Can you come up with a snarkier name for the militants in Oregon than Y'all Qaeda and Vanilla ISIS?

If social media is any barometer then the militia faction that has occupied the headquarters of the federal Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in rural Eastern Oregon is earning more mockery for its standoff than converts to the cause. First, Twitter users rallied around the hashtag #YallQaeda, then patted themselves on the back for linking the gang of occupiers — led by Ammon Bundy and other figures from the 2014 armed confrontation at the Nevada ranch of tax scofflaw Cliven Bundy — to Al Qaeda.

Then, Twitter split, perhaps because "Y'all" is more a Southern thing than a Western one or perhaps because the Islamic State is more relevant today than Al Qaeda, or maybe just because, as Wait Wait Don't Tell Me host Peter Sagal suggests, #VanillaISIS is simply funnier:

Many tweeters didn't feel the need to choose:

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And then the creative, snarky floodgates opened:

#VanillaISIS waging #YeeHawd is a pretty strong show of contempt, especially toward Malheur occupier Jon Ritzheimer, one of the organizers of last year's Muslim-baiting "Draw Prophet Muhammad" cartoon contests. But surely the internet can come up with something more apt for a group of armed men that so hate the idea of public land that they are willing to occupy the remote office of U.S. Fish and Wildlife workers and thwart bird watchers nationwide for up to a year. Anyone?