Birthyear

"I was born in 1988, and made this account when I was 14" Born after 2000, frequently posts dogwhistles and bigoted stuff.

88 is such a fun number to say, too. Nazis ruin everything.

Cashier: That'll be 11.88 Me: Whoa what the fuck

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.

The pope just died on Hitler’s Birthday at the age of 88. COINCIDENCE!?

Also oh no, I just posted the 88th comment!

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.

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.

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.

lol that's so stupid who would put their birth year in their username

Also when I see a Black Metal band with "wolf" in its name

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.

Chinese never cared, 88 is "double prosperity" to us chinese and it will never change. Western gatekeeping is annoying as heck.

I'm not going to lie. One of my old reddit accounts had 88 in its username. Not because for malicious reasons though. It was a random number I came up with since the username I wanted was already taken. I got banned from r/comicbooks for that despite proof that I was NOT connected with any racist content.

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.

Probably because I’m older but I would just default to thinking that if I saw it

My dad's birthday is August 8th. He has used 88 in his email addresses since back in the old @aol.com days. I tried explaining to him that he probably shouldn't but he's loved the number 8 since he was a kid because of his birthday.

Unfortunately, 1988 was a bumper year for future fascist fucks.

It's impossible to talk about this subject without giving away my entire birthday, but - in short - yes, I was born in 1988. And the rest of the numbers in my birthday have other significant historical meanings.

People actually born in 88 forever subject to the username police. How dare you not be born with preexisting knowledge of nazis and their dog whistles.

And what if I was?

I've sometimes included it in my usernames just to catch the fuckers who will cozy up thinking I'm one of them. I love flipping that script in pvp games.

I feel bad for any Back to the Future fans hahaha

You could make a kind of "community nazi index" by having a bot collect the usernames in threads and finding the ones with two numbers at the end. The really racist ones will have "88" statistically stick out.