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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

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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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