/ourguy/

English Etymology According to 4chan researcher Sal Hagen, the term with the slashes was first used on the 4chan /pol/ board by an anonymous user who posted on August 7, 2015: "TRUMP IS /ourguy/". The term reached its peak popularity on 4chan in early 2017 before rapidly declining.en Quinn Myers /OurGuys/: The Code Word That Rallies White Supremacists Hiding in Plain Sight MEL Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20230620040043/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/ourguys-4chan-twitter-meaning 22 February 2021en Sal Hagen 'Who is /ourguy/?': Tracing panoramic memes to study the collectivity of 4chan/pol/ New Media & Society Thousand Oaks, C.A. SAGE Publications 9 February 2022 10.1177/14614448221078274 1461-7315 41552129 Noun /ourguys/ en Internet slang 4chan Someone (male) aligned with the values and beliefs of one's imageboard or community. en Anonymous Survivor thread w:4chan https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/42829308/#q42829675 /tv/ 26 March 2014 Is spencer #ourguy? on https://web.archive.org/web/20251205002039/https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/42829308/ 5 December 2025 en Anonymous OFFICIAL GOP DEBATE THREAD w:4chan https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/49221867/500/4#49225115 /pol/ 6 August 2015 TRUMP IS /ourguy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251203120439/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/49221867/500/4 3 December 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20220824043117/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html Kevin Roose Kevin Roose Ali Winston Far-Right Internet Groups Listen for Trump's Approval, and Often Hear It 4 November 2018 Since the 2016 election, these far-right communities have entered into a sort of imagined dialogue with the president. They create and disseminate slogans and graphics, and celebrate when they show up in Mr. Trump's Twitter feed days or weeks later. They carefully dissect his statements, looking for hints of their influence. And when they find those clues, they take them as evidence that Mr. Trump is "/ourguy/," a label for people internet extremists believe share their views, but who are unable to say so directly in public. Usage notes The term is used by /pol/ users to denote a famous person whose political views align with the userbase's right-leaning stances, though the term's usage isn't restricted to /pol/ and is also frequently used in non-political contexts on the site's many different boards. The feminine form en /ourgirl/, while rarer, is also known to exist. References Further reading Is He /Our Guy/? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-he-our-guy