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user-inactivated · 2544 days ago · link · · parent · post: Old Handsign Meaning "OK" Triggers Girl Who Once Saw a Pepe Meme Doing It
It didn't start on 4chan. Self-diagnosing as autistic was a nerd fad for a while after Brahm Cohen, the guy who wrote bittorrent, started talking about his autism. Autism jokes were a reaction to everyone deciding they were autistic, and mostly at the expensive of people who weren't really autistic. 4chan kept them going long after the fad died because endlessly repeating things that were a little bit funny in 2004 is what it does.