About

StoneToss is a webcomic which contains messages critical of progressive politics and social justice activism while promoting ideas associated with the alt-right movement, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and white nationalism.

History

On July 18th, 2017, the first comic was uploaded to the StoneToss^[1] website titled "The Swirl," featuring a burger with an American flag, tacos with a Mexican flag and sushi with a Japanese flag, followed by an illustration of a man sitting on a toilet and a lump of excrement with all three flags. In June 2017, the @stone_toss^[2] Twitter feed was launched, which gathered more than 19,800 followers over the next seven months. On October 11th, 2018, the /r/Stonetoss^[8] subreddit was launched.

On Reddit

On December 10th, 2018, Redditor ILikeMonitorLizards submitted an edited StoneToss comic to /r/ComedyNecromancy,^[6] where it garnered over 3,800 points (92% upvoted) and 120 comments within one month (shown below).

On January 24th, 2019, Redditor Alpha-as-fuck submitted a StoneToss comic about the Covington MAGA hat student controversy to /r/The_Donald,^[5] where it gathered upwards of 6,600 points (95% upvoted) and 120 comments within five days.

March 2024 Doxxing

On March 12th, antifa groups Anonymous Comrades Collective and Late-Night Anti-Fascists doxxed the person suspected to be the artist behind the StoneToss comics and its precursor RedPanels,^[13] revealing the identity of Hans Kristian Graebener, a 34-year-old resident of Spring, TX who used to work as a security guard and an IT specialist.

The 99-part-thread about the doxxing submitted by X^[14] / Twitter user @AnonCommieStan received over 6,800 reposts and 17,000 likes within several hours. The doxxing was followed by an influx of memes about StoneToss identity being revealed, including memes about his apparently non-White heritage.

Criticism

On June 2nd, 2018, Tapatalk Forums^[4] user DrLoveHate submitted a thread on StoneToss, embedding several examples of the comic and comparing it to the works of the white supremacist cartoonist A. Wyatt Mann. In July, a page for StoneToss was created on RationalWiki,^[10] which claimed that the comic was the successor to RedPanels, becoming "outright white supremacist" as StoneToss . On September 14th, Redditor DruidOfDiscord submitted a Stonetoss comic to /r/ForwardsFromKlandma^[7] in a post titled "Stonetoss is actually just denying the Holocaust now." On October 7th, Imgur^[3] user MyNameIsMrTorgue uploaded an Imgur gallery titled "Stonetoss is racist," containing several examples of Stonetoss comics that highlighted themes associated with racism and anti-Semitism .On October 28th, the YouTube channel Zokolov released "Anatomy of a Terrible Political Webcomic – StoneToss" ^[12] which critiqued that the comic would "throw away any kind of subtlety", that "every comic is strawmaning his opponents, namely the scary 'left'", and that it contained blatant racism and sexism. On January 3rd, 2019, the /r/antifastonetoss^[11] subreddit was launched for submissions of StoneToss comics edited with Antifa-themed messages.

Related Memes

Go On Then What Are They Saying

Go On Then What Are They Saying is a four-panel exploitable webcomic in which two soldiers decry pt "secret Nazi communications" and users online replace the decrypted messages for humorous effect. The exploitable is based on the StoneToss comic "Enigma" (shown below).

Acquired Tastes

"Acquired Tastes" is a four-panel exploitable webcomic in which two individuals, dressed in t-shits labeled "boobs" and "ass", reluctantly shake hands and throw a disgusted look at the third individual, hideously disfigured, drooling and dressed in a t-shirt labeled "feet". Since February 2019, the comic has been circulated as a Things I Don't Like exploitable.

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