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A fugly mug.
A fuglier mug.
A lunatic Chaplin imitator
and his greatest fans

Nazism
Icon nazi.svg
First as tragedy
Then as farce
Frogs, clowns, and swastikas
Alt-right
Icon altright.svg
Chuds
Rebuilding the Reich, one meme at a time
Buzzwords and dogwhistles
Daily reminder that the correct response to people accusing someone of being a racist or a nazi isn't:
"But is he really?"
it's actually:
"so what?"
—StoneToss[1]

StoneToss, also known as MineralMotion, PebblePunt, RockThrow, GravelChuck, and other, similar names by his detractors, is a neo-Nazi webcomic known for promoting Holocaust denial, racism, homophobia, sexism, and antisemitism.[2] He has a nasty tendency to create more benign comics in an effort to try and disguise his more heinous ones.

The Anonymous Comrades Collective revealed in March 2024 that a man named Hans Kristian Graebener writes StoneToss.[3][4] This revelation also confirmed the long-running suspicion that Graebener was also the author of the similar neo-Nazi comic RedPanels.[3][4][5] Shortly after this StoneToss posted on Twitter an apparent response to people discovering his identity: "One of you has a direct line to @elonmusk - and you need to use it. … If Elon's idea of a "free speech" website is one where people can be intimidated into silence, the outcome will be a site where the Stasi will drive out all dissent. … If he needs a shortlist of the worst offenders, that can be easily provided."[6]

Early appearance[edit]

Graebener partied with other Gamergaters in New York in 2014, a group which included Frederick “Hotwheels” Brennan, founder of 8chan.[7][3]

New donation site[edit]

StoneToss briefly had a page with Hatreon, the self-aware "anti-SJW" knockoff of Patreon, prior to Visa suspending financial service to the site. After that, he used NewProject2, a minimalist "freedom of expression" membership platform (just like Gab and 8chan) that didn't have a complete privacy policy as of February 2019.[8] The comic had fourteen supporters as of April 2020. The NewProject2 was eventually shut down.

Banned[edit]

His subreddit[edit]

Stonetoss's official subreddit, banned on 18th March 2019, was a Neo-Nazi hive. The official reason given by Reddit was, "This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s content policy against creating or repurposing a sub to reconstitute or serve the same objective as a previously banned or quarantined subreddit".[9] This ban came a few weeks after the banning of an associated Discord server.[10]

His TV Tropes article[edit]

In 2020, either a fan or someone within Graebener's circle created a TV Tropes article about the comic, which was later deleted and salted after discussion decided there was nothing salvageable about the page, that it was impossible to describe the work in a neutral manner, and also because of concerns about his fanbase brigading the article (and that Graebener thanked the site for the publicity and traffic generated).[11] This is a rather special case, as TV Tropes normally keeps articles on hateful works for informative and documentary reasons.[12] Of course, the article's creator was also banned from the site.[13]

His NFTs[edit]

In November 2021, Stonetoss decided to dip his toes into the world of crypto art by launching his own collection of 5000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) called "Flurks," each depicting one of the humanoid characters he uses in his comics, but with randomized features and clothing. However, one day after the minting day, his collection was banned off of OpenSea[14] and Rarible,[15] two major NFT trading platforms. So much for decentralization?

Twitter/X[edit]

Good one. He's not banned yet, though.

In fact — despite the alt-right on Twitter thoroughly embracing the doxxing tactic without any punishment whatsoever, with troll Twitter accounts Libs of TikTok and Andy Ngo being particularly egregious offenders — after StoneToss was doxxed, "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk actually went out of his way to suspend Twitter accounts that shared the identity of StoneToss as Hans Kristian Graebener. Musk also retroactively changed the site's rules to prohibit exposing a person's real name, which, to the surprise of no one, is never enforced when it comes to deadnaming trans people.

(Showing that Musk seemed to have no clue on how the Internet has responded to information suppression for decades, this merely resulted in a Streisand effect where numerous Twitter accounts changed their profile name to "Hans Kristian Graebener is stonetoss".)[16]

Parody edits[edit]

Due to their exploitability as a meme template, Stonetoss comics have commonly been parodied/edited for meme purposes by online leftists, usually with Stonetoss's website URL replaced by the phrase "Stonetoss is a Nazi." For instance, the Reddit community r/antifastonetoss has managed partial success as a parody and deplatforming effort, even temporarily overtaking his amount of followers. And naturally, in leftist infighting fashion, the subreddit split over Vaush.[17][18]

In 2020 and 2021, edits of Stonetoss' comics with people replaced with characters and intentionally bastardized references to the popular game "Among Us" also became a popular internet meme.[19] So much so that, unfortunately, Stonetoss played into it.[20]

Selected examples[edit]

See also[edit]

Want to read this in another language?[edit]

StoneToss (español) es la versión en español de este artículo.

