http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2421278 basically sums my thoughts up perfectly.
It's so annoying to have a conversation with someone and then they say something like "orly?" or "my pokemans let me show you them" (WORST FUCKING MEME EVER) or "it's over 9000 (TIED FOR WORST FUCKING MEME EVER)" or "winnar" or "teh" or "desu" or anything. God damn. I want to punch them in the mouth, then in the throat. Then break their ankles so they can't follow me as I walk away to somewhere with people who don't use Internet jokes in non-Internet conversations.
yeah i say that sort of thing, probably the only meme i use in real life. and i dont really have any friends who browse the chans, so they dont know its a meme but still see it as funny
>>39
I agree. It's okay if you use the meme in real life and everyone gets it. Ie: ACTUAL WIT. It's not just a private joke uttered for the sake of it, and no-one gets it. Ie: REAL LIFE SPAM.
>>37
is that a meme? just seems like an emo joke to me. maybe i haven't been spending too much time on the internet recently.
>>41
Well, in my school, pretty much everyone would have laughed at that. It depends, prolly.
>>41
Yeah..I didn't spot the meme either.
I say orly, for the win, and other stuff IRL. And my normal language is not english. Hate me now :|
[b]emo[/b] isn't a fucking meme
i wouldnt mind meeting a hawt girl who liked 4chan. Its always like that when i fantasise about the A day in the life of Anonymous copypasta. Shed probably do all sorts of things in bed, if not id just post her info to /i/ saying "anon wants to cyber?"
damn im typing all this shit when in 4chan the customary pic would sum up my whole post.
also whats about all that breakin rules 1&2 goin on here, this isnt 4chan. IF U WANNA POST BOUT 4CHANNERS DO IT ON FUCKIN 4CHAN
>>10
you have described the cancer that is killing /b/
>>46
comparing emofags with tards is going to endear you to anon. i suggest posting personal info in order to recieve fanmail.
>>48
people who invoke rule 1 and 2 are faggots and I purposely go out of my way to post on 3 sites for everytime they bring it up. /b/ HAS NO RULES, putting rules in a system where chaos rules is just retarded.
idk my bff jill
>>48
The thread isn't about 4chan. It's about people who use jokes from Internet websites in real life, with 4chan given as an example of one of these websites.
Well. This effectively kills the internal joke doesn't it..
Better just ignore em and hang out with cool people who know this.
i tend to use /b/speak or /b/spell or chanisms and such while txting mahniggahz on mahrazr alot
totally agree. even on the internet but outside of 4chan using memes is annoying. it's not funny, you're not 1337, fuck off.
I occasionally use 4chan memes in spoken conversation. Several of them are amusing without prior knowledge, because the context is obvious (man the harpoons, etc.) Around my one /b/tard friend I will make more oblique references (it's awwwwright.) Usually we're making obscure philosophy/historical/scientific referential jokes anyway, so it's not like it makes the conversation much harder to follow.
Man the harpoons and Stick it in her pooper I think are OK. But lazah chargin and become an hero. No.
I once said, "I see what you did there" in the internet meme sense. Then I realised what I said and vowed not to do it again. I still think that and "adjective noun is adddjective" are a couple of the more amusing things you can say in real life, but I'm trying to keep myself from doing it out of fear of where it goes.
Chargin' lazerz is only funny because of the pictures. But I would say "shoop da whoop," "bix nood," or "OH LAWD IS DAT SUM CHIKENZ?" in reference to black people. And yeah, become an hero is too opaque. But I'd definitely say things like "kill yourself lol." Except, without the lol, usually.
How do you say lol? l-o-l? An actual laugh? I read it like loli minus the i.
>>62
lawl?
>>62
become an hero
I know a few /b/tards in rel life, and we hardly ever use memes, in any context. The only times I can remember are once when we were all playing Pokemon (lol) and one said to me "I heard you like Mudkips", and once when we were all drunk and walking past a construction site, I climbed up on a steamroller and shouted "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY". Oh, and we all sing along to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song whenever it's on, but that's less of a 4chan thing and more of a catchy song thing.
