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What's up with the guy in a white t-shirt,(Olympic shooter maybe?) guy being popular in every meme on Lemmy right now? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/outoftheloop

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I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?

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[–] themeatbridge 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with his poise. He's not wearing headgear besides his glasses, but otherwise he's standing pretty much the same as other shooters. A lot of shooters wear eye shades or visors, but most of them stand like that. You place your off hand in your pocket, and lean back slightly to align the sights. It's not the first time a shooter's pose has gone viral for looking like a casual badass gangster.

see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vitalina-batsarashkina-olympic-shooter-one-hand-stance/

And here are a bunch more shooters. Note how many aren't wearing headgear or eye pieces.

https://img.olympics.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_380/f_auto/primary/aotouao8efquumuiekw6

[–] Arbiter 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It is such a perfect example of the internet that the woman in this pose is treated like a fool and the man with the exact same pose is some kind of badass.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with male or female. It all started with the Korean women shooter looking badass with all her kit and pose. Then this middle age dad showed up with no kit, regular glasses and shot incredibly well looking like, yeah no big deal.

[–] themeatbridge 2 points 4 months ago

It started a lot longer ago than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m not seeing that? She didn’t get memed as much for sure

[–] themeatbridge 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

During the Tokyo games in 2021, an image of the 2016 Rio games gold medal winner was posted on Twitter (erroneously being labelled as being from the Tokyo games), and she became a meme for women not knowing how to shoot because of her casual stance, and the subsequent meme for armchair experts trying to mansplain shooting to a gold medalist. At the time, it was a popular meme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I think she looks like a badass, especially with that Witcher medallion hanging off her belt loop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The woman is also a badass in her own way and people memed on how cool she moved as well.