Twenty thousand posts under the SE(++), or, Emergent group dynamics in online communities

Rolo

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

the term meme was used all over the place to describe stupid cat macros way before 2009/2010

Meh, my general point remains. Internet history kinda blurs together for me, to the point where I actually forgot lolcats were five fucking years ago already. And lolcats were (besides ORLY/YARLY) kinda the first phase of popular image macros to follow the current archetype of "take picture, plug shit in, profit" that everyone got in on and made their own versions of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Whittier_Frees_-_What's_Delaying_My_Dinner.jpg

circa 1905

:rotate:

Aneurhythmia

Tonkka wrote: »

I just retired my Leet liek Jeff K mousepad.

Sad day.

(it was really dirty)

I accidentally found one of those articles while googling for something the other day. I was kinda weirded out that it'd show up on the first page of a search.

Butters

Just gonna put this here

Mortal Sky

Rolo wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

the term meme was used all over the place to describe stupid cat macros way before 2009/2010

Meh, my general point remains. Internet history kinda blurs together for me, to the point where I actually forgot lolcats were five fucking years ago already. And lolcats were (besides ORLY/YARLY) kinda the first phase of popular image macros to follow the current archetype of "take picture, plug shit in, profit" that everyone got in on and made their own versions of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Whittier_Frees_-_What's_Delaying_My_Dinner.jpg

circa 1905

:rotate:

Well played.

Fyndir

Mortal Sky wrote:

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

Memeis Vulgaris.

Memeis Nobilis.

????

Rolo

Fyndir wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote:

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

Memeis Vulgaris.

Memeis Nobilis.

????

Valar Dohaeris.

Weaver

Rolo wrote: »

Fyndir wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote:

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

Memeis Vulgaris.

Memeis Nobilis.

????

Valar Dohaeris.

In Flam Grav

Hobnail

Rolo wrote: »

Fyndir wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote:

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

Memeis Vulgaris.

Memeis Nobilis.

????

Valar Dohaeris.

JoeUser

Memetic engineering

Fyndir

Weaver wrote:

Rolo wrote: »

Fyndir wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote:

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

Memeis Vulgaris.

Memeis Nobilis.

????

Valar Dohaeris.

In Flam Grav

Appreciatin' this post, Weaver.

:^:

Moriveth

Corp por

unintentional

JoeUser wrote:

Memetic engineering

Nope.avi

mensch-o-matic

'plug shit in pre-made comic' memes are just more officially derivative than photoshopping a laser into someone's mouth

unintentional

Oh wait that was a memetic engineer

Rolo

mensch-o-matic wrote: »

'plug shit in pre-made comic' memes are just more officially derivative than photoshopping a laser into someone's mouth

i admit that I may have shooped a whoop back in my youth

but i didn't inhale

Weaver

Didn't there used to be an SE UO server?

Druhim

Rolo wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Actually, that's the other thing that really bugs me: the use of the word meme to describe shitty image macros and one-liners.
The original definition, as per Richard Dawkins (though my favorite discussion on meme theory is still Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which was actually written a couple years before the coining of the term), is one of the coolest words ever because it covers the idea that cultural ideas are transferred and evolved, which covers language and religion, along with things like Bart Simpson t-shirts and Kilroy Was Here, not to mention the cornucopia of shit that is the internet. The more vulgar definition didn't really catch on outside of 4chan until really only about two or three years ago.

the term meme was used all over the place to describe stupid cat macros way before 2009/2010

Meh, my general point remains. Internet history kinda blurs together for me, to the point where I actually forgot lolcats were five fucking years ago already. And lolcats were (besides ORLY/YARLY) kinda the first phase of popular image macros to follow the current archetype of "take picture, plug shit in, profit" that everyone got in on and made their own versions of.

Moriveth

I don't think so

There are buttloads of free shards out there though

JoeUser

“Am I ugly?” Teens turn to YouTube trolls for the answer

A batch of YouTube videos shows teenage and adolescent girls sitting expectantly in front of their computer monitors and asking Internet trolls for their “honest opinion,” a modern day version of “mirror, mirror on the wall.”

Rolo

JoeUser wrote: »

“Am I ugly?” Teens turn to YouTube trolls for the answer

A batch of YouTube videos shows teenage and adolescent girls sitting expectantly in front of their computer monitors and asking Internet trolls for their “honest opinion,” a modern day version of “mirror, mirror on the wall.”

teenage girls are just the dumbest

Rolo

nearly as dumb as grown-ass men who spend their spare time posting comments on the internet

mensch-o-matic

how did

how would it come to be that a human being could decide

what if

Weaver

Rolo wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

“Am I ugly?” Teens turn to YouTube trolls for the answer

A batch of YouTube videos shows teenage and adolescent girls sitting expectantly in front of their computer monitors and asking Internet trolls for their “honest opinion,” a modern day version of “mirror, mirror on the wall.”

teenage girls are just the dumbest

Just go to :33

Rolo

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

Everyone on the internet is terrible

What are you talking abo

http://kotaku.com/5888677/how-i-achieved-greatness-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog+themed-bed

This article is part of a series where I try to get hired at Kotaku as a gaming columnist.

