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uwu (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

In 2020, the U.S. Army Esports Twitter account tweeted "uwu" in reply to a tweet by Discord, which was met by significant backlash from Twitter users. This event culminated in a trend of attempting to get banned from the U.S. Army Esports Discord server as quickly as possible, with a common technique being to link to the Wikipedia article on war crimes committed by the United States.

That escalated quickly.