That Fkn Awful Adam Goodes Meme Got Nuked After The AFL Arced Up

Earlier today, Facebook users around this fine nation were left utterly fucking bewildered by a “meme”. 

Not because it was especially spicy – in fact, it could be argued that comparing former AFL champ Adam Goodes to a dead gorilla is notably bereft of spice – but because such flagrantly racist bullshittery was right there, on Facebook, at bloody all.

Furthermore, numerous complaints to the social media mainstay were met with the response AFL Memes‘ post didn’t constitute hate speech. Elsewhere, others disagreed.

By others, we mean the AFL, who are apparently all about rampant shit-talking – as long as it doesn’t verge into flagrantly racist territory.

The ABC reports the league’s spokesman Patrick Keane let rip on the matter. In a statement, Keane reckoned the post was “appallingly offensive,” and “the AFL immediately acted as soon as we were made aware of it.”

“We’re extremely pleased it’s been removed… but [it] shouldn’t have been posted in the first place.”
Subsequently, the AFL had a chat to FB ’bout it. Notably, Facebook itself changed tack once the shitpost had been removed; they claim the image had been taken down before they had a chance to properly scope it out. 
Whether the page’s admins realised the errors of their ways before FB unleashed the banhammer, or if Facebook itself removed the post but wanted to keep it hush-hush, isn’t yet clear.

This is clear, though: the page went ahead and posted another Goodes meme straight after. 

Watch out, we almost cut ourselves on how edgy that one is. This time around, the page’s visitors aren’t having it. Not at all.

  

Elsewhere, notable shield-bearers against hateful online BS celebrated the original post’s absence:

With any luck, salty and racist attempts at humour getting roundly shitcanned will become a fully-fledged meme in its own right.


Source: ABC / Facebook.
Photo: Mark Kolbe / Getty. 

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