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What is 'Pathways' and who is 'Amelia'? The controversial memes about the viral UK anti-immigration goth girl explained
Know Your Meme ^ | January 13, 2026 | Phillip Hamilton

Posted on 01/14/2026 2:46:28 AM PST by C19fan

Social media users have found yet another goth girl to obsess over, but this one is just a little more problematic than the usual fare.

Her name is Amelia, and she's an antagonist in the educational, U.K. government-funded anti-extremist video game Pathways.

So, why have far-right communities on social media decided to embrace Amelia as a symbol of anti-immigration? Here's what you need to know.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: amelia; immigration; uk
The heroine we need but don't deserve.
1 posted on 01/14/2026 2:46:28 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

My God, I think I lost 10 IQ points just clicking on the MSNBC site!


2 posted on 01/14/2026 2:58:49 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: C19fan

Cartoons?


3 posted on 01/14/2026 3:10:49 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: C19fan

“...a symbol of anti-immigration...”

They ALWAYS leave out the ILLEGAL part. It’s on purpose, and they think you don’t notice. I despise the left. /spit


4 posted on 01/14/2026 3:49:34 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus; C19fan

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>> “...a symbol of anti-immigration...”

They ALWAYS leave out the ILLEGAL part. It’s on purpose, and they think you don’t notice. I despise the left. /spit
>

Well, you fell into their English bastardization trap as well *shrug*. They’re “(criminal) illegal ALIENS”

Immigrants, like my (g)grand-parents, follow the Law.
‘Aliens’, not so much.

There’s no conflating the 2 w/ a mere adjective.


5 posted on 01/14/2026 5:04:18 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: i_robot73

Illegal implies criminality.


6 posted on 01/14/2026 5:17:03 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: C19fan

LOL, they meme’d her into a trad wife with 9 kids


7 posted on 01/14/2026 6:05:39 AM PST by Jeff Vader
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To: i_robot73

criminal illegal alien felons


8 posted on 01/14/2026 7:06:21 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: C19fan

True.


9 posted on 01/14/2026 9:12:17 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I know.


10 posted on 01/14/2026 9:12:48 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ansel12

Correct.


11 posted on 01/14/2026 9:13:03 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Robert DeLong

>Illegal implies criminality.

‘Immigrant’ implies legality. This isn’t even CLOSE to 1:1


12 posted on 01/15/2026 7:28:09 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: i_robot73
I'll concede. I thought she had mentioned illegal, but reviewing it again, she had not. So, you are correct they are using immigrant, because it is designed to provide that she is against all immigration.

However, even legal immigration is only deemed legal by whomever conrols the government. When they do not vett the immigrant, then even the legal immigrant may be an unwated immigrant.

13 posted on 01/15/2026 8:53:41 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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