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English
Etymology
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.[1]
Verb
an hero (third-person singular simple present an heros, present participle an heroing, simple past and past participle an heroed)
- (Internet slang, transitive, intransitive) To commit suicide.
2009 May 9, henri, “Re: NOMINATION - Bill Jillians/"<p>sychotic <c>hicken" For KotM & CotM .. (was) Re: hey guys ... anyone want in on a flame war I'm starting between 2 groups”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):So an hero already.
2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, published 2012, →ISBN:It soon became a trend on 4chan to describe someone as “an hero”—before it morphed into the verb form: “I'm going to an hero.”
2013, Trevor James Zaple, chapter 1, in Disappearance, Lulu, published 2013, →ISBN:So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
Descendants
Translations
to commit suicide (internet slang)
Noun
an hero (plural an heroes or an heros)
- (Internet slang) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.
2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder , “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.
2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.
2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:an hero.
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