I keep seeing him but can’t figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?
There’s also a Turkish female pistol shooter with the same style and casual approach: Sevval Ilayda Tarhan.
Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec together won the silver medal in shooting for Turkey at the Olympic Games in Paris.
But everybody only talks about the man.
She is wearing hearing protection and a tactical looking hat, so there is less of a meme potential as the contrast is smaller.
Also I read somewhere, that the casual looking stance is actually a stabilisation technique.
So no mysoginy here
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Jeez, thanks for sharing that!
They won the silver medal together?
Even every single explanation here has just been about him.
That’s crazy.
Thank you again for sharing that, jeez.
She should definitely be similarly hoisted atop their shoulders in these memes.
Yes, as can be seen in the picture I shared, they both were shooting side by side.
That makes all of these memes way more bonkers than they already were.
He’s the Turkish Olympic shooter and just won silver, using no special equipment, and participating in jeans and a t-shirt instead of any national garb.
And he was aiming & firing more like an executor than a precision shooter, so there were some rumors circulating that he’s an ex-agent or some gangster.
In reality he seems to be a family father who got pissed during an ugly divorce and started shooting to calm his nerves or something.
Okay, cool, thanks.
This is starting to make more sense.
He’s cool-looking.
Didn’t many other shooters stand the same way?
Not as cool though 😎
Isn’t it the exact same?
Sorry, is that your joke? Everyone standing the same but he just struck everyone as cooler for some reason?
He has literally no “tactical” gear, others have special glasses, hats and so on.
Yeah but the guy shoots with both eyes open.
Hats off, okay cool.
From what I can tell, it’s a juxtaposition thing. Many of the other shooters used in memes have stances that appear outlandish, and have gear that looks a little strange, almost trending towards ridiculous. The man you’re referencing, Yusuf looks incredibly casual in comparison. His stance is at least recognizable as a shooting stance (even if it’s almost appears too casual), his hand is in his pocket, and he isn’t visibly using any of the gear that many other shooters are.
I haven’t kept track very closely outside of the memes, so I can’t comment on Yusuf’s performance in comparison to the others, but the memes paint his character to be someone that gets the task done with minimal resources, where the others are given the role of a “tryhard” for the sake of the meme.
Evidently the imagery of these competitive shooters resonated with enough people that Lemmy had a small breakdown, but I always love to see my Lemmy feed trend into one topic for an evening or two. We all remember the beef stroganoff incident.
And orbs, apparently?
Okay, thanks, I’ll try to understand the memes in that context, they are not clicking for me yet.
The head on picture is reminiscent of gangster movies, and his gun doesn’t seem to have a brightly colored barrel. So the picture itself looks like someone off the street aiming near the camera in a casual looking stance. Very gangster looking compared to the other colorful uniforms and pistols in the comparison shots taken from the side.
The dude was a fucking Chad that’s why. No specialized equipment. Casual demeanor. Didn’t even close one eye. Still won silver.
Specialized equipment like… A gun? Didn’t even close an eye, like everyone except people on the carnival
…in comparison to other competitors - yes?
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