Ningen

Ningen is the first earned role on the mee6 leaderboard, one small step above White People. The Ningen role is earned at Level 4, and its role color is primary green. This role grants users the ability to embed images and use voice chat, among other things.

In Dragon Ball, the word ningen (人間) means "human", but most intelligent races in DB qualify as ningen, including the Saiyans and the Namekians. This is sometimes translated imperfectly as "mortals", to distinguish "humans" from the gods, but in DB, the gods are also mortal. This explanation can be summoned with the mee6 command !ningen.

The confusion with "humans" and "mortals" in the Future Trunks arc of Dragon Ball Super caused an inordinate amount of discussion around the word ningen in the DB fandom. Suddenly everyone noticed how often and disparagingly Zamasu said the word. It became a meme, and Destructo Discord was opened to the public on the same day that the arc's final episode was simulcast in the Americas (19 November 2016). The Ningen role was created by Nickolaus on the server's second day, 20 November 2016.

Meanwhile on r/dbz, memes and shitposts had been prohibited for some time and the bitching about it was getting annoying, so Emma acquired r/Ningen to be our shitpost subreddit. The :ningen: emoji in Destructo Discord is the subreddit icon. The subreddit was opened to the public on April Fool's Day 2018.

"I'm trying to get you brown, but you're still green."

- Bubbles

!ningens is a retired mee6 command. It summoned a Zamasu edit of an angry Pepe frog, red-tinged with a soft radial blur, telling Ningens to "get out" in language meant to imitate the screeching of a stereotypical autistic person. Its retirement was necessary and good; however it was created when DBS was ongoing, so the command represented the frustrations of the moderators (and the normal users) with the constant stream of brainworms. Back then, the Ningen role was granted at Level 1, so the White People of today are yesterday's Ningens.

Eventually the mods figured out that restricting image and VC permissions at the lowest levels would discourage the worst trolls, so the Read the Rules role was created and the level for the Ningen role was raised to Level 2, then again to Level 5 in the first great role realignment, and then back down to Level 4 in the second realignment.

For a time, the command !white-people used the same image as !ningen, with "white people" substituted for "ningens"; the same image was also used for !dubbies. All of these commands have been retired.