
One sailor to another, 1931: "Check out this Hindu good luck symbol!"
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my brother has used 88 in his username all his life (it's his birthyear). Never heard anyone complaining about it until like 2-3 years ago.
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