It’s been brought to our attention that this guy is bad news. Please don’t repost his words here, even if it’s to prove his guilt, as we don’t want to see that vitriol anywhere. We want this to be a positive environment, celebrating mocs and joy in the hobby. This is not the place to be sharing the antisemitic ramblings of a madman. If we see anything more from him here, or any content of that nature, it will be deleted.
Nazis perish.
As for the rest of us, let us play well, and have our unity.
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I’m out of the loop, but just from that brief statement, I think I can afford to still be out of the loop.
Was thinking the same thing
Anyway, what's your favorite gen? I like Toa Metru for the lore
Inika is what got me into Bionicle as a whole, although I did like Mahri a tin
Inika pulled me back after I dipped because the Metru flashback years felt like they went on forever. The dynamic aesthetic shift really worked (both in terms of the sets and comic art)
I believe the Toa Metru built is the best Toa build. The majority of my mocs within the last 5 years have all been Toa Metru mocs; like 30+ of them or so:
- Toa Hagah
- Toa Mangai
- Alternate Toa Metru featuring the Metru Matoran (Vhisola, Tehutti, Orkahm, Nuhrii, Ahkmou, Ehrye)
- Dume and his own hypothetical team (a Toa of Water, a Toa of Earth, a Toa of Plantlife, a Toa of Light, a Toa of Shadow)
- Miscellaneous Toa (Varian, Shadow Toa Ahkmou, a Toa of Time another Shadow toa using only Dark Red pieces).
There's just something about having a gear box and posable arms that got lost after the Metru era.
Well G2 brought it back for the time it lasted
As a kid, I adored all the wings and jet engines on the Phantoka line, but Metra always was peak Bionicle. Nuva is probably the most nostalgic for me
Context for those asking:
A post was removed and locked by moderators because it showed a Bionicle-themed Instagrammer's ridiculous fanboying over a German Charlie Chaplin cosplayer. Mods closed it all down to avoid anyone even looking at the lunatic- outed by the notably non-Nazi original poster- and his praise for the Third Reich. Your eyes deserve better than unadulterated Nazi apologia, even if it's being reported by a normal person to help raise the alarm. Our time is better spent viewing cool MOCs and custom parts.
If this comment explaining things for the curious is too much, please feel free to delete it.
That's a pretty accurate summary, thanks.
No worries, happy to help.
Ima be honest, I dont even understand half of that lol
Person A thinks Hitler was a great hero, a fantastic, benevolent, all-around swell guy. Person A says all this with their Bionicle-themed account. Person B, who is not a Nazi fan, brought up Person A's actions so that everyone could respond appropriately. Mods took down Person B's post because even showcasing Nazis and their writings for mockery and scorn is still showing them to people, and no one should have to see that.
Oh, yeah ok. Thats absolutely wild.
Charlie Chapman was making fun of Nazis in his film. Are you sure this person wasn't actually laughing at Nazis?
No, it's just a dumb joke about him and Hitler having both worn the toothbrush-style moustache. I'm trying to be amusing in my explanation. Evidently didn't land. But the person in question is indeed a genuine supporter of such insanity.
That's too bad. I was only familiar with his Instagram so I was hoping he wasn't into things like this. :(
He was joking that Hitler was cosplaying Charlie Chapman.
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No. I'm being hyperbolic. I find it amusing. But, still, there's no advantage to reading pro-Nazi statements, and we don't want anyone assuming the fanbase is into such things because one person has their name on it and is being a big Nazi fan. Best to scrub it away.
Thank you Taikei, Toa of Context, for your contribution in aiding our understanding.
Wait, huh?
Thank you for thr context. So the guy wasnt antisemetic but a anti Jewish racist. Nowadays people confuse that, probably because the meaning has changed drastically the last two years. The mod team sould have deffinitly provided a example for context.
See? And people complain about nuva boobs when there are worst things
The fact that there are genuine nazis in the world doesn't make you less of a degenerate.
Nuva boobs don't automatically make someone a degenerate. Plus, I bet most people have some pretty questionable things in their Google history, just saying.
"Genuine"
This dude was just your average edgy asshole that just post stuff that don't really understand it at all.
I dunno, maybe just consider why you felt compelled to defend yourself in a post about calling out awful people.
