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Flagging
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Flagging is used to force memes?
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Flagging is darker than coal...
Flagging is a type of booru vandalism/spamming by a method of mass production where someone makes a bunch of low effort posts of a variant by photoshopping country flags into the 'jak.
Why it's hated[edit | edit source]
Its main purpose is to inflate the variant's post count, which pisses off many users trying to find gems, while also making the 'ru more annoying to scroll through due to all the coal clogging up the 'log. If they somehow run out of countries (even doe there's only a few hundred) they also may start editing in American state flags, political ideologies or pride flags. Another reason it sucks is because most of the jaks created out of this are gonna be made from flags of irrelevant small countries which have no presence on the sharty or its culture, making the jaks completely useless and never reposted. They also just lack any sort of originality and are extremely easy to make, which means that jaks created for this lack any sort of artistic merit or meme value besides just being annoying and clogging up space.
People who use this tactic are called Flaggots, both as a pun and because it's a portmaneau of "Flaming faggot" which is what they are. Its possible, though hard to prove, that Slopjaks started as both a parody of this practice and as a satire of Countrywars in general.
Origin[edit | edit source]
The roots of flagging can be traced back to the Cobson-Feraljak War, where both sides spammed country flag edits in order to overtake the other side in post counts. The first example of flagging in action though was the Cobson Gangnam Style dance spam.
