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Ebola-chan

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About

Ebola-chan is a female anime character designed as an anthropomorphic representation of the Ebola virus. The character was created on 4chan in response to growing concerns regarding the West African Ebola outbreak in the summer of 2014.

Origin

The original image of a gijinka character for the Ebola virus, "Ebola-tan" (Japanese: エボラたん), was created by a pixiv user sly on August 4th, 2014.[1] The earliest archived appearance of her on 4chan was submitted in a thread posted to the /a/ (anime) board on the same day[2], featuring an illustration of a young female anime character wearing a nurse outfit, holding a bloody skull and wearing a pony tail hair style ending in strains of the Ebola virus (shown below).


View Same Google iqdb SauceNA。 山 ebora-chan.jpg. 167KiB, 670x950 Anonymous Mon 04 Aug 2014 03:57:01 No.111582859 Report Quoted By:111583030111583637 >>111491831 ould you give her a kisu /a/?

Spread

As early as August 7th, an image macro began circulating on 4chan boards featuring the same anime character illustration accompanied by a caption referring to her as "Ebola-chan", which urged readers to reply with the phrase "I Love You Ebola-chan" in the comments section to avoid contracting a painful, fatal disease (shown below).[3] On August 17th, the image was reblogged by the Cheezburger site Geek Universe.[4] On August 18th, 2014, Redditor EsportsLottery submitted the original Ebola-chan illustration to the /r/WTF[5] subreddit on reddit, where it gained over 2,600 votes (87% upvoted) in the first week. Addinitionally, dozens of fanart for Ebola-chan are uploaded to deviantART.[6]


You have beern visited by the Ebola-Chan of Pestilence & Death 0 Excruciating pain and death will come to you unless you post an 0 ILOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN!" in this thread

Various Examples


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"White People" Conspiracy Hoax

While the character began as a relatively innocuous fan art trend, others on the site soon began rallying behind an international scheme to fabricate a death cult movement based on a conspiracy hoax that Ebola was "invented by white people," hoping it would catch on in the internet forums in regions where the local population have been heavily affected by the virus.


O Anonymous 09/14/14(Sun)01:45:55 No.35706261 File: 14105743870 (539 KB, 1280x768) 35706169 you must be ebola worshipping for maximum praise to our goddess File: 1410616813089.ipg (79 KB, 680x834) tfw I came so hard to Ebola-Chan that I started bleeding DEATH CULT POSTS ARE NOT HARMLESS GETTING STRONGER File: 1410582387638.ipg (17 KB, 460x345) 35706112 close your eyes and imagine her in all your cells imagine bursting forth with a million million copies of her beauty to spread to the world YOU HAVE PROBABLY NOTICED THE POSTS NOW UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE SERIOUS hardmode meditate on her becoming resilient and air borne imagine a hurricane carrying her form and infecting distant communities File: image.jpg (85 KB, 800x600) WE ARE THE HARBINGERS OF THE NEXT AGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVHCLNqoA Embed] For occultists: Feel free to lend some energy and For non-occultists in praise of sickness: Just listen to it, and perhaps meditate- it will drain you all the same For good goys: Dont THIS IS BY DESIGN! WHAT IS AN “EGREGORE"? AN EGREGORE OR THOUGHTFORM IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, KNOWN IN LESS HARMFUL FORM TO THE PUBLIC AS A "MEME". IT SELF REPLICATES AND SPREADS BY COLLECTIVE ACTION. IF IT GROWS POWERFUL ENOUGH IT IS NO LONGER UNDER CONTROL. MOST "MEMES" ARE NOT MALICIOUS NOR AFFECT THE WORLD IN ANY MEANINGFUL SENSE. AN EGREGORE IS VERY DIFFERENT. IT IS CREATED WITH PURPOSE AND FED BY THE WISHES, PRAYERS AND OBSESSION BY REGULAR PEOPLE BOTH WILLINGLY AND PASSIVELY. an yo VICT ORY "EBOLA-CHAN'" IS AN EGREGORE DO NOT BE FOOLEDI YOU ARE NOT DEALING WITH FUNPOSTING OR GOOD NATURED MEMES WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE IN "EBOLA-CHAN" THREADS! YOU ARE BEING USED TO FEED A VERY REAL DAEMON THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS POSTED OPENLY; THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT THROUGH A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. WITH EACH POST IT GROWS STRONGER! EACH DAY THE DISEASE SPREADS MORE RAPIDLY! IT MUST STOP! ade DEATH CULT HOW NORMAL PEOPLEGET DRAWN INTOBEINGSERVANTS OFPESTILENCEINCARNATE IT BEGINS LIKE MOST MEMES; SPAMMED OVER AND OVER UNTIL PEOPLE BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE IDEA AND SPREAD IT THEMSELVES -JUST LIKE A VIRUS. "EBOLA-CHAN'" IS NO MERE MEME. IT IS DESIGNED BY DEATH CULTISTS TO PROMOTE THE THOUGHTPATTERN OF PESTILENCE INCARNATE IN A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE WAYI NO LONGERA DEATHLY FEARED GOD OR DEMON, SHE IS PORTRAYED AS BOTH SEXUAL AND VIRGINAL LIKE VIRGIN MARY OR A POP STAR; IMPOSSIBLE DUALISM MEANT DO CREATE THE SAME THING-WORSHIPI IF YOU SEE THIS IMAGE WHILE SCROLLING THE FRONT PAGE You have been visited by the FILOVIRUS OF HEMORRHAGING A painful and gruesome death will befall n------, but only if you post GOOD LUCK EBOLA SOUNDS CRAZY DOESN'T IT FIRST INSTANCE You have been visited by Ebola-Chan of Pestilence & Death Excruciating pain and unless you post an LOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN WONDER WHY THE FIRST POSTS ABOUT EBOLA-CHAN FOCUSED SO HARD ON GETTING YOU TO SAY: GOOD LUCK EBOLA ONE OF THE FIRST KEYS TO MAGICK IS HIDING INTENT IN NEW FORMS, ONE METHOD BEING CREATING ANAGRAet i come o ye OUT OF THE STATED PURPOSE. DO YOU THINK IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE "GOOD LUCK EBOLA" HAS THE ANAGRAMS: In the comments below GLOBAL COOK DUE REFINED SIGIL ABO G--- CULLED SEEMS MONSTROUS TO SUGGEST SOMEONE WOULD DESIGNuhv eon vised by A MEME ON THAT BASIS? IT SHOULD. YOU ARE DEALING WITH AND DEA A LITERAL CULT OF DEATH AND DISEASE. WHAT COULD THE CHOICE OF "EBOLA-CHAN” TELL US ABOUT THE CREATORS OF THIS MEME? EBOLA-CHAN, BRINGER OF If you're nice to Ebola-chan and post GOOD LUCK EBOLA-CHAN! she will let you live! as an added bonus, if we all postt THANK YOU EBOLA-CHAN!" Ebola-chan will take her conquest across Israel and begin the downfall of the Jews! HONE CABAL AND NOW THAT THE EGREGORE IS CHARGED BY UNWITTING PAWNS THEY CHANGED IT YET AGAIN. CAN YOU FIGURE OUT "THANK YOU EBOLA-CHAN" ON YOUR OWN? THE ANSWER WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. LATEST ITERATION THE CULT SPREADS CULTISTS GROW BOLDER BLACK MAGIC INVOLVED 0 PREVIOUSLY HIDING IN THE SHADOWS THE MASTERMINDS OF THE DEATH CULT REVEAL THEMSELVES OPENLY AND INVITE OTHERS TO PARTICIPATE IN DARK MAGIC RITUALS! POSTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SHOW HEIR LOYALTIES BY BUILDING SHRINES TO THE EGREGORE "EBOLA-CHAN" AND PLACE HER SIGILS BESIDE LIT CANDLES AS THEY CHANT "GOOD LUCK EBOLA- CHAN" AND “I LOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN" BOTH PHRASES SECRET MAGICAL INCANTATIONS OBSCURED BY ANAGRAM THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE NO IDEA THEY ARE FEEDING THE DAEMON BY THEIR WORDS AND PRAYERS AS EBOLA GROWS STRONGER EACH DAY HAN FROM THE SIMPLE TO THE ELABORATE THE BASICS REMAIN THE SAME: FOCAL POINT (EBOLA-CHAN) CANDLES LIT IN RITUAL THE MAGICAL SIGILS THE SPREAD OF THIS WORSHIP IS AS VIRAL AS EBOLA ITSELF AND MUST BE STAMPED OUT BEFORE THE CREATION GAINS ENOUGH OF OUR COLLECTIVE ENERGY TO BECOME SELFSUSTAINED FIGHT IT OR EBOLA WILL CONSUME THE WORLD!

