Thread: Every single Internet meme!

I think the ClouD .gif should be approval of a thread.

Nothing beats the power of the Elestomp.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

I think the ClouD .gif should be approval of a thread.

Nothing beats the power of the Elestomp.

I agree. Although slightly scary, the ClouD .GIFs can't hold a candle to the widely-recognized authority of the elestomp.

Dunno what Sindred thought he was doing.

A rare miss?

enh...

meh...

nah.

Originally Posted by pojmaster17q

Wrong... It originated from a story http://www.internetseriousbiz.com/wp...07/mudkipz.jpg
related to mudkips, which was posted over and over on 4chan until "Do you like mudkips" and mudkips had reached meme-status.



Wrong. Cat photos with captions first originated on 4chan, most often being posted on "Caturday", until it was declared that every day is Caturday. The word LOLcat came from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ when it took the pictures and claimed them as its own. It spread into the general population while its quality suffered dramatically. The lolcat language and bible things are true though. Some people just have nothing better to do than piss on the grave of a joke that is dead.

Please get your facts straight before you claim to know the origins of a meme. This isn't a flame, it's just a correction.

I love how seriously people take 4Chan's memes.

Quick someone post that website that has a whole bunch of memes on a time line.


My favorite is the guy people said was a God because every time his name was referenced in any thread anywhere he would show up and make a comment and then disappear within a few minutes.




EDIT: http://www.dipity.com/tatercakes/Internet_Memes

all the way from 1970 to now.

Spoiler for emotes:

Emoticons, now many times seen as graphic, even animated, images in internet forums, pages and emails, started off as simple text used to easily indicate that some specific text was sarcasm or 'just a joke' or to indicate an emotion such as happiness or sadness.


From the website of Scott E. Fahlman (source below):


Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. Or at least I’m one of the inventors.


By the early 1980’s, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or “bboards”. These were a precursor of today’s newsgroups, and they were an important social mechanism in the department – a place where faculty, staff, and students could discuss the weighty matters of the day on an equal footing. Many of the posts were serious: talk announcements, requests for information, and things like “I’ve just found a ring in the fifth-floor men’s room. Who does it belong to?” Other posts discussed topics of general interest, ranging from politics to abortion to campus parking to keyboard layout (in increasing order of passion). Even in those days, extended “flame wars” were common.


Given the nature of the community, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). The problem was that if someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response. That would stir up more people with more responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. In at least one case, a humorous remark was interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning.


This problem caused some of us to suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good to explicitly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone. Various “joke markers” were suggested, and in the midst of that discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence :-) would be an elegant solution – one that could be handled by the ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. So I suggested that. In the same post, I also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger.


This convention caught on quickly around Carnegie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and research labs via the primitive computer networks of the day. (Some CMU alumni who had moved on to other places continued to read our bboards as a way of keeping in touch with their old community.)


Within a few months, we started seeing the lists with dozens of “smilies”: open-mouthed surprise, person wearing glasses, Abraham Lincoln, Santa Claus, the pope, and so on. Producing such clever compilations has become a serious hobby for some people. But only my two original smilies, plus the “winky” and the “noseless” variants seem to be in common use for actual communication. It’s interesting to note that Microsoft and AOL now intercept these character strings and turn them into little pictures. Personally, I think this destroys the whimsical element of the original.


Unfortunately, I didn’t keep a copy of my original post. It didn’t seem like a big deal at the time. By the time I realized that this smiley-face phenomenon was going to be long-lasting and that it would spread around the world as the Internet grew, it was too late to easily retrieve the post, and the original message was lost for many years.


Several attempts to find the post on old backup tapes were unsuccessful. But in 2001-2002 Mike Jones of Microsoft sponsored a more serious “archeological dig” through our ancient backup tapes. Jeff Baird and the CMU CS facilities staff put in a heroic effort with the support and encouragement of Howard Wactlar, Bob Cosgrove, and David Livingston. They found the proper tapes, located a working tape drive that could read the ancient media, decoded the old formats, and did a lot of searching to find the actual posts. I am most grateful to all who participated in this successful quest, which I call the “Digital Coelacanth Project.”


So the message itself, and the thread that gave rise to it, are here. The exact date of the smiley’s birth can now be determined: 19 September, 1982. It was great to have this message back just in time for the 20th anniversary of the original post.


