19th September 2010, 5:06 PM
What is pedo bear? Is that some engrish way of referring to big foot? Sounds like it...
SJ, that string of nonsensical gibberish was awesome.
Here's the thing GR. I don't go to "Memeforum.com" where everyone's discussing the internet's latest culture. I go to specific forums that are "relevant to my interests". Sometimes a meme crosses those forums, but not always. Heck if I started quoted "doggerals" (a local meme to the skeptics) you'd scratch your head too. I watch anime, but I don't vist anime forums. I get my fill of whatever finds its way to me from TV or one of my friends, and that tends to be enough.
I will say this though. I used to think I was among "my own" at the local convention in town, but this last year was some sort of revelation. Every single person there was dressed as some insane thing from something I've never seen before, and they were constantly quoting memes I didn't understand. I just walked around scratching my head saying "what?" the entire weekend, in what I'm sure must have been the same way MOST people see previous conventions. Sure there was the occasional Crono or Cloud here and there, and I think even a Portal thing, but most of it was just... bizarre... An example: There were people dressed up as nationalities. That is, as the country ITSELF, not like wearing a big country shaped suit like a PBS special, but dressed as, say, an SS officer with the tag "Germany" on it, responding like their name WAS Germany, like they were the literal personification OF Germany. People were constantly shouting out "Mother Russia!" to someone dressed as the anthropormophosized concept of Russia. Some of them... were rather odd, but what struck me was that two people dressed as the same "country" had the SAME costume. I just had to ask. The response was this was some sort of popular show in Japan which apparently, from what I could gather, is World History as told via high school drama. Honestly, the concept is so hilarious that I can't help but want to see it, but it struck me as clear from that and a number of other random quotes that I'm OLD now.
Here's the deal GR. It's not JUST TC. If you went to any number of online public forums that don't deal in anime, I'm sure bringing up memes would just get you blank stares. "Narwhals narwhals livin' in the ocean" would probably just get you a confused look instead of someone quoting the rest of that awesome song. Nobody at the Big Brother forums would get it, or Home and Garden, or most of the various sciency forums I visit, because well, it may be the internet, but due to the nature of humanity, there will ALWAYS be subgroups and their own popular fads that never cross to other parts. Language barriers included. It's really a miracle that something like this "moe" thing managed to cross borders.
Edit: What most disappointed me is that the memes I'm most familiar with really just set me apart from the "new nerd crowd" when I quoted them. Like, no one there got the "all your base" thing, and when I brought up classic gaming, well, boredom was the result. It seems like "my crowd", tiny as it was, ended up terrified and segregated from the dominating new crowd. Well, can't stop the future, but for the most part a lot of that stuff really just seemed like recycled versions of the anime shows I've seen, just with slightly different groups of enemies who fight and become best friends to fight stronger and stronger challenges while learning a little something about themselves and getting whatever that show's version of "Super Saiyan" is. Every show is someone's first, but it's telling when the convention has NO Star Trek guys or anyone dressed as Spiderman.
So yeah, I end up just hiding away in the Smash Bros Brawl area just fightin' away with everyone in the room. Classic. There was a kid there dressed as Pit, adorable. Unfortunately, that's where the convention got creepy. These women walking around with leashes kept trying to get this kid to be their "pet angel", and otherwise just being ridiculously creepy... I guess it was some sort of in-joke? But... it wasn't funny... To go with the modern meme thing, where was Chris Hansen during all this?
SJ, that string of nonsensical gibberish was awesome.
Here's the thing GR. I don't go to "Memeforum.com" where everyone's discussing the internet's latest culture. I go to specific forums that are "relevant to my interests". Sometimes a meme crosses those forums, but not always. Heck if I started quoted "doggerals" (a local meme to the skeptics) you'd scratch your head too. I watch anime, but I don't vist anime forums. I get my fill of whatever finds its way to me from TV or one of my friends, and that tends to be enough.
I will say this though. I used to think I was among "my own" at the local convention in town, but this last year was some sort of revelation. Every single person there was dressed as some insane thing from something I've never seen before, and they were constantly quoting memes I didn't understand. I just walked around scratching my head saying "what?" the entire weekend, in what I'm sure must have been the same way MOST people see previous conventions. Sure there was the occasional Crono or Cloud here and there, and I think even a Portal thing, but most of it was just... bizarre... An example: There were people dressed up as nationalities. That is, as the country ITSELF, not like wearing a big country shaped suit like a PBS special, but dressed as, say, an SS officer with the tag "Germany" on it, responding like their name WAS Germany, like they were the literal personification OF Germany. People were constantly shouting out "Mother Russia!" to someone dressed as the anthropormophosized concept of Russia. Some of them... were rather odd, but what struck me was that two people dressed as the same "country" had the SAME costume. I just had to ask. The response was this was some sort of popular show in Japan which apparently, from what I could gather, is World History as told via high school drama. Honestly, the concept is so hilarious that I can't help but want to see it, but it struck me as clear from that and a number of other random quotes that I'm OLD now.
Here's the deal GR. It's not JUST TC. If you went to any number of online public forums that don't deal in anime, I'm sure bringing up memes would just get you blank stares. "Narwhals narwhals livin' in the ocean" would probably just get you a confused look instead of someone quoting the rest of that awesome song. Nobody at the Big Brother forums would get it, or Home and Garden, or most of the various sciency forums I visit, because well, it may be the internet, but due to the nature of humanity, there will ALWAYS be subgroups and their own popular fads that never cross to other parts. Language barriers included. It's really a miracle that something like this "moe" thing managed to cross borders.
Edit: What most disappointed me is that the memes I'm most familiar with really just set me apart from the "new nerd crowd" when I quoted them. Like, no one there got the "all your base" thing, and when I brought up classic gaming, well, boredom was the result. It seems like "my crowd", tiny as it was, ended up terrified and segregated from the dominating new crowd. Well, can't stop the future, but for the most part a lot of that stuff really just seemed like recycled versions of the anime shows I've seen, just with slightly different groups of enemies who fight and become best friends to fight stronger and stronger challenges while learning a little something about themselves and getting whatever that show's version of "Super Saiyan" is. Every show is someone's first, but it's telling when the convention has NO Star Trek guys or anyone dressed as Spiderman.
So yeah, I end up just hiding away in the Smash Bros Brawl area just fightin' away with everyone in the room. Classic. There was a kid there dressed as Pit, adorable. Unfortunately, that's where the convention got creepy. These women walking around with leashes kept trying to get this kid to be their "pet angel", and otherwise just being ridiculously creepy... I guess it was some sort of in-joke? But... it wasn't funny... To go with the modern meme thing, where was Chris Hansen during all this?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)