Escapist memes

[Gabanuka]

I was reading up on the origins of memes and I noticed most of them are from 4chan. It got me thinking, has the Escapist been the sorce of any memes? None of them seem to come rom this site, I would a thought a website as big as this would have one or two. If you don't have a answer feel free to post your fav memes.

 

[Space Spoons]

I guess "search bar" is kind of a meme. Outside of that, though, I don't think the Escapist is the kind of forum that lends itself to such things.

 

[Segadroid]

I see the words 'use the searchbar' and 'stop trolling'(obscured) sometimes, but that's really about it.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I don't think so, but we tend to discourage short, low content posts that make up memes.

 

[Soxafloppin]

When i first joined i thought that the search bar thing was a meme, boy was i wrong!

 

[Armored Prayer]

I like to think that Zero Punctuation has spawn quite a few memes here.

 

[SmartIdiot]

None that go outwith the site. Also, most memes don't originate on 4chan, they just take credit for them.

 

[MurderousToaster]

The Escapist tends to promote discussion rather than low-content "LOOK AT ME I CAN RECYCLE OLD GARBAGE DURRRHEEEEY" posts. There are very few things that could even be considered low-level memes, and even those are only on the Escapist itself.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

The Basement is a fairly consistent meme.

Apart from that just 'search bar' which I think sometimes gets overused, but a lot of the time the topic will have been done and would be really easy to find by typing a single word into the search bar.

 

[Flamezdudes]

What about the cookie reference one? It seems quite common here.

 

[Harlemura]

Although it's not really a meme, you can guarantee someone's going to say "Report and move on" in a troll thread.
Could turn it into a joke if you really tried, I suppose.

 

[Quaxar]

I don't think so, but we tend to discourage short, low content posts that make up memes.

That's true. 4chan makes it simple for memes to get public because people can post every non-sequitur picture without adding anything to the discussion. Now here on the Escapist you'd probably get a probation for that, which makes it unattractive to post sillyness in the first hand.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I say we came up with Ninja'd...ut that's it.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Cookie for Reference, Search Bar Approved, and The Basement are the only ones i can think of.

 

[Spinozaad]

The "witty" poll option, "search bar" and all those others are fairly common messageboard stuff.

This just isn't the kind of forum fit for memes.

 

[newfoundsky]

We could always make one. . .

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

We could always make one. . .

..Or not.


OT: One of my favourite things about The Escapist is the (relative) lack of Memes. Sure there are traditions such as welcoming and Warning about the Basement, The Search Bar and people getting 'Ninja'd' But other than that its all quite Meme-free.

 

[nick n stuff]

search bar and damn ninjas but not really along the same vein as 4chan

 

[NotAPie]

I don't think we have any me- ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!

 

[Jack and Calumon]

I only know of the search bar. Everyone who mentions "The Basement" is talking about something I don't know of.

Calumon: I know! Those Pineapples!