Oak Creek High School evacuated after threats of "beta uprising"

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Authorities issued an evacuation order at Oak Creek High School in Oak Creek, WI Thursday morning after repeated threats of a "beta uprising" posted on social media earlier this week.

The Internet-culture tracking website KnowYourMeme.com traces the earliest use of the term “beta uprising” to a 2011 post on a men’s rights blog called Fight For Justice. However, it has since picked up steam and become a popular phrase used on misogynist message boards like 4chan’s /r9k/ and Sluthate.com. “Beta uprising” refers to a kind of revolution that will supposedly take place when all the unloved
“beta” males realize that they’ve been kept down too long by feminists and alpha males, and rise up against them in order to create a glorious utopian society in which they all get girlfriends. For most of them, it’s just an inside joke—albeit a sick one.

4Chan’s /r9k/ board started out as an experiment—it was originally a message board in which software prevented users from repeatedly posting the same image, in the hopes of fostering creativity and originality. That didn’t work out so well, and the board was later deleted. When it was brought back, it became a home for “green text stories”—anecdotal stories, written in green text, told in a few short sentences.

As is the case with all 4chan boards, the line between trolling and sincerity on /r9k/ isn’t exactly clear. One former 4chan user (who, unsurprisingly, wishes to remain anonymous) told me that the biggest mistake people make about 4chan is taking it seriously. “Sure, most of the posters on /r9k/ have definite issues with women and socializing in general,” he says, “but for the vast majority of them, this is all talk, and the ‘beta uprising’ stuff is just a joke. They’re not actually going to go out and kill anyone.”

Mayor Stephen Scaffidi has yet to comment on the incident.

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