
#Ni**erNavy
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About
#NierNavy is a hashtag used to mock a typographical error tweeted by the @YahooFinance Twitter feed, in which they mistakenly posted the n-word instead of "bigger" in early January 2017.
Origin
On January 5th, 2017, @YahooFinance posted a link to a news story with the description "Trump wants a much n* navy: Here's how much it'll cost" (shown below). Approximately 45 minutes later, the tweet was deleted.

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That evening, /r/BlackPeopleTwitter[3] moderator Dawood16 stickied a screenshot of the tweet to the top of the subreddit. Shortly after, @YahooFinance[4] tweeted an apology for the spelling error (shown below).

Meanwhile, Twitter user @JeSuisDawn[6] launched the hashtag #Ni**erNavy,[5] leading other users to adopt the hashtag in tweets mocking the typo (shown below).



On January 6th, BuzzFeed[1] published an article about the online reaction to the tweet titled "Black Twitter Roasted Yahoo Finance After The 'Ni**er Navy' Typo Tweet." The same day, Redditor Wrathchild89 posted a picture of a woman sitting on a chair while scuba diving underwater with the caption "when your man in the ni**er navy and he ain't texting back" (shown below, left). In 13 hours, the post received more than 2,500 votes (97% upvoted) on /r/BlackPeopleTwitter.[7] Meanwhile, Redditor bagdar submitted a Spongebob Squarepants image macro featuring the character Squidward watching Spongebob and Patrick frolicking outside to /r/blackpeopletwitter,[2] where it gained over 5,200 votes (92% upvoted) and 170 comments within 8 hours.


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External References
[1] BuzzFeed – Black Twitter Roasted Yahoo Finance After the Ni**er Navy Typo Tweet
[2] Reddit – 500k+ Tweets
[3] Reddit – Time to take swimming lessons
[4] Twitter – @YahooFinance
[6] Twitter – @JeSuisDawn
[7] Reddit – Aye dont look out the submarine my girl outside
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