NAFO is a bit onerous to outline. It has a website (and merch), however there’s no organized management. As an alternative, its extraordinarily on-line adherents hang around on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and different channels, touchdown on their technique, when you can name it that, via collective motion. However relaxation assured, wherever there’s Russian propaganda, NAFO is watching, and when you name the fellas with the #NAFO hashtag, you may count on them to come back knocking in your put up.
There’s some hypothesis (promoted by Russian trolls and propaganda retailers) that NAFO is a CIA funded psy-op, however most credible observers acknowledge it as a grassroots motion. Regardless, the fellas don’t seem to mind. On an web that always feels bleak, NAFO is proof that posters can nonetheless come collectively to make one thing nice, or no less than one thing humorous and quasi-purposeful.
A 12 months into NAFO’s meme-ing, there are numerous examples of fellas combating on the entrance traces, standing proud subsequent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and shedding tears of pleasure on the sight of missile launches. NAFO even raised cash and paid the Ukrainian navy to paint their memes on a tank, now affectionately generally known as the Superbonker 9000.
If you wish to grow to be a fella, there’s a easy initiation ritual. Donate to Ukraine and ship proof to NAFO’s hotline, they usually’ll make you a customized fella of your very personal.
Click on via for some examples of NAFO’s best memes.
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In June, 2022, Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov made a tactical error: he responded to a NAFO troll within the feedback of one in all his posts. His nonsensical reply, “You pronounced this nonsense. Not me,” grew to become a rallying cry for the fellas. NAFO members brigaded Ulyanov, berating him and filling his posts with memes and criticism. Ulyanov, an lively Twitter person, briefly stopped tweeting in response.
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