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Kanye Ipsum: Add some confidence to your placeholder text

39 points by tylucaskelley 11y ago

leeoniya 11y ago
the jquery dependency could be replaced with 5 lines of js by using querySelector & textContent. a jquery plugin should just be a wrapper around the main lib.
- tylucaskelley 11y ago
  yeah of course not the most serious or thought out project haha, made it more just to play around with some tools and have a good time
  - leeoniya 11y ago
    the project should strive to be as serious as Kanye is about Kanye :D
    - tylucaskelley 11y ago
      nothing can be that serious tho D:
- mrgalaxy 11y ago
  That was my first thought as well. Oh another fun Loren Ipsum generator, how wonderful! > This is a jQuery plugin Nope, cya
onion2k 11y ago
These things are quite fun, but don't be tempted to use them as placeholder text for anything a client or a user will see. They won't understand the point - lorem is clearly just a placeholder, anything vaguely English isn't.
- tzs 11y ago
  I'd have preferred something vaguely English the first time I encountered the lorem text. It would have saved me a lot of confusion. Rather than thinking, "Oh, nonsensical text with typographic characteristics similar to English to show how the layout works with this template", I thought "Oh, this sample article that is supposed to be an example of good use of this template is in the wrong language...somehow my installation got screwed up and it installed the wrong template set". I then spent two or three hours trying to figure out how to tell the software I wanted my examples in English before I came across an explanation of the lorem text.
wilsonfiifi 11y ago
Should probably have named it yeepsum...
cr__ 11y ago
Love to see tech-bubble white guys mocking the way some black men talk. Keep up the good work, folks.
- colordrops 11y ago
  It's making fun of Kanye, not black men. Kanye is not immune to jokes. And you have no idea the race of the author of this lib.
  - tylucaskelley 11y ago
    thank you :) no racist intentions here, would've made the same thing if kanye was white and ridiculous. just havin' fun
- showtimeallday 11y ago
  And the award for most ignorant comment of 2016 goes to... (no, Kanye's delivery nor diction represent, in any way, the idiolect of a subset of the black population.) Keep up the good work. #NextLetsGetYoungThugAnAwardAtTheGrammys
SNvD7vEJ 11y ago
How about a Donald Trump -ipsum? “I know words, I have the best words” Dorem Trumpsum
- tylucaskelley 11y ago
  +1
takeda 11y ago
I like how the minified version is 30KB and the original one is only 12.6KB.
- tylucaskelley 11y ago
  shoutout to sourcemaps being big haha
ar7hur 11y ago
"There are some lame fake accounts trying to make Kanye-isms that are not Mark Twain level."

39 points by tylucaskelley 11y ago

the jquery dependency could be replaced with 5 lines of js by using querySelector & textContent. a jquery plugin should just be a wrapper around the main lib.

tylucaskelley 11y ago
yeah of course not the most serious or thought out project haha, made it more just to play around with some tools and have a good time
- leeoniya 11y ago
  the project should strive to be as serious as Kanye is about Kanye :D
  - tylucaskelley 11y ago
    nothing can be that serious tho D:
mrgalaxy 11y ago
That was my first thought as well. Oh another fun Loren Ipsum generator, how wonderful! > This is a jQuery plugin Nope, cya

onion2k 11y ago

These things are quite fun, but don't be tempted to use them as placeholder text for anything a client or a user will see. They won't understand the point - lorem is clearly just a placeholder, anything vaguely English isn't.

tzs 11y ago
I'd have preferred something vaguely English the first time I encountered the lorem text. It would have saved me a lot of confusion. Rather than thinking, "Oh, nonsensical text with typographic characteristics similar to English to show how the layout works with this template", I thought "Oh, this sample article that is supposed to be an example of good use of this template is in the wrong language...somehow my installation got screwed up and it installed the wrong template set". I then spent two or three hours trying to figure out how to tell the software I wanted my examples in English before I came across an explanation of the lorem text.

wilsonfiifi 11y ago

Should probably have named it yeepsum...

cr__ 11y ago

Love to see tech-bubble white guys mocking the way some black men talk. Keep up the good work, folks.

colordrops 11y ago
It's making fun of Kanye, not black men. Kanye is not immune to jokes. And you have no idea the race of the author of this lib.
- tylucaskelley 11y ago
  thank you :) no racist intentions here, would've made the same thing if kanye was white and ridiculous. just havin' fun
showtimeallday 11y ago
And the award for most ignorant comment of 2016 goes to... (no, Kanye's delivery nor diction represent, in any way, the idiolect of a subset of the black population.) Keep up the good work. #NextLetsGetYoungThugAnAwardAtTheGrammys

SNvD7vEJ 11y ago

How about a Donald Trump -ipsum? “I know words, I have the best words” Dorem Trumpsum

tylucaskelley 11y ago
+1

takeda 11y ago

I like how the minified version is 30KB and the original one is only 12.6KB.

tylucaskelley 11y ago
shoutout to sourcemaps being big haha

ar7hur 11y ago

"There are some lame fake accounts trying to make Kanye-isms that are not Mark Twain level."