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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

was actually going to an hero

This is the most awkward fragment I've ever seen. Was it a typo? Autocorrect? Pasted in the wrong spot? All 3??

I can't seem to fix it. Not what this post is about but it annoyed me, so now you have to be annoyed as well.

EDIT: Got it, it's celebrating suicide. I never got into 4chan or their specific culture, and right now, that's my sole source of comfort.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A few comments below taught me that it apparently originates from this meme where it was a mix of a typo and a loving description of a suicidal person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wow, just when you think 4chan can't sink any lower

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Lol 'sink lower'.

4chan is the bottom, there is no lower to sink.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

'An hero' is an old 4chanism that means committing suicide

[–] AdolfSchmitler 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

iirc it comes from a someone posting about thier son who killed themselves and made a typo saying "he was an hero" so naturally 4chan turned the phrase "an hero" into a way to say "to commit suicide".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. That's... awful.

[–] Agent641 8 points 3 months ago

Thats 4chan

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

'an hero' means to suicide

[–] SendMePhotos 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin hell I'm old lmao. Anyone else with me? This was the standard speak of 4chan back in like.... '07...'08?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Like '05, it's old. Fuck. I'm old.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It isn't exactly celebrating suicide, it's kinda making fun of it in a way.

It started from some myspace post long long ago, in which some kid named Mitchell had killed himself and one of their friends or family members made a memorial myspace page about it including the typo "He was such an hero, to take it all away." The post continues to use "an hero" multiple times, (h/o I bet I can find it, brb.)

/b/tards latched onto it pretty quick, and the meme became that people who killed themselves are "an hero" just like Mitchell.

Edit: Yup, found it. Thanks knowyourmeme.

"He was such an hero, to take it all away. We miss him so, That you should know, And we honor him this day. He was an hero, to take that shot, to leave us all behind. God do we wish we could take it back, And now he's on our minds. Mitchell was an hero, to leave us feeling like this, Our minds are rubber, our joints don't work, Our tears fall into abyss. He was an hero, to take that shot, In life it wasn't his task, He shouldn't have had to go that way, before an decade'd past. Now he sits there in my heart, this hero of mine, Always there to make me smile, Make me feel just fine. He had courage,that boy did, courage in his heart. To take that shot, To end his pain, To tear us all apart. But in the end, he died in courage. Lacking, nevermore, He died a hero, Mitchell did, And we'll love him forevermore. We love you like an brother. We miss you so much. We will always love you, kid. Rest In Peace Mitch. ~Lila"