{"id":"white-knight","name":"White Knight","summary":"\"White Knight\" is an internet pejorative aimed at men who publicly defend women they barely know, with the implied motive that the defender wants a romantic payoff. The label grew out of a 2004 Urban Dictionary entry and sharpened through a 2007 Something Awful essay, becoming one of the longest-running insults in online gender discourse.","tags":["white knight","internet white knight","white knighting","online pejorative","forum slang","something awful","urban dictionary"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":5,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/white-knight-original-white-knight-sketch.webp","caption":"The original black-and-white line-art version of the Internet White Knight comic that spawned the meme.","width":618,"height":490,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/white-knight-white-knight-demotivational-poster.webp","caption":"A classic demotivational poster mocking the Internet White Knight's belief that defending women online leads to romance.","width":680,"height":544,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/white-knight-white-knight-pedestal-meme.webp","caption":"A demotivational meme mocking the pedestal-building behavior associated with the Internet White Knight stereotype.","width":680,"height":544,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/white-knight-medieval-knight-demotivational.webp","caption":"A demotivational poster using classic medieval knight imagery to lampoon the Internet White Knight phenomenon.","width":680,"height":544,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/white-knight-hey-man-leave-her-alone.webp","caption":"The 'Hey Man Leave Her Alone' image macro commonly used to mock stereotypical internet white knights.","width":539,"height":541,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/white-knight/history.md","related":["simp","pansexuality","bird-hands","cuck","fuckboy","femoid","garfield-gender-debate","sassy-man-apocalypse","anita-sarkeesian","hey-girls-did-you-know","kurt-cobain-was-trans-debate","manspreading"],"popularityRank":2099,"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."}