Heritage / Family Tree

Added • Updated 8 months ago

Added by J. The Perverted Summoner • Updated 8 months ago by Matt

Category: Meme Status: Submission Year: 2017 Origin: 4chan Region:

Type: Character, Cliché, Parody, Social Game, Viral Debate,

Tags: family, /pol/, wojak, mixed, thread, /bant/, ancestors, descendants,

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street sellers, workers and householders farmers and housewives Police Nurse Officer housewife truck driver shop assistant carpenter shop owner shitposter future Supreme Leader of the Italian Empire 2 we're all born and raised Southern Italians, from Campania around Naples

fought in WWII for farmer - parents were in the engineer secretary farmland housewife teacher salesman of some sort pioneer column housewife farmer nicest woman i've first commercial houswife ever met farmer in the family bush and farmer bush war vet war vet commercial farmer to this extremely capable day on farm, mother of 6 software developer, runs web dev/SEO business hates mugabe with a passion

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About • Origin • Meme Trees • Examples •

About

Heritage Threads also known as "Family Tree Threads" started as an obscure, to then more popularized practice on 4chan's board /pol/. Later on it spread also on /int/ and /bant/, as anonymous users would participate in them to share their family trees with each others using a simple sketch board with blank squares and flags to fill (shown below).

Origin

These threads started gaining traction in 2017 but witnesses claim to have seen them years before. Some of the earliest variations come from the 4chan image board /int/ in 2013.[^[1]

The purpose of these threads are based on the anonymous users trying to understand, relate, comment, and share opinions on each others by sharing their historical and ethnic backgrounds, often with descriptions regarding the professions of their ancestors as well as their own (example shown below)

Both from somewhere in They wuz qings `n shiet Son of a samurai Okinawan Kansai Hokkaido Ainu Taiwanese commoners Soldier commoner ఉగం Soldier, fell in love with a Taiwanese Lived in Moved to Tokyo where he Tokyo with few villager and brought her to Japan met his wife until resources and got lucky marrying one from he had to move to Brazil Born in Japan but moved to Brazil as a child samurai His job has something to do with metallurgy family Lawyer Likes birds and knows lots about gardening Likes ramen and miso soup Misteriously does not get stomachache or diarrhea when consuming dairy

The trees are usually filled with Wojaks, and flags, representing the users' hair, eyes and skin colors, as well as the countries they and their ancestors are from.

Meme Trees

As a form of banter, usually /pol/acks would make up family trees (or parody their own) by filling the trees with meme images and making them spawn a brand new creature. These are usually used ironically.