Thanks to the internet and "Family Guy", it has now become acceptable to think that something is funny because you recognize it, regardless of its wit, cleverness, or timing.
The heart of the problem with 4chan memes are that they replace actual humor with simple repetition. Actually, that's not totally true sometimes the doggy is kinda funny. Notice a common theme? None of these god damned "jokes" are funny, and most don't even make sense. Here is a short list of some common 4chan memes:Ī friendly puppy on a rainbow background giving you advice (to smoke glass or kill African-Americans)Ī photo of Carlton Banks from "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". If something sounds really stupid, and especially if it gets repeated or is superimposed over a dumb photo (such as a dog on a unicycle), it's probably a 4chan meme! If you want to be really sure, check Urbandictionary or Encyclopedia Dramatica (again, I cannot warn you enough that ED is pretty harsh).
#4CHAN STORY THE PLAGUE DOCTOR FREE#
If you want to learn more, feel free to check out the 4chan entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica:ĮXTREMELY NOT WORK SAFE, NOT MIND SAFE, CLICKING THIS WILL PROBABLY MELT YOUR EYES AND MAKE YOUR HARD DRIVE EXPLODE Think about that for a second: these people were so terrible that even SA couldn't stand to keep them around (and reap their sweet, sweet re-registration dollars). In fact, much of 4chan's initial user base, and this is still true to this day, was composed of posters who had been run off from Something Awful like lepers. Because of the immense posting volume, lack of continuity, and general immaturity and retardation of the posters, this basically works like a huge mixing bowl into which various grades of shit are dumped into, swirled around, and then poured out across the internet. The salient point is that it's a way for the internet's biggest dumbshits to constantly spam image macros, stupid memes, (child) porn, graphic images of death and dismemberment, nazi propaganda, and any other idiocy they can conceive. I could be wrong about that, but I don't really give a fuck, and it's not important. As far as I know, there are no site registrations, so everyone posts anonymously. I'm glad you asked! 4chan is an imageboard, which is a type of website designed for posting and commenting on images, unsurprisingly. As always, RatStomper is here to help you see the warning signs of 4chan stupidity and to understand why it should be avoided. I'm declaring a full-scale war on the asinine and shameful infiltration of Ars by that imageboard and the work of its mentally (and morally) bankrupt denizens.ĭon't worry, though. Once more, I politely suggested the poster go back and write a sentence that actually works in our shared language, and a third poster responded that, " missing a clue."
That someone would intentionally drop the verb from a sentence for the sole sake of vomiting up yet another idiotic 4chan meme is doubly bothersome. Then today -c- made a legitimately cool thread about some crazy fridge-mold and a giant-ass spider, and another poster decided to ask, "Did you accidentally the spider?" As part of an explanation of why I cannot stand most 4chan memes, you have to understand that I've put a considerable amount of effort into learning and using correct English grammar and syntax, so when I run into broken writing it is mentally jarring.
A certain poster responded to that by sardonically explaining colloquial usage to me. First gentle reminders that "fail" has a friend named "failure", and sometimes he's even more fun to play with. There are threads with "EPIC WIN" in the title and polls with "FAIL" as an option. Now I've been back for over a year, and it has gotten completely out of control. As posters raced to see who could break the fucking quote-nesting fastest or who had the most tenuous reason for shoe-horning those image macros into a thread-"My mom has cancer." "O RLY" *QUOTE* *QUOTE* *QUOTE*-I spoke up as a lone voice in the howling winds, "no, this is 4channery.this is wrong!" But my flame was snuffed out too early due to a tragic Bourbon-related incident. Put down your lol-cats and your bacon and just listen as hard as you can.Ī while back, before my long-term involuntary hiatus, I noticed this trend starting up with those god damned O RLY? owls. You see, lately I've seen a disturbing increase in the amount of 4channery and 4chan-related bullshit going on in the Lounge, and tonight I'm going to explain to you that it needs to stop. RatStomper-X has an important message for you.
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