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by tokai 948 days ago
Yeah definitely weird seeing racist slang from 4chan seep into mainstream journalism.

inb4 its from the Matrix; only red/blue pill is. The [term]pilled is from /pol/.
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Lacerda69 948 days ago
I see what you mean, but in a lot of ways many mainstream memes have had their origin on 4chan (not only pol/b btw) and memes influence speech and everything else. Would be interesting to see a detailed analysis of this IMO
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