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Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
- swombat 18y agoEntertaining article on the fail meme. I sometimes wonder how "normal" people perceive this mass of variously geeky people on the net who practically speak a different language by now. I sometimes wonder how my parents would react if I sent them an email declaring that "I pwn3d some n00bs".
- hugh 18y agoProbably the same way that their reacted when they told them that mellowing out was groovy. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when they told them that the hep cats were jumpin'. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when told that some bird was the bee's knees. Shrugging and invisibly rolling one's eyes seems like appropriate.
- smanek 18y agoway that their reacted Noun fail!
- river_styx 18y agoIt surely must be a sign of the apocalypse when we start seeing coverage of 4chan memes in mainstream media.
- biohacker42 18y agoHow bad is it when we're seeing coverage of mainstream media's coverage of internet memes, on the internet.
- unalone 18y agoNah. It's pretty awesome: we're seeing, day by day, the birth of the new media.
- olefoo 18y agoWe will know the tubocalypse has truly arrived when someone suggests that "Congress should work like Digg"; and they get play in the mainstream media.
- jhancock 18y agoCongress already works like Digg; except you acquire karma points by lining someone's pocket ;)
- marvin 18y agoIt's worse than this, my regional newspaper actually covered /b/ itself - "the place where the Internet throws up at 4 in the morning".
- markbao 18y agoWow, talk about rules 1 and 2.
- MaysonL 18y agoIt is interesting that everyone here considers Slate a mainstream medium...
- jmilton 18y agoBecause everyone loves Schadenfreude.
- dfranke 18y agoI'm not sure how "lose" got replaced with "fail", but hackers have been using "win" in the same sense since long before 4chan came along. Also, using a designated but unusual superlative -- "epic fail" -- is a common hacker speech pattern, as with "die horribly" or "grok in fullness".
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- qqq 18y agofail
- radley 18y agoFAIL (writer overlooks "FTW" as meme partner...)
- time_management 18y agoThat article was over 9000. 4chan slang got 10/15'd.
- markbao 18y agoYou're doing it wrong. ;)
- time_management 18y agoI'm sooooo confused!
- whacked_new 18y agoAnswer to question FAIL.
- louislouis 18y ago..because success just doesn't taste as sweet without it.
- mhartl 18y agoEveryone said "FAIL" about three months ago. Get with the times, dude!
- morphle2 18y agoSUCCES!
- aswanson 18y agoBeause it's epic.