StoneToss

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Published September 29, 2026

StoneToss is a four-panel webcomic that launched in July 2017 and pushed alt-right, xenophobic and anti-Semitic ideas dressed up as edgy political satire, quickly becoming a fixture of far-right meme culture. The blank-panel format spawned an entire counterculture of edited versions on Reddit, and the artist's real name was publicly exposed by antifa researchers in March 2024.

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Overview

StoneToss uses a consistent house style of rounded, cartoonish characters and a four-panel structure that lands on a punchline mocking progressives, immigrants, Jewish people, or LGBTQ subjects6. Recurring topics include Holocaust denial, anti-immigrant jokes and homophobia, framed as gotcha political humor. Critics compared the comic's iconography and messaging to the work of the openly white supremacist cartoonist A. Wyatt Mann6.

The simple layout and reusable character designs made StoneToss unusually easy to remix, and a full counter-community formed around editing the panels to either strip out the bigotry or nakedly restate the argument the original comic was hiding2. The /r/AntifaStonetoss subreddit became a hub for those edits, and YouTuber Zokolov's video essay dissected how the comic drops any pretense of subtlety and consistently strawmans its targets7.

Origin & Background

Platform
stonetoss.com / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
Hans Kristian Graebener
Date
2017

The first strip, titled "The Swirl," went up on the stonetoss.com website on July 18, 2017, showing burgers, tacos and sushi labeled with American, Mexican and Japanese flags followed by a panel of the excrement each produced1. A companion @stone_toss Twitter account had launched a month earlier in June 2017 and pulled in more than 19,800 followers over its first seven months6. A /r/Stonetoss subreddit followed on October 11, 20188.

Early writeups treated the comic as the successor to a prior project called RedPanels, and a RationalWiki entry created in July 2018 labeled StoneToss "outright white supremacist"6. On October 28, 2018, the YouTube channel Zokolov released "Anatomy of a Terrible Political Webcomic – StoneToss," which broke down the comic panel by panel7.

How It Spread

Edited versions of the comic hit critical mass in late 2018. On December 10, 2018, Redditor ILikeMonitorLizards posted a StoneToss edit to /r/ComedyNecromancy that pulled in over 3,800 upvotes and 120 comments within a month2. On January 24, 2019, a straight StoneToss comic about the Covington MAGA hat student incident landed on /r/The_Donald and drew upwards of 6,600 points and 120 comments in five days3.

The biggest offline moment came on March 12, 2024, when antifa research groups Anonymous Comrades Collective and Late-Night Anti-Fascists published a report identifying the artist as Hans Kristian Graebener, a 34-year-old Spring, Texas resident who had worked as a security guard and IT specialist4. A 99-post X thread from @AnonCommieStan summarizing the investigation pulled over 6,800 reposts and 17,000 likes within hours5. A wave of edits followed that focused on Graebener's apparently non-White heritage, an angle sharpened by the comic's own long track record of racial content6.

How to Use This Meme

The StoneToss edit format keeps the original comic's art and panel layout but rewrites the dialogue. Common conventions include collapsing the final panel into a blunt admission of what the strip is really arguing, swapping the punchline for absurdist non-sequiturs, or replacing the strawman character with the artist himself. Edits typically preserve the exact StoneToss art style so the parody reads as a direct rebuttal.

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