/lit/ - Literature

i miss the "epic fail" days

>>13556683
epic fail is triumphant, mocking, and masculine. for some reason all the meme words that are current are snide, passive aggressive and feminine, e.g. cope, have sex, yikes, oof, etc

sneed

>fail

That was over ten years ago grandad

>>13556673
Along with "cope", and (for some reason I don't understand) "dilate", yes.

>>13556694
they're all lifted from twitter is why

>>13556683
epic win

>>13556755
epic fail

>>13556764
we need to bring epic fail back, and other masculine memes

>>13556761
holy twitter jihad when

>>13556673
>when cis xirple appropriate trans lingo
yikes!

>>13556761
>>13556778
Twitter crafts more fresh and funny memes than 4chan.

>>13557185
memes are bad. they are the downfall of this board. we need less memes, not more. fuck memes

Posters of 4chan(nel), I hereby declare the beginning of the Great Meme Jihad. Memes have destroyed all semblance of intelligent discourse on this board. They sap our very mental powers. Make no compromise with meme posters. No more memes. Death to frogposters, "have sex" posters, "cope" posters, "doomer/boomer" posters, gigachad posters, and all their ilk. Death to all memes, death to all meme posters. Meme War Now.

>>13556673
What is this, 2015?

>>13557219
get rid of the memes and you'll just find another layer of them underneath

>>13557238
that's a completely meaningless statement. the memes im referring to are the depraved infantile jokes and joke images that pass for discourse on this site. if you get rid of them, you get rid of them. there is no "secret layer" underneath. shut up.

In some African languages the plural of nouns is made by duplicating the noun. For example the word mother is "mama" but the plural mothers is "mamamama".

I wonder if the word "meme", is just a plural of the word "me", considering how the depiction of the frog is attributed to an African deity. But if this would be true, what are the implications?

>>13557247
On another note, why does "FUCK YOU" or some more biting personal insult make your heart twinge even after just reading it? Same mechanisms behind voodoo death? There must be some thin skinned people here.

I'm perplexed as at the memetics of language. It's an infection that got us all.

>>13556673
I thought yikes predates cringe?

>fail
Such simpler times

>>13557258
I never understood insults and why do some words hurt in the first place. Is there a book that actually deals with the origin of "bad language" because for example in some African tribes where you have tight communities and there is pretty much no crime there is no real motivation for bad language to even exist. The vocabulary for some African languages do not contain the word "I" or "me" at all. They use "us" even when referring to oneself.

>>13557278
Why, it's much the same at our Kibbutzim

>>13557278
I read somewhere uck You is a verbal manifestation of the mounting gesture - "(I) Fuck You". It is the verbal counterpart to the mounting / pantomime of rape performed by Male apes and other mammals such as dogs.

I'm willing to accept this as superficially plausible. But there's something going on in your amygdala when reading FUCK, the instantaneousness fluttering your heart for a millisecond -- presumably it's a conditioned reaction.

What's the science behind capital letters being read as YELLED? Conditioning as well?

>>13557185
yikes

>>13557241
Have sex, incel. If you "unmask" terminology, people create new terms. Dilate.

>>13557300
>yikes
stop doing that. it's a shitty rhetorical device and it makes you look stupid

>>13557300
seethe

>>13557304
stop being an obscurantist and come back down to reality. the reality is this board sucks because of the profusion of memes. it used to be much better when memes were a mere spice instead of the main course. it's best if we just get rid of them completely. probably the only way to fix this board is to completely militarize against all memery.

>>13557308
>seethe
Be an adult and speak normally.

>>13557296
The "(I) fuck you" with I being omitted does make sense. But then you can just reply to the sentence with just "No." because nothing really happens when the insult is said. You are not getting fucked physically.

I always considered capital letters to be more of an emphasis than yelling. In some cases it makes the word easier to read for me, because I have a mild form of dyslexia.

>>13557314
cope

>>13557369
That's a very stupid thing to say, especially on a literature discussion board. Please desist from making such childish posts in future.

>>13557369
yikes

>>13557383
have sex

>>13557388
Stop wasting your life by making stupid posts. You should engage in intelligent discussion, or get off the board and do something else. Or you could join the Meme Jihad, which would also be a good thing to do. This is my sincere advice for you, brother.

>>13557394
Have yikes

>>13556673
>ya'll
>yikes
>oof
>oh my sweet summer child
>that's a (insert word here) from me
All should be avoided

>>13557394
Stop behaving like a person who suffers from mental retardation.