“Beep, beep, beep.” My Pikachu alarm clock goes off on my nightstand, but I’m already awake. I feel just like Nathan Hale in Resistance. (Or at least Joe Capelli.)

I don’t know why I love video games as much as I do, but I do. Oh sure, I got the lectures from my dad about how they were a waste of life. “You know what’s a waste of life is when you realize you’ve been trying to beat the Dragon God from Demon’s Souls the wrong way,” I would always retort. That quieted him down. Whether it was gaming, anime or collectible card games, I wonder if my dad worried exactly which fandom rabbit-hole I’d be lost down forever, like poor Alice.

But not Lewis Carroll’s Alice. American McGee’s Alice.

Even though I phonetically memorized the lyrics to the Neon Genesis Evangelion theme song (true story!), it wasn’t anime that would punch my geek card. It was video games. Each day, I put on my Ex Officio underwear (Give-N-Go Aztecs, $30 a pair — the only underwear I will allow to cradle my family jewels), my RVCA jeans, my beat-to-hell Chucks, a silk vintage bowling shirt and a pair of taped-up Oakleys I punched the lenses out of.

Shirt? No need.

Today is Video Game Day… and a shirt would only get in the way.

I approach the obsidian altar that is my PS3 and mount up. (My bedroom has seen a fair amount of mounting, in its day — I’ve bedded at least four different women in my life, but that’s a different kind of game. U MAD BRO?) Today’s gaming sesh: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. All day. Until it’s done.

When you’re me, it’s that easy.

My HTC Amaze 4G is crazy-ringing off the hook. (No weak Apple “sauce” here, bro.) It’s one of my friends from my college group of bangers. We called ourselves the Hard Boys. I’m a hard boy for life and I’d love a night out of buds and suds. But not today. Not today. Because it’s Video Game Day.

Guess I’m the best.

Kris Straub is a hard boy who’s down to get rude. He is a writer, actor, musician, chef, and will teabag the living f out of you in Killzone 3.

I hope I got all the elements right. I know authenticity is crucial, and I’m worried I didn’t mention enough games and brands.

http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/02/28/guess-im-the-best-how-games-made-me-sexy-and-great/

I love Kris Straub.

Mortal Sky

Rolo wrote: »

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

Everyone on the internet is terrible

What are you talking abo

http://kotaku.com/5888677/how-i-achieved-greatness-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog+themed-bed

This article is part of a series where I try to get hired at Kotaku as a gaming columnist.

Kris Straub is a hard boy who’s down to get rude. He is a writer, actor, musician, chef, and will teabag the living f out of you in Killzone 3.

I hope I got all the elements right. I know authenticity is crucial, and I’m worried I didn’t mention enough games and brands.

http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/02/28/guess-im-the-best-how-games-made-me-sexy-and-great/

I love Kris Straub.

This is fucking golden.

Hobnail

Wow, I also love Kris Straub apparantly

Mortal Sky

Have we had a thread dedicated to bashing Gawker media yet? Because that would be a truly great thread.

Bedigunz

I love 5secondfilms

Ubik

man i don't really have anything to add to them but, as an outsider, i find the discussions currently happening in the MLP and FG communities fascinating

Centipede Damascus

What's FG?

Ubik

fighting games

Centipede Damascus

ohhhh

what's going on with fighting games?

Tossrock

there was an article on the new Penny Arcade Report thing about it, apparently they're super sexist and unpleasant and now the community is split between people who think being super sexist and unpleasant is part of the community and those who think it's a bad thing

Marshmallow

Something to do with that fan-made pony fighting game then?

Edit: Or maybe you meant seperately, not like MLP + FG, whoops.

Centipede Damascus

oh, Chris Sims wrote a piece about that today. I didn't know it was a thing outside of that though.

Seriously

ah ha is that actually getting made

I don't know why I'm surprised

Skull Man

sometimes I wish we didn't ban people who are freaking out, as opposed to being regular terrible

like I get that it'd be a nearly impossible distinction to enforce but like

I worry that it's like man this guy is having a really rough day/week! gonna cut em off from one of their primary social networks for like a month

I know that's why we have infractions obviously but still

and I know the system ain't really broken but still

MrMonroe

Rolo wrote: »

nearly as dumb as grown-ass men who spend their spare time posting comments on the internet

I think I'm just gonna close

this window

Keith

Tossrock wrote: »

Mortal Sky wrote: »

SE++ still has a few really good ones, like Ain't no cure for baby dick, Langly thumbs up, and Sendkeithamessage.jpg

Those are all pretty recent and the funny one isn't SE++ specific (ain't no cure for baby dick is a 3 Word Phrase thing)

Older SE++ memes would be like... even Megatokyo, Nads is missing, Cronyx, etc

Oh, so I'm not funny, Tossrock??!

Ubik

yeah i meant the discussion in the MLP community about Derpy and the separate discussion in the FGC about sexism/harassment