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God I'm out of the loop...
by Funes- 6y ago
God I'm out of the loop...
- trav4225 6y agoThat's probably a good thing. ;-) I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these. Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live. Get off my lawn?
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS". Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
- trav4225 6y agoHah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
- pityJuke 6y agoArguably Among Us is the game of last summer, or hell, even the game of this lockdown.
- mynameisvlad 6y agoUh, Animal Crossing would like to have a word about that latter title.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoPokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown. Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
- astrange 6y agoAmong Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be. Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
- smoldesu 6y agoVlad, you're looking a little sus at the moment.
- cabaalis 6y agoRoblox piggy has that title.
- klyrs 6y agoMy kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.
- Shared404 6y ago> refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" > a "mungus" Your kid is quite clever.
- klyrs 6y agoOh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that. Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
- Shared404 6y agoI'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.) I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone. (source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1]) [0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor. [1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".