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In the style of The Many Memes of Meta

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the internet, can now explode across the earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As with their IRL counterparts, some infectious diseases are global, while others are endemic to specific regions.

Here we try to catalog some of these pathological sociological constructs that taint the water in our humble corner of the internet, Gaming.StackExchange.

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These are really all memes of Gaming.SE chat, they don't tend to show up on the site itself. – bwarner May 5 '11 at 15:25
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@bwarner Closest is [murder], or more accurately badp's comment on it, as that portion exists mostly within comments on here and the parent Q&A moreso than on the chat. Well, and GnomeSlice, since we don't actually chat all that much about his eccentricities. We have a bunch of Q&A-centric injokes (like how irritating it is to see Mana's face plastered on every other post), but I don't think any of that is really memetic yet. – Grace Note♦ May 5 '11 at 16:13
...no lazers? Honestly? Really? For serious, now? – Ben Brocka Jun 13 '12 at 3:47

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Meme: Questions that are absurd without context

Originator: Various

Cultural Height: As Often as Possible

Background:

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@bwarner - @names will only notify if the user has edited or otherwise responded to a comment. If Jin reads this post, it won't be because of your @Jin. – Raven Dreamer♦ May 5 '11 at 22:30
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@bwarner Jin isn't a developer in any case, just some artsy-fartsy guy. – Nick T May 6 '11 at 13:01
-1, you missed the one about drinking. – GnomeSlice May 7 '11 at 23:20
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@Gnome then by all means, add it! – Raven Dreamer♦ May 8 '11 at 2:40
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@badp - what do you mean 'we don't need the entire list of questions' ? – Raven Dreamer♦ May 17 '11 at 15:14
@Raven Exactly what it says on the tin. There's no need to have the global compendium of all the questions with slighty disturbing titles; just the best examples will do. Do we need a list of all the "ARDA IS A TERRIBLE MOD" jokes? – badp♦ May 17 '11 at 15:45
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@Badp - there's more than one? – Raven Dreamer♦ May 17 '11 at 16:39
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@badp Of course we do. – user56 Aug 8 '11 at 17:53
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This is cute when it occurs naturally, but I feel like increased efforts to force questions to be funny when a less amusing wording would be more natural is causing some of the shine to rub off. – jsnlxndrlv Sep 6 '11 at 22:59
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Also see this question on Meta for a good selection of absurd question titles: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/2521/… – jaminja Sep 8 '11 at 19:33
@RavenDreamer added the one about drinking.. – Bora Nov 11 '11 at 16:15
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Meme: GnomeSlice getting into trouble in Minecraft

Originator: GnomeSlice

Cultural Height: ?

Background:

Related:

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+1 for ego boost. – GnomeSlice May 4 '11 at 23:59
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Meme: Arda is going to make a terrible mod

Originator: Mana

Cultural Height: Terrible

Background

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Ah, we will never have those stars back... – user56 May 6 '11 at 10:12
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@Arda If it's any source of forgiveness, this is now my workaround for certain interface issues. – Grace Note♦ May 6 '11 at 15:27
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+1 for ego boost. Another +1 for ripping off @GnomeSlice. – user56 May 7 '11 at 21:49
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In memory of murder:

A lot of us loved [tag:murder]. Even many of us who knew it was a terrible tag, we still found its application humorous and the concept gave us entertainment. We're sad to see it go, but we're enduring its loss so that we can pave a way to a much greater future.

Meme: tag.

Originator: GnomeSlice.

Cultural Height: Probably about Here.

Murdered on: November 17th, 2011

Background:

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The actual originator is Grace Note, with her comments about our friendly mass murderers in the community. – badp♦ May 5 '11 at 6:19
@badp As amusing as that is, I hadn't even seen/heard of that quip when I created the first murder tag on my die2nite question. – GnomeSlice Dec 3 '12 at 15:28
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Meme: Wipqozn's law of gravitation.

Every topic on The Bridge, must, inevitably, eventually return to Minecraft and TF2.

Originator: Wipqozn

Cultural height: Whenever there's an active conversation on The Bridge

Background: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1228881#1228881

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Meme: QA

Originator: The love of puns.

Cultural Height: June 12th, when the site name 'Arqade' and new design were published.

Background: Badp thought he was being oh, so clever. Now look what you've done. Half the chat has changed their name to include 'QA' in it somewhere.

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Meme: Photoshopping Mana's avatar onto other photos

Originator: Ronan Forman

Cultural Height: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2239295#2239295

Background: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1425948#1425948

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Every time I see that room full of Manas I think of that scene from Being John Malkovich. – sjohnston Dec 4 '11 at 6:26
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Meme: @Wipqozn is to blame

Originator: Spugsley (Wipqozn drove her to it because it is his fault, after all)

Cultural Height: Whenever there is real or imagined blame to be apportioned, and preferably with lots of pings to @Wipqozn while he is not in chat (thus summoning him in the middle of random tortoise turtle stuff)

Proof by Sterno

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Meme: John being sad and saying :(

Originator: John

Cultural Height: Whenever John is in chat and Wipqozn is around to star the :(

Background:

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Shouldn't you just post a new answer? – Ullallulloo Feb 1 '12 at 3:48
@Ullallulloo I didn't feel like letting the bytes go to waste. – John the Green Feb 1 '12 at 3:50
I lol'd. This made my day. – Wipqozn Feb 1 '12 at 14:44
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Meme: Lazers

Originator:

Cultural Height: The Mass Effect 3 promotion, "ME3Missions", which gave us:

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Background: See here.

Special Shout-out: Jin. For giving us Lazers <3

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Meme: spugly pls

Originator: Mana

Cultural Height: Whenever dolan is being discussed or spugsley needs a pls.

Background: Mana was the first to stumble upon dolan. GnomeSlice saw it and linked spugsley to some Dolan comics about a half hour later, but she initially ignored them. Mana posted some more ~17 hours later, but just bothered Fluttershy somewhat. Then Mana posted them to spugsley, and discovered that apparently she really hates them. After about ten minutes of her having a mental breakdown, "spugsley plz".

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You're forgetting the part where @Mana posted adorable pictures of puppies and then changed all of them to dolan after I said they were adorable. He's the worst person – spugsley Aug 4 '12 at 0:39
@spugsley That sounds like it belongs under cultural height. – Wipqozn Aug 4 '12 at 12:36
hey, I invented spugly pls and, AND a custom dolan just to irritate her, so nyah. – agent86♦ Oct 2 '12 at 16:48
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Meme: What is Love 10 Hours video.

Originator: Wipqozn

Cultural Height: Whenever someone feels like trolling Gnomeslice.

Background: MsDugITBANI

EDIT : The original video (or at least, at this URL) is no longer available on Youtube. Tragic.

EDIT : O happy day, a mirror of the original has been obtained!

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