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About

"FUCKEN" is a catchphrase associated to a facial composite of a black man, used on several communities to mock refugees on European countries. The face has also been associeted to the phrases "Ich will fucken" (mispelling of "I wanna fuck") and "große brüste" (Big breasts).

Origin

During 2016 New Year's Eve, hundreds of sexual assaults and at least five rapes were reported on Germany, mainly on the city center of Cologne. As of March 17th, 2016, 120 suspects had been identified, with Chief Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer stating that most of them were asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who had recently arrived in Germany,^[8]
sparklng several debates regarding the European migrant crisis. A week after the incidents, several news websites published that some suspects carried a note with several phrases in German translated into Arab, including phrases like "I want to kiss you" and "big breasts", and the word "fucken", a mispelling of "ficken", to fuck.^[1][2]

On January 22nd, German police released the facial composite of a sexual assaulter from the district of Waldhof, in the city of Mannheim, who assaulted a 55 years old woman during the New Year's Eve.^[9] Both the composite and the note phrases were heavily mocked on sme online communities, like 4chan's international board /int/,^[3] being a post from January 30th the first one to associate both.^[4]

Spread

The term didn't gain traction until February 4th, 2016, when an edited cover of a Kinder Chocolate box featuring several references to the phrases was submitted on /int/.^[5] Two days later, another thread contained more edited pictures featuring the composite, a version of "Aliens Everywhere" and "It's Goofy Time".^[6] Both the edits and catchphrases started being used on 4chan, mostly /int/.^[7]

Various Examples

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External References