{"id":"hale-hortler","name":"Hale Hortler","summary":"In August 2016, a Tumblr user paired a photo of a badly keyed swastika on a car door with a picture of Adolf Hitler and the caption \"Hale Hortler,\" turning the deliberate typo into a running joke about incompetent Nazi imagery. The bit jumped to Reddit within days and peaked that November when a video game screenshot of a player killed by user \"Hailhortler\" pulled more than 21,900 points on r/gaming.","tags":["hale hortler","hail hortler","hale hortler meme","hale hortler flag","tumblr meme 2016","misspelled hail hitler","reddit meme 2016"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":7,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-hale-hortler-entry-icon.webp","caption":"The Hale Hortler entry icon, pairing a portrait of Hitler with a swastika drawn as clumsy zigzag lines.","width":480,"height":480,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-southern-conservatism-car-scratch-post.webp","caption":"A widely circulated Tumblr post whose blurry car-door scratches were mocked online and helped spawn the 'Hale Hortler' style joke about badly rendered hate graffiti.","width":484,"height":766,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-hale-hortler-parody-flag.webp","caption":"A mock 'Hale Hortler' flag, remixing the Nazi banner with the meme's signature malformed swastika.","width":680,"height":453,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-sarah-silverman-sidewalk-swastika-tweet.webp","caption":"Sarah Silverman's February 2017 tweet mistaking orange construction survey markers for Nazi graffiti, which fed directly into the Hale Hortler joke format.","width":579,"height":698,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-redsteeze-surveyors-reply-tweet.webp","caption":"Stephen Miller's viral reply mocking Silverman's swastika-panic tweet by 'identifying' land surveyors as Nazis.","width":510,"height":543,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-harry1t6-15mph-nazi-sign-tweet.webp","caption":"A follow-up reply riffing on Silverman's viral tweet by identifying a mundane 15 MPH curve sign as a 'mysterious Nazi sign.'","width":493,"height":509,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/hale-hortler-sarah-silverman-followup-tweets.webp","caption":"Silverman's follow-up tweets after being told the marks were construction markers, doubling down on the political framing.","width":468,"height":608,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/hale-hortler/history.md","related":["surprised-pikachu","smug-goat","you-tried","5ever","do-you-take-constructive-criticism","graphic-design-is-my-passion","i-forgor","angery","bobs-and-vegana","do-u-want-anyfing-from-macdondald-borgar","he-protec-but-he-also-attac","open-the-noor-open-na-noor"],"popularityRank":2064,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}