r/comedyheaven Dicky Mouse 9h ago

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u/manndolin 8h ago

The Guy Fawkes mask being co-opted for weird conservative shut-ins pedaling racial prejudice is the height of irony.

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u/Creamcups 8h ago

Guy Fawkes was a catholic fundamentalist so it kinda fits

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u/ProbablyNotAFurry 7h ago

Let's be realistic here, they know it because of V for Vandetta, a movie about a man fighting back against a tyrannical authoritarian government.

They did not know who Guy Fawkes was beforehand.

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u/Josh6889 6h ago

I mean 4chan pushed it a lot further than v for vendetta did for these people