Nah, I'm not defending myself. I just to make a joke but alright.
What does this have to do with Bionicle? Why is it even on the bionicle boards
It was a fairly popular bionicle account posting nazi stuff, and they were posting here on this sub.
That's stupid shouldn't have even been brought here. I come here to look at mocs and talk bonk
So did everyone else, but that Nazi guy decided he needed to combine the two. Put Bionicle in his name and started spouting his Adolf fanboy stuff. It wasn't supposed to be on the boards to begin with til that clown started bringing it up, and a nice Redditor alerted people to the kind of disgusting stuff someone was saying on our boards. So, yeah. It shouldn't have been anywhere, but it got dragged in.
Yes that's why the mods made this statement. We're all here for Bionicle stuff, not nazi shit lol
Thank you for publicly addressing this mods.
As somebody who has no idea who this is or what it's about I'm not sure vagueposting is the best way to make this announcement
context pls
The account in question is a nazi. Been sharing nazi memes and nazi rhetoric all over Twitter and such. I wasn't even fully aware cus they don't share that stuff on Instagram (that I saw) where I followed them, but that's what went down. And not like mainline or even just far right conservative memes, fully literal Nazi posts in case anyone was worried this was the mods over reacting.
The “fully literal Nazi” is a super important part, and I appreciate you highlighting this. “Nazi” has been so overused, it’s hard to take it seriously.
Holy shit I just checked this dude’s twitter. Some of the shit is so blatant it almost loops around to being comical.
Absolutely nuts, I had no idea. Blocked and unfollowed him on insta
Damn I had no idea I only ever see their posts on Insta, I don’t follow cause all it is is reporting other peoples work, yeah with credit but I’d rather give the original creator the attention. But I know Christian Faber follows them and likes most of their posts, someone should let him know if the dude is a Nazi
I'm gonna be so sad if Faber turns out to be a Nazi.
I think genuinely he just isn’t aware of it at all, without this sun I’d have no notion of it
yeah he follows a lottt of bionicle fan accounts, even some really small ones, so it's not like he only follows this nazi one or anything, which would be more questionable
giving him the benefit of the doubt for now but hope it doesn't end up being a notch/jk rowling situation.. he is pretty staunchly pro generative ai, which I'm not thrilled by, but obviously that's not even in the same ballpark as being a literal nazi
Reddit mods doing their job, even when it is not their job, instead of being dirty scumbags as usual?
This site is improving!
I regret to have to inform you that the mods almost everywhere else on this site have been leaning hard into fascism apologia as of late under the guise of "everyone's entitled to their own political opinions" 🥀
I'm happy to not know who this is
for unity
his comments on insta are right wing and gross
update: as of today he's trying to use bionicle to justify ICE brutality
https://imgur.com/a/qZ9uAws
Who?
is this the guy who was doing the reimagining bionicle videos?
No, he just reposted them
Thanks
Man…. No one in this fandom can be normal it seems, can it?
I don’t know what’s going on, but I think this is one of the rare cases where “ignorance is bliss” can be a good thing going off what little I learned here…
He was probably rooting for the piraka
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An individual with accounts on a few different social media platforms
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Ok, I was looking into it, and I seriously, highly doubt the Raj account on X is the same as the Bionicle4Life on Instagram. The posts are absolutely nothing alike.
We're talking about 4ever, not 4life.
The same Kojol model is the avatar for his instagram and the X account you describe.
The text screenshotted from his instagram in the callout is also posted to his X, albeit cropped too tight there to see the origin. It's not a good read, so we will not have it reposted here.
Sorry, I meant "4ever". Raj_builds on X is "Bionicle4Ever", unless there's another that's not showing up. Same profile pic as Instagram. He even updated his X within the past hour or so, stating everything he says is a joke.
'It was a joke' is not a valid defense for bad behaviour, especially something as serious as this. I see the X profile has been changed, but the Nazi content remains.
Nope, not saying it was acceptable, I'm just quoting his bio. And my original comment was a legitimate question, to make sure we weren't crucifying the wrong guy.
The down voting on this subreddit is hilariously pathetic.
That level of nazi shit goes beyond even the most edgy of edge lord humor. If random folks see your interactions and go "oh shit, that's nazi stuff" then it kinda no longer matters what your intention was. It's also very clear these weren't jokes.