I keep seeing him but can’t figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?

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    3 months ago

    There’s nothing wrong with his poise. He’s not wearing headgear besides his glasses, but otherwise he’s standing pretty much the same as other shooters. A lot of shooters wear eye shades or visors, but most of them stand like that. You place your off hand in your pocket, and lean back slightly to align the sights. It’s not the first time a shooter’s pose has gone viral for looking like a casual badass gangster.

    see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vitalina-batsarashkina-olympic-shooter-one-hand-stance/

    And here are a bunch more shooters. Note how many aren’t wearing headgear or eye pieces.

    https://img.olympics.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_380/f_auto/primary/aotouao8efquumuiekw6

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      3 months ago

      It is such a perfect example of the internet that the woman in this pose is treated like a fool and the man with the exact same pose is some kind of badass.

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        3 months ago

        This has nothing to do with male or female. It all started with the Korean women shooter looking badass with all her kit and pose. Then this middle age dad showed up with no kit, regular glasses and shot incredibly well looking like, yeah no big deal.

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          During the Tokyo games in 2021, an image of the 2016 Rio games gold medal winner was posted on Twitter (erroneously being labelled as being from the Tokyo games), and she became a meme for women not knowing how to shoot because of her casual stance, and the subsequent meme for armchair experts trying to mansplain shooting to a gold medalist. At the time, it was a popular meme.