External links[edit]

  • The website itself — as an interesting tidbit, hotlinking the website from RationalWiki previously redirected one to a shock video about members of the LGBTQ community being bug chasers.Wikipedia
  • Twitter (yeah, he somehow still has a Twitter; even before the Elon days, Twitter was infamously glacial in removing neo-nazis, especially when you compare how they quickly they crack down on copyright violations.)
  • Facebook
  • Hatreon — archived copies
  • Instagram
  • Youtube channel

Notes[edit]

  1. Almost ever, anyway, and Alien Uplifting conspiracy theories notwithstanding.
  2. Even outliers such as the Bambuti of Congo and the Dinka of Sudan, the shortest and tallest ethnic groups respectively, have a difference of just a little more than a foot in height in for their averages.
  3. Bernie Sanders, a self proclaimed democratic socialist, opposes open borders.[34] However, Bernie Sanders's policies are closer to social democracy.
  4. Despite the fact that refugees commit less crime on average than the native population.[35]
  5. Technically, it's not the Bitcoin mining technology that's an energy hog; it's the Bitcoin mining procedure itself, due to it rewarding the investment of more processing power. This leads to people buying bigger, stronger, and hungrier processors to mine as much as possible, with the end result being a whole lot of energy being consumed for not a lot of actual value. See our articles on Bitcoin and Red Queen's race and Wikipedia's article on perverse incentiveWikipedia for more details.
  6. It is probably worth mentioning that H. P. Lovecraft grew to be more anti-fascist later in life, as apparent from his personal letters.

References[edit]

  1. https://archive.is/OwduL#selection-3537.0-3537.152
  2. "Antifa redditors are repurposing anti-Semitic comics for good" by David Gilmour, Daily Dot, 2019 May 31
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 “StoneToss” Tossed: Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, TX by ancoco (2024-03-12) Anonymous Comrades Collective.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Brace yourself for some deeply unfunny & cruel cartoons, serious cringe, & regenerating foreskins! This is long overdue and @anoncomrades & @latenightafa brought in heavy hitter comrade @theclaw414 who knocked it outta' the park! STRONG CONTENT WARNING!!!!!
  5. The StoneToss Trace: A short version. latenightafa.noblogs.org, 12 March 2024.
  6. StoneToss (March 14, 2024). "One of you has a direct line to @elonmusk - and you need to use it." Twitter, via archive.today.
  7. Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend by Adrian Chen (Oct. 27, 2014) Intelligencer (New Magazine).
  8. NewProject2's Privacy Policy. Archived.
  9. Banned Via Reddit.
  10. Only Screenshot 14th of March 2019, via Archive.fo
  11. How should we handle Stonetoss?, TV Tropes
  12. "Q: So should I take every article here as an endorsement of whatever it describes? A: No, of course not. We have pages on Greedy Jew, Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf after all.", Content Violations Discussions forum rules & procedure, TV Tropes
  13. Edit banned/Suspended - would like to edit again., TV Tropes
  14. @opensea we need to talk , your platform unlisted our nft collection without giving us a reason and just out of nowhere. Please DM us, @flurksnft on Twitter
  15. "We just got deplatformed by @rarible", @flurksnft on Twitter
  16. "Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity" by David Gilbert, Wired, 2024 March 20
  17. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mnfop2/rantifastonetoss_users_are_in_a_state_of_civil/
  18. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mq9avu/update_on_rantifastonetoss_the_mod_behind_banwave/
  19. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/amogus
  20. Stonetoss Comics on Twitter, 16 February 2021.
  21. The Lubricated Slope, StoneToss
  22. Knotjob
  23. Wiepjes, C. M.; den Heijer, M.; Bremmer, M. A.; Nota, N. M.; de Blok, C. J. M.; Coumou, B. J. G.; Steensma, T. D. (2020). "Trends in suicide death risk in transgender people: results from the Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria study (1972–2017)" (in en). Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 141 (6): 486–491. doiWikipedia:10.1111/acps.13164. ISSN 0001-690X. PMID 32072611. 
  24. Galaxy Brains, StoneToss
  25. Open access journal article Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians, Jama Intern Med.
  26. Look Closely, StoneToss
  27. Pointing the Finger, StoneToss
  28. (October 2018). 5 Jews make Forbes’ list of top 10 wealthiest Americans, The Times of Israel. (The rankings swing wildly all the time, and proportionality here is going to depend highly on timing and how many individuals you consider, e.g. top 10 versus top 500 may yield different results.)
  29. StoneToss: Episode 36, StoneToss Is An Idiot.
  30. Crematoria, StoneToss
  31. Wagging the Dog, StoneToss
  32. Intelligence of Purebred vs Mixed Breed Canines
  33. Refugees Welcum, Stonetoss
  34. Bernie Sanders says he does not support open borders, Politico.
  35. Feltes, Thomas & List, Katrin & Bertamini, Maximilian. (2018). More Refugees, More Offenders, More Crime? Critical Comments with Data from Germany. 10.1007/978-3-319-72159-0_26.
  36. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848). "Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists". The Communist Manifesto.

    But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the bourgeoisie in chorus.

    The bourgeois sees his wife as a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.

    He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.

    For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

    Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.

    Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.

  37. Yep, Bitcoin Was a Bubble. And It Popped. Noah Smith. Bloomberg. December 11, 2018.
  38. Cho, R. (September 20, 2021). "Bitcoin’s Impacts on Climate and the Environment". Columbia Climate School. Accessed December 30, 2021.
  39. Little Bit, StoneToss
  40. What is gynaecomastia?, by the British National Health Service
  41. Named in Vain, StoneToss
  42. Foot in Mouth, Stonetoss
  43. https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
  44. https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea
  45. https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2020/Jun/Renewables-Increasingly-Beat-Even-Cheapest-Coal-Competitors-on-Cost