Vaguely Ranty: On the current meme

[aiglet]

In case you haven't seen it, there's a meme going around that consists of a list of "secret

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[amyamy]

Interestingly, those aren't all the same questions I was sent and filled out. I specifically had intended before filling it out that, if any of the things were negative, not to do them.

The differences in my version were:

05. Someone who seems easy to talk to.
21. Someone who you are grateful to.
22. Someone who makes you laugh.

[aiglet]

That is interesting. The meme must be mutating through the "telephone game" nature of its spread.

Of course, now I'm even *less* comfortable with it, because it means that people could be saying any number of things about people, and saying one thing to one set of people and another thing to a different set of people and not even know it. What a MESS.

[hitchhiker]

i'm perversely gratified, in an "appreciation of the meme holding its own in the arms race" sort of way. this, mind, despite the fact that i fully agree with you about the discomfort of being blackmailed into paying to find out what people are saying about you behind your back

[amyamy]

Or, my theory, someone got a copy of yours and went 'well, what the hell does s-type mean? And chatterbox is not really complimentary' and edited. Who knows.

[vakkotaur]

Now that's very interesting. This setup seemed a bit trollish to me before, but this seems to confirm it.

[aiglet]

I'm torn between "someone wanted to play a really large game of Telephone" and "someone wanted to see how far the drama would propagate."

Since we'll probably never know where the meme originated, I'm inclined to be charitable.