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"Kirtland crushed Painesville Harvey during Friday night's high school football game," begins this report from FOX 8 News Ohio affiliate reporter Emily Valdez, showing a surprising amount of restraint vis a vis avoiding lede puns, "but it was what happened after the game that has people talking."
"You might say the students of Painesville have transferred to Butthurtsville," she didn't add, but should have, because, come on, local news.
That would show an actual understanding of internet-speak, however, and the conflict at the center of this really important story is that people over the age of 18 (and immature bloggers who hate what they've sunk to almost as much as Emily Valdez must) really, really do not understand how the internet works.
"At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation," said Roderick Coffee, president of the Lake County chapter of the NAACP, who was also at the game," the report continues.
The sign in question?
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"I think the reference to 'bro' in the sign definitely has a racial connection to it," said Michael Hanlon, superintendent for Painesville City Schools, and person who doesn't know what he's talking about. In his defense, would you really want a superintendent of schools to be fluent in LOLspeak and have Know Your Meme bookmarked? If the answer to that question is yes, congratulations, you are a teenager. That must be nice.
"No doubt, the sign offended people," the report continues, although it would have been funnier if she said it like, "The sign offended people. No doubt!" then high fived her hype man.
Not all of the parents in attendance thought the sign was meant to be offensive. Racially, anyway.
"I really don't I think the kids were just trying to say, 'Are you mad?' But you still don't need to put a sign up like that, and there's so many parents that felt the same way I did," Kirtland parent, Edie Cymbal said.
According to the Urban Dictionary, which is basically the online Wikipedia of slang, the phrase 'you mad bro?' means "To make a ragin [sic] person rage even more by asking the most ironic question."
To use an older slang phrase, kicking someone when they are down.
If the Fox reporters here had delved just a little bit further into Urban Dictionary, they might have learned about an even more popular internet meme. They could have simply filed this image below as their entire story. I'd recommend they keep it handy for the next time anyone, anywhere, does anything.
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9 comments:
Doesn't the term "bro" refer more accurately to white people now? In what world is it considered a racist term?
Pretty much the point. Old people don't realize that words mean different things than they used to.
Old people have also been trained by local news to think that everything kids say is code for sex or racism. Which is only true 90% of the time.
Ha. True. Maybe this was actually some sort of coded language for a high school orgy!? Fire the investigative team back up Fox News 8.
The kids holding the sign, were they wearing silly bands that correspond to sexual or narcotic experimentation?
I would certainly expect so, if anything I have read about the kids these days is true.
I would point back to Urban Dictionary:
bro
Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren’t making an ass of themselves they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exciting to happen so they can scream something that demonstrates how much they enjoy partying. Nearly everyone in a fraternity is a bro but there are also many bros who are not in a fraternity. They often wear a rugby shirt and a baseball cap. It is not uncommon for them to have spiked hair with frosted tips.
Bros actually chose this name for themselves as they often refer to each other as "bro" even though they are not related.
I couldn't go to sleep last night because some bros at the party next door kept screaming, "Whoooooo!!! YEAAHHHHH! Whooooooo!"
At least that's what I mean when I say "That guys a such fucking bro."
Haha, yes, that is the currently accepted use of bro, for sure.
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