However, because of the Moon Man’s mundane and non-racist origins, as well as the fact that Mac Tonight imagery is still also used by people who are not white supremacists, care must be taken to judge a Moon Man image only in context before determining its association with white supremacy. Since then it has joined Pepe the Frog and assorted other images in the pantheon of troll graphics. For a time, hundreds of offensive “Moon Man” songs existed online. By 2015, the Moon Man meme spread to other forums such as 4chan and 8chan, where it became associated with Twitch Trolls who called themselves "TriHards" using language and imagery, including explicit white supremacist imagery. In the 2000s, internet users began to create GIFs and videos of Mac Tonight, which they called “Moon Man,” typically coupled with violent or racist rap songs using computer-generated voices. The “Moon Man” is an Internet meme originally popularized on the now-defunct Internet forum "You’re the Man Now Dog." The forum appropriated the 1980s McDonald’s restaurant chain mascot “Mac Tonight,” which featured a smiling crescent moon image wearing sunglasses. Throughout the campaign, Mac was performed by actor Doug Jones in his fourth Hollywood job and voiced by Roger Behr. Known for his crescent moon head, sunglasses and piano-playing, the character used the song "Mack the Knife" which was made famous in the United States by Bobby Darin. Moonman, originally featured on Mac Tonight, is a fictional character used in the marketing for McDonald's restaurants during the late 1980s.
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