>>14100364stormfaggotry got big on the internet in the early 1990s when the (((george lucas))) vidya secret weapons of the luftwaffe was banned for sale in germany due to overly realistic plane art that included the banned swastika symbol. not that there wasn't a strong undercurrent in the subcultures before that, but the swotl fracas highlighted the ridiculously irrational and unsatisfiable paranoia being applied unironically to the issue for a newer, younger, communications tech savvy group of people roughly at the dawn of the internet. it would've been something else if it wasn't that. there was the international harassment of bobby fischer going on at the time and a lot of other things. there were already lots and lots of people noticing and mentioning coincidences in all sorts of different spheres, but the swotl delay to change the plane art is what made it get loud. that was years before 4chan, stormfront was registered in 1995. don black's contact info was in the whois back then.
