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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

gnarlyhotep posted:

gotta agree with detectivemonkey's assessment:

"You have a way of annoying everyone who is on your side so much that they start disagreeing with you."

Lol

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Listen to the elderly retarded ex mod who is too afraid to post there about it

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

papa_november posted:

I seem to remember that the Cumulus Clouds incident led to a whole host of bans and other mod actions for anyone getting too vocal about it, but I guess nobody much cares anymore now that it happened nearly a decade ago and nobody's been sued. Not a lot survives about what happened and how, but these two accounts from Wikipedia people trying to reconstruct what happened sort of get the gist of it:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=35697
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2421

Between that and the dissolution of LF two years later a huge chunk of the resulting exodus was what eventually went on to populate Twitter and Tumblr.

This is why typical Tumblr posts have the irony and passive-agressiveness-drenched lowercase "fyad voice" that is instantly familiar to anyone who's been around this forum for long enough. The style spread like wildfire over there, with dozens of teens who never clicked on this site in their life imitating it exactly.

Twitter's 140-character limit also lended itself very well to people who were very used to communicating in the lazy, shorthand, nuclear-tipped manner that FYAD was famous for. It was more FYAD than FYAD could ever be, with a planetary audience far beyond "the pink forum".

Lol

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

gnarlyhotep posted:

counterpoint: who gives a poo poo

https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=whoposted&threadid=3821508

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