What's funny is, me and the one other person that visists 4-ch I know use 2ch and 4ch terms a lot. Referring to Koreans as nidas, singing DQN songs, calling things VIP QUALITY, etc.
None of the people I know in real life are chantards like me, but a few have been either introduced to memes by me or by sites with strong exposure to the *chans both of us attend, so we occasionally use 4chanisms when talking to each other. The occasional "lol" or "XD" (the latter pronounced as in the two letters) comes naturally though...
>The occasional "lol" or "XD" (the latter pronounced as in the two letters) comes naturally though...
Fire, die, in, a, etc..
loal, ex dee!
unfortunately I have seen a few 4chan related license plates around where I live (northern Virginia)
Namely "ohnoes" and "rule34"
Which sucks.
i'm sorry but the people posting here are emos.
we create memes here. we define funny. and you guys have not even understood this basic premise.
>>70
Memes have never been funny.
And who is 'We'?
OP: If you don't like it. Fucking become an hero.
Seriously, you are on an internet board, complaining about nerds like yourself. See what I did there you fucking loser?
>>72
oh man you totally burned him lol ^_^
>>71 not you ex de.
Fools. 4chan and such IS real life!
I've only recently moved away from 4chan's /b/. Having used it for over 3 years I finally grew tired of stupid memes repeated over and over again. Plus the massive influx of trolls and newfags have ruined it completely.
However, the kind of people using internet slang in real life are exactly the people /b/ originally hated (and mostly still does). The reasons can be compared to hating weeaboos (which is now often misinterpreted to liking anything Japanese).
>>77
I check /b/ occasionally but it's just kinda dumb most of the time. Although I did find Lucky Star thanks to /b/ so I go there occasionally when I'm looking.
>>78
LUCKY SHIT LUCKY SHIT SAGE GOES IN EVERY FIELD
As opposed to weeaboo meaning people who uh... Got attacked with paddles at board meetings?
>>80
No, as opposed to weeaboo meaning acting like Anime characters and defining Japan from the things seen in Anime.
Aren't the two sort of synonymous?
No.
weeaboo = I liek inu yasha iz kawaii desu ka ne! since you like anime you like inu yasha too. I wish I lived in Japan. So I can see human with puppy ears. u'll understand that if you are otaku and go to fan-runned cons where we idealize a country deep in recession. Japa-cheesy is the sugoi(sp?). I should dye my hair blonde and I want to move their so I can marry a bishounen.
They get confused with people who like the genre anime for it's aesthetic value. Or people who are amused at the engrish. Just because you like Akira doesn't mean you are weeaboo.
>>84
Im looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be
of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And
has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it
first (i want to make shure it's kawaii [cute]). And it would be nice if it came with matching
chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made
out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was
made in japan. and not in china or corea (korea) or whatever. I have found a bento box similar to
the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i dont want my gohan (rice) to touch my
other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii)
>>86
Old copypasta is olllllllllllllllllllld.
There's a few that I use, but not to be clever or cool (in fact, it's pretty uncool, I think). I just think they're funny-sounding, whether you're 'in' on the joke or not.
The ones that I use are, "Ugly girl is ugly" "Creepy house is creepy" etc., "I has a ___" (after "I has a shuvel"), "how do I [something in past tense]?", and the word "animu" for "anime". I don't use them very much when I'm talking to people, but they definately turn up in my internal monologue alot.
Oh, and I've adapted the word weaboo into "gothaboo" to describe one of my friends, who is a wannabe goth and is heavily into anime and wapanese-ness. She's hot, though. Goth Loli clothes may be weird to wear in public, but...I'd do her.
>>88
gb2/4chan
> "Creepy house is creepy"
"Redundant meme is unfunny"
Redundant meme is redundant
Redundant redund re redundant.
Unfunny is redundant meme. (I actually like the reduant meme, actually!)
