ITT discussion of people who use memes, jokes, or lingo in the real world. If I hear one more person say "lawl" in real life I think I am going to die
I miss the days when the worst of it was kids making troll faces at each other and saying "lawl".
It's seriously something equivalent to a massive blow in the face seeing a thread about this, especially one made back in 2007.
I'm young as hell, and I've been around on the internet for a terrible amount of time for my age. I've been reflecting on it; the seeping influence of what used to be 'niche' internet subcultures is now the basis of most every student's life.
Even the hoodlums and crackheads are exposed to this, entrenched or at the very least acknowledges this, and the area I attend mostly consists of low-income minorities.
>I think this is dangerous because it can lead people to be lazy in their critical thinking. i.e. "Why is that like that?" "Because meme"
You'll see this commonly now if you ever attended a school today. A lot of reasoning is boiled down to "cuz meme bro."
What's so odd though, it that, because of this, there's not much bullying. No conflicts, no nothing. Social conditions and pressure gets to be controllable and optional to individuals. There definitely might be more factors involved, but a lot of social situations have become this way. You'll still get a whole lotta people optionally picking pathways into becoming shells of their former selves because of this sentiment, out of option.
lol also worth to mention, had maybe 4 attempted shootings over here in the past 5 months and nobody's given a shit. Nobody cared to mention them either, even after district reports came out.
Is the Internet Culture board just the Culture board now?
yeah, pretty much. Also, nice sage.
lol holy shit, sorry for the obscene formatting. I haven't posted on a textboard for quite some time.
I've used net speak irl, but it's always been on reflex. I've said pic related during a presentation and called something based on reflex once or twice, privately though.
The worst net speak irl I've seen is politics. My college has speeches and every few a freshman, who's obviously got all their info from twitter/Youtube ranters, tries to debate people with degrees and years of experience in their field. They use meme speak only their online groups use, which is disrespected every were else, and they always start with loaded questions.
sometimes my friend says out loud DEUS VULT
>>90
I've accidentally called things based around my friends irl too, pretty embarrassing. It's actually kind of a difficult term to find an equivalent for in real words though, not sure what should be said instead.
>>92
It's hard because you are stuck with stale netspeak.
I don't have to use 'based' irl since English is not my language, but any netspeak word can be traced back in its meaning and origin and translated to something else. Of course, some of the value the word carries is lost this way.
The bad part is the lazy attitude of replacing whole sentences with e.g. "that feel when" + insert meme I see adult people use.
When I find something amusing---but not amusing enough to actually laugh at it---sometimes a "lol" escapes from my mouth. It was a habit I started as a child.
>>94 i just breathe slightly faster than normal
I used to use internet jokes irl back in 10th grade, wondered why people didn't think I was funny.