So they are Human Centipedes?
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I’m too new to the site to know where some of this stuff (like the ‘centipedes’ moniker for reddit posters who are human) comes from & what it means. They also refer to ‘kek’ a lot. I finally saw that in a context/reference I could ‘bing’ and it seems Kek is an Egyptian god of the darkness of chaos, but he was called the “bringer-in of the light”. This seems to mean that he was responsible for the time of night that came just before sunrise.
“Kek” is a term from online video games. Whereas Americans & Europeans denote laughing as “hahaha,” for some Asians, particularly Koreans, it’s “kekeke.” Laughing in online video games is associated with trollish behavior (e.g. “I have an overwhelming advantage you don’t know about yet” or “wait ‘till you see what I’m going to do next!”). Some U.S. gamers find it amusing to use “kekeke” or “kek” instead of “LOL” in text to indicate trollish laughter.
KEK is also LOL in certain computer games.
'Centipede' is a term used in The_Donald subreddit by Donald Trump supporters to refer favorably to themselves. The term is unrelated to the Human Centipede from Cartoon Network's Southpark television show.
Instead, the term 'centipede' comes from Volume 4 of a YouTube series called "You Can't Stump the Trump".
The video begins with the audio track of a nature documentary describing the centipede as a 'nimble navigator' with two curved fangs that can inject venom into its prey. The video consists of Donald Trump comebacks, put-downs, and similar comments made during debates and speeches, interspersed with old memes (you try to describe it). Few paid attention until Trump re-tweeted the video.
At that point, Reddit paid attention. Trump became a centipede to his Reddit supporters, who also called themselves centipedes, able to nimbly navigate and inject venom into their prey.
The centipede theme continued in many of the following volumes of You Can't Stump the Trump.
I wasn't there, but I find the history of inside jokes and repetitive phrases on Reddit interesting.
About four seasons ago on SouthPark, they did a episode on centipedes and their effect on society.