worst fad of the 21st century so far. it's steampunk, right?

I think claiming you don't have to be rich to go there, you just have to work for no pay and free entry is a bit o_0. You used to be able to go to Burning Man for nothing (no tickets!), just the cost of your own transport and supplies (ie the cost of camping - a thing poor people do!). It is not like that anymore, and it hasn't been that way for 10+ years.

the only person i know who goes every year is ilxor d. wolk.

How'd we get this far without mentioning anti-vaxxers and/or gluten-free?

But yeah Steampunk is pretty bad.

I think claiming you don't have to be rich to go there, you just have to work for no pay and free entry is a bit o_0. You used to be able to go to Burning Man for nothing (no tickets!), just the cost of your own transport and supplies (ie the cost of camping - a thing poor people do!). It is not like that anymore, and it hasn't been that way for 10+ years.

― Οὖτις, Friday, August 26, 2016 9:22 PM (fifteen minutes ago)

My point wasn't really about Burning Man specifically (I know nobody who has been and have always thought it looked abominable). Just that 'not attendees but employees' is not entirely correct.

imagine having to clean up the CEO of Uber's toilet tank waste then being like woo this was all worth it

mra

doxxing

I shouldve said 20+ years fwiw

Damn i'm old

Xp

xxxp that's the Porta-Potty companies' job, not the people who help attendees sort their "garbage" into categories. Those folks just hang in a big tent and chill, people gotta come to them and then my friends chastise them for not sorting their shit correctly (note that I have never been to BM and am not a fan)

but yeah Shakey is correct that it changed into something else once the expensive tickets started happening

really I think Burning Man is a good nomination for the thread title

Anybody said TED talks or Amanda Palmer yet?

they can both get in the sea

RealDolls

really I think Burning Man is a good nomination for the thread title

nah BM is 20th century

The torture-porn horror phase that Saw temporarily inspired

Ironic ukelele covers of gangsta rap tunes on Youtube

9/11 trutherism

Ironic ukulele is a good call.

i do have a good friend that records enthusiastic ukelele covers of classic songs and gives them interesting arrangements and layered vocal harmonies (ie "Dead Flowers" by Rolling Stones) and hers I am into

yeah, sincere ukulele covers of gangsta rap tunes only please xp

tim from ilx does AMAZING ukelele covers, full voiced chords n shit... but i think we are talking about something different. that slowed down white person trying to sing like billie holiday style of cover song thats on every commercial.

yeah i'm talking more like the duo I saw that performed a "hilarious" stodgy-white sendup of Khia's "My Neck, My Back" on uke at a show I was dragged to a while back

steampunk AND ukelele AND that voice i can't stand that is the female version of the old man hat voice. in one video. trifecta of bad fads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_weRr19sQ

#45 - Napping Baby Cosplay

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sleeping-baby-cosplay-joey-marie-laura-izumikawa-choi-41-57be9498b300b__700.jpg

http://www.boredpanda.com/sleeping-baby-cosplay-joey-marie-laura-izumikawa-choi/

Tempted to say Cosplay in general...

Before cosplayers, genre coms were packed with unkempt socially maladapted guys. They're still maladapted, but more are taking showers now.

*coms = Cons = fan conventions

the internet

xp Cosplay has been around for longer than most of us have been alive. (Unlike most of the other things mentioned here, which only date back to when most of us were kids.

Forgot the ending bracket, here: )

Rickrolling coulda been a candidate but it fortunately died quickly

WHAT'S UP CHRISTINE ??

Loads of strange things. Very strange things. Will talk about it later.

cupcakes ffs

Cupcakes rule fuiud

kale haters : fine but do you even know about lambs quarters? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium_album you probaly throw it away

Archaeologists analysing carbonized plant remains found in storage pits and ovens at Iron Age, Viking Age, and Roman sites in Europe have found its seeds mixed with conventional grains and even inside the stomachs of Danish bog bodies.

danish bog bodies is a killer band name

Still think its autotune vocals.

that slowed down white person trying to sing like billie holiday style of cover song thats on every commercial.

arrrhghtgh, I go to a yoga class each week where the instructor insists on playing nothing but sad sack, white guy songs while we exercise. Last week, she one-upped herself by playing an entire mix of mopey acoustic covers of popular songs. In what universe is it preferable to listen to a sad cover of "Billie Jean" instead of the original?!?

agree in principle, but in practice i will rep for caetano's version

In the upthread post regarding early-1960s cosplay, blogger Belated Nerd is begging for any info as to what became of Sylvia Dees. I could fill him or her in if only all means of posting comments there or otherwise sending a message weren't blocked....

well, until we can get a hold of the belated nerd, don't leave the rest of us in undue suspense!

what became of Sylvia Dees?

Went nutz

Last post on that blog was in early 2012. I'm assuming it's been abandoned.

-Marketing people using "brand" as a noun

-marketingspeak leeching into normal conversations such that non-marketing people toss around "brand" or "brands" as nouns

lots of jargon leaking into normal conversation changing tense, but I don't think that one is at all new

Wait what? When was brand not used as a noun

Xp

"Brand x", &c. Literally been around my entire life

yeah, iirc it has to do with branding cattle, which was actually pressing a mark on to, say, a cow to show ownership

people buying cattle at market might refer to a "trusted brand" if they knew the animals coming from one farmer were good, so multiple sources would be "trusted brands"

"branding" as in defining some sort of nebulous value system around the idea of a company or name is newer, but it originally referred to the act of pressing said mark on a product

Yeah, I know the historical origins, I think the annoying aspect is just the marketing jargon getting tossed around. This I posit as a worse development than corporate officespeak permeating all aspects of 21st-C Western life.