Its wild to me that there is general knowledge of the term ‘Boogaloo Boys’, but … even amongst left wingers who purport to study the movement … somehow very few people seem to actually know its origin, which is of course a stupid 4chan joke turned into a meme taken waaaaay too seriously.
Its literally just the (thing happening again): Electric Boogaloo joke, in this case the recurring thing being ‘Civil War’.
Which itself is a joke that is based on a laughably bad and obscure movie from 1984, Breakin’2: Electric Boogaloo, a sequel to a movie about break dancing.
I remember just casually being able to use (thing 2): Electric Boogaloo as a joke amongst other nerds for any topic a decade ago, and now you can’t say Boogaloo because edgelords decided to actually try it so if you use the term around a ‘political’ zoomer or alpha, they think youre a terrorist.
It’s wild to me. I remember. About 8 years ago in college talking to my roomie saying I heard the news lady try to talk about 4chan today. . .
Its wild to me that there is general knowledge of the term ‘Boogaloo Boys’, but … even amongst left wingers who purport to study the movement … somehow very few people seem to actually know its origin, which is of course a stupid 4chan joke turned into a meme taken waaaaay too seriously.
Its literally just the (thing happening again): Electric Boogaloo joke, in this case the recurring thing being ‘Civil War’.
Which itself is a joke that is based on a laughably bad and obscure movie from 1984, Breakin’2: Electric Boogaloo, a sequel to a movie about break dancing.
I remember just casually being able to use (thing 2): Electric Boogaloo as a joke amongst other nerds for any topic a decade ago, and now you can’t say Boogaloo because edgelords decided to actually try it so if you use the term around a ‘political’ zoomer or alpha, they think youre a terrorist.
Man what are you talking about, since when is boogaloo used for extremists??