I was planning on coming here and saying I don't use any memes offline, but that was before I went to work today. When i got in this morning, I was the only one there. There was a wet floor sign out, and someone had taped a paper to it with a drawinf of a stick man kicking the wet floor stick man, shouting, "This is SPARTAAA!!"
So I grabbed a pen real quick and wrote gb2/b/ on it. (I'm aware the joke is outside of /b/, and perhaps, for a creative person, outside of the internet...But I couldn't think of what else to write.)
My brother and I constantly pull the "orly" shtick in private, but yeah, I know what you mean.
At Anime Boston 2007, there were actually some dickheads from 4chan who came into the Gaia Online panel and shouted stuff like "It's because of the fucking Jews!", then got escorted out by security. The whole time they were leaving, the 20-odd retards were saying "desu desu desu". That was when I realized that 4channers are complete fucking losers.
People like that should have their passes revoked for stupidity. Filter out the dumbass from anime conventions.
>>95
I'm sure there are some normal 4channers, the ones who don't shout memes or those congoers.
I'm sure there ARE rational people on 4chan. I just can't believe that such retards would actually say things like what they did. Asking questions like "Is it because of the Jews?" and shouting such anti-Semitic shit in public. If I could've gotten away with it, I'd have given their asses lockjaw so they'd starve to death.
>>97
Mmm I see what you're saying. I wonder what went through their mind when they said it. Because they said it on the internet it was okay to in real life? Maybe they're just trying to be attention whores. (eg. The ENTIRE Otakon video, with the whole Fuck yeah seaking thing.)
>>98 I don't know what you mean by Otakon video and I don't want to know.
100get!
Also, speaking of people who take 4chan stuff way, way too seriously:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
Epic unintentional lulz.
>>100
Not really funny, just embarrassing, like this fucking idiot:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tmdRcq5JRrM
>>95
If you filtered out the dumbasses there would be three people there. Don't make it like Gaia is any better than them.
>>97
This really struck a chord with me. Earlier this evening I had about an hour or so to kill and posted a question I did not expect a particularly serious reply to on /b/ just for shits and giggles. Naturally, I kept the wording ambiguous, figuring I could elicit some funny responses and not get flamed too badly. I got a bunch of the usual "take it in the pooper" and the latest "Dial Soap" meme, but there were some legitimately good, insightful--hell, enlightened!--responses too. Honestly, two of the folks I was writing back in forth with? I would've gladly kept up contact if I had time to create an alternative e-mail account before the mods clipped my thread at about 100 or so posts.
But as far as people that actually shout memes in public? I've met a few at conventions and they are really bizarre and usually incredibly desperate for attention. One of which was doing 4chan -cosplay- and, at age 23, pursued a then 16-year-old friend of mine. He started dating her (despite my warnings), mocking her ethnicity (she is of mixed race), and going so far as to break down her confidence in the tiniest ways-- saying she smelled awful, her appearance disgusted him, her voice was harsh, etc. The guy was a creep and a pedophile. Ultimately, she dropped him in a week or so.
>>1
Yeah, people in my Japanese class use desu all the time.
Those stupid fucking /b/tards. >:(
You clearly weren't paying attention to what I wrote. I said I knew that there are rational people on 4chan, just that the majority of what I've encountered is so reprehensibly stupid that it makes me wish most people were sterile.
The Gaia users present for the panel were at least civil. If there were ones who weren't, they kept their mouths shut the half-hour that I was able to attend. There are plenty of retards on Gaia (some of which are just 4chan users looking to stir shit up), which is why I've moved to posting on the less popular boards that are still interesting.
I don't really speak in memes for the most part, though I will use "Enjoy your ____"/"I don't think you ____, enjoy your ______", since those are easily understood out of meme context and even elicit laughs from my friends.
I use Desu.
>>104
Thank you for polluting the board with even MORE stupid advice threads.
>>109
It's not possible to make 4chan any worse than it already is
>>110
Everytime anyone says that, 4chan proves them wrong.
I use memes IRL around my 'tard friends. Yas. Haet mee pleaz.
I draw >:3 all over the place.
