Why doesn't INTPc produce memes like other boards?

[nittanylion302]

I've been on some other message boards that are notorious for producing memes.

4chan is a great example, producing the whole lolcat phenomena.

There's another board I hang out at comprised mostly of law school students that also has a tremendous meme creation such as TTT(third tier toilet) for bad law schools.

Anywho, the point is that I don't see INTPc as a board that creates memes and I'm curious if other posters who frequent other boards have noticed this and can perhaps offer an opinion as to why.

note: as for the definition of meme: a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)
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[Anonymous]

We sometimes do, they just don't stick around for long. For instance, the whole fripping thing that happened.

[Oso Mocoso]

Yeah, Fripping, Jemma from Tannum Sands, and there are probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Maybe MGB could make a definitive list.

[outmywindow]

'Aviator' and 'wemon' immediately come to mind, both thanks to the venerable todayme.

[foodeater]

They get old fast.

[rhinosaur]

The memes from INTPc do not propagate beyond the board because they are often self-referencing or inside jokes. People from other boards don't know who the fuck Jemma is, or why that's funny. If you want a meme to propagate (go viral), you've got to make it funny to the general population.

In addition, places like 4chan are designed to foster creativity and humor. INTPc is not primarily a place where people create things, it's more of a general discussion board.

A good board that explores memes rather thoroughly (both insider and outsider memes) is b3ta.com (http://www.b3ta.com/). This is one of those creative boards, where people post things they've made in photoshop for others' amusement.

[venerationOFrabbits]

I hate teh memes they are cliché.

[garak]

Yeah, I think we see them as old/obnoxious pretty quickly and stop using them.

[Ptah]

I'd love it if "moojority" caught on, but then.... I'd hate it. Damn. :banghead:

[fripping]

i don't think anyone here has enough stomach for repetition for any potential memes to be transformed into full-blown meme AIDS.

this is just a small board with its own in-jokes anyway, first a meme needs to be context-free or so clever that it transcends the context of its own creation. i think a few people managed that. not that i followed the whole thing very closely because it freaked me out, but rabbi fripping for example made me lol irl.

the next critical step is that the meme has to be spammed to hell and back all over the board and across the internet like a noxious oil spill. there must be thousands of zealots who adore seeing the same shit over and over again. not gonna happen here.

lucky me, i get to be normal now.

some of those avatars were pretty sweet though

p.s. the original delayclose.jpg/heino merger that you see me using now came from 4chan. lulz.

[mgb]

Our idea of funny doesn't work on a wider scale.

I'll work on a list today.

I can tell you it's going to start with Albino Midget Porn and go from there.

[Jennywocky]

... I can tell you it's going to start with Albino Midget Porn and go from there.

Thank god, I thought we had lost that one forever.

[MacGuffin]

Just make sure to stick a jester cap on anything.

[Shades of Gray]

Just make sure to stick a jester cap on anything.

I was wondering what that shit was about.

I actually play Magic: The Gathering, and was curious why the hell a Jester's Cap was showing up in odd places.

[mgb]

Ok. I was compiling a list in my head today.

It of course started out with Albino Midget Porn. Then came Santa Claus (which while pre-existing was given new life). Zedo vs. songbird. After that the Jester Cap, Jemma from Tannum Sands and how could we forget, "Why NCentral sucks." Then came EmmaPeel and the second mass migration of avatars.

While I think fripping was onto something with the size of the site, I think there is more to it. This site is about personalities more than anything. Each of those things wasn't really a meme. It was a joke between a few people that was expanded by the forum at large. Unlike a meme (in my opinion), we can easily trace back the roots of those jokes to the person or people that started them. And I think that defines this site more than some of those larger sites, we aren't a collection of sheep waiting to jump on the next big thing that comes along, we're a collection of individuals with a lot of personality that find the same things funny.

[MacGuffin]

I don't remember Santa Claus.

[C.J.Woolf]

I don't remember Santa Claus.
Hell, you were part of it! (Bad Santa avatar)

[mgb]

I don't remember Santa Claus.

Was Santa from the North Pole or Finland?

Pages and pages of that.

[C.J.Woolf]

Was Santa from the North Pole or Finland?

Pages and pages of that.
Oh yeah, that. That was before my time. Lemme guess, was melancholeric in the middle of it?

[mgb]

Oh yeah, that. That was before my time. Lemme guess, was melancholeric in the middle of it?

He may have been :ph34r:

There was also the great moral/immoral/amoral debate. Which I believe spawned the logic/alogic debate (although it may have been the other way around).

There was also some talk of "drivel" somewhere in there, aka The First Thread Complaining About The Quality Of the Site.

[Karl]

The memes from INTPc do not propagate beyond the board because they are often self-referencing or inside jokes. People from other boards don't know who the fuck Jemma is, or why that's funny. If you want a meme to propagate (go viral), you've got to make it funny to the general population.

In addition, places like 4chan are designed to foster creativity and humor. INTPc is not primarily a place where people create things, it's more of a general discussion board.

A good board that explores memes rather thoroughly (both insider and outsider memes) is b3ta.com (http://www.b3ta.com/). This is one of those creative boards, where people post things they've made in photoshop for others' amusement.

But other discussion boards have memes. The OP mentioned a law forum. We have memes on the communist forum I post on.

I haven't noticed any on INFP Global Chatter either though. Maybe MBTI is anti meme. (Do the INTJs have memes, for instance?)

[distraction tactics]

Is Emma still around?

[Ivy]

Probably.

And you've just reminded me, "put a shirt on distraction tactics" was a great one.

[distraction tactics]

Probably.

And you've just reminded me, "put a shirt on distraction tactics" was a great one.

Great thread, but unfortunately not even in-joke material. :sadbanana:

[mgb]

Great thread, but unfortunately not even in-joke material. :sadbanana:

Yeah it was.

And I hope if Emma is around she says hi sometime. She's great.

[kuraiken]

We produce them,but no one except members of INTPc will get it.

[NightCrawler]

How about ... a Krill?

[mgb]

We produce them,but no one except members of INTPc will get it.

Then it's a joke, not a meme.

[Ivy]

They're introverted memes.

[Ferrus]

Then it's a joke, not a meme.
I didn't realise the terms were mutually exclusive.

[Limey]

(Do the INTJs have memes, for instance?)

Probably not unless it's the different ways to dispose of a burlap sack full of kittens.

EDIT: Introversion also plays a large part in the lack of social participation gaming.

[Chaselation]

How about ... a Krill?

Of the ones mentioned this has the greatest potential to grow some legs. I suspect there are a few forums trying to put a quantifiable label to a post whores annoyance.

[Limey]

Of the ones mentioned this has the greatest potential to grow some legs. I suspect there are a few forums trying to put a quantifiable label to a post whores annoyance.

It might have the potential to grow legs, but will it hold water?
- and will it lead to [bio]mass hysteria?

[Keoren]

I always read it Tantrum Sands.

[mgb]

I always read it Tantrum Sands.

You're a disgrace.

[Keoren]

You're a disgrace.

That's what she said.

[abathur]

We don't really spend enough time completely fucking around to create good memes. And if we do, it seems like someone flips a coin and sends it to purgatory or classics.

We're too serious, I mean. For our own good.