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I Miss What This Place Used To Be

This is a two-panel black-and-white edgy meme. The top panel features Derek Vinyard, the neo-nazi character from the film *American History X* (played by Edward Norton), shouting while pulling down his tank top to reveal a swastika tattoo on his chest. Text overlaid on the top left reads 'SEE THIS? THAT MEANS NOT WELCOME.' The bottom panel cuts to a close-up of a man's face, which is covered by five icons: the crying-laughing emoji, the classic Twitter bird logo, the Instagram app icon, the TikTok app icon, and the LGBTQ+ pride flag. The meme conveys the poster's nostalgia for older, earlier iterations of the 9GAG platform, and expresses that the referenced entities (mainstream social media platforms, pervasive casual joking culture, and prevalent LGBTQ+ discourse) are unwanted by the poster, who believes they have ruined the community.
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SEE THIS? THAT MEANS NOT WELCOME.

Overview

This is a two-panel black-and-white edgy meme. The top panel features Derek Vinyard, the neo-nazi character from the film American History X (played by Edward Norton), shouting while pulling down his tank top to reveal a swastika tattoo on his chest. Text overlaid on the top left reads 'SEE THIS? THAT MEANS NOT WELCOME.' The bottom panel cuts to a close-up of a man's face, which is covered by five icons: the crying-laughing emoji, the classic Twitter bird logo, the Instagram app icon, the TikTok app icon, and the LGBTQ+ pride flag. The meme conveys the poster's nostalgia for older, earlier iterations of the 9GAG platform, and expresses that the referenced entities (mainstream social media platforms, pervasive casual joking culture, and prevalent LGBTQ+ discourse) are unwanted by the poster, who believes they have ruined the community.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of 9GAG, with the original upload title 'I Miss What This Place Used To Be'. It uses the widely circulated American History X 'not welcome' meme template, a popular reaction format used to express disapproval of or desire to exclude specific things from a given space. The template has been edited to add the social media and cultural icons in the bottom panel to convey the poster's specific grievances about changes to the 9GAG community over time.

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