These events may have been the reason r/israel was targeted. The weekend of November 17 and 18 had seen Israel launch airstrikes against Gaza and Hamas fire rockets towards Tel Aviv. Later that day, the r/israel subreddit was spammed with numerous copies of the face and variations on it. The video is simply a slow zoom into the emoticon with a soundtrack of incoherent screaming. Also on that day, a video was posted to YouTube with the title ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). On 4chan, it was posted so many times that some users were temporarily banned for posting it too much. In the course of that same day, the emoticon was posted to the US-based imageboard 4chan and then on Reddit to the subreddit r/4chan. The anonymous comment, posted on November 18, 2012, read “ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) this thread is leaking from the heavens.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) may have first appeared on the Finnish image-based message board Ylilauta in a thread about spam filter settings.
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