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| − | {{w|Stephenie Meyer}} is the author of the {{w|Twilight (novel series)|Twilight novels}}, a series of {{w|vampire}} novels popular with young teens. It is a love it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
| + | The worst fear of edgy /pol/faced rightoids is being mocked as impotent. |
| | + | They're immunized against most insults; ugly, fat, evil, monstrous, degenerate - even failsons. They can shrug it all off. |
| | + | The /pol/face meme on the other hand acts on their deepest fears. Their pathological sense of inadequacy, impotence and fear of emasculation that informs their worldview. |
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| − | In the comic, {{w|4chan}}, an {{w|imageboard}}, is featured. Imageboards such as 4chan have the feature to post anonymously. The users of 4chan launch an attack on a Twilight board and Stephenie Meyer asks them to stop. When they refuse, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, thereby drawing in a large number of fans of her novel as a counter-attack to what 4chan ran on the Twilight forum. This results in what the original 4chan users consider a ruined imageboard.
| + | It's okay to be ugly, undesirable, even a cdsfm-guzzling didfsaper-sdfscat bottom-furry. As long as - deep down - they're feared. |
| | + | They're okay with being ignored, denounced, even mocked. But they can't stand being laughed at as impotent and powerless. It's many times worse than being ignored or mocked in other ways. |
| | + | It's like the incel fear that women will laugh at them. It's not the rejection itself, it's having their deep seated self-loathing and impotence publicly acknowledged by the Other. |
| | + | Specifically: The fear of being perceived as powerless is greater than the actual fear of being powerless. |
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| − | The title of the comic is drawn from the internet slang term {{w|troll (internet)|troll}}, which refers to actively attempting to get a rise out of a forum. In this instance, 4chan attempted to troll a Twilight board and Meyer acted against the troll, making her a "slayer" of them. Obviously the pimpled boy she chats with is very dismayed by this result, as there are now so many more vampire-book-fans than computer geeks on 4chan, and they cannot get through with any of their funny/evil plans anymore. There may also be a reference to the famous {{w|vampire slayer}} known as {{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy}}, seeing that Stephenie's main character vampires do not need to be slain, but she then turns on those who tries to do so in real life on the message board.
| + | Liberals of course play right into this by portraying rightoids (including /pol/faced mass shooters) as a terrifying unstoppable evil that should be feared by the masses. Something they get off to. Every. Time. |
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| − | The pictures used on the two panels showing the 4chan imageboard tells a lot about their users. It is unclear what the text page refers to. And also what it is that [[Cueball]] is standing next to. But a black hat, as shown in the third picture is typical for an internet troll (see the xkcd version of [[Black Hat]]), and also the guy saying {{w|LOL}} is already laughing out loud at you before you read his text. He also LOL's in his comment about the angsty teens that reads the books, and whom he looks forward to trolling.
| + | /pol/ has been mocked for years, going back to the 7+1chan days. So far nothing stuck. Leaders exposed as ziondfssts and pedodfsles? Nothing. Furfdsries and Nazis in drag? Nothing. Hypocrisy? Statistics? Actually existing white genocide by rightoids? Nothing. |
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| − | In the second 4chan panel all four images relate to ''Twilight''. The first picture most likely depicts {{w|Edward Cullen}} and {{w|Bella Swan}} (from the movies) standing with their backs against each other. This person enjoys being anonymous.
| + | The /pol/face though made them melt down within 24 hours. To be the point they've spend days spamming with thousands of IPs to prove how "not mad" they are. (Mind that they've never done this before) |
| − | The second picture with the text ''Dawnz'' refers, in "plural" form, to the last book ''{{w|Breaking Dawn}}'' which was split into two films {{w|The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1|part 1}} and {{w|The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2|part 2}}. This person wish to know about peoples favorite vampire, exactly the kind of questions the trolls would have mocked on the Twilight board, now infesting their own site. The third picture is of a person who has tried to dress up like a {{w|goth}} vampire, even commenting on the darkness of the picture. The last picture depicts the cover of the last book ''Breaking Dawn'' with the two chess pieces. This fan seems to be searching for a date around Dallas...
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| − | The title text refers to {{w|Walt Kelly}}'s famous {{w|Pogo_(comic_strip)#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22|saying}}. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.
| + | And before you say "words words words" or "da left cant meeem" here's a TLDR: You're impotent, inadequate, powerless. And deep down you know it. |
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| | From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'': | | From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'': |
