Jan
24th
2018
Uganda Knuckles is just new-school blackface comedy minstrel bullshit, don't @ me. · 3:12am Jan 24th, 2018
Big googly eyes and huge lips were a staple of racist caricatures of black people. I imagine most people will pretend it isn't, but as a thought exercise, just google "racist caricatures" and you'll see the ancestors of the uganda knuckles shit that the internet is patting itself on the back over.
Challenge for white people: make an actually funny original meme that isn't just Stepin Fetchit or Mammy Jemima, but with a hip new millennial internet flavor.
This is the shittiest meme of 2018 already.
Due to your mention, I looked at some pictures of Uganda Knuckles. I'm not seeing what's particularly black or African about the depiction, other than the word "Uganda." Am I missing something? Or is there a picture which I haven't seen?
Idk, man. The meme takes quotes from a Ugandan movie, and the director of said movie loves the meme. Obviously some people take it too far and go full KKK with it, but I think the meme on its own isn't that bad.
You seem fun.
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Perhaps I can explain.
I have an oculus, and one of the Virtual Reality places I go to is called 'VRChat'. It is a large collection of... worldlets... basically small slices of worlds... that people build, and that you can go explore and exist within. For a long time, when I first started visiting (about two years ago, maybe?) Ugandan Knuckles was everywhere.
I should elaborate - in VRChat, one of the things you can do is to seek out and 'wear' avatars. There are avatars of everything and anything - from life-sized Godzillas to tiny little kittens no bigger than your fist. All of these can be inhabited by users. I visited a party in a virtual Hollywood mansion, where a sixty-foot tall anime girl danced with Jaws (from the movie), all while dozens of other people were existing as every character from movies and anime you can think of. So, Ugandan Knuckles is such an avatar.
This used to be spammed. I would be visiting some world and suddenly a Ugandan Knuckles would show up. Most either imitate a specific voice, or (rarely) use a soundboard with recorded statements. The voice is always a very badly-performed pseudo-South African accent. It's rather offensive.
The statements said are "We are looking for de wae! Is dis de wae? Do you know de wae? I know de wae! We must find de wae!". When this is not being stated, other phrases are: "I am from Uganda! In Uganda we have de Ebola! De Ebola is our Black Ugandan Power! We spit on you! We spit de Ebola upon you!" This will be followed by a great deal of very wet, very stomach-turning spitting sounds.
Now imagine the world filled with dozens of users, all being Ugandan Knuckles, all doing this. Together.
Now imagine all of this being focused on some user who just happens to be inhabiting the body of an anime girl - and it is quickly and physically shown that 'Da wae' is always - always - the path that leads between her legs into her vagina. Imagine these cartoon avatars all trying to pretend to rape the user while shouting "We have found de wae! Dis is de wae! Follow her! She possesses de wae!"
Now imagine that the anime girl is actually a fourteen year old girl trying out her father's VR set - and she isn't happy about this at all.
These are all (very) white boys doing this (you can tell when they break character and start laughing or make super racist, often white supremacist comments), and they think it is just the nicest possible way they can spend their time. Fuck these assholes forever, is pretty much my point here.
That is my (very unfortunate) experience with 'Ugandan Knuckles'.
Happily, the fad has mostly faded away from VRChat now. Thankfully. Only occasionally do I see one anymore.
But the utterly loathsome bags of human shit that had been the character back when... as far as I know... they still own VR sets, and they still likely are everywhere, all around.
And that thought is not happy.
Ugandan Knuckles is the greatest meme ever made, and nothing will ever change my mind.