The hashtag $4, meaning something along the lines of "ISIS Photoshop grand prix," $4 on January 20.
The hashtag was a near $4 to an ISIS video on Jan. 19 that promised to execute two Japanese hostages unless Japan paid the group $200 million.
Peter Payne, an owner of an internet store selling Japanese goods, $4 of #ISIS?????????succinctly: "You can kill some of us, but Japan is a peaceful and happy land, with fast Internet. So go to hell."
ISIS has given Japan until approximately 12:50 am Eastern Standard time on Friday to pay the ransom. In the meantime, Tokyo has $4 to secure the release of freelance journalist Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, a founder of a private security firm.
While Tokyo has been desperately trying to find ways to save the hostages, the Japanese public has responded with a barrage of Photoshopped images. Far from making light of the situation, they can be seen as a way of striking back at ISIS and publicly demeaning the notoriously self-important and humorless jihadist group.
Reported.ly $4of some of the tweets.
Below are some of the more appropriate tweets aimed at mocking ISIS.
???????????????????????? ???? $4 $4
- ????? (@pan1130) $4
"$4: ????????????????????? $4 $4" ?????????????
- ??? (@tatiguisi) $4
- Griff (@hitgrl62) $4
U.S army Soldier ISIS Kill! $4 $4
- BSW-Ops (@SctOpsTouHou) $4
??????????? ?Twitter???$4??????? $4 $4 $4 $4
- ??.jp (@rensaijp) $4
Rat na Tviteru, Japan protiv islamista $4 $4 $4 $4
- RTS Vesti (@RTS_Vesti) $4
- matuzi (@matuziii) $4
- ? (@ata3025) $4
STOP WAR NOT KILL WE ARE THE WORLD $4 $4
- BSW-Ops (@SctOpsTouHou) $4
- Broseph (@shamshoomi) $4
- ????GP?MAX! (@kusokoragp) $4
- ????GP?MAX! (@kusokoragp) $4