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an hero en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.
Meanings
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(Internet) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.
In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.
2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.
2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.
2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
Forms
wikipedia: 4chan · wikipedia: MySpace · wikipedia: /b/
an hero en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.
Meanings
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(Internet, intransitive, transitive) To commit suicide.
So an hero already.
2009 May 9, henri, “Re: NOMINATION - Bill Jillians/"<p>sychotic <c>hicken" For KotM & CotM .. (was) Re: hey guys ... anyone want in on a flame war I'm starting between 2 groups”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):It soon became a trend on 4chan to describe someone as “an hero”—before it morphed into the verb form: “I'm going to an hero.”
2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, published 2012, →ISBN:So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
2013, Trevor James Zaple, chapter 1, in Disappearance, Lulu, published 2013, →ISBN:
Forms
Descendants
sankaroitua · bohatyrnąć
Synonyms
commit die
Translations (3)
pl bohatyrnąć (to commit suicide (internet slang)) · ru роскомнадзорнуться (to commit suicide (internet slang)) · fi sankaroitua (to commit suicide (internet slang))
wikipedia: 4chan · wikipedia: MySpace · wikipedia: /b/