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BigglesSWE posted:Yeah it’s unfortunate but mock threads tended to end with some members being a bit too enthusiastic at finding something to laugh at. Case in point, the Chris-chan mock threads eventually led to the creation of Kiwifarm. Which I'm comfortable in saying is worse than Chris-chan ever was.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Didn't Kiwifarm and most of the Chris-chan - for want of a better term - 'fandom' come from 4chan/ED? I know we had threads and lord knows problematic stuff on SA is not some alien concept, but my understanding was that we had relatively little influence in the Chris-chan drama that unfolded. Kiwifarm was started by the same people who made the CWCiki, which was a goon project.
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I thought the CWCki was from 4chan. Oof. Thanks for the history lesson.
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Tetrabor posted:For a website that's aping The Onion, the Babylon Bee just smells. Hundreds of people are probably going to be tweeting "Rare miss from the Bee" at them now. That was funny when the first guy did it, nuanced even, but if people are going to tweet bomb BB articles then I feel that a direct comparison like "The Onion they ain't" would be much more efficient at triggering them. It can be phrased so many ways. KF... didn't their admin get doxxed by his own users and have to hide out here till the heat died down and was suddenly best buds with Lowtax? I seem to remember Lowtax posting some least-amount-of-effort cut&paste job from KF and being like "I wish the SA forums still made funny Photoshops and stuff, like they do over there!" I forget all the details, the only thing I saved from that saga was a quote for my quotes.txt file: Aesop Poprock posted:Lowtax saying we should all strive to be more like kiwifarms followed by kiwifarms doxxing the poo poo out of everyone and destroying the forum is like some modern version of a cautionary Czech folk tale or something
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The great thing about "a rare miss from the Bee" is it's very explicitly not pejorative. "This is no Onion," that's explicitly mean, so it's less funny when people get angry about it.
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Syd Midnight posted:Hundreds of people are probably going to be tweeting "Rare miss from the Bee" at them now. That was funny when the first guy did it, nuanced even, but if people are going to tweet bomb BB articles then I feel that a direct comparison like "The Onion they ain't" would be much more efficient at triggering them. It can be phrased so many ways. i believe he got doxed by 789chan but i suspect it was probably also some folks on site that hated him. idk.
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PT6A posted:The great thing about "a rare miss from the Bee" is it's very explicitly not pejorative. "This is no Onion," that's explicitly mean, so it's less funny when people get angry about it. That's the best part, how it comes off like something a disappointed fan might say.
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I got pulled into SA through lurking on friends’ accounts in the wrestling thread. Then I found DnD. Since then, there have been so many mega threads of information that I have went through in order to learn something new or make my life easier. Now I have four main forums that I go to but I know that I can ask questions in at least one forum if I need it depending on the topic.
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I got my SA account from a friend who purchased it to support Lowtax’s spine. The first thing I noticed was that the forums seemed uncommonly open to trans folks, more than I expected. Fast forward three years and now I’m trans and so is the friend. Funny how that works.Brawnfire posted:That's the best part, how it comes off like something a disappointed fan might say. Every time it comes up, there’s a die-hard fan rushing to point out that all the “rare miss” tweets are actually from undercover leftist bots. You wouldn’t get that from a straight comparison to the Onion.
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I got really introduced to SA community through Goonstation and the irc chat/other communities I found out about before deciding to join the forums.
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i found out about it from stuff like various hosed up front page stories. then i lurked for years before making an account.
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Syd Midnight posted:Hundreds of people are probably going to be tweeting "Rare miss from the Bee" at them now. That was funny when the first guy did it, nuanced even, but if people are going to tweet bomb BB articles then I feel that a direct comparison like "The Onion they ain't" would be much more efficient at triggering them. It can be phrased so many ways. "A rare miss from the Bee" works precisely because it's formulaic and jarring. It builds up like a Pavlovian reflex, making the target increasingly annoyed and neurotic the more they see it. Writing down some variation of an actual criticism is easy to filter out, compared to the ever present ring of That One Phrase I Hate. Of course it is undermined if hundred people are yelling it vs. there being just one upvoted message under every Bee tweet, but that's just what happens when you give every dipshit who feels they are a comedian a platform on social media. steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 10:11 on May 2, 2021 |
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I follow a lot of finance-types on twitter so the Babylon be came up and people would quote tweet it saying stuff like "I don't care WHAT your politics is THIS is funny". I use the past tense because I muted it and my life is much better for it. Just being able to pretend it's not there, not a thing that is exists in this world is good for my soul.
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wizzardstaff posted:Every time it comes up, there’s a die-hard fan rushing to point out that all the “rare miss” tweets are actually from undercover leftist bots. You wouldn’t get that from a straight comparison to the Onion. Yeah in another thread someone found a tweet where a guy was whining that people must be paid to tweet it and I thought buddy I wish. Syd Midnight posted:Hundreds of people are probably going to be tweeting "Rare miss from the Bee" at them now. That was funny when the first guy did it, nuanced even, but if people are going to tweet bomb BB articles then I feel that a direct comparison like "The Onion they ain't" would be much more efficient at triggering them. It can be phrased so many ways. I guess it was inevitable once I started getting traction like the managing editor responding with screenshots of a dozen times I'd done it and then the Bee blocking me. Prior to Joel Berry (the managing editor) showing it bugged the poo poo out of him it was still pretty much only me doing it. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 3, 2021 |
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Did no one else wander over from the PlanetQuake network in the days of LLJK and photoshop fridays? I used to hang out on the PQ q2pmp forums (which became polycount). Lurked for years before my reg date.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/KATVMarine/status/1387868412928569354 More like 12 and Stop Counting
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https://twitter.com/KenistonDr/status/1388122257935933447?s=19 I want one
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Glory to Italia!
