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Tebulot

im hip now bois

I want to be the very best poster I can be, and I was told I need a gimmick. What about signing my posts? Is that a good thing to do?

Help me push my posting pizzaz into the stratosphere

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joke_explainer


quantum leap gimmick is cool and unused

Diqnol

Tebulot posted:

I want to be the very best poster I can be, and I was told I need a gimmick. What about signing my posts? Is that a good thing to do?

Help me push my posting pizzaz into the stratosphere

The funny and good post gimmick is a classic

joke_explainer


You could adopt The Constantly Improving. Become very serious about posting, do 'post game analysis' in popular threads, adopt new strategies and incessantly ask for feedback. off to a good start

Stormyish

swear, but spell the swears wrong, and put them in odd places

FluffieDuckie

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

The funny and good post gimmick is a classic

i suggest this one


Thank you for the beautiful sig Machai!

joke_explainer


or, the The Joke Is In The Title / Rhyme Or Sounds Like Variant. You post parody threads with little content based on variations of a popular threads title. like if the popular thread was 'be yourself', you'd make a thread called 'bee yourself', and be like 'bees I guess?' and put a picture of a bee

Stormyish

joke_explainer posted:

or, the The Joke Is In The Title / Rhyme Or Sounds Like Variant. You post parody threads with little content based on variations of a popular threads title. like if the popular thread was 'be yourself', you'd make a thread called 'bee yourself', and be like 'bees I guess?' and put a picture of a bee

I thought we already have the b... enis thing going on or whatever

joke_explainer


Rough And Tumble Internetboys is a tough gimmick to pull off without a full crew (you need a leader, a lancer, the muscle, the thinker, and the heart). but I bet you could do it

hmm *flips through dusty tome of posting gimmicks*

Miss Psychosis

I'm rough. Meet tumble. [Points to the personification of death]

landy.

joke_explainer posted:

or, the The Joke Is In The Title / Rhyme Or Sounds Like Variant. You post parody threads with little content based on variations of a popular threads title. like if the popular thread was 'be yourself', you'd make a thread called 'bee yourself', and be like 'bees I guess?' and put a picture of a bee

Do this, but also combine it with popular byob memes. For example, in this case instead of posting a "Bee yourself" thread, you'd post a "bwee yourself" thread.


joke_explainer


Stormyish posted:

I thought we already have the b... enis thing going on or whatever

Keen eye. That's the same category, but it's the Fakeout variant, with a Funny Nonsense Word multiplier.

joke_explainer


landy. posted:

Do this, but also combine it with popular byob memes. For example, in this case instead of posting a "Bee yourself" thread, you'd post a "bwee yourself" thread.

BYOB Circlejerk gimmick mod is a great, quick turnaround but tends to fade fast. Hard to keep lasting impact with it.

Stormyish

joke_explainer posted:

BYOB Circlejerk gimmick mod is a great, quick turnaround but tends to fade fast. Hard to keep lasting impact with it.

I remember that one, my best friend No-Mates made it. Too bad he's dead now.

joke_explainer


Stormyish posted:

I remember that one, my best friend No-Mates made it. Too bad he's dead now.

Famous Pioneer of the My Dick Is Incredibly Small gimmick. Truly one of the grand masters.

joke_explainer


GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

The funny and good post gimmick is a classic

True, but it's time consuming and hard to pull off. Does Tebulot have that level of dedication? Hard to say.

Three I strongly recommend against right now. The Man's Man where you act grossly hyper masculine is always off putting, The Ironic Racist always leaves people wondering if you might really be racist, and The Catch Phrase is almost universally despised.

joke_explainer


You could try this one, never seen it. The Cheese Wizard.

"You constantly fiend for cheese, discuss cheese, attempt to derail threads to cheese related topics. When people say 'weed' you hear 'cheese'"

Wertjoe

Make all of your posts rhyme.
Or just post a lot, I think of BYOB as a place where you jjust throw stuff out and see what sticks.

Tebulot

im hip now bois

I'm excited to put all these chips and tricks into action and become the next big byob superstar






Flying Fortress

Tebulot posted:

push my posting pizzaz

p push it real good

Wertjoe

Tebulot posted:

I'm excited to put all these chips and tricks into action and become the next big byob superstar

Oh you want to be a super star? Just make some threads where you name drop a bunch of other posters until they decide they want to read your posts.

