About

M14 Gang is an ironic group of shitposters who make image macros heaping hyperbolic praise on the M14 gun in Call of Duty Black Ops. The group, though small, received large attention after being mentioned by PewDiePie in an episode of his "Meme Review" series.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the M14 Gang was posted by iFunny ^[3] user Jotaro on August 8th, 2018. The post received more than 1,200 upvotes.

Spread

On September 13th, 2018, the Facebook ^[1] group, M14 Gang, launched.

The group is devoted to posting image macros that praise the M14 gun and mock the Olympia gun. Many of the posts are deep fried and use emoji ironically. All posts are tagged "This post was made by M14 gang" (examples shown below).

A subreddit also appeared for the group on September 21st, 2018.^[2] The group saw a surge in interest after it was mentioned by PewDiePie on September 25th, 2018 in a "Meme Review" episode on his channel that also covered Bowsette and Bongo Cat. The video gained over 3.7 million views (shown below). After the video was posted, the Facebook page gained many new members, and has over 12,000 likes as of October 3rd, 2018. The subreddit has over 300 followers.

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