Yesterday, Donald Trump suffered an embarrassing defeat in a most unlikely place — Reddit — as a veritable army of Swedes armed only with fuktiga mejmejs (dank memes) sent Trump supporters cuck-cuck-cucking back to their headquarters in r/The_Donald.
How convenient that it is Memeday here on We Hunted the Mammoth.
The feud started on Tuesday when a Trump supporter posted a map of Northern Europe in r/The_Donald with a crude picture of what the Brits like to call “meat and two veg” scrawled over Sweden and Finland. Some of the inhabitants of r/Sweden (known as Sweddit) decided to respond with some artwork of their own.
Things escalated quickly, and what had been a minor Reddit scuffle was transformed into an all-out meme war yesterday that consumed both subreddits and dominated Reddit’s front page as well, with the plucky Swedes getting a surprising outpouring of support from the rest of Reddit — while the Trump fans stewed and sent salty messages to the Sweddit mods informing them that evil Muslim “rapefugees” would soon be taking over their country. Another Trump fan posted a picture of Swedish Fish candy he’d tossed in the toilet, declaring that he was “ending my addiction after today’s events. I can’t support those commies anymore.”
Eventually the Sweddit mods decided they needed to get some sleep, and temporarily closed  the subreddit to new submissions, more or less bringing the war to a halt. Pretty much everyone outside of r/The_Donald thinks that the Swedes won the day.
You can find more detailed descriptions of this little war here (in English) or here (in Swedish); the Sweddit mods reflect on what they call The Borkening here.
The Swedes and their allies put forth a vast quantity of memes — some clever, some a bit, er, problematic, and some of them in Swedish. Here’s a selection of my favorites from that first category.
More than a few mocked Trump supporters’ weird “cuck” obsession.
Some mocked how quickly The_Donald resorted to banning people.
And the Swedish Chef did his part.
Eventually, some people felt that the war was so lopsided that the Swedish mememakers were essentially, well, doing this:
More Memeday to come later today!
I’m usually not a fan of Reddit, but this made me smile. Good on you, Sweden.
…I’ll make just a token protest about being included with Swedens in that original pic which started the fire, okay…
*polite, refined golfclap to The Borkening*
Thanks, Sweddit. Semla at your place the next time we do fika?
I am proud to be Swedish(-American) today.
The chicken/cuck memes made me laugh til I snorted. At work. Yay Sweden
Sweden has a telephone number if anyone is interested
http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/call-sweden-national-phone-number-876
I was all prepared to hate today, but then I learned the Swedish term for dank memes and found out that r/Sweden is known as Sweddit. Now I feel only delight. ??
Quite impressive since Trumpers (I assume) outnumber the entire population of Sweden.
Bra gjort!
I’m going to be laughing for the rest of the day over “I think this is cobwebs and old violin strings”. Bravo, Sweden!
I would not assume the trumper outnumber the population of Sweden.
Or even of a small city in Sweden.
That chicken with Drumpf’s head just made my morning. Thanks, Sweden!
I’m impressed with how well they can hold their own in a meme fight without resorting to cringe-worthy vulgarities like I was anticipating. These are adorable. Stay classy, Sweds.
That was great! But I can’t help feeling that Trump fans are going to be beaten in almost any battle of wits.
Jag älskar Sverige!
(that’s the only sentence in Swedish I know :D).
I grow ever prouder of my Swedish ancestry.
@zesty LOL!
Good on the Swedes 🙂
Seems like just about everybody has had just about enough of, theDonald.
Actually, I’m just gonna drop some accomplishments by Swedes who racists wouldn’t consider Swedish.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores the goal of the year in 2012, possibly of the century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN6iM4cJKLM
Leila K, soundtrack of my childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3k58kZCRlM
Latin Kings + Daddy Boastin, soundtrack of my teens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtI_SHlo80s
Marcus Price, soundtrack of my early 20s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcKkm0O81fI
Ibrahim Erik Lundin Banda, winner of two Swedish Grammy awards a few weeks ago:
I trudged through some of the modmail linked in the OP, and I came across a curious phrase: “cucked f****ts”. How exactly do you cuckold a gay man?? Makes me wonder how long until the alt-right devolves into a full-blown word salad spewing parody of itself? They’re halfway there already.
From now on, that Trump chicken photo is going to be my one and only response to anyone who uses that word.
I absolutely love that image of the cucking chickens getting fed. I wonder if the people in /r/The_Donald still feel like the ”silent majority” now.
I’m stealing the chicken memes. They’re mine now.
Don’t remember this post when you see then next.
Well played, Sweddit.
Well played, indeed.
Thanks for explaining this!
I was browsing Imgur the other day (Yeah, my bad.) and was wondering what the hell this was about.
Testing. I keep trying to post a comment but it’s now showing up.
Edit: Ok now it works? I’m going to try and post the links I had previously:
Basically, (from the recap of the reddit ‘war’) the r/the donald decided to, shall we say, open up their ‘no racisim’ policy to allow all sorts of anti-muslim hate speech.
https://archive.is/cdA7f
Then they realized that this kind of made them look like a bunch of racists, so they backpedaled
https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4es21f/psa_we_never_got_rid_of_our_no_racism_rule_were/