>>13557396
Cripes

>>13557400
>Y'all
That is a cultural word not a modern cringy word bro

>>13557406
Wiggety woggity ;3

>>13557429
It used to be but now every self hating white person uses it because their worried they might misgender someone, it makes them sound like retarded cowboys

>>13557406
That is less bad than the other memes you posted. I can see we are making some progress. Perhaps one day you will make an intelligible post that does not require a degree in Twitter Culture to decipher.

>>13557456
Have cope

lyl

meme

>>13557471
Please be aware that you are posting on a literature discussion forum, not on Twitter. Join the Meme Jihad and behave like a mature adult, please.

>>13557477
Yikes

>>13557456
jeepers

golly

>>13557219
>Meme Jihad
New meme?

>>13557219
i'm all for this but frogs have been on this site longer than you, if we can't have them does that mean no reaction images at all? why even bother posting on an image board no costanza?

Epic, epic for the win!

>>13557689
I've been on 4chan since 2007. I cannot recall frogs being a significant part of board culture at the time. I don't remember when "feels bad man" became a thing, but even if it was around back then it wasn't as obnoxiously spammed as frog posting is now. It's better to just go cold turkey. Anyway, the Meme Jihad I am waging is for this board only, since it is the only board I use. If other posters want to carry the fire of war to other boards, they are welcome to do so, but I am only involving myself with this one.

As for your concern over lack of reaction images. I am only advocating radical measures provisionally. We have a serious problem we need to tackle, and it's worth the price of forgoing reaction images for a while. Despite what it might sound like I am not an extremist. I am against the memery precisely because it has reached a point of extremity and we need to find our way back to moderation.

>>13557531
It's a practically oriented endeavor with a clearly definable goal. The title is obviously humorous, but the objective and the means employed are serious.

>>13557429
Y'all is actually an incredibly useful word, considering English has no other plural "you" for when speaking directly to a group of people about those people, when "we" or "they" are inadequate. It makes sense to adopt it into the wider English vocabulary, as opposed to leaving it as a cultural slang term. Thanks southern United States.

>>13557304
I don't think he's reffering to these memes specifically, but the kind of memes to which they belong. Which is, as he stated, the kind that destroyes all semblance of intelligent discourse. So by getting rid of them, there wouldn't be anything of them left, for if there they simply exist in a different variation they wouldn't have been gotten rid of.

>>13557730
/qa/ dealt with the frog problem basically overnight with schizospam

>>13556694
Is based masculine?

>>13556673
yikes is old af dude what are you 12?

>>13558040
I don't post on /a/ so I'm not sure what schizospam refers to. If it's an equally idiotic meme, then I don't condone such a strategy. We have to combat stupidity with clarity and intelligence.

>>13557396
>You should engage in intelligent discussion
You lost?

>>13558077
geez, dude, sounds like you really need to HAVE SEX

>>13558028
This is true but I still avoid using it and instead say "you all". I'm from the south. Everyone from the lowliest nigger to the richest member of the gentry says y'all. However, northerners and other urbanites have started to use it (like they do the word "folks") and this is especially true for "woke" people who seem to despise any prestige dialect. It's as if they have contempt for all that is decent and standard.

>>13558108
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1JHLZiBZ2cE

:3

>>13557730
Newfag

>>13556673
how'd you guess it OP ?

>>13558134
>the meaning of life is not to have sex
This, my good friend, is where our mutual arms against a common enemy deteriorates and I must respond simply: have sex.

>>13558156
https://vocaroo.com/i/s05kQAoc65EF

:3

>>13558165
Sounds like you need to have sex

>>13558169
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0X7o8ueeIIp

:3

>>13558188
I’m sorry :3 but I’m not listening to another vocaroo until you go have sex

>>13558188
Sounds like you really need to spend some more time outside instead of shitposting on 4chan(nel).

>>13558202
>>13558195
Here's my girlfriend telling me she loves me bitches. Suck it

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1EKTY55brSm

>>13558252
Sisters dont count :3

>>13558263
I live alone, but she comes over.

>>13558051
Yes

>>13557185
More shitty memes that need complex analysis of beauty youtubers and the queer groups

>>13556673
I hate every new meme word that comes out. Back in the day, I loathed "fail" and while I've gotten less extreme in my reactions, I'm still blown away by how fast people latch onto words and phrases, hardly anyone ever questioning them.
With 4chan in particular, there's this fear people seem to have that they absolutely must conform to the group's standard. It's like that game "We Happy Few" where you get bum rushed by berserk townspeople if you don't fit in.

>>13558134
Is vocaroofag and the Meme Jihad poster the same guy?