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An old 4chan truism says, > Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe th
by segfaultbuserr 6y ago
An old 4chan truism says,
> Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
- DarkShikari, Hacker News - in a comment on 4chan, 2009, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498
A decade later, it still applies...
Since then, this has always been one of the most overused 4chan memes, with more than 100 variants of cute image macros. I always assumed it was a 4chan meme, and it was a huge surprise for me when I realized it actually came from Hacker News... Top 4chan meme from Hacker News?! It was beyond my imagination, I obviously underestimated the richness of cultural exchanges online.
And it was from a well-known x264/ffmpeg developer...
- krapp 6y agoAlso see the Rule of Goats: Even if you fuck goats ironically, you're still a goat-fucker.
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoThere is also an old 4chan truism from the 2010s for that, "It's Still Shitposting Even If You Are Being Ironic", also one of the most overused 4chan meme of all time, with hundreds of cute image macros [0]. Speaking of 4chan, I found its trolling and politics are extremely objectionable, yet there's a lot of psychology and sociology to be learned here, especially the mechanisms commonly found in an online community. QAnon is an excellent case study on how a self-organized online community can create an influential meme that eventually affected mass psychology. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-still-shitposting-even-if-you-are-being-ironic https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-still-shitposting-even-if...