Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?(slate.com)
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Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?
http://slate.com/id/2202262
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It 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.
Nah. It's pretty awesome: we're seeing, day by day, the birth of the new media.
It is interesting that everyone here considers Slate a mainstream medium...
I'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".
Entertaining 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".
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.
Shrugging and invisibly rolling one's eyes seems like appropriate.
way that their reacted
Noun fail!
Noun fail!
Everyone said "FAIL" about three months ago. Get with the times, dude!
Because everyone loves Schadenfreude.
..because success just doesn't taste as sweet without it.
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Beause it's epic.
FAIL
(writer overlooks "FTW" as meme partner...)
(writer overlooks "FTW" as meme partner...)
SUCCES!
That article was over 9000. 4chan slang got 10/15'd.
fail
Answer to question FAIL.