StoneToss
A lunatic Chaplin imitator and his greatest fans Nazism |
First as tragedy |
Then as farce |
Frogs, clowns, and swastikas Alt-right |
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]
Gay marriage leads to child sacrifice. Trust me bro.
More slippery slope.[21] StoneToss commonly depicts LGBT+ people with colored hair and trans women with facial hair.
StoneToss portrays trans people as having a high suicide rate. The statistic is here decontextualized and used as something of a dog whistle. The actual suicide death rate in the trans community may be less than 1%,[23] but for elaboration see: Alt-right glossary § 40%.
Silly women, playing at being doctors![24] Could've at least written an actual joke regarding a particular zodiac sign involving crabs. One study found patients treated by female doctors had significantly lower mortality and readmission rates than male doctors;[25] we might need to flip this one on its head.
Rich people = Evil Jews controlling the money.[26]
It can't be capitalism, it has to be (((the Jews!!!!!!!)))[27] To anyone not antisemitic, it doesn't matter whether billionaires are Jewish or not, but plenty of billionaires are not, like Jeff Bezos (richest person on Earth), Bill Gates (2nd), and Elon Musk (3rd). Many billionaires who are Jewish made their money in creating computer software or websites (e.g. Facebook),[28] which just smacks of a conspiracy, doesn't it?
Distortion of the Holocaust with a Galileo gambit. Holocaust victims were not only killed with Zyklon B, but also other methods like mass shootings by the Einsatzgruppen. In concentration camps they were starved to death, overworked, and died of diseases due to the unsanitary conditions, while in extermination camps they were killed on arrival in gas chambers (or in the case of Chelmno, gas vans).
Yes, because the History Channel is clearly the only source that has written about the Holocaust, it's not as if there is a huge body of scholarly literature, testimonies, mass graves, corroborating documents, remains of concentration camps...[29]
Another old PRATT that StoneToss mindlessly repeats, that Dresden was an Allied atrocity and the real crime of World War II. A toxic mix of whataboutism, false equivalency, and denialism that has been used by neo-Nazis since the end of WWII.[30]
(The answer is "inbreeding".) He managed to make the dumbest possible comparison here.[31] Unlike dogs, humans have not been selectively bred for any specific purpose,[note 1] though eugenicists would like that to be the case. Human size differences (after nutritional differences are eliminated) are probably under 5% by mass;[note 2] For dogs, two breeds might well be 5000% different in size, because dogs are extraordinarily diverse and they go through generations quickly, as they can begin breeding around 1 year of age, whereas humans can't even safely reproduce until their late teens. However, since the healthiest and smartest dogs tend to be mutts,[32] following the example of dogs would imply (by this logic) humans should promote interracialism, leading to...
The alt-right's weird fixation on interracial cuckold porn and view of women-as-property continues with this soulful fine art, a culturally enriching piece titled "Refugees Welcum".[33] (Socialism doesn't per se mean open borders,[note 3] but StoneToss is entitled to make shit up.) This might contain a kind of "violent black brute" stereotype depending on interpretation.[note 4]
This comic is so unoriginal, it was addressed in the 1848 Communist Manifesto. No, really! Marx says the bourgeoisie are the real cucks after all.[36]Funny how he compares roses, a group of flowering plants known for consuming a lot of water and resources,[citation needed] with white people. Also, this is the incorrect use of the ecological term "invasive species" (a species that is not endemic to a region, whose impact has altered the environment of the region) when the Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss doesn't specify which region he is referring to. As far as we know, the roses depicted here could be the invasive species. If he means Europe, lavender (the plant with the thinner, violet flowers) is actually native. It is also quite a poor analogy to compare legal immigrants to invaders, when they are allowed in by governments that are voted in by the people.
Soy doesn't act like estrogen (a female sex hormone). Otherwise, it would be a viable and cheap hormone replacement therapy (HRT) option for trans women as well as treatment for polycystic ovarian syndrome. Other than that, obesity can cause gynaecomastia ("man-tits").[40]
See, Muslim extremists are violent. And homophobic. And antisemitic. And, allegedly, racist. Therefore we get to be too![41]
Remember that Holocaust denial scene in The Little Mermaid? Anybody?[note 6]
Notice the transphobia in the bottom left. Comics like this serve to both help his comics spread to people who consider themselves centrists and to obfuscate the fact that he is far-right.[42] Look at all of the above comics and see for yourself how much of a "centrist" this guy is. His supporters claim his comics are satirical, but when he has comics making fun of the opponents of Holocaust denial and "race realism", both of which are only popular on the far right, while not making fun of even marginally right wing ideas unless the punchline is they're not right-wing enough, it makes this lie clear: the "satire" defense is trite and lazy. Nevertheless, comics like this one give him a veneer of neutrality that can make it a bit more difficult to convince his fans that he's a Nazi.