According to the excerpts of 4chan posts as cited by Vocative[7] and International Business Times[8], some users openly expressed their desire to see the dissemination of such a racially divisive rumor, which would further incite the escalating tension between the blacks and whites in the continent:

Anonymous posted: “If this ends up in the news, increasing tensions between blacks and whites in Africa--where they are already superstitious and think Ebola is made by whitey… Sure, we’ve not seen the flowering of this yet, but it’s just been a few days of death cult posts. Ebola-chan herself isn’t that old either. Give it time to work.”

Anonymous posted: “If we keep it up, soon enough some African media will report it and people will start to spread the word that Ebola might be beign spreaded [sic] by the white devil and that’s enough to help Ebola-chan.”

By September 17th, the fandomization of Ebola-chan on English-speaking imageboard communities had reached the earshot of Nigerian discussion forum Nairaland, where the character quickly became vilified as a "plague goddess" summoned by ill-wishing Westerners who perform “magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people.”

There is a new racist cult in Europe and America. They hate Africans and worship an ebola demoness who they call "Ebola-Chan". They perform magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people. They target the area they want to infect next using blood sacrifices. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Apparently even some Ebola doctors are part of the cult and instead of treating the disease are deliberately spreading it. I even heard rumour that they eat the heart of victims because they think it grants magical protection though I don't know if that's true. Some pictures of shrines and sacrifices I found:


THE CULT GROWS LARGER HAN

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External References

[1] pixiv – 「エボラたん」/「地下室」のイラスト / Posted on 08-04-2014 (registration required)

[2] archive.moe – /a/ – Animu & Mango » Thread #111450233 / Posted on 08-04-2014 (Thread archive)

[3] 4chon – 320611 (deleted)

[4] Cheezburger – I Love you Ebola Chan

[5] Reddit – Meet Ebola-Chan, the anime mascot for the Ebola Virus. / Posted on 08-18-2014

[6] deviantART – Search results for the keyword Ebola-chan

[7] Vocative – 4chan Racists Are Stoking Ebola Fear in Nigeria With This Anime Meme / 09-17-2014

[8] International Business Times – Ebola is CIA-Created Demon? Conspiracy Theory Goes Viral as Meme Shows Disease Created by 'White People' / 09-19-2014

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