# StoneToss

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.

## Origin
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 produced[1]. 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 months[6]. A /r/Stonetoss subreddit followed on October 11, 2018[8].

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 panel[7].

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

## 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 subjects[6]. 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 Mann[6].

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 hiding[2]. 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 targets[7].

## How to Use
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.

## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is StoneToss?
StoneToss is a four-panel webcomic launched in 2017 that pushes alt-right, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material framed as political satire[6].

### Where did StoneToss come from?
The first strip, 'The Swirl,' was posted to stonetoss.com on July 18, 2017[1], following the launch of the @stone_toss Twitter account the previous month[6].

### What does StoneToss mean?
The name refers to the artist's pseudonym; Urban Dictionary also lists 'stonetoss' as slang meaning to throw a stone or to vomit, though the comic gave the term its main online association[6].

### How do you use StoneToss?
The most common online use of StoneToss is remix rather than sharing straight, with communities like /r/AntifaStonetoss editing the panels to expose or invert the comic's arguments[2].

### Is StoneToss still popular?
The comic kept posting through the March 12, 2024 doxxing that identified Hans Kristian Graebener as the artist[4], which triggered a fresh wave of edits and reaction memes online[5].

## References
1. [https://stonetoss.com/comic/the-swirl/](<https://stonetoss.com/comic/the-swirl/>)
2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/comedynecromancy/comments/a4s3ql/took_another_jab_at_a_stonetoss_edit/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/comedynecromancy/comments/a4s3ql/took_another_jab_at_a_stonetoss_edit/>)
3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/ajb9ff/stonetoss_smile/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/ajb9ff/stonetoss_smile/>)
4. [https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/12/stonetoss-redpanels/](<https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/12/stonetoss-redpanels/>)
5. [https://twitter.com/AnonCommieStan/status/1767596661025477080](<https://twitter.com/AnonCommieStan/status/1767596661025477080>)
6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonetoss](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonetoss>)
7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E-NAK_J5s0](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E-NAK_J5s0>)
8. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190217060319/https://www.reddit.com/r/stonetoss](<https://web.archive.org/web/20190217060319/https://www.reddit.com/r/stonetoss>)

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