Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
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Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#2Entertaining article on the fail meme.
I sometimes wonder how "normal" people perceive this mass of variously geeky people on the net who practically speak a different language by now. I sometimes wonder how my parents would react if I sent them an email declaring that "I pwn3d some n00bs".
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#3It surely must be a sign of the apocalypse when we start seeing coverage of 4chan memes in mainstream media.
Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#4Entertaining article on the fail meme. I sometimes wonder how "normal" people perceive this mass of variously geeky people on the net who practically speak a different language by now. I sometimes wonder how my parents would react if I sent them an email declaring that "I pwn3d some n00bs".
Probably the same way that their reacted when they told them that mellowing out was groovy. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when they told them that the hep cats were jumpin'. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when told that some bird was the bee's knees.
Shrugging and invisibly rolling one's eyes seems like appropriate.
Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#5Because everyone loves Schadenfreude.
Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#6It surely must be a sign of the apocalypse when we start seeing coverage of 4chan memes in mainstream media.
How bad is it when we're seeing coverage of mainstream media's coverage of internet memes, on the internet.
Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#7I'm not sure how "lose" got replaced with "fail", but hackers have been using "win" in the same sense since long before 4chan came along. Also, using a designated but unusual superlative -- "epic fail" -- is a common hacker speech pattern, as with "die horribly" or "grok in fullness".
Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#8It surely must be a sign of the apocalypse when we start seeing coverage of 4chan memes in mainstream media.
Nah. It's pretty awesome: we're seeing, day by day, the birth of the new media.
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Re: Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
#10fail