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Made of 100% Cotton; It's Sales are 99% Ironic

13 points by physcab 17y ago

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alex_c 17y ago
The really strange thing is that reviews of wolf shirts have been a meme on Reddit for months (years?)... then a few days back I saw it on Digg with something like 6000 diggs. As far as I was concerned it was an old and tired meme which had reached its peak who knows how long ago, but it looks like it somehow got revived and amplified.
- rgrieselhuber 17y ago
  There are probably two cycles to memes - one for the tech crowd / early adopters and one for everybody else. I frequently hear about stuff from my non-geek friends that I had heard about 1-2 years earlier.
  - metachor 17y ago
    My own anecdotal evidence agrees with this. LOL cats, FAIL, Rick Roll, Xzibit's catch phrase; this list goes on. It seems most of these memes originate or are popularized on relatively geeky web forums (4Chan, Reddit, eBaum's, SA, etc), where they propagate among those forums' readers -- the sort of geeky people that spend their time on web forums. After a while a meme reaches critical mass and spills over into popular culture, and the geeky early-adopters have to listen to the meme they helped spread all over again.
- mynameishere 17y ago
  I don't think it began with reddit or digg. I do know that I had an irrational degree of anger when the real deal "born to roam" wasn't mentioned in these stupid MSM pieces http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm "Born to Bone" more like it.
  - sho 17y ago
    Oh I agree. It's like when you hear some teenager saying how much they love the new, lame remix of some old song. Current offender: "Right Round" by Flo Rida.
Dave_Kean 17y ago
Apostrophe's and they're use's
- physcab 17y ago
  Hey, I'm a science/math guy. I can do triple integrals in my sleep but proper english grammar is a whole other ball game.
ewiethoff 17y ago
Am I the only person who wants to stab my eyes out whenever I see the word 'ironic'? I count two appearances in the article, and one in the title.
- AndrewDucker 17y ago
  You're probably not the only person, but I do think that irony has its place. The ability to imply one meaning by saying its opposite is definitely part of the verbal toolkit that I'd have problems living without.
  - ewiethoff 17y ago
    Irony is fine. I'm just tired of its current popularity: http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sitesearch=stuffwhitepeoplelike.com http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sites...
- wyclif 17y ago
  Perhaps not 'stab my eyes out' pain, but does snorting piping hot Darjeeling count?

13 points by physcab 17y ago

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The really strange thing is that reviews of wolf shirts have been a meme on Reddit for months (years?)... then a few days back I saw it on Digg with something like 6000 diggs. As far as I was concerned it was an old and tired meme which had reached its peak who knows how long ago, but it looks like it somehow got revived and amplified.

rgrieselhuber 17y ago
There are probably two cycles to memes - one for the tech crowd / early adopters and one for everybody else. I frequently hear about stuff from my non-geek friends that I had heard about 1-2 years earlier.
- metachor 17y ago
  My own anecdotal evidence agrees with this. LOL cats, FAIL, Rick Roll, Xzibit's catch phrase; this list goes on. It seems most of these memes originate or are popularized on relatively geeky web forums (4Chan, Reddit, eBaum's, SA, etc), where they propagate among those forums' readers -- the sort of geeky people that spend their time on web forums. After a while a meme reaches critical mass and spills over into popular culture, and the geeky early-adopters have to listen to the meme they helped spread all over again.
mynameishere 17y ago
I don't think it began with reddit or digg. I do know that I had an irrational degree of anger when the real deal "born to roam" wasn't mentioned in these stupid MSM pieces http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm "Born to Bone" more like it.
- sho 17y ago
  Oh I agree. It's like when you hear some teenager saying how much they love the new, lame remix of some old song. Current offender: "Right Round" by Flo Rida.

Dave_Kean 17y ago

Apostrophe's and they're use's

physcab 17y ago
Hey, I'm a science/math guy. I can do triple integrals in my sleep but proper english grammar is a whole other ball game.

ewiethoff 17y ago

Am I the only person who wants to stab my eyes out whenever I see the word 'ironic'? I count two appearances in the article, and one in the title.

AndrewDucker 17y ago
You're probably not the only person, but I do think that irony has its place. The ability to imply one meaning by saying its opposite is definitely part of the verbal toolkit that I'd have problems living without.
- ewiethoff 17y ago
  Irony is fine. I'm just tired of its current popularity: http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sitesearch=stuffwhitepeoplelike.com http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sites...
wyclif 17y ago
Perhaps not 'stab my eyes out' pain, but does snorting piping hot Darjeeling count?