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Kennedy B, Atari M, Davani AM, Yeh L, Omrani A, Kim Y, Gonzalez E. The Gab Hate Corpus: A collection of 27k posts annotated for hate speech. PsyArXiv. 2018 doi: 10.31234/osf.io/hqjxn. [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] Huws JC, Jones RS. Missing voices: Representations of autism in British newspapers, 1999–2008. British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 2011; 39(2):98–104. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2010.00624.x. [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar]

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While the use of extant texts that have been scraped from online discourse can be seen as “non-invasive”, there remain important ethical considerations for this study. Eynon, Fry and Schroeder (Eynon et al., 2017) propose three concepts at the core of research ethics: confidentiality, anonymity, and informed consent. Maintaining confidentiality and anonymity was a straightforward process, as we did not gain access to the “real” identities of Gab users. Additionally, we do not share usernames when reporting on this work. While informed consent is important in human subject research, it is well accepted that certain kinds of research can ethically proceed without informed consent, including observational research in public places and analysis of texts that are “in the public domain” (Willis, 2019).

Oksanen, A., Hawdon, J., Holkeri, E., Näsi, M., & Räsänen, P. (2014). Exposure to online hate among young social media users. Soul of Society: a focus on the lives of children & youth. Emerald Group Publishing Limited Pearson, A., Rees, J., & Forster, S. (2022). “This was just how this friendship worked”: Experiences of Interpersonal Victimisation in Autistic Adults. Autism in Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2021.0035 [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] actually that makes sense. thanks m8 that’s why I don’t have anyone, no one deserve to be paired up with the pure weaponized autism that I am :D I’m okay with this, I’m a living weapon :D It was hard for me to accept! Asperger's had been on the table for a long time, but I clung to the other possibility of ADD instead. I don't know why I was so much more afraid of autism than of ADD, but I wouldn't be surprised if 4chan's slurs played a part.Our top Kek priests are in development of a new kind of weapon... Called the Reeeening Rifle. Shoots dank memes with semi-auto, and concentrated weaponized autism with fully-auto. *NOTE “Kek” is an insider vernacular term with several meanings, in this case referring to a fictional culture / heritage and religion shared by alt right online community (Tuters, 2018) Ganesh B. Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right. Cultural Studies. 2020; 34(6):892–924. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1714687. [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] Tuters M. LARPing & liberal tears. Irony, belief and idiocy in the deep vernacular web. In: Fielitz M, editor. Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag; 2018. pp. 37–48. [ Google Scholar]

Literat I, van den Berg S. Buy memes low, sell memes high: Vernacular criticism and collective negotiations of value on Reddit’s MemeEconomy. Information Communication & Society. 2019; 22(2):232–249. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366540. [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] I amconvinced our only plan for victory is convincingly smearing every Dem in 2018 as some type of Sex Offender, GOP obviously won’t do that so we need weaponized autists to spread #pizzagate times 10, but more convincing. *NOTE “pizzagate” is a reference to a conspiracy theory that claimed Hillary Clinton ran a child-sex ring in a pizzeria. Within the #Gabfam, the simultaneous valuing and devaluing of weaponized autists are internalized and reflected in the posts of Gab users who identify as weaponized autists. Some of the posts from users who self-identify as weaponized autists reflect a sense of pride, accomplishment, and positive identity. It is a badge of honour. These posts mirror the high regard for weaponized autists that is sometimes conveyed by other Gab users. Other posts from self-identified weaponized autists reflect an internalization of the negative stereotypes attached to this label. The Gab archetype of an autist did not emerge in a vacuum. Rather, it is rooted in some portrayals of autism in media. As mentioned earlier, a weaponized autist, as discussed within Gab, is not necessarily a person with a formal diagnosis (though it can be). The image portrayed within Gab aligns closely with the cultural figure of “nerds’’ depicted in popular culture; specifically, a person who is male, who fails to fit hegemonic standards of masculinity, a computer user, is technologically brilliant, but is socially inept (Kendall, 1999). In addition to the “nerd” stereotype, the media has offered many portrayals of autism. Journalistic portrayals of autism have tended to offer a negative or tragic view of autism and to portray autistic people as asocial, or even antisocial (Huws & Jones, 2011). Early entertainment-media portrayals of autistic people have been criticized for depicting people who were either subhuman or superhuman with nothing in between (Maich, 2014). Today, autistic characters are featured in a growing number of movies and television series (Nordahl-Hansen, 2017). Despite the growing popularity of autistic characters, autistic people are generally left out of both the production and the casting of these characters, and the characters are criticized as being archetypal rather than authentic (Nordahl-Hansen, 2017) with said archetype often matching that which is portrayed in Gab.Bogerts L, Fielitz M. “Do You Want Meme War?”: Understanding the Visual Memes of the German Far Right. In: Fielitz M, editor. Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag; 2019. pp. 137–208. [ Google Scholar] Albrecht S, Fielitz M, Thurston N. Introduction. In: Fielitz M, Thurston N, editors. Post-digital cultures of the far right. Online actions and offline consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag; 2019. pp. 7–22. [ Google Scholar]