The Gamer's Quarter

[Harveyjames]

Thought: are 'internet memes' a tool that enable people without a sense of humour to feel like they're saying something funny?

This lolspeak shit is going to be one of the most cringeworthy things about this decade when we look back.

[extrabastardformula]

lolspeak in name only for it is neither


edit: still better than using the phrase "Rockin' like Dokken" ever
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[Harveyjames]

ALSO, fuck those Anonymous blowjobs. For the world's first human superconscious you think Anonymous would have come up with better ideas than spamming videogame forums with child porn and mildly irritating the Scientologists.

[sediment]

well,

back in 2004 it was either child porn or gore

and then soviet russia got banned. and the gore went away.

i'm not really defending either practice, i'm just pointing out - it's even more monotonous now!
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[Shapermc]

Ok, so I was trying to figure out something about WoW when I got started and I attempted to look in the forums for an answer and ... I was shocked at how far from funny people were responding to things using ROFL and sorts.

It was like this:

"I have a question: is Type X a good thing to use?"

"LOL! XD! I us 2 uses it. Good 4 whle. ROFLMAO XD!"

Like... it made no sense to me. The fact that "text message" packages for cellphone commercials have degraded into kids spelling out ROFL to their mom when she doesn't get what they're doing with their phones. I blame the media for feeding the fire.
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[Harveyjames]

Yeah I guess kids love things where they can enter into a little world with its own language and rules that their parents might not understand. When I was a kid it was Discworld and Red Dwarf!

Seriously though internet memes, fuck them. Discuss.

[Intentionally Wrong]

Just another extension of memes in general, same principles as propagation of language, inevitable consequence of the human condition, etc.
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Okay!

[helicopterp]

I think it would be fun to identify the meme's most offensive term. Any suggestions?
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[Harveyjames]

[sediment]

thing is, sometimes they are funny. most of the time they're not.

and usually they're not strictly because the meme has been beaten into the ground relentlessly by a horde of faceless yutzes.
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[helicopterp]

[sediment]

the guy on the cover of psychonauts!
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[Harveyjames]

OH NO

Ok but that's just a little joke between a bunch of dudes

It's not a way of life

[helicopterp]

you're sure that other internet in-jokes are ways of life?

it mostly seems like you want to urinate on peoples' parades even though you don't know who they are. you're being that guy who made a bunch of uninformed comments about your video on youtube.
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[sediment]

Yeah, speaking as an ex-channer the in-jokes are kind of the point;

the problem is the latest "generation" of anonymi (anonymouses? anonymice?) just aren't letting go of the old memes, and they're getting more and more tired. Also their raids and meets are uninspired.

i would say, regarding james harvey's initial position that the memes exist such that people with no humour can affect humour, no. it's more a banner under which they can facelessly unite; a key phrase that can be uttered to meet a collection of key responses, if you will.

Most channers who meet accidentally use memes as secret passwords of sorts, to identify each other. They apparently tend to get a bizarre thrill on discovering another faceless individual out in the world, especially as the subsubsubculture grows.

their habbo uniform, the thing they tend to wear to conventions, just makes it easier... and yet, it's sort of missing the original point of their 4chan origin, in that it's - yep - now dull.

the easiest way to describe the sorts that do the public events and repeat memes is that they're the guys that sort of missed the joke, and are just coasting on its wake.
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[helicopterp]

Right. And James it isn't new. See Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas for a hilarious and monumental treatise on people depending on tired phrases to communicate without really attempting to achieve actual meaning, relying instead on a stagnant cultural connotative referent that may or may not really be current. Or just read the majority of written work in any format from any period of time.
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[Swimmy]

What a shocking bad hat.
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-seryogin

[sediment]

yeah, it's how platitudes persist. memes aren't new, i'd say they're probably how language began. eye emm ho.
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[Harveyjames]

[sediment]

Black afro wig, black suit, red tie. Moustache optional. If you go to a con and you see some blowjob wearing that, chances are he's not emulating a goth Nabeshin or anything like that - he's a goddamn channer.

Originates with the Anon raid on Habbo Hotel, source of the "pool's closed due to aids" meme. People were cybering in the pool.
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[Harveyjames]

I'm going to a con next saturday, I'll look out for them.

[Redeye]

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