Kekistani

English Etymology From en Kekistan -i. Adjective en Internet slang 4chan alt-right Of, relating to, or notionally originating in the fictional alt-right country of Kekistan. en 2018 Maik Fielitz; Nick Thurston Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US https://www.google.com/books/edition/Post_Digital_Cultures_of_the_Far_Right/rJx-DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Kekistani%22&pg=PA42 42 The Kekistani flag became emblematic of Alt-Right trolling tactics. en 2019 Grant Kien Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization https://www.google.com/books/edition/Communicating_with_Memes/2--YDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Kekistani%22&pg=PA194 194 They claimed the “Kekistani” culture was under attack by social justice warriors and feminists. en 2019 Tommaso Venturini Didier Bigo; Engin Isin; Evelyn Ruppert From Fake To Junk News: The data politics of online virality Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights https://www.google.com/books/edition/Data_Politics/HtqMDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22kekistani+subculture%22 unnumbered This last element is crucial because much of the Kekistani subculture revolves around the refusal of the “politically correct”. en Noun en Internet slang 4chan alt-right A notional citizen of the fictional alt-right country Kekistan. en 2018 Maik Fielitz; Nick Thurston Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US https://www.google.com/books/edition/Post_Digital_Cultures_of_the_Far_Right/rJx-DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Kekistanis%22&pg=PA42 42 These videos thus staged a conflict not only between Alt-Right Kekistanis and liberal SJWs but also between the imagined depths of authentic web subculture and its superficial surface. en 2020 Kevin D. Williamson Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America" https://www.google.com/books/edition/Big_White_Ghetto/4nTSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Kekistani%22&pg=PT119 unnumbered The crowd moves in on the Kekistani, who insists that he isn't a racist or a neo-Nazi or anything like that en 2021 Uroš Cvoro; Kit Messham-Muir Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media https://www.google.com/books/edition/Images_of_War_in_Contemporary_Art/f8Y4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Kekistani%22&pg=PA128& 128 In January 2017, possibly not uncoincidentally around the time of Trump's inauguration, the idea emerged on Twitter of the Republic of Kekistan, “a country created by users on 4chan's /pol/ board as the tongue-in-cheek ethnic origin of 'shitposters' known as 'Kekistanis' who worship the ancient Egyptian diety Kek.