everybody on ilx complains about reddit

wtf nicholas cage pictures are funny. just because reddit likes something doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it

this is still hilarious every time i think of it http://imgur.com/vGmIx

s.clover OTM

Cage better than Gary Busey meme, I grant you that.

I'm not a knee-jerk reddit hater like most of the people on here, so that wasn't the point.

The Nicholas Cage thing is an example because it is done so often it is many times not-so-funny.

Usually it is someone just throwing his face onto a shirt randomly and at this point the popularity of the phenomenon has made it so it is no longer fresh absurdist humor and is merely the equivalent of relying on quoting popular movies at parties to get attention.

And this applies to the lifecycle of most things on reddit, like zelda shields or rage comic faces etc.

And yeah, that imgur link is funny because, while being literally about tacking on a picture of Nicholas Cage to something, the context of the situation makes it hilarious.

i've never seen that nicolas cage image before.

the nyu email was lol

The Nicholas Cage thing is an example because it is done so often it is many times not-so-funny.

http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/02/YOU_DONT_SAY.png

exactly. it's as if many people can't comprehend that things become less funny once you've already seen them. yet I still see Grumpycat all over facebook.

the lifecycle of most things on reddit, like zelda shields

haha yes the infantile video game nostalgia culture is bound to expire ANY DAY NOW just wait

*waits forever*

yeah I used to think that t-shirts and hats with Mario 3 powerups on them were kinda neat until I realized that pretty much everyone had them

look guys i made super mario out of fruit rollups, upvote plz

haha yes the infantile video game nostalgia culture is bound to expire ANY DAY NOW just wait

*waits forever*

― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:06 PM (2 minutes ago)

My example was a tad more specific on purpose, clearly that won't stop. Talking about the cheapest uses of memes merely as references "you've heard of this general meme right? lol"

Wait, I thought the You Don't Say guy was a Big Bang Theory reference. Shows you what I know.

for the 50,0000,0000,000,00,000 times that meme has been used not many people have seen the movie it originated from (Vampire's Kiss)

bazinga.

http://www.electroink.co.uk/uploads/1/0/2/7/10272451/6488382_orig.jpg

okay no

http://2brokegirls.wikia.com/wiki/File:Max_Tattoo.jpg

^2 Broke Girls

...googled that without expecting results...

http://2brokegirls.wikia.com/wiki/File:Max_Tattoo.jpg

show me that fruit roll up mario plz

i used to dislike reddit but then it turned out they have a large enough posting population that they have active forums for all kinds of things we can't really support on ilx. it makes a nice supplementary forum for really niche interests.

i used to dislike reddit but then it turned out they have a large enough posting population that they have active forums for all kinds of things we can't really support on ilx.

this is an odd way to say this

like syntactically?

ya

oh wait ok i understand you now

i misunderstood 'things we can't really support on ilx' as a reference to like all the gross sexist/racist/etc subreddits

like for instance they have more geopolitical chatter than we do here, also more ppl from countries that aren't the US/UK/Canada. also they have an active forum just to discuss netrunner lcg. also other stuff that interests me that i want to discuss but ilx posting base is too small.

yeah, like--lol example but--there aren't a lot of places i can go to argue about bakunin

is that one of those weird Japanese fetish things they talk about on Reddit?

fuuuuuuuu

hahaha

two girls one bakunin

girl is born free but everywhere she is in cups

i dont know where this came from or if its a parody or what

http://i.imgur.com/5I50SGK.png

that's... pretty dry for a parody.

i just don't want it to be real

still like /r/quebec even if the only thing we can agree on is talk about political issues of the day

imagine if you only knew one good "english" board, well to me it's this thing

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1htjq8/what_was_reddits_lowest_moment/

A "worst of ILX" thread would be pretty lengthy but whatever would the top entry would be, it wouldn't even approach "sending rape threats to an intern over a Jurassic Park jeep."

That's for sure. But the communities are also not quite comparable due to a whole lot of factors that start with the difference in size.

this is such an impressive graphic

http://i.imgur.com/Jt2BGi6.jpg

i think i mentioned it upthread but ungoing theorizing the awfulness of reddit is a big part of that community. there are popular boards made for that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/15s60l/anatomy_of_a_circlejerk_or_a_grand_unified_theory/

http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/12ccm9/the_notquite_comprehensive_guide_to_reddit/

http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/vqy9y/dear_circlebrokers_what_changes_would_you_make_to/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/l8id4/did_digg_make_us_the_dumb_how_have_reddit/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/15goza/is_reddit_experiencing_a_brain_drain_of_sorts_or/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/q0dof/as_a_black_man_i_think_reddit_has_a_race_problem/

I just posted the link because it is on the front page atm. It definitely is a recurring conversation.

That's for sure. But the communities are also not quite comparable due to a whole lot of factors that start with the difference in size.

I don't think AOL on its worst day ever doxxed and made rape threats on as much of a perennial basis as reddit.

^^^

you've got doxx

I don't think AOL on its worst day ever doxxed and made rape threats on as much of a perennial basis as reddit.

― pplains, Monday, July 8, 2013 11:00 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably a better comparison. Now we can just talk demographics.