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Surprisingly, RedPanels was not a tankie webcomic about the rise of the proletariat under the crimson banner. Oh well.
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RedPanels was a racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, and particularly antisemitic webcomic, which centered on bravely taking pot shots at absurd "liberal" strawmen.

It described itself as the "Red Pill in Webcomic Form"[1] and actively promoted the alt-right.[2] It came to some attention when Richard Spencer (a noted non-Nazi) tweeted a cartoon about how concentration camps started because people just wouldn't stop punching (totally-not-)Nazis.[3][4] RedPanels ended on February 2, 2017, citing monetary reasons; the last panel fittingly consisted of a HitlergrußWikipedia given in deference to Trump and the Meme Nazis.[5][6]

The whole production is basically one, big neo-Nazi themed easter egg hunt — even Redpanel's CSS stylesheet just happens to be titled "stylesheet88.css".[7] Whatever could that be a reference to?

Alexa estimates that RedPanels.com receives about 100,000-300,000 monthly sessions.[8] Its Facebook page has over 36,000 likes.[9]

MEIN FÜHRER!! I CAN DRAW!![edit]

The owner (who styles himself as "Red"[10]) seems reluctant to identify himself. RedPanels.com is registered with WhoIsGuard, which enables Red to list no personal information on his ICANN forms.[11] We at RationalWiki cannot imagine why a Nazi would prefer anonymity. The developer of RedPanels' Android app is Mike Carter (@devicroft_);[12][13][14] it is improbable that Red and Mike Carter are one and the same.[15]

It was revealed in March 2024 that the artist behind RedPanels was Hans Kristian Graebener, and (as long suspected) he is also the author of the similar neo-Nazi webcomic StoneToss.[16]

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The following gallery contains cartoons expressing islamophobia, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and other cringeworthy topics.

StoneToss[edit]

After being memed to death by antifascists, Red launched another online webcomic that is 10 times uglier, currently known as StoneToss.[34]

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  1. http://redpanels.com/rss/redpanelsRSS.xml
  2. http://web.archive.org/web/20170105044650/https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/5irw39/ama_with_red_creator_of_redpanels/
  3. https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/827239243214827520
  4. https://i.reddituploads.com/19f81722f386422f9d7106487287a75e?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=1974f9d675430559c768dca2dc9eedfe
  5. http://archive.is/n02pY
  6. http://redpanels.com/370/
  7. http://redpanels.com/stylesheet88.css
  8. http://www.rank2traffic.com/redpanels.com/
  9. https://www.facebook.com/redpanelscomics/
  10. http://redpanels.com/about_page.php
  11. https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=redpanels.com
  12. http://web.archive.org/web/20170206224611/https://twitter.com/devicroft_/status/806518644272406529
  13. http://web.archive.org/web/20170206224631/https:/twitter.com/devicroft_/status/803393660830285825
  14. https://github.com/croft1/RedPanels/commits
  15. https://twitter.com/Red_Panels/status/803394380828704768[a w]
  16. “StoneToss” Tossed: Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, TX
  17. http://redpanels.com/1/
  18. http://redpanels.com/81/
  19. How Indians Defied Gravity and Achieved Success in Silicon Valley. Archived from Forbes, 15 October 2012.
  20. http://redpanels.com/48/
  21. http://redpanels.com/331/
  22. http://redpanels.com/130/
  23. http://redpanels.com/148/
  24. http://redpanels.com/68/
  25. http://redpanels.com/328/
  26. http://redpanels.com/169/
  27. http://redpanels.com/101/
  28. Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream, Buzzfeed
  29. http://redpanels.com/369/
  30. http://redpanels.com/348/
  31. http://redpanels.com/227/
  32. http://redpanels.com/233/
  33. http://redpanels.com/230/
  34. https://www.reddit.com/r/StonetossIsANazi/comments/erugw6/one_nazi_two_webcomics_stonetoss_red_panels/