The Proud Boys have an initiation ritual where new members are beaten by the group until they can recite the names of five different breakfast cereals.

  • GroundedGator@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I had to look this one up. Why the Proud Boys Initiation Ritual Involves Cereal

    I would say these are a bunch of frat boys who peaked in college but I think they are just cosplaying what they think being in a frat would be like.

    Yosef Ozia, a member of the Southern Proud Boys chapter who’s based in Atlanta, Georgia, told Extra Crispy that this all stemmed from a fart joke. Yep, a fart joke. McInnes introduced this step based on a rule his buddies had in the past: if someone farted, they’d get beat on until they could list five kinds of breakfast cereal. “It doesn’t mean anything,” Ozia said. “[Initiation] is mostly a joke. A lot of people take it seriously, and they shouldn’t really.”