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Who writes this stuff? It comes across as silly, hyperbolic, and even melodramatic, and detracts from the actual content. Lulz: consider this constructive crit
by ibejoeb 15y ago
Who writes this stuff? It comes across as silly, hyperbolic, and even melodramatic, and detracts from the actual content.
Lulz: consider this constructive criticism. Take it down a notch.
- ikrima 15y agoI'm (hoping) guessing a 14 year old kid with too much time on his hands
- kahawe 15y agoOr a 30-40 year old trying to impress, mobilize and exploit 14 year old kids with too much time on their hands.
- JonnieCache 15y agoIt comes across to me as a deliberate, conscious and very effective attempt at mythmaking.
- ibejoeb 15y agoSure, I don't doubt that it's deliberate. It's not the content of the message that I'm criticizing. It's precisely that, at least to me, it's being diminished by some of the silliness in the writing. "Hello thar," "Good Sir," really? That's how we speak? "The Anonymous bitchslap rings through your ears like hacktivism movements of the 90s." This sentence hurts me.
- crikli 15y agoMy minds eye always sees a '90s-era Seth Green character as the man behind the keyboard of Anonymous/LulzSec.
- JonnieCache 15y agoAll the "good sir", "hello thar", monocle stuff dates back to the SA forums, which is where 4chan originally grew out of amongst other places. It was considered funny by some, but quickly grew out of control as people with no working sense of humour took up meme-repetition as a substitute. There was a time when you could get your account deleted for saying "good sir" on SA, it was that prevalent and annoying. A lot of the lulzsec schtick reads like classic SA banter, I wouldn't be surprised if topiary used to post there. It could just be because of the aforementioned SA-->4chan lineage.
- jellicle 15y agoYou're not the target audience.
- caf 15y agoThis doesn't actually read to me like a LulzSec piece.