Now that Marsey has gone viral, it is with a heavy heart that I look back on my role in creating this alt-right meme that strikes fear into the hearts of marginalized people in our society. Either that or I want to some parlay my role in this into getting attention from a few internet neurodivergents and I gotta do it soon before /r/drama gets nuked.
The first time she was mentioned by name was on 6/29/2018.
Ed bb, you had no idea. 
But with a bit more digging I found the imgur filename of the laughing marsey that started it all, aks7kvX.png.
Searching for that, we find the first time it was posted on reddit was actually on /r/internetdrama, a small, pathetic subreddit created by SRD as a kind of castrated imitation of /r/drama. On 5/22/2018 the fateful post was made. EDIT: Unddit reveals more important metareddit personalities were involved!
@KongdorTheDongHolder and SAC-Lawn_Gnome are having a slapfight.
Ed snoozeposts at SAC. Just saying "😴😴😴" was enough to break a lot of brains.
SAC's epic comeback: "Snooze posting? SMDH."
Ed deploys
for the first time.I say: "I gotta admit, this one is pretty adorbs. Just try not to use it more than 10 times/day." Because one of Ed's gimmicks was posting the same gifs constantly.
He replies with words of momentous consequence for the future: "STOP TRYING TO GIVE ME IDEAS!!!!"
In the remaining 8 days of May alone, Ed deployed no less than 46 times against, among others:
pitbull owners
users who got banned from various subreddits
a "KIA strag"
"newstrag alts"
"memerson mcmemestrag"
"r/aznidentity type chinky incels"
an "anime strag" "CA strag" who replied "Stop using that cat you goddarn r-slurred ape"
a "sexy Indian dudecel"
a "degenerate consumer of anime porn"
a "christcuck"
anti-semites
"MDEstrags"
Trump supporters
Glamour magazine
racists
Roseanne Barr
Sargon viewers
Within a few days he already had half the subreddit seething at him for posting Marsey so much. A neo-nazi hate symbol was born.
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I miss those days, back when pinging was allowed.
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Yeah, maybe it's just because I was relatively new, but I felt there was a golden age for a while when we could ping and it was usually not abused for actual harassment, we used it to talk to people from outside our community. One of my favorite posts of all time is where somebody got pinged because they really like Garfield a lot and they came and talked with us for a while.
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