As you can see, the note in which I suggested this thing was quite short and casual – just part of an ongoing discussion that involved many people. I apparently didn’t even read it over before posting, since a word or two were dropped in editing. I do remember writing a longer message in which I explained the need for a humor-marker in more detail, and suggested the :-) symbol, along with :-( to indicate anger or real unhappiness. But this longer message must have come later – perhaps a later bboard post or an E-mail message that I sent to someone. In any case, that more detailed post did not turn up in our search.


Many people have denounced the very of the smiley face, pointing out that good writers should have no need to explicitly label their humorous comments. Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain got along just fine without this. And by labeling the remarks that are not meant to be taken seriously, we spoil the joke. In satirical writing, half the fun is in never being quite sure whether the author is serious or not.


To a large degree, I agree with these critics. Perhaps the E-mail smiley face has done more to degrade our written communication than to improve it. But in defense of the let me say two things:


First, not all people who post on boards have the literary skill of Shakespeare or Twain, and even those luminaries had bad days. If Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack of employee parking spaces near the Globe Theater, he might have produced the same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do. Besides, Shakespeare’s work is full of clichés and his spelling was atrocious. :-)


Second, and more important, these authors were publishing their words in a different medium, with different properties. If 100,000 copies of a novel or an essay were distributed in printed form, and if 1% of the readers didn’t get the joke and were outraged at what they had read, there was nothing these clueless readers could do to spoil the enjoyment of the other 99%. But if it were possible for each of the 1000 clueless readers to write a lengthy counter-argument and to flood these into the same distribution channels as the original work, and if others could then jump into the fray in similar fashion, you can see the problems that this would cause. If the judicious use of a few smilies can reduce the frequency of such firestorms, then maybe it’s not such a bad after all. Again, we’re talking here about casual writing on the Internet, not great works printed in a one-way medium that is relatively inaccessible to the general public.


One final point: I’ve seen various claims that the sideways smiley face, built from ASCII characters, was invented by someone else. I believe that I invented this particular glyph and the “turn your head to one side” principle independently. I don’t recall seeing anything like this before my 1982 post, though a few messages in the thread we just located come close. Leonard Hamey’s post suggesting (#) for humor might be taken as an example of “turn your head to one side” – it’s not really clear if that was his intent – and apparently \__/ was used by one of our research groups to indicate a smile.


Some people have told me that the :-) or convention was used by teletype operators in the old days. Maybe so. Others have written to tell me that their father or uncle or they themselves used to type these symbols, or something close to them, in private letters (or, in one case, on punch cards) long before 1982. I haven’t (yet) seen any hard evidence of this, but I have no reason to doubt their accounts. It’s a simple and obvious after all, and the independent invention of this by multiple people would not be implausible.


So, the smiley may have appeared and disappeared a few times before my 1982 post. I probably was not the first person ever to type these three letters in sequence, perhaps even with the meaning of “I’m just kidding” and perhaps even online. But I do believe that my 1982 suggestion was the one that finally took hold, spread around the world, and spawned thousands of variations. My colleagues and I have been able to watch the spread out through the world’s computer networks from that original post.

Dammit guys.

www.encyclopediadramatica.com

Go research properly.

Ban Goldney, he linked to ÆD.

Promote Goldney to Mod status, he linked to ÆD.

In before, "LEAVE GOLDNEY ALONE!!!"

Leave Goldney alone.











Wait, fuck.

<- another failed fail-stamp.

Originally Posted by CatBus

Leave Goldney alone.

You're doing it wrong.

No he meant CatBus.

And am I correct in assuming that the proper way is:

"LEAVE GOLDNEY ALONE!!!"

...?

More emphatic and assertive. CatBus was using the passive tone, which effectively neutralized the persuasive influence of his intended outcry.

What a conundrum.

God dammit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ

Ha-HA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAuJod1XmY

Top that, my friend.

Back to memes!

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Name of meme: I am in your base killing your d00ds

Originally Posted by Encyclopedia Dramatica

I am in your base killing your d00ds is a catchphrase that can be roughly translated to "LOL you got pwned and don't even know it yet." It originated in on-line multiplayer RTS games such as Starcraft, though specifically Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2. While player one was innocently building tesla coils and general infantry, player two is in player one's base, killing his d00ds. Player one doesn't even notice, so player two sends him a message:

I am in your base killing your d00ds.

This line can be used in many situations. You can use it to tell your friend that you are fucking his wife, to tell a convenience store clerk he is being robbed, or to your colon right before you shove your severed cock up your own rectum.

Like any old meme, it now produces anti-lulz.


Contents

* 1 Teh origin of this meme
* 2 Alternate Wordings
* 3 External (I did not include -Wakata.)
* 4 Gallery (I did not include -Wakata.)

