Citations:Kekistan

English citations of Kekistan

Proper noun: "(Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) a fictional country associated with Western alt-right values"

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• 2018, Maik Fielitz & Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 41:

  As an example of such an incursion we might consider the Kekistan meme that had its origins in 4chan but which came to prominence on Youtube as a kind of imaginary homeland for trolls (de Keulenaar 2018).

• 2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, page 193:

  The top right emblem demonstrates the stylized font-type logo used in the Kekistan flag below it.

• 2019, Paul Mason, Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, unnumbered page:

  Kekistan has not only a fictional flag but an anthem, the 1980s pop song Shadilay.

• 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

  The new “national flag” of “Kekistan” made its appearance not only in Twitter avatars and on 4chan boards, but also in real life.

• 2020, Joe Ide, Hi Five, unnumbered page:

  Kekistan is a fictional country and its flag mimics the Nazi war flag.

• 2020, Christopher Ketcham, Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump's America, unnumbered page:

  The Kekistan flag is a German Nazi regimental design with the swastika replaced by a series of Ks, serving as a symbol of one's alignment with neo-fascism.

• 2020, David Neiwert, Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us, page 131:

  […] posted on YouTube by alt-right maven Cassandra Fairbanks, featured a Kekistan banner and a man announcing to the crowd a “free Kekistan” campaign.

• 2020, Kevin D. Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America", unnumbered page:

  Maybe you don't know about Kekistan, which was Boogaloo before Boogaloo was.

• 2021, Uroš Cvoro & Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media, page 128:

  Kekistan ironized the plight of Syrian refugees when the refugee crisis was in full force, with millions fleeing civil war in Syria and ISIL.

• 2021, Daniel Koehler, From Traitor to Zealot, page 175:

  Regarding the latter aspect, the satirical religion of “Kekism” with connected attributes such as the imagined country “Kekistan” or the deity “Kek” developed out of the alt-right “Pepe the Frog” meme and utilized the ancient Egyptian god Kek, which was depicted with a frog's face among other animals (Neiwert, 2017).

• 2022, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, page 153:

  Soon, the far right created an imaginary country called Kekistan, complete with flags that began to show up at off-line gatherings, including at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.