2018, Maik Fielitz & Nick Thurston, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US, page 41:
As an example of such an incursion we might consider the Kekistan meme that had its origins in 4chan but which came to prominence on Youtube as a kind of imaginary homeland for trolls (de Keulenaar 2018).
2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, page 193:
The top right emblem demonstrates the stylized font-type logo used in the Kekistan flag below it.
2019, Paul Mason, Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, unnumbered page:
Kekistan has not only a fictional flag but an anthem, the 1980s pop song Shadilay.
2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:
The new “national flag” of “Kekistan” made its appearance not only in Twitter avatars and on 4chan boards, but also in real life.
Kekistan is a fictional country and its flag mimics the Nazi war flag.
2020, Christopher Ketcham, Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump's America, unnumbered page:
The Kekistan flag is a German Nazi regimental design with the swastika replaced by a series of Ks, serving as a symbol of one's alignment with neo-fascism.
2020, David Neiwert, Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us, page 131:
[…] posted on YouTube by alt-right maven Cassandra Fairbanks, featured a Kekistan banner and a man announcing to the crowd a “free Kekistan” campaign.
2020, Kevin D. Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America", unnumbered page:
Maybe you don't know about Kekistan, which was Boogaloo before Boogaloo was.
2021, Uroš Cvoro & Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media, page 128:
Kekistan ironized the plight of Syrian refugees when the refugee crisis was in full force, with millions fleeing civil war in Syria and ISIL.
2021, Daniel Koehler, From Traitor to Zealot, page 175:
Regarding the latter aspect, the satirical religion of “Kekism” with connected attributes such as the imagined country “Kekistan” or the deity “Kek” developed out of the alt-right “Pepe the Frog” meme and utilized the ancient Egyptian god Kek, which was depicted with a frog's face among other animals (Neiwert, 2017).
2022, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, page 153:
Soon, the far right created an imaginary country called Kekistan, complete with flags that began to show up at off-line gatherings, including at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.
