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[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

offtopic but i just realized i have no idea where this Brandon thing came from, does anyone know?

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Let's go brandon is the meme, search that term. It was from some NASCAR event I think

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Some NASCAR race, where one of the drivers had the first name Brandon. Trump supporters in the stands were chanting "Fuck Joe Biden". The commentators either misheard or were attempting to not cause a scandal and claimed they were chanting "Let's go Brandon" instead. And so "Let's go Brandon" became code for "Fuck Joe Biden". It's been another 2 or 3 years and it's now morphed to Brandon just replacing Biden in regular sentences.

[–] HexBeara@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Also also can be used by transphobic conservative gays. That's Grindr for u...

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

thank you.. i think i may have heard something along those lines before but i guess i completely forgot about the whole thing, maybe because it's just so goofy