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See now that's funny.
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Paolomania posted:Did no one else wander over from the PlanetQuake network in the days of LLJK and photoshop fridays? I used to hang out on the PQ q2pmp forums (which became polycount). Lurked for years before my reg date. Yeah I was led here from PQ and lurked for years before signing up.
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I would cum if the Bee posted that. Hmm kinda bad right wing media was able to hollow out tens of millions of people's brains: quote:Debra Ell, a Republican organizer in Michigan and fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump, said she has good reason to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-trump-election-falsehood/2021/05/01/7bd380a0-a921-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 3, 2021 |
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Man, my local sports talk radio station switched formats on me and now it's one of those redneck Send Money to Jesus Channels MIXED with politics and it's quite horrible.
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BiggerBoat posted:Man, my local sports talk radio station switched formats on me and now it's one of those redneck Send Money to Jesus Channels MIXED with politics and it's quite horrible. American Family Radio? I hear that one quite often in rural areas.
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It has family in the name, so you know it comes straight from the bowels of hell.
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So instead they're going to do a tortured boo-urns take.
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Radio Nowhere posted:American Family Radio? I hear that one quite often in rural areas. I dunno. I can't stomach it long enough to find out and the website still lists it as a sports talk station. I just know it took about 90 seconds to know it was horrible. Just the usual Limbaugh/Hannity copycat poo poo telling us we simply don't have enough guns, are too lazy and democrats are socialist america destroyers only with a heavy mix of why the Bible supports conservative causes. All these hosts popping up and the way they try to ape Limbaugh's act....It reminds me a little of how many shock jocks tried to mimic Howard Stern back in the day. A few of them made it into something (Bubba the Love , Mancow) but, like all these robots manufactured on an assembly line, they all keep missing that Rush, like Howard, was GOOD at their job. Like them or not, Stern and Limbaugh are objectively GOOD at radio, to the point that even people who hate their guts still LISTEN. Hannity has none of that. Or Boortz, Kilmeade, Savage...I doubt they get a lot of hate listeners because they're not very good and understanding what makes for entertaining radio. I'd guess their audience is mostly comprised of the zombies that simply pump WGOP into their veins every day to learn what to hate and how to think about things. Herman Cain is a good example. Well known name, had the talking points down, ran for president, bonus points for being a minority as a conservative....and just absolutely SUCKED at radio to the point of being loving boring as poo poo. Most of the other imitators just try to emulate the edginess and shock element with absolutely none of the talent.
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azflyboy posted:Todd Herman seems like a decent-ish, totally batshit insane replacement for Rush, since he at least tries to be entertaining and has a decent voice for radio, which is a hell of a lot more than most of the right wing radio types. Shapiro is astroturfed so hard that he's like 90% crumb rubber. There's someone with big stacks like the Mercers backing him. Levin legit has no principles and will scream and wet his pants about literally any topic as long as it gets his risible audience angried up. He reminds me a lot of the Radio Genocide announcer from Hotel Rwanda.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Shapiro is astroturfed so hard that he's like 90% crumb rubber. There's someone with big stacks like the Mercers backing him. Not sure if it's still true but Shapiro spent the most on advertising on any person or company on Facebook for months which was in the six figures per month. There's no way gold and pill ad reads pay that much. It is bizarre how many of these guys have the worst voices so it makes sense they'd all have to be astroturfed. Levin has a face for radio and a voice for silent pictures.
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Hopefully the market for someone like Rush to exist never comes again. People were just really, really racist in the 80s and 90s I guess, but wanted their dogwhistles presented on a silver platter. Now that same audience will apparently eat it raw, straight out of the dogbowl. Not that they have any appealing options left regardless.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Hopefully the market for someone like Rush to exist never comes again. People were just really, really racist in the 80s and 90s I guess, but wanted their dogwhistles presented on a silver platter. Now that same audience will apparently eat it raw, straight out of the dogbowl. Not that they have any appealing options left regardless.
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hahahah this is loving incredible. https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1389723225899159552?s=20
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mmmmmm this is drawing a bullseye-ing, but yeah if this was Geo-guesser, I would say thats Japan because the sidewalk is really really nice, and the wave breaker also has cute graffiti.
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Rip Testes posted:I feel like CNN is to be considered a form of right wing media considering how all their top stories are presently centered around Trump and the guy isn't even in office. I know a few older "liberals" who still watch CNN just for this. CNN had some its highest ratings with "ZOMG he did what now !?!" and now that's gone. Guess they're sticking with the formula until the next outrageous thing.
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Sean Hannity going back to the classics today, ranting about the FISA courts and Hillary's emails. He also said how it's totally illegal for Rudy Giuliani to be investigated because Trump was his client and they have attorney client privilege. Also some chatting with Bill O'Reilly about how the War on Drugs just hasn't been strong enough or punishing people hard enough. He's apparently interviewing Caitlyn Jenner on his show tonight and I will give him credit for one small thing, as much as I hate to do it. He used the correct pronouns for her. This is only noteworthy because someone like Ben Shapiro wouldn't have used the correct pronouns.
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