Teh origin of this meme

Like all funny memes, this meme originated on the SomethingAwful forums when a screenshot of a game of Starcraft was posted on the Games forum.

Two players (one unnamed, the other known as 1337h4x (leetspeak for "Fucking Nerd") are in a game of Starcraft, with 1337h4x playing as the Zerg race, and the other as either the Terran or Protoss races. 1337h4x Zerg-rushed his opponent, and on finding that he was getting raped, his opponent asked:

<n00b>dude, where are you?

<1337h4x> im in ur base, killing ur d00ds

This meme was then used to death and abandoned by the forums, at which point it was picked up by the rest of the internets and from there became the utterly retarded LOLcats meme.

Alternate Wordings

The basic formula is "IM IN UR <noun> <verb>ING (UR/MY) <noun2>". Noun2 should always be plural, and end in a "Z" not an "S" otherwise YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

* I am in your base killing your mans
* I am in your fridge eating your f00dz
* I am in your house killing your d00ds
* I am in your house fucking your momz
* IM IN UR RICE PADDIES KILLIN UR G00KZ
* IM IN UR CORREGE KIRRING UR KIDZ (quoted from the infamous Cho Seung-Hui during the Virginia Tech shooting)
* IM IN UR FILES LISTENING TO TUNEZ
* IM IN UR SCHOOL, DOING UR ARITHMETICZ
* I am in your pr0n collection, fappin to n00dz
* I am in your sweatshop making ur sh00z
* I am in your wine cellar drinkin' ur b00ze
* I am in your sky-ship killin' ur sumoz (Matt Groening's vomit-inducing attempt to make The Simpsons game less scary for basement dwelling virgins)
* IM IN UR BED STROKIN MY HARBL
* Im in your salad creaming ur m00tz
* I am in your gym, fainting your pokemanz
* I am within your base of operations, enacting fatal attacks upon your conscripts
* I am in your camp killing your j00z
* IM IN UR WOMB ABORTIN UR FETUS
* Im in your rectile blocking ur p00z
* im in ur stash smoking ur z00ts
* I am in your base, stealing your intelligencez
* im in ur dictionaries, verbin ur nounz
* im in ur server, ejectin ur cdz
* im in ur wikipedia, editin ur articlez
* im on ur tablez, eatin ur cornz
* im in ur couch, stealin ur change
* im in ur myspace, addin ur frendz
* im in ur car, gettin tickets and shit
* im in ur truck, makin the deliveriez
* im on ur boat, stealin ur shrimpz
* im in ur beverages, stealin ur fizz
* im in ur jacket, stretchin out ur sleevez
* im in ur wallet, stealin ur identiteez
* im in ur gutter, blockin ur drainage
* im in ur room, wearin ur slipperz
* im in ur pan, eatin ur eggz
* im in ur bed, catchin ur zzzzz's
* im in ur kitchenz makin ur foodz
* im in ur bags stealing ur groceries

Better name for it would be:

I'm <preposition> your <noun>, <verb (present tense)> your <noun>

Ya but "I'm in your base etc.," is the original and therefore the accepted name of the whole meme.

ED said so. It must be true. They post for the lulz.

PS: Also note that the preposition must always be "in," or "on," and that it is "in" 9 times out of 10.

Man you guys are boring. I'm just going to contribute.

Epic Fail Guy was a guy posted on 4chan, also called Epic Get Guy, who went around having adventures and failing. He was originally posted without his mask on, but found it in the trash one day when throwing away spilled taco meat.

Dammit guys, lurk properly: http://4chan.org

Am I the only one who thinks this thread is trying desparately to be cool*?




*I use the word "cool" here very loosely; mainly because 4chan are anything but cool.

It isn't. It's just a thread.

I don't care if it dies, really, it's not one of my "beloved creations," but it's been staying near the top for a few days now so people seem to like it enough to keep posting sooo.....

You do the math.

Is this thread cool?

Ban Demon Parasite, he linked to 4Chan!

I really dislike memes as a whole, and through the transitive property, anyone who posts anything more than disapproval of this thread(or snide corrections of lame posts).

Meme: Ban [User], he linked to 4chan!


Origin: First used by Marvo about 3 days ago, in an attempt to draw attention to someone linking to 4chan.

Variations: Ban [User], he linked to &#198;D.

This is less popular than the aforementioned 4chan version, but also shows the versatility of the meme. Practically any site imaginable can be used! A truly great meme.