Memes are shit. I think we can all agree on that. They were acceptable,

don't say the m word

I tend to not like looking at the groups that emerge a long with a phenomena, but the system that surrounds it.
It was the inevitable result of more people using the Internet that it was bound to happen.
It may seem like websites are the culprit, but it's more that the Internet started getting used more and more for communication leading for more widely distributed jokes and websites that collect them.

The human nature part I agree with.

>>1485633
>It's human nature
It has nothing to do with human nature.

They do it because of the karma system. Voting systems like that make the low quality humor less visible and people more afraid to try just throwing out a joke here and there. So they don't really create their own OC
but at the same time they can get major points for posting content that's already been tried and tested on 4chan

As long as the voting system isn't explicitly for something non humor related then people can use it for humor.
Meaning ALL those sites with generic voting systems end up with pockets of their community that literally just act like any other humor aggregator.

These sites are the reason memes are such a huge deal, because they literally aren't set up to accommodate natural off-handed humor. Think about it, a site that says you have to overanalyze and assign a judgement call to every single fucking post is not conducive to natural light hearted humor. So they overemphasize "memes" as repostable contextless content.

So love memes or hate them, both are cancerous results of humor aggregator sites putting _jokes_ up on a pedestal out of necessity because it's the only form of humor they can really have. Unfortunately that mentality leaks out into other internet communities as well.

Only redditors write giant posts and expect people to care about them.

>>1485655
Wow, I for one am glad that we have such reddit savvy users on 4chan to tell us what goes on at reddit. Keep up the good work anon.

>>1485658
I will, /int/brony.

>>1485653
Even if you have no rating systems, I'll create one because I want power over my content and to make it more seen.
I will break the rules however possible to make it so that my ideology reigns supreme.

Humans are greed and I want it all.

>>1485662
Don't flatter yourself. You are not capable of changing the culture of the entire internet, all you can do is bring out the cancerous mentalities that are already there thanks to shit like reddit and other humor aggregators.

>>1485664
Websites are built by humans looking to build a reputation for themselves. Not culture elitists.
It was inevitable from the start and you could have caused reddit to go bankrupt and another person would have taken his place.

>>1485667
Alright fine, so it's human nature.
I still say it's the voting systems on every major discussion site that was the tool to make it all happen

>>1485661
Just came here to tell you I'm the American who posted on /int/. You're paranoid apparently so let me explain you. The person to whom you replied is not me. And I'm not a brony nor an intfag. I posted on int once to show you that unlike you and your friends I'm not a subhuman internet polluting third worlder.

>>1485668
Well, let me clarify that it's just the natural trend of people wanting to make a succesful website.
People want convenience and "fast-food" culture.
Where there's a human desire, an individual who wants success will atempt to fill that desire.

You could eliminate voting systems imo if some sort of government regulation occurred.

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>>1485658
>>1485661
>>1485672
what's this all about?

>>1485673
But as it stands, it will exist because people are lazy and someone will inevitably cater to them.

>>1485675
No idea. I'm the first guy and I didn't respond because I have no idea what he was talking about, or how he would make an assumption like that from what I wrote.

>>1485675
Third guy here. The second guy is a cancerous thit's worlder subhuman ironic weeb /jp/ oldfag roleplaying cancer with a very serious case of general mental insanity specifically schizophrenia.

>>1485679
Return to your normalfag board.

>>1485673
>>1485676
I just don't get HOW people there honestly don't see what it does to discussion.

I mean, I'm fully aware how powerful point systems are as motivators (there's papers published on that topic)
and things like *boorus or StackExchange points are all fine because they either are assigned to content itself or serve to motivate for a very specific purpose.

But don't people realize by now that that shit just doesn't belong anywhere that something "casual" or "humorous" is supposed to happen?

Turning people into humor farming machines is fucking retarded. I never used these sites because that fact stands out to me like a sore thumb, and I honestly can't even comprehend how blissfully dumb someone has to actually get laughs from an environment like that

>>1485687
>Reddit spacing

>>1485689
lol, fuck off reddit

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Remember to ignore the samefagging dramawhore. Stick to OP's topic.

>>1485684
I'm not a normalfag and I'll never be one you disgusting neurotypical. Tell me, have you ever fapped to 3D porn? Have you ever had any internet friends like a Dream friend? I could go on, but if you answered yes to any of these questions you're the normalfag here and have no right to call me anything but a prestigious noble compared to the cancer that you are. Please buy yourself a rope tie one of the ends to a bridge the other to your neck and then jump. Hope you'll go to hell fucking disgusting neurotypical.

>>1485694
*Steam friend
Corrected,sorry.

>>1485694
You really should stick to /int/, dude. At least they welcome you.

>>1485698
I don't need to be welcomed anywhere. I'm not from int for the thousand time. Unlike pieces of shit like you I don't feel the need to fit anywhere. You should be embarrassed for existing fucking sicko. Look at yourself. I really mean it. Get up from your chair and just look at a mirror, look at your ugly face, stare at it, that will make you feel embarrassed and you'll realize how much of a stupid fuck you're being right now. And seriously, kill yourself.

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>>1485687
Circlejerks are fun and becoming a gear in a part of a machine is easy.
If people are having fun then problems will be ignored, if it's easy to take part then they won't give it up.

That's my theory at least.

>>1485698
I really mean it. Kill yourself. Your mother doesn't deserve a pathetic child like you and she didn't expect to give birth to the monster you are. Kill yourself, if not for the whole fuckig world at least for your whore of a mother.

>>1485701
>>1485704
Okay, you're not the /int/ guy, you're that /s4s/ shitstain that posts the automated cade threads on /qa/. ''Sparkles'', is it? Either way, you're the one who should feel ashamed for even existing. It's pretty funny that you write these posts as if you're trying to impress the people here when in reality no one gives a fuck and they think you're disgusting, just like everyone else IRL. Sad.

>>1485707
I always find it ironic, funny and rage inducing - all at the same time - when shitters like you assume everyone has a persona or identity, that everyone is from somewhere, belongs to a group, when I am posting in a fuckig Anonymous imageboard. It simply does not go through your two digit IQ brain that there are people who simply don't care about your circlejerks,circuses and shitshows. It's what I call a normalfag platitude. Go to hell, seriously, I want you and everyone of your kind to burn in hell for all eternity.

>>1485717
Butthurt /int4s/ subhuman.

>>1485719
And again you are attributing an identity to an anonymous poster. Maybe after all these years of tripfagging and being involved with imageboard drama you simply can't accept there still are anonymous posters on this anonymous imageboard. I would sell my soul to the devil just to watch you and your kind burn in hell

No more (You)s for you. Die /int4s/ subhuman.

>>1485722
No, now fuck off.

this thread is epic for the win

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No one commented on your last line.
I don't really know what to say about it though...

Sure, now fuck off.

>>1485693
lol

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>>1485693
You need to account for the fact that the instigating group isn't alone and is so threatened by /qa/ that they're willing to sock-puppet arguments in good threads.

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>>1485734
Yeah, I wasn't addressing either " side" of the argument, but anyone that might be entering the thread. Although, I guess everyone knows that by now...

>>1485725
There's nothing to say.

OP thinks internet humor should just be that, jokes and humor, rather than given tons of importance either way (either worshiping it or fighting it through irony)
and we all pretty much know he's right.

So what's there to say? All we can do is discuss the rest, why it became the way it is or what could possibly be done about it. Probably nothing.

itt butthurt spics

>>1485744
lol, spic

>>1485743
Pretty much, yeah.

>>1485633
tl;dr lol