====== Countrywank ======

{{http://i.imgur.com/x2zmzH7.jpg?400x269|The World According to Amurkins}}Where. To. Begin. Meme has long had a problem with countrywank. Generally, it stems from one of two issues, each of which can be represented in two different ways: an American using "us/we" to mean the other American anons and thinking everyone would understand (**or** a US-centric American assuming the entire meme is American); or a non-American saying something critical of the US (**or** a non-American bashing the US).

Here's [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/341.html?thread=217685#t217685|an early (July 2010) discussion of "USian" vs. "American"]], which didn't turn into wank. Other early mentions of US-centrism are [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/341.html?thread=211797#t211797|here]] and [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/341.html?thread=207189#t207189|here]]. A day later, [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/341.html?thread=728405#t728405|things started getting angrier]].

In early September 2011, [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/19265.html?thread=83694913#t83694913|countrywank sparked anti-Romani racewank]] and defenses of the French burqa ban, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and France's refusal to take in Tunisian refugees....which started Islam wank. The entire thread was frozen.

In late November 2011, after [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/23548.html?thread=104352764#t104352764|this explosive countrywank]] followed by [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/23548.html?thread=104415228#t104415228|this troll attempt to reignite it]] (which was frozen), the mods [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/23548.html?thread=104568316#t104568316|declared "Country Wank Off Topic for the rest of this post."]]

In March 2013, a nonny tried to ignite countrywank with a thread called [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/52370.html?thread=244134546#t244134546|"Let's Settle This."]] The thread drew a [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/52370.html?thread=244138386#t244138386|particularly noxious xenophobic American troll]], whose subthread was frozen. On the plus side, the overall thread gave us [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/52370.html?thread=244144274#t244144274|a discourse]] on //[[trolliana-agitatus|Trolliana agitatus]]//.

In April 2014, FFA enjoyed what was nearly the the platonic ideal of countrywank, which began [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/74968.html?thread=202100952#cmt202100952|here]] and eventually [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/74968.html?thread=413359320#cmt413359320|evolved]] into a flamewar over whether Italy or Texas is more diverse. Almost as impressive was [[cheque-wank|Cheque Wank]] in May of the same year.

In May 2015, a thread titled "[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/136794.html?thread=716613978#cmt716613978|Vent about US centricism in the wild"]] ran to 571 comments.

In February 2016, for the new-ish [[common-threads|common thread]] "Country of the Post," a nonny declared, //[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/181239.html?thread=983637495#cmt983637495|"]]////[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/181239.html?thread=983637495#cmt983637495|The country of the post is the United States of America!"]]// 724 comments ensued, most of them wanky.



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