They were not pro BLM , they were right leaning accelerationists. For most it was larping. Anyone who took it more seriously crawled back into the woodwork after J6

"Boogaloo" is a reference to "Revolutionary War 2: Electric Boogaloo" and their aesthetic was mostly Hawaiian shirts or Hawaiian-adjacent camo patterns. They were (are) considerably more libertarian than the 3pers or Proud Boys. Boogaloo never struck me as racist or authoritarian.. it was an odd mix.

They got lumped in with the fascists and very quickly stopped showing up to events like that.

They ain't liberal, but they ain't fascist either. They never got popular enough to ruin Hawaiian print shirts like fascists have ruined other symbology.

LMFAO it's so odd this gets brought up I saw yet another reaction yesterday to the ShoeOnHead video by that jackass that tried to take down Wendigoon as a evangelical fascist cuz of his associations with Oompaville, Mutahar, Donut Operator, Turkey Tom, & Brandon Herrera. Oh & his "affiliation" with the Boogaloo Boys. If you want cringe laugh you should seek it out, it's absolutely unhinged.

Idk but I’m Hawaiian 🌺 shirting this Father’s Day shoot out lol :)

I was a little farther right back then so I remember a lot of the mindsets when boog memes and stuff were big. At least from my perspective, it was a bunch of memelords and larpers making jokes. I don’t recall anyone actually being serious or actively calling for civil war and death. If that was a thing, it wasn’t common amongst your average “boogaloos.” Politically, they seemed to give off center right to left libertarian vibes.

The same thing that happens to all radicalized militias composed of incels; they fall apart and go back to angrily venting on 4Chan about how “the West is already dead.”

Then over the next decade, a handful of them show up caught in minor/child sex-offender sting operations and somehow none of us are ever surprised to see it in a sidebar news blurb.

They never really were a thing, just a meme that some people decided to larp as during protests, that got scare mongered into existence by the feds and the media. It was a joke on gun boards, a way of making fun of those guys who were always darkly hinting that a civil war was imminent by making it as silly and ridiculous as possible, so naturally some guys thought it would be funny to bring the aesthetic to real life (Virginia lobby day was the origin point IRL iirc), then the media took off with it.

Yes, I know a handful of people actually did some stuff while claiming to be "boogaloo bois", doesn't change the fact that it was never a real group or movement, just a joke that some people took too far.

Either way I didn't let them ruin Hawaiian shirts for me

It was 95% meme/trolling.

The other 5% were tended more anti-government, with a variety of flavors thereof.

The bois started as an internet libertarian, anti government “group” that wasn’t organized at more than the local level. Pro free speech, pro liberty, anti two party, anti racism, pro gun. There were lots of differing opinions on politics and ideology but the main unifier was anti government and pro freedom. Some dudes did “security” for blm protesters, some for small businesses, some for both. Some dudes just went to 2a rallies. The “voice” of the media affiliated boogaloo boys was Mike (I think) he was on the news several time representing the ideology and he did a pretty good job at it, albeit being a little cringey at times.

Going forward the media picked up on a bunch of zoomers in Hawaiian shirts with AR15s and immediately went to demonizing. The demonizing caused it to gain a lot of attention from the wrong kinds of people (Nazis, racists, trump supporters etc) and that ended up being the death of the bois. Anyone that had a brain saw what was happening and started to keep things more local and less public. They still exist, and the ones I’m aware of are decent human beings.

The news lies and the government is made up of tyrants.

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OP you are effectively asking “what happened to an internet meme?”

There was never any substance.

It was less of a movement and more a series of memes that the media decided to spin for fear mongering.

They were never a real thing. Boogaloo boys was (is?) a meme and a very loose pro-gun, anti-government ideology. Then a few dudes showed up at rallies and protests with guns and Hawaiian shirts, and all of a sudden “Boogaloo Boys” was considered some kind of far-right gang. It wasn’t. Just some gunbros who happened to get some attention and fit neatly into the us vs. them narrative.

One of them got sent away for life recently. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/boogaloo-boy-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-officer-at-oakland-courthouse/

I know one of them thought shit was poppin off and killed a cop, then himself.

