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
why should you care?
I saw a cell phone ad that said something like "Don't let their 'lols' add up to a 'OMG'"
I used to say Lol IRL, but its died down now. Some people in my class say it still, we're all pretty much nerds. Sometimes when people use wow commands while they're doing something, it makes me facepam.
Example:
/sit before they sit down or somethin,g I don't play WoW so I don't know.
Or not
its realy retarted, I might bring up desu or a meme, but never stuff like lol, I said lulz on ocasion tho.
You faggots, I never EVER do that.
I don't even want others to know I post on a chan site.
ONLY DO IT WITH IRONY.
Cannot stress this enough.
Incorrect usage:
Person A: A man walked into a bar and knocked himself out.
Person B: lol
Correct usage:
Person: So I found this web site which claimed to have non-nude high school girls except it turned out to be a lie as some of them were nudes. I lolled, and also fapped hard.
Which is to say, using LOL is acceptable if talking about a time where you WERE on the Internet. Whereas using it with respect to current conversations is unacceptable.
"lawl" on the other hand is unacceptable on or off the Internets.
Actually, I use "lol" every now and then, but only when being sarcastic.
>>9
agreed
saying "lol" at a joke is like saying "FAP FAP FAP" at a nudie bar.
When I found 4chan, I wondered how come so many people there talk like that one friend of mine. Then I realized that he speaks an ED dialect of 4changlish. No wonder so many of my other friends make fun of him all the time.
They're Internet Fanatics- Literally, they take their Interneting too seriously and they can't find the line between Reality and the Internet.
Ugh... 4changlish with an ED dialect? Shoot me now.
Seriously what do you care about? those people are tards, and will probably win a darwin award.
I'll say thing like, "O-M-G" or sometimes I'll say out loud, "Sigh~" but it's not habitual. I do it to be funny.
there's this one guy who says "for the win", i want to slap him. i think if someone actually said "lulz" i'd just lose it.
Well, I know where you guys are coming from, but you can't deny that the internet will have a growing cultural influence that has and will continue to penetrate into language. I don't know if you can fight it. It'd be interesting if thirty years from now with the new generations, "lol" or some form of it entered every-day conversation and found itself in the dictionary.
At least Japan is fortunate that there is no good way to pronounce "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww". At least not yet.
I know this girl back home (I'm away for uni) that speaks in nothing but washed-up, tired old memes she picks up off of the 4chan facebook page and livejournal runoff. She will very literally and very often pronounce things like "LULZ!!" "for the win!!" and "I CAN HAS _________???" all the fucking time. I think the one thing that really really really hacks me off is that she pronounces "orz" (as it should be phonetically spoken) all the time, just for fun because she thinks it is entertaining. I can't stand the bitch.
>>21 There's a meme that needs to bleed into real life.
I know people who are into The Game. People who respond very emotionally when someone causes them to lose. One woman whose husband heard "OH FUCK I JUST LOST THE GAME" from across the house every day. And then the entire group we're in has to talk about teh gaem for five minutes.
I'm tired of memes in general, on the internet and off.
I use lol when a funny situation is not funny enough to make me laugh.
I use lol when typing one-handed. That's about my only excuse.
>>26, i can guess what you're doing with your left hand but what situation calls for "lol" at the same time?
One possibility: the person on the other side said they knocked their coffee over when they came.
The internet, once you think about it, is controlling the real world. It is actually supporting cliques and bullying. The internet wasn't a mistake, the people who created Facebook and MySpace, however, made a HUGE mistake.
>>1
oh damn, that's the only internet related thing i say outloud.
lawl. D:
>>27
"But I poop from there!"
"Not right now, you don't."
This guy at work was bugging me, so I told him I didn't want his AIDS. He was like, "Lol! That's a WoW term!!!"
And then I facepalm'd IRL.
>>34
You printed out facepalm.jpg and showed it to him?
>>35
nope. i put my palm in my face for a perfect RL facepalm lol wow.
>>36
I do facepalming a lot IRL.
But then again I work in tech support...
In my school newspaper there was a page of anonymous confession cards written by students (I think).
One said "I masturbate to 2 girls 1 cup."
> One said "I masturbate to 2 girls 1 cup."
What has that to do with this thread? 2g1c is like a normal video available on the net. ;)
Some faggy teen actually said "facepalm dot jay pee gee" to me when I was buying a coffee at starbucks, i wanted to kick his ass
> buying a coffee at starbucks
I'd like to take you both out into the street.
>>40 no shit, it's "jay peg", not "jay pee gee".
People these days.
>40
>42
Have a seat over there, and you, have a seat on his lap. Faggots.
hax my anus
I dunno. Seriously, if I heard someone using net speak or a meme IRL, I'd probably want to talk to them. Especially if it were a 4chan meme. I never hear stuff like that around here. I swear I'm the only person in the midwest to have ever heard of 4chan. Probably not a bad thing.
Ok.
