moonpaw:

you know how sometimes you see a post with this icon

at some point in 2017 a group of people would snatch urls that were known as racist/homophobic/nazi and change the icon to that and then have “howdy pardner” in their description and it was basically a badge of knowing who was an asshole

it still kinda is, but the whole thing faded off after 2 weeks or so and no one spoke of it again

The reason it faded is that people started grabbing all deactivated accounts and doing it so it became a clusterfuck since it was no longer a way for people to know who is and isnt a douche. The original people behind it stopped since people were abusing their idea to get back at old rivalries or to ruin a dead account.