2018, Maik Fielitz & Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 42:
The Kekistani flag became emblematic of Alt-Right trolling tactics.
2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, page 194:
They claimed the “Kekistani” culture was under attack by social justice warriors and feminists.
2019, T. Jefferson Parker, The Last Good Guy, page 265:
"That's the flag of Kekistan behind me," he said. "And the froggy meme is Kek. Kek is an ancient Egyptian god with the head of a man. And below Kek is our Kekistani prayer."
2019, Tommaso Venturini, "From Fake To Junk News: The data politics of online virality", in Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights (eds. Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert), unnumbered page:
This last element is crucial because much of the Kekistani subculture revolves around the refusal of the “politically correct”.
2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:
Bearers of the Kekistani flag made an appearance at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as at a pro–Steve Bannon rally outside the White House that same year.
“The Kekistani people are here,” one of the group's leaders was filmed shouting.
2020, David Neiwert, Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us, page 131:
One of the leaders of the group offered a satirical speech: “The Kekistani people are here; they stand with the oppressed minorities, the oppressed people of Kekistan. […]
2021, Uroš Cvoro & Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media, page 128:
The Kekistani national flag possesses a (barely) plausible deniability, while scoring points in the alt-right's pursuit of lulz by "triggering" liberals.
Noun: "(Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) a notional citizen of the fictional alt-right country Kekistan"
2018, Maik Fielitz & Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 42:
These videos thus staged a conflict not only between Alt-Right Kekistanis and liberal SJWs but also between the imagined depths of authentic web subculture and its superficial surface.
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:
The crowd moves in on the Kekistani, who insists that he isn't a racist or a neo-Nazi or anything like that […]
2021, Uroš Cvoro & Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media, page 128:
In January 2017, possibly not uncoincidentally around the time of Trump's inauguration, the idea emerged on Twitter of the Republic of Kekistan, “a country created by users on 4chan's /pol/ board as the tongue-in-cheek ethnic origin of 'shitposters' known as 'Kekistanis' who worship the ancient Egyptian diety [sic] Kek.