Make a thread called BYOBeach and get a picture of a beach and put avatars in it.

Guarantee it'll be popular.

vapoursquid

none other
write all your posts in yiddish


Tebulot

im hip now bois

joke_explainer posted:

Rough And Tumble Internetboys is a tough gimmick to pull off without a full crew (you need a leader, a lancer, the muscle, the thinker, and the heart). but I bet you could do it

I would like to be the heart






Tebulot

im hip now bois

I want to be cool and BYOB cool






Gone Fashing

KEEP POSTIN
I'M STILL LAFFIN

joke_explainer posted:

Rough And Tumble Internetboys is a tough gimmick to pull off without a full crew (you need a leader, a lancer, the muscle, the thinker, and the heart). but I bet you could do it

hmm *flips through dusty tome of posting gimmicks*

vapoursquid

none other

Tebulot posted:

I want to be cool and BYOB cool

these are mutually exclusive goals


mouse in nature

Naturally

Tebulot posted:

I'm excited to put all these chips and tricks into action and become the next big byob superstar

consult a previous superstar

joke_explainer


Wertjoe posted:

Oh you want to be a super star? Just make some threads where you name drop a bunch of other posters until they decide they want to read your posts.

Make a thread called BYOBeach and get a picture of a beach and put avatars in it.

Guarantee it'll be popular.

*tugs collar as if its getting hot in here* Yeesh.

Yeah, we covered BYOB Circlejerk. Always very popular, but it doesn't have staying power, man. Wertjoe here though, expertly showed off, The Whole Goddamn System Is Out Of Order, a 'rebel' gimmick that's the equivalent of standing up in the comedy club and informing everyone they're idiots and the very club is really, really stupid. It's a brave step but it can pay off; it resonates with those annoyed, but not annoyed enough to say anything about it, so it can be quite popular depending.


vapoursquid posted:

write all your posts in yiddish

Hmm, an interesting, more modern take on the Accidentally Digitized and Sent to the Future Ancient Jew gimmick. Lemme scribble this in the margins.


Wertjoe posted:

Make all of your posts rhyme.

The Rhyme Time has a couple variants but is very constricting. You can do hip-hop stylings or pick a general schema but it has to be persistent to be powerful. Tough when sometimes you want to :justpost:


vapoursquid posted:

these are mutually exclusive goals

lol

bog pixie

the greatest troll is to be yourself

cuntman.net

joke_explainer


joke_explainer


ooh, that's another gimmick, The Guy That Emptyquotes Everything. Just emptyquote. It's a kind of variation of the circlejerk one.

Or, you could be The Imageneer. You respond to everything with animated gifs, and maintain an extensive collection of them. So for Sleepy Owl's post, you would have been like:



Don't do that tho. It's annoying

Tebulot

im hip now bois

What about hilarious cat images? Have you guys seen grumpycat it's hilarious hahah






City of Glompton

Tebulot posted:

I'm excited to put all these chips and tricks into action and become the next big byob superstar

so you wanna be a Yob superstar and post large?
a gold thread, five stars, a pleasure barge
makin’ fun of the world, don't hate nobody
don’t even gotta check the post counts constantly
I remember the days when I was a newb just goonin' up
lookin' in the gibbis, dreamin' about blowin' it up
the lurker crowds, make funny, chill with the homies
sign autographs with probies the people request from me
tts funny how goldmined threads manifest
and the namedrops that be comin' with it
nevertheless, you got to go for the emptyquotes
but you don't know about the dabs, weed
and beers and losin' some of your cheer
and losin' some of yourself to the memes past, gone by
hopefully it don't manifest for a creepy guy
whitenoise and the unfunny don't know how to riff
just gas the thread
Garbage Dick sign the deal
think he's gonna make the front page but never will
'til he hands over a lot of 10 bux bills
fillin' your head with novelties, come with me
show the lulz it takes to make the 5's


thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

cuntman.net

City of Glompton posted:

so you wanna be a Yob superstar and post large?
a gold thread, five stars, a pleasure barge
makin’ fun of the world, don't hate nobody
don’t even gotta check the post counts constantly
I remember the days when I was a newb just goonin' up
lookin' in the gibbis, dreamin' about blowin' it up
the lurker crowds, make funny, chill with the homies
sign autographs with probies the people request from me
tts funny how goldmined threads manifest
and the namedrops that be comin' with it
nevertheless, you got to go for the emptyquotes
but you don't know about the dabs, weed
and beers and losin' some of your cheer
and losin' some of yourself to the memes past, gone by
hopefully it don't manifest for a creepy guy
whitenoise and the unfunny don't know how to riff
just gas the thread
Garbage Dick sign the deal
think he's gonna make the front page but never will
'til he hands over a lot of 10 bux bills
fillin' your head with novelties, come with me
show the lulz it takes to make the 5's

:vince:

joke_explainer


Tebulot posted:

What about hilarious cat images? Have you guys seen grumpycat it's hilarious hahah

Risky proposition for the re-use of popular cats, but people love animals here. Maybe you could be try To Thy Own Pet Be Obsessed, a gimmick where you constantly post about your own animals and post pictures of them.

joke_explainer


City of Glompton posted:

so you wanna be a Yob superstar and post large?
a gold thread, five stars, a pleasure barge
makin’ fun of the world, don't hate nobody
don’t even gotta check the post counts constantly
I remember the days when I was a newb just goonin' up
lookin' in the gibbis, dreamin' about blowin' it up
the lurker crowds, make funny, chill with the homies
sign autographs with probies the people request from me
tts funny how goldmined threads manifest
and the namedrops that be comin' with it
nevertheless, you got to go for the emptyquotes
but you don't know about the dabs, weed
and beers and losin' some of your cheer
and losin' some of yourself to the memes past, gone by
hopefully it don't manifest for a creepy guy
whitenoise and the unfunny don't know how to riff
just gas the thread
Garbage Dick sign the deal
think he's gonna make the front page but never will
'til he hands over a lot of 10 bux bills
fillin' your head with novelties, come with me
show the lulz it takes to make the 5's

holy poo poo

Wertjoe

City of Glompton posted:

so you wanna be a Yob superstar and post large?
a gold thread, five stars, a pleasure barge
makin’ fun of the world, don't hate nobody
don’t even gotta check the post counts constantly
I remember the days when I was a newb just goonin' up
lookin' in the gibbis, dreamin' about blowin' it up
the lurker crowds, make funny, chill with the homies
sign autographs with probies the people request from me
tts funny how goldmined threads manifest
and the namedrops that be comin' with it
nevertheless, you got to go for the emptyquotes
but you don't know about the dabs, weed
and beers and losin' some of your cheer
and losin' some of yourself to the memes past, gone by
hopefully it don't manifest for a creepy guy
whitenoise and the unfunny don't know how to riff
just gas the thread
Garbage Dick sign the deal
think he's gonna make the front page but never will
'til he hands over a lot of 10 bux bills
fillin' your head with novelties, come with me
show the lulz it takes to make the 5's

Stormyish

joke_explainer posted:

ooh, that's another gimmick, The Guy That Emptyquotes Everything. Just emptyquote. It's a kind of variation of the circlejerk one.

Or, you could be The Imageneer. You respond to everything with animated gifs, and maintain an extensive collection of them. So for Sleepy Owl's post, you would have been like:



Don't do that tho. It's annoying

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tao of lmao

City of Glompton posted:

so you wanna be a Yob superstar and post large?
a gold thread, five stars, a pleasure barge
makin’ fun of the world, don't hate nobody
don’t even gotta check the post counts constantly
I remember the days when I was a newb just goonin' up
lookin' in the gibbis, dreamin' about blowin' it up
the lurker crowds, make funny, chill with the homies
sign autographs with probies the people request from me
tts funny how goldmined threads manifest
and the namedrops that be comin' with it
nevertheless, you got to go for the emptyquotes
but you don't know about the dabs, weed
and beers and losin' some of your cheer
and losin' some of yourself to the memes past, gone by
hopefully it don't manifest for a creepy guy
whitenoise and the unfunny don't know how to riff
just gas the thread
Garbage Dick sign the deal
think he's gonna make the front page but never will
'til he hands over a lot of 10 bux bills
fillin' your head with novelties, come with me
show the lulz it takes to make the 5's

you're a treasure

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