Kekistani

Kekistani

English

Etymology

Kekistan +‎ -i

Adjective

Kekistani (comparative more Kekistani, superlative most Kekistani)

1. (Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) Of, relating to, or notionally originating in the fictional alt-right country of Kekistan.
   • 2018, Maik Fielitz & ‎Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 42:

     The Kekistani flag became emblematic of Alt-Right trolling tactics.

   • 2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, page 194:

     They claimed the “Kekistani” culture was under attack by social justice warriors and feminists.

   • 2019, Tommaso Venturini, "From Fake To Junk News: The data politics of online virality", in Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights (eds. Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert), unnumbered page:

     This last element is crucial because much of the Kekistani subculture revolves around the refusal of the “politically correct”.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kekistani.

Noun

Kekistani (plural Kekistanis)

1. (Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) A notional citizen of the fictional alt-right country Kekistan.
   • 2018, Maik Fielitz & ‎Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 42:

     These videos thus staged a conflict not only between Alt-Right Kekistanis and liberal SJWs but also between the imagined depths of authentic web subculture and its superficial surface.

   • 2020, Kevin D. Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America", unnumbered page:

     The crowd moves in on the Kekistani, who insists that he isn't a racist or a neo-Nazi or anything like that […]

   • 2021, Uroš Cvoro & Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media, page 128:

     In January 2017, possibly not uncoincidentally around the time of Trump's inauguration, the idea emerged on Twitter of the Republic of Kekistan, “a country created by users on 4chan's /pol/ board as the tongue-in-cheek ethnic origin of 'shitposters' known as 'Kekistanis' who worship the ancient Egyptian diety [sic] Kek.