Kekistan v. Kurdistan

Kekistan v. Kurdistan They Are KEK. We Are MELEK. Published by the Van Kush Family Research Institute & Van Kush Family Syncretic Temple of Angels Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush, Founding Director There are two nations without a state that the internet has heard of. One of them was invented on a message board in 2016. The other has existed for thousands of years, speaks its own language, buries its own dead, and was subjected to genocide in living memory. Only one of them has a flag that trends. We intend to change that. This is not an accusation of theft. Nobody stole anything from Us. This is an entry — a declaration that the symbolic field the internet has been playing on for a decade now has a second player, and that the second player brought older equipment. They are KEK. We are MELEK. I. The Frogs Around 2010 a melancholy cartoon frog began circulating on 4chan. Around the same time, the site replaced lol with kek — a word that arrived by way of a Korean onomatopoeia for laughter as rendered in World of Warcraft chat. For several years these two facts sat next to each other meaning nothing. … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/melek/@melek/kekistan-v-kurdistan