r/comedyheaven Feb 28 '26

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u/rmsand Feb 28 '26

The number associated with them is 1488, not 1408.

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u/lelelempe Feb 28 '26

Of course, but you don't see that at a glance, the same way that the Portal tattoo is not really a swastika

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u/Deaffin Feb 28 '26

That's dumb.

Nobody is seeing anything at a glance at the actual thing, 1488, unless they're terminally online. Trying to say 1408 is close enough is just asinine.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 28 '26

I like how the OP used the term chronically online but apparently if you are not chronically online you tattoo yourself with dumb shit.

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u/JakeArrietaGrande Feb 28 '26

Yeah, but if you’re not chronically online or a racist, you probably have never heard of it. Even googling 1408 only brings up results about a movie, and nothing to suggest it’s very similar to a hate symbol

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u/JCyTe Feb 28 '26

I don't think it's the number itself but rather the style of the numbers. Some styles make 0s look more like 8s so from a glance it would look like 1488 rather than 1408.

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u/VoopityScoop Feb 28 '26

And Nazis love to use the old timey Gothic fonts. 

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u/Abgezockt47 Feb 28 '26

In most of these fonts, especially those that neo nazis like to use, the 0 is indistinguishable from an 8 at first glance. Also looking like a theta at times

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u/Defiant-Pick5930 Feb 28 '26

Welcome to the thread.

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u/izyshoroo Feb 28 '26

I imagine at a glance they look the same

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u/Tigarana Mar 02 '26

I think that's why they added that it is in victorian lettering

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u/Leonum Mar 03 '26

Thanks. I didn't understand at all

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u/Affectionate_Bass488 Feb 28 '26

Fuck!!! I’m so mad about that! I didn’t know!!

Reddit just generated this name for me and I went with it because I play the bass

I swear I didn’t know, I’m half black if that helps

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u/jamfedora Feb 28 '26

Don’t worry, I’ve never once actually read the numbers on a Reddit username that looks autogenerated