MAGA Momiji

Submission 26,926

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About

Maga Momiji is a parody of a Gyate version of Touhou Project character, Momiji Inubashiri, edited to wear a Maga hat. On 4chan, the image is featured in various image macros and edits as well as several other online communities such as r/The_Donald and Twitter.

Origin

On January 2nd, 2016, an anonymous user began posting an images of Gyate Momiji^[1] to /pol/'s /ptg/, each image captioned with a variation of, "This is a movement." This associated phrase was later changed to, "This is an awoovement," after several anonymous users corrected a typo on a post that stated, "This is an movement"^[2].

The first known version of the parody was made on January 7th, 2016, when an anonymous user replied to the posts with a Trump version of the image labeled ANIME GREAT AGAIN.^[3]

Spread

After continued posts over the next few months, on April 29th, 2016, an anonymous user on /pol/ wrote a small explanation to why Awoo was advocated on the board (shown below).

Outside of 4chan, the image was also spread to r/The_Donald, where it was featured in shitposting generals posted by moderator u/Trump-for-life titled, Late Night Awoo Corps. The last post in the series was made on August 26, 2016 and received 1.5k upvotes and 356 comments.^[4] After the image was adopted as a mascot by 4chan's /pol/, various image macros and photoshops of the image began to start to circulate around 4chan's different boards.

Anime Right News

On, February 18th, 2017, the website animeright.news was created.^[5] It is a right wing online publication that releases articles centered on politics, social media, and animanga topics. It's original logo was a red pill with the site's name inside.^[6] Since at least November 17th of that year, that logo has been phased out and a photoshop of MAGA Momiji with a press hat and microphone has been the site's mascot (shown below).^[7]

Since at least July 10th of that year, the bottom of each article has featured a rating system that gauges a variety of unique reactions, each represented by a different MAGA Momiji photoshop.^[8] These include "Almonds Activated," "The Fire Rises" and "My Eyes!!!", all shown below.^[9]

At some point between March 5th and March 15th, 2019, the hats worn by the Momijis became Yang Gang hats in reference to Andrew Yang. ^[11] Complementing this, the website's color scheme changed from red and white to purple and yellow.

Awoo News is a series of articles written by the user BoatCaptain that, since May 14th, 2018, have been released multiple times a week and summarize recent events.^[10]