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It was the UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

> Since the incident the school has spent considerable (upwards of $175,000) to kill off traces of the incident on the internet.[22] The success of which is unknown though the memes are still visible and referenced to this day.

I suspect some money may have been involved in Reddit’s decision.



Good luck with that. It has a Wikipedia entry:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incide...


That’s what I am quoting actually. I intended to cite but on mobile and messed up.




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