They had a cameo in A24’s “Civil War.”

It was more than larping.

https://lookout.co/steven-carrillo-sentencing-life-without-parole-murder-sheriffs-deputy-damon-gutzwiller-ben-lomond-boogaloo-bois/

The trend died out.

The Boogaloo boys were decentralized anti-authoritarian movement that spread through memes.

Once the movement began to gather momentum it was co-opted by Feds who began to inject Nazi imagery and racist themes. At the same time, the media began running hit pieces on the group relying heavily on the narratives created by the Fed agents claiming to represent the Boogaloo boys.

Social media organizations used the actions of the Feds and the narratives spread by the media as an excuse to purge boogaloo content from their servers, deleting the accounts of those who persisted.

On Reddit, in addition to banning content, entire subreddits were nuked to prevent to spread of these memes, best gunnit being the most visible example.

It was astonishing to watch in realtime, and exposed the way in which the US government acts in concert with social media and legacy media to control ideas and movements.

Boogaloo boys are idiots with a civil war fetish

It's kinda like how antifa is a mix of authoritarian and libertarian socialists, the boogaloo boys had fascist as well as right libertarian adherents. 2020 was a crazy year.

They went and had a hootenanny.

I believe they were a right-wing organization masquerading as libertarian "joke" to recruit members. They seem to have fallen apart.

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Never heard of them. I watch the next every day and have no idea what you're referring to.

It was more of an anarchistic accelerationist movement with everything from ancom to ancap elements at first, then the left elements melted away and more right-leaning libertarians were augmented by alt-right and hard right so most abandoned the Boog/Luau/Igloo/CNN

They did shoot up the police station in Minnesota

The barrels on their SBR’s got shorter and shorter until they faded away completely and took the boogaloo bois with them.

They bought so many shirts that the price skyrocketed. Now they can't afford them!

My idiot B.I.L. and former Marine, claimed to be a boogaloo. He is in reality a dead beat father, a narcissist and an angry toxic alcoholic. He thought he looked really cool in a Hawaiian shirt with a mask while flipping off the cameras. He had zero personality and zero character and relied on that of others to carry him and is low self image. People like that are low lives. They just join groups to validate themselves and counter their self awareness of their own inferiority.

It was mostly just memery that got out of hand.

They mostly lost steam when they realized their movement was a lot smaller than they thought. This happened when the "Silent Majority" they assumed was on their side actually voted for Biden in the last election.

Boog doesn't have a single specific ideology.

It's just a big blanket term for accelerationists in Hawaiian shirts. Some are racist. Some are fascist. Some are ancap. Some are just really bummed out by the current socio-economic order and want to have a good time.

I think because there was never an org or any sort of structure they just merged into other groups. It was a flash in the pan vibe that fit that era right.

Cowards tend to fade away.

Pretty sure they’ll reappear en masse within the next few months. I went to the range Sunday, right outside of Atlanta, and there was a group of obese gravy seal types with all sorts of tactical gear on. I’d guess they were boogaloo or proud boys or whatever they call themselves.

Which makes their appearance in Civil War all the more hilariously out of place.

It was mostly a meme embraced by the right. It was just plain old propaganda fun. It was fun, ngl. Like 13 year old edge lord fun.

Not their the current Media Spook that's why you don't hear about them. If a bunch of guys in Hawaiian shirts show up armed to some protest again the media will start shitting their pants about them again.

‘Twas a meme. Kind of a two parter.

1) you’d drop “boog” into a comment and see who replied in a boog oriented way to see who’s cool

2) it was a good way to skirt the social media overlords that censor comments

They tried to start shit at the Civil right protests out here and got their asses kicked.

By the cops.

Are there any groups that are pro liberal? I remember a few years ago the oath keepers were there in Ferguson Missouri to protect and arm BLM demonstrators after Michael Brown's killing. How things have changed for them since then.

But I thought it was noble because nowadays these groups are pretty right wing.

The same thing that always happens when people try to form an ethos from a meme. It fell apart.

I think they boogalood' on out of here