Arachno-Communism

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foone @Foone · Aug 29, 2019 000 and a notable shoutout to Arachno-transhumanism, which believes we should use technology to improve humanity, specifically by turning us into cyborg spiders. (from sunvitamin.tumblr.com/post/183636596..) EXOISKELETON 27 36 O 155 foone @Foone · Aug 29, 2019 And there's Arachno-pacifism, which rejects the use of violence as a tool for political change, as it's unnecessary: the giant spiders will provide all the violence we need. 27 28 O 118 foone @Foone · Aug 29, 2019 And Arachno-feminism, which thinks Nursey Web Spiders have the right idea on how gender relations should work. If the male wants to have sex, he should show up with a nice gift for the woman, and if it's not good enough, she'll eat him. t7 14 O 87 foone @Foone · Aug 29, 2019 000 And Arachno-syndicalism, which is a labor movement that says the workers should band together in strong unions for better pay and workplace conditions, and if the bosses try to stop them, they should be fed to the spiders. 27 15 O 103

foone @Foone · Aug 29, 2019 000 There's also Arachno-nihilism, which is the belief that nothing in politics matters, because there's giant spiders. 3 27 23 130 foone @Foone Aug 29, 2019 And Arachno-fascism, which is the political belief that we should feed all the fascists to the spiders. 000 3 27 23 113 foone @Foone Aug 29, 2019 Arachno-monarchism, which is the belief we should get rid of kings and queens by, you guessed it, feeding them to the giant spiders. 000 8 27 21 109 foone @Foone Aug 29, 2019 And arachno-primitivism, which is the belief that the only way we can survive is to go back to a hunter-gatherer style of civilization, as industrial civilization will be impossible once the giant spiders take over. 000 GIF

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Arachno-Communism refers to a joke political ideology which is a parody of anarcho-communism. The joke, which is based on the prefixes "arachno" and "anarcho" being anagrams and easily misread, has led to various memes exploring the joke ideology. Memes about Arachno-Capitalism, parodying anarcho-capitalism, have also been made.

Origin

On April 28th, 2007, user of parody encyclopedia website Uncyclopedia Oceanhahn created^[1]^[2] an entry for Arachno-Communism, describing it as "a system of political and economic government where the people are governed freely and fairly by giant spiders." The joke political ideology parodied similarly-spelled anarcho-communism.

Later on the same day, Uncyclopedia^[3] user Major Major Major Major uploaded a flag for the joke ideology. The flag, depicting a black spider spinning a web against a red background, used the same red-and-black color scheme as the flag of anarcho-communism (shown below, left). Another image, depicting "The Anarcho-Communist Manifesto," was added^[4] on the same day (shown below, right).

40 CENTS THE Arachno- Communist Imul Manifesto BEDWIN ARACHNOVIC ARACHNO

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On September 12th, 2007, YouTuber^[9] DarwinsHampster posted a video "Arachno-Capitalism is Stupid" that received over 50,000 views in thirteen years (shown below).

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On July 15th, 2017, Facebook^[5] group Arachno-Communsim was created. On July 20th, 2017, and December 19th, 2017, Imgur^[6] user RocketManDan1 and Redditor^[7] kohlapse posted alternative flags for anarcho-communism (shown below, left and right), with the latter post gaining nearly 900 upvotes in /r/vexillologycirclejerk subreddit in six months.

On August 29th, 2019, American programmer Foone Turing (@Foone) tweeted^[8] a joke about arachno-communism (shown below, left), with the tweet gaining over 470 retweets and 1,500 likes in one year. In the Twitter thread, @Foone posted follow-up jokes about arachno-capitalism, arachno-nihilism, arachno-primitivism and other spider ideologies (shown below).

foone 000 @Foone "anarcho-communist? oh, no, you misheard me. I'm an arachno-communist. I believe we shouldn't have private property, and also the only legitimate form of government is THE SPIDER" 1:03 PM · Aug 29, 2019 · Twitter Web App

foone 000 @Foone Replying to @Foone please note that this isn't to be confused with arachno- capitalists, who believe we should round up all the billionaires and feed them to giant spiders. W-P GIF 1:17 PM · Aug 29, 2019 · Twitter Web App

The meme did not see further spread April 15th, 2020, when Redditor^[10] Zuazzer posted a meme which gained over 440 upvotes in /r/newackyideologies (shown below). On April 18th, Twitter^[11]^[12] users @cableknitjumper and @ialika_lifina posted jokes about the ideology, gaining over 420 likes and 410 likes, respectively. On July 23rd, 2020, Redditor^[13] curlytopdotcom reposted Zuazzer's meme to /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, where it received over 16,700 upvotes in four months.

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Following the July repost, the meme achieved significant popularity in /r/PoliticalCompassMemes subreddit, with more viral memes about spider ideologies being posted in the following months.