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What is a Groyper?

To understand modernity, you must understand the subcultures that exist today. Groypers more defined by what they are not than by what they are. They identify with being against things rather than for them. To try to evaluate what the subculture is and its goals are is to mistake them for an ideology like fascism or anarchism. They believe nothing. What drives them is the feeling of alienation born of a loss of privilege. To Groypers, equality feels like oppression. Their culture is intentionally obscure and ridiculous to outsiders: a green frog and trolling furries, what? Those symbols and in-jokes, which allow them to hide being plausible deniability and promote insider status, are simply their methodology. To focus on memes is to miss the point: they do not explain who Groypers are or what they want (or, as it is, what they don’t want). In general, Groypers tend to be white, affluent, young, male. Those attributes, I think, are the key to understanding the group. Whiteness: Groypers...