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The Discord User Is a Suspected Terrorist Copypasta is a copypasta that is meant to be set as a user's status on Discord, making it appear as if the user has been flagged as part of a suspected online terrorist organization. The copypasta first went viral in a video posted to TikTok in December 2022 and spread over the following weeks.

Origin

It is unknown when the copypasta was first used on Discord.

On December 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[1] @sillyy_ posted a video captioned "what did bro do to obtain this ☠️☠️☠️" where they hover their mouse over a Discord user, revealing their status as, "ⓘ User is suspected to be a part of an online terrorist organization. Please report any suspicious activity to Discord staff," garnering over 5.8 million views in a month (shown below). This is the earliest known piece of content to share the copypasta, although it likely existed on Discord prior to this date.

🛈 User is suspected to be a part of an online terrorist organization. Please report any suspicious activity to Discord staff.

Spread

The video helped the copypasta spread further on Discord, inspiring more TikTokers to post videos of users who set their status to it (examples shown below). On December 7th, 2022, the copypasta was posted to /r/copypasta,^[2] garnering over 100 upvotes in a month.

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