At 3.12pm on October the 2nd, 2023, so just a few days ago, at the time of recording, Elon Musk tweeted,

Exsted, Jeated, Shitted, I don't know, posted on X, the website, formerly known as Twitter,

a tweet that was just a clown emoji and a globe emoji.

Now, I'm going to briefly read from a article at right wing watch from 2019 called White Nationalists Adopt Clowns

as their next racist symbol, brackets yes, seriously.

Link below. And as I read this, I will be brief, but as I read this,

people who've been listening to this podcast for a while will recognize a lot of the things that I'm about to talk about,

that this article talks about, because they are things that we have talked about on this podcast,

that Daniel has reported on in this podcast.

We've talked about the clown emoji, the clown meme.

So most of you regular listeners, you know what this is about, but just for the sake of it,

I'm reading now, the clown render of Pepe the Frog,

which know your meme researchers have identified as being known as Hong Kong or Hongkla,

began spreading across the internet last year, so that would be 2018, time of this article.

In recent months, the meme has gained a foothold in the far right,

a clown emoji and a globe emoji that's exactly what Elon Musk just tweeted.

A clown emoji and a globe emoji together has been used to convey the phrase clown world.

The phrase and accompanying emojis unify far right social media users in their exasperation

over an imagined state of collapse in the Western hemisphere,

that they largely blame on immigrants and minority groups.

We know this, Hongkla and clown world memes were recently incorporated into Goy Talk,

a new but growing web based new at the time,

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