When arguing against vaccines, he went with the oldest PRATT in the book. The mercury thing's been debunked over and over and over again, the amount of thiomersal in vaccines was way too small to be significant, there is no evidence that it causes any harmful effects in those amounts, and most vaccines don't use thiomersal anymore anyway.
See also[edit]
- Billy the Heretic — Like Stonetoss, but with even worse art and characters and even less of a plotline
- RedPanels
- Alt-right
Want to read this in another language?[edit]
StoneToss (español) es la versión en español de este artículo.
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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.
- 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.)
- Hatreon — archived copies
- Youtube channel
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Almost ever, anyway, and Alien Uplifting conspiracy theories notwithstanding.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bernie Sanders, a self proclaimed democratic socialist, opposes open borders.[34] However, Bernie Sanders's policies are closer to social democracy.
- ↑ Despite the fact that refugees commit less crime on average than the native population.[35]
- ↑ 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 incentive for more details.
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ https://archive.is/OwduL#selection-3537.0-3537.152
- ↑ "Antifa redditors are repurposing anti-Semitic comics for good" by David Gilmour, Daily Dot, 2019 May 31
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “StoneToss” Tossed: Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, TX by ancoco (2024-03-12) Anonymous Comrades Collective.
- ↑ 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!!!!!
- ↑ The StoneToss Trace: A short version. latenightafa.noblogs.org, 12 March 2024.
- ↑ StoneToss (March 14, 2024). "One of you has a direct line to @elonmusk - and you need to use it." Twitter, via archive.today.
- ↑ Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend by Adrian Chen (Oct. 27, 2014) Intelligencer (New Magazine).
- ↑ NewProject2's Privacy Policy. Archived.
- ↑ Banned Via Reddit.
- ↑ Only Screenshot 14th of March 2019, via Archive.fo
- ↑ How should we handle Stonetoss?, TV Tropes
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Edit banned/Suspended - would like to edit again., TV Tropes
- ↑ @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
- ↑ "We just got deplatformed by @rarible", @flurksnft on Twitter
- ↑ "Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity" by David Gilbert, Wired, 2024 March 20
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mnfop2/rantifastonetoss_users_are_in_a_state_of_civil/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mq9avu/update_on_rantifastonetoss_the_mod_behind_banwave/
- ↑ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/amogus
- ↑ Stonetoss Comics on Twitter, 16 February 2021.
- ↑ The Lubricated Slope, StoneToss
- ↑ Knotjob
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1111/acps.13164. ISSN 0001-690X. PMID 32072611.
- ↑ Galaxy Brains, StoneToss
- ↑ Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians, Jama Intern Med.
- ↑ Look Closely, StoneToss
- ↑ Pointing the Finger, StoneToss
- ↑ (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.)
- ↑ StoneToss: Episode 36, StoneToss Is An Idiot.
- ↑ Crematoria, StoneToss
- ↑ Wagging the Dog, StoneToss
- ↑ Intelligence of Purebred vs Mixed Breed Canines
- ↑ Refugees Welcum, Stonetoss
- ↑ Bernie Sanders says he does not support open borders, Politico.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. - ↑ Yep, Bitcoin Was a Bubble. And It Popped. Noah Smith. Bloomberg. December 11, 2018.
- ↑ Cho, R. (September 20, 2021). "Bitcoin’s Impacts on Climate and the Environment". Columbia Climate School. Accessed December 30, 2021.
- ↑ Little Bit, StoneToss
- ↑ What is gynaecomastia?, by the British National Health Service
- ↑ Named in Vain, StoneToss
- ↑ Foot in Mouth, Stonetoss
- ↑ https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
- ↑ https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea
- ↑ https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2020/Jun/Renewables-Increasingly-Beat-Even-Cheapest-Coal-Competitors-on-Cost
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