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Teh LOLcat Bible

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Eevee said:
they took a perfectly good and adorable meme, caturday, and ruined it. now it is fucking impossible to find a cute picture of a cat with or without a witty caption any more, because some idiot will be sure to show up and plaster a caption -- ANY caption -- on it in broken English, merely to perpetuate the meme. they don't understand why the language was broken in the first place or that it's not meant to be done constantly. there is no effort, there is no thought, there is no humor.

it's the same thing with motivational posters and failblog. you're supposed to either enhance or create humor with a clever caption, not just slap on the first thing that comes to mind because it's the cool thing to do.

it's cargo cult creativity. "someone else put text on this cat and it was funny, so if I do it too I'll be funny!" it's offensive that anyone thinks merely rendering text as gibberish will make it funny, and it's infuriating that the Web is swamped with this awful garbage and celebrated by masses of people with no taste. it's like the whole Web turned into thirteen-year-olds obsessed with monkey cheese, going around proclaiming their Random Whatever of Doom, not because it's actually funny or clever, but because everyone else is doing it and it's common knowledge that this should be funny and clever.

at least stupid youtube memes stay on youtube for the most part.
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precisely!
this is why I wanted vee to explain it.
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So it's been overdone

Oh OK

Still don't understand the need to go off at people who like it though (but then there's a lot I don't understand)
 
Zhorken said:
and at least they spawned themselves and started out terrible instead of cannibalizing something wonderful
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eh. "over 9000" wasn't all that amazing, but youtube poops have still cannibalized it

lololol if I fuck up this boring video clip in windows movie maker I will be internet popular

Time Psyduck said:
So it's been overdone
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reading comprehension! it has forever ruined something awesome

Time Psyduck said:
Still don't understand the need to go off at people who like it though (but then there's a lot I don't understand)
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I berate out of love, that someday you may discover what humor is actually like, rather than straining raw sewage through your head
 
nobody's going off at anyone.
we just choose to express our opinion louder than you choose to express your opinion.
 
we're not really even being loud; we just have a constructed point while you all just have an irrelevant tautology ("I like lolcats therefore I like lolcats okay") along with some recursive "why don't you explain YOURSELVES huh"
 
Eevee said:
I berate out of love, that someday you may discover what humor is actually like, rather than straining raw sewage through your head
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Consider the raw sewage the counter-example, this is the first step towards true humor. Know that which is not, that you may know what is.
 
Can't people just like the stuff they like?

You don't have to like it, or even respect it, but please, just tolerate it. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, it SHOULD be fine.
 
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tolerating things you are opposed to for no reason other than "other people like this" is kind of silly
 
Worst Username Ever said:
Just like how some furverts wrecked the furry fandom. yeah, I guess.
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the furry fandom is as fucked-up as it has ever been

Xikaze said:
nobody's going off at anyone.
we just choose to express our opinion louder than you choose to express your opinion
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this is grand and is going in my sig even though I have sigs off

Worst Username Ever said:
Can't people just like the stuff they like?

You don't have to like it, or like the fact that they like it, but please, just tolerate it.
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I like telling people when the stuff they like is terrible

oh ho ho, now what!
 
Eevee said:
the furry fandom is as fucked-up as it has ever been


this is grand and is going in my sig even though I have sigs off


I like telling people when the stuff they like is terrible

oh ho ho, now what!/QUOTE]

Well, I like telling people there's no need to be so smart-ass all the time. Mostly I don't because then I'm just as bad as them, but now...

And by the way, the furry thing was just an example.
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Worst Username Ever said:
Well, I like telling people there's no need to be so smart-ass all the time.

So everybody's doing what they like. It's win-win!
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Oh, hey, have you met Eevee? Maybe you should get to know him.

He knows what he's talking about, for the record. Ooh, I know it's scary talking to somebody who is *GASP* right, but, hey, the pain goes away eventually, right?
 
I never said I liked LOLcats (I am neutral, although some of them are funny - maybe those are the first ones that actually were funny, as I haven't seen that many), I just fail to see the need to attack without a given reason something harmless that you simply don't happen to like just because someone else happens to like it and/or think it interesting.
Racism isn't quite the same; it results in harm. LOLcats doesn't seem likely to result in anyone getting beaten up and/or killed.

Since you're now justifying it, I'm satisfied. Please, continue your discussion.
 
also there are non-activist racists. the kind of people that just don't go near anywhere black people are because they are inferior, but never actually hurt anyone. these folks are *still* silly and I am against them. ):
 
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