Keep Calm And End This Meme

[icaruslived]

rache has joined #livingstone on January 5th 0019 AV
Topic for #livingstone: Wish Rache luck!

thevand:
so, how'd it go?

rache:
badly, is the short answer

rache:
just a flat, straight up refusal

rache:
he won't lift the ban

rache:
not on anything Vinter could have used

rache:
the asshole won't even let me research simple

Comments

[icaruslived]

I would like to note to the jury that porn_this_way, as well as any further readers who continue beyond this point, asked for it.



...attached is a scan of a flyer recovered from this period. We have evidence this poem, or similar ones, were mass-produced, and were something of a catalyst to the worldwide "peasant revolts" of the time. Though unsuccessful in many cases, they showed no sign of relenting, and caused the death of billions globally.

The fervor that these flyers caused was almost memetic in nature. While not actually memetic - our best scientists and psychoanalysts have not been able to find any actual memes in any reconstructed scenarios - there is a hypothesis that it was something of an autoimmune response. It is usually phrased using terms such as "Gaia", which do not lend themselves to scientific acceptance, but the basic idea is worth considering.

Does humanity have a built in "scorched earth" response to widespread "unnatural" memes? And if so, can the obvious trivial weaponisation by unscrupulous factions be avoided?

The Lolcat Era: Threats, Attitudes, and Responses
Dr. Julian Vandersen
White Brain

[porn_this_way]

BRB DYING.

Okay, seriously. That alone could have been an entry. Not only is it a poetic lolcat call to arms, it actually friggen rhymes. Also, it's better than 95% of the poetry that gets seriously posted. *AHEM* Pardon me, that was my inside voice. But, suffice it to say, the pro-lol-teriate revolution is in good hands (paws?) for sure. Bravo! And many, many lulz.

[whipchick]

I agree on all counts. Plus, I would fight in that revolution.

[icaruslived]

Statistically, you probably did! :P

[icaruslived]

Well, maybe, but that would have been cheating.

Also, if I'm going for the whole "torture the neurons of my readers" thing, I'd rather be able to slap a warning on it first :P

[i_17bingo]

"Wif invisible stuffs,
"We R monorail strong!
"UR runnin the world!
"UR doin it wrong!"

[roina_arwen]

I haz a lol !!!elebenty1!

[jem0000000]

That was totally lol.

...I got sidetracked on the way to leave you a comment by a revolutionary poem in lolcat, but I liked this entry. :)