Though it's more for lack of something better to draw all over the place.
Damn you shii. Stop abusing your mod powers.
What's recognizable and still gets the "WTF is this and why is it all over the place?" sorta feel?
Maybe I could fill everything with tan∵∵as∵in∵∵
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Meh, I only use three memes, and it's with my friends who frequent the numerous *chan sites and other random forums.
"you're doing it wrong," (though this has a practical use, along with "am I doing it right?")
"Do a barrel roll!"
and
"lulz"
but I use them when the time is right.
Examples
person 1: "Hey, dude. What's up?"
person 2: "You... you broke your arm??"
1: "Yeah, I tried to leap from my bedroom window to my garage's rooftop."
2: "You're doing it wrong, then"
Right
person 1: "Hey, dude. What's up?"
person 2: "You... you broke your arm??"
1: "Yeah, I tried to leap from my bedroom window to my garage's rooftop."
2: "Why the hell did you do that?!"
1: "...I did it for the lulz"
WRONG
If I picked it up from http://thefunniest.info/ then it's usable. Lolcats are a prime example of this.
There are also some turns of phrase that I heard starting about a year ago, from real life friends, before I even heard of 4chan. "FAIL" and "EPIC FAIL" and such. "EPIC FAIL" is now a regular segment on Attack of the Show, byduhway.
If I picked it up at 4chan, it's annoying.
"The Game" is particularly bad, I find.
It auto fails.
When somebody unexpectedly calls my bet at the poker table, I sometimes find myself commenting: "a challenger appears".
A new challenger!
When I fuck a whore and a dude wants to join and pulls out his dong I sometimes find myself commenting: "a challenger appears".
>>122
Fake, GTFO!
After once mentioning 4chan, my class seem to spout out everything. Does anyone else get this. You think people are up to (down to?) our level, you introduce them, and then you realise they're fags who think they're funny in real life and that you actually enjoy hearing them.
I regret the last 2 years of my life.
what's "my pokemans let me show you them"--?
whats a what's "my pokemans let me show you them"--?
4chan is getting worse over time. As more and more posters (and new posters) learn to post like the current posters do (terribly) more and more bad users join the site pushing out all of the good users that are left. Basically 4chan sucks entirely now (and has for the past year or more).
Everything went downhill after the so-called Project Chanology. We have no idea who started this movement, but it has brought a vast influx of idiotic teenagers who think that acting retarded on an anonymous forum is the greatest thing on the Internet.
So, I'm guessing we're NOT idiotic teenagers who think that acting retarded on an anonymous forum is the greatest thing on the Internet?
>>129
Arrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Every month since 4chan started it's the same fucking thing. It's too popular. We are attracting idiots. I want to discuss Lolita on /l/ again. Bawww baww baww. Same thing over and over and over.
And now recently we've seen the demise of /a/ as we know it.
Still, might not be such a bad thing splitting that board up.
/b/ was never good.
The anonymous protests. I don't know if it was as bad in america etc, but sydney was as much of a bizarre invasion of the internet into real life as it was a protest.
I'll go again just to lol @ the retardedness of the over-use of internet memes. Honestly, this is retardedness that is not to be missed.
Not ten seconds could pass without somebody saying something that just shouldn't be said without a keyboard. One sign just said 'desu desu desu', another had a mudkip on it. At one point, instead of yelling about scientology, it sudden;y turned into: "What do we want? Mudkipz! When do we want it? Now!". Some of the time people laughed, others there was just silence, and a very embarassed anon. A few times, someone yelled 'fail'.
Seriously, not to be missed retardedness.
me and my friend are both internet addicts and so will often use internet memes and normal people won't understand us and get pissed.
Example:
friend: Totally banged your mom last night.
me: Saging this conversion.
friend: You can't sage a conversion.
me: I just did.
friend: FAIL L-O-L.
me: O' RLY. Sage in every field.
Normal Person nearby: BOTH OF YOU SHOT OF THE FUCK UP!
>>136
totally believable.
>>137
Different addict here, it's happened before./