>>42
And next you're gonna tell me that it's "meem" and not "me-me"??!?!
Actually I facepalm a lot IRL. I used to do it for years, but it became more habitual when I started browsing chans more. I never say the word though, even if I used it once and one of my buddies picked it up and now "knows how it's called". I hope he doesn't find where I picked the term up...
It is heard that it likes Mizugurou in a sexual fashion.
I would never use internet talk IRL, but this year me and some friends hijacked our Senior panoramic picture with signs that said "All your base are belong to us!" Surprisingly we got it cleared through the dean...
I say "asd" a lot. I realize now that many people must think I'm a fool. Screw them anyway.
>>22
i fucking hate the game
i live with a guy who's always fucking talking about it and how he "lost" it
and yknow. I DON'T CARE about the fucking game. it was an amusing novelty for about five minutes after i heard of it, but some people just picked that shit up and ran with it. every time i hear someone say "i just lost the game" (which is usually him) i kind of want to punch them
only not really, because i'm not the sort of person to punch someone for something like that
but its FUCKING ANNOYING
I was talking with a person who went to the same high school as me; when I heard him use the words "epic fail."
I immediately facepalmed, and realized I should kill myself.
This is the internet though. Not like he said "OH SHIT FACEPALM" in real life.
A geek circle at my college I always overhear spewing memes. One guy says "do you like mudkips?" and the others all laugh like big old nerds. They also say lol IRL and loudly discuss the chans and /b/. VERY LOUDLY.
:(
Stop oppressing me and my friends, jerk.
>The internet, once you think about it, is controlling the real world. It is actually supporting cliques and bullying.
as irl, this all depends on where you go
Net does has an impact on real world. You know, here at Mexico the anti-emo movements have been a little bit overboard. Lots of this guys have died murdered, just because some guys started the flame against Emo (which in a personal way, I don't like either...) but we must reinforce our tolerance.
>>60
I have no desire to tolerate Emos, I applaud the grubby Mexican bastards who gave them what they deserved.
mexico - 1
emo - 0
I have a friend who ALLWAYS talk about 4chan
4chan this
4chan that
do you know what they did today on b?
do you know what they did today on jap
did you see the thread about [randomboringthinghere] today?
and so on
i try to explain to him that i dont care
but nothing seems to help
A Japanese acquaintance of mine mentioned there were people at his university who also used 2ch memespeak and standard netspeak IRL - in front of the uninitiated as well. He was disgusted.
I also see no way to win this battle, unless each person opposed makes it their priority to immediately point out how retarded a person sounds anytime they spew their annoyances. Even then, it seems near-impossible as the "persecution" might further embolden them.
Friends don't let friends netspeak IRL.
If they persist, I suppose it's not too harsh to disown them? You'd be doing at least yourself a favor.
How do we reverse this trend?
By destroying the internet.
Just finished reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, and I've become very cynical of what the internet has become and what it is doing to our culture. I've also been thinking a lot about how people used to spread information between computers, using text files that would often be printed out and read away from the computers themselves. It's hard not to think about things like this and not sound like a Luddite, but I guess that's what my growing dislike of the web is going to end up making me in to.
It's intrusion into daily life will only increase as smart phones continue to proliferate among ever younger children, and the idea that the internet is an extension of the real world will be so entrenched in to their minds that it will only get worse when they enter the work force and then politics.
>>67
so you're saying it's only gonna get worse as the little faggots grow up?
great.
impossible in Russia. there is war now
I think like all things in life, moderation is key. Memes are great in that they represent a group-based idea of something that is funny, interesting or literally exists. They can help like-minded people connect. But I think lately the word meme has come to have some of the same properties as the word fuck; It's easily used in many contexts. 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"
Ahh, damnit, I did that a few times. Sorry. I have tried my best to avoid it.
12 years later. still relevant
>>67
Great book, thanks for recommending it. It's more relevant than ever, and the issue is only going to get worse as we all go headfirst into it all.
Man, this thread makes me miss when the internet was simpler, when there weren't as many dark forests that everyone retreated into and it all seemed more fun.
>>76
The problem with the modern net is that people see it as a legitimate platform. Back in the day people posted whatever they wanted without any fear or ambitions because they knew that nobody in the real world would ever see it. Nowadays, the internet and the real world are joined at the hip. Posting that you want to kill all the jews is no longer just you venting in the virtual world, it's a very real political statement.
>>77
It's only a srs bsns political statement because idiots take the internet seriously. We all need to find a way to re-frontier the World Wide Web or we're all going to see nothing but deranged posts and endless bad content.
>>74
I posted in this thread twelve years ago.
Reflecting on the way things have gone since then, I am left wondering where to begin. The culture is so different now that I don't think anyone at all minds anymore when someone uses memespeak in public other than thinking them to be immature.
As for me... didn't do it then, don't do it now.
No John, internet is the real world
This thread is far more relevant as ever tbh
it was foretold
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.