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United States24701 Posts
Meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_phenomenon
Lately a lot of people have been talking about how they hate how memes are beaten to death on Teamliquid. Most people agree that when a TL specific meme first comes out, then it's okay to hop on the bandwagon and make a joke about it... but then it has to just die. We can disagree on exactly how soon is too late, but after a while it becomes obvious.
The purpose of this thread is to identify memes overdue for extinction, and then make it known that they are no longer good for repeating. In general, the older the meme, the worse it is to use it (there are obviously exceptions where it is okay to use it, but be careful). Red means the oldest memes. Do not go near them. Green means not quite as old, but still past the point where you should really consider using them. Blue means they made the list of overdue memes, but they aren't completely old/dead/beaten.
Teamliquid Memes (oldest first):
1: PRESSURE: Relic, thanks to LastShadow. More information required.
2: Romania: When a few Romanians in the same time period missed the sarcasm of a few posts, it was decided that being Romanian is synonymous with being unable to understand sarcasm.
ex: Bob is being Romanian <in a post where he didn't get the sarcasm>
3: down down down: The TSL's intro song was called "Prayer of the Refugee," and the particular part of the song used was the chorus. The lyrics are as follows:
Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!
Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!
4: It's a replay?: Also from TSL. Because of the possibility cheating and/or technical difficulties, the broadcast games were always played beforehand, then the commentators commentated on the replay. Many people on IRC and on the forums did not expect this and were somewhat offended, exclaiming "It's a replay?" when they found out. Now it's become a sort of running joke.
5: Protoss is ez (1a2a3a): Around when bisu became popular, protoss become a more successful race for several reasons. A joke propagated that protoss is the easiest race, and that you can get away with just using 1a2a3a to win matches.
ex:
Bob: Damn almost all of the letter keys on my keyboard are missing.
Jane: Is the 'a' key still there? You can always switch to protoss.
ex2:
Bob: Can someone find a protoss strategy guide for me?
Jane: google '1a2a3a'
6: combat-ex: Talks really quickly. More information required.
This is just a preliminary list. Honestly, I don't use that many memes (only a few exceptions) so I'm not that familiar with a lot of them. Please feel free to correct them.
Ways to improve the list of Teamliquid Memes:
1: Specify a necessary change to the chronology (ie protoss is ez came after combat-ex)
2: Give more information about the description of the meme.
3: Give a better example.
4: Suggest a meme for incorporation into the list. Give as much background as you can.
5: Suggest the lines for red/green/blue be drawn differently (shifted) to better represent the danger levels of these memes.
Remember, only you can prevent overused Teamliquid Memes!
+ Show Spoiler +Staff, if you want to hijack this please go ahead. If you think it does not need to exist, then please remove it. But I think something should be put in place since there is so much bitching lately about memes.
edit: btw if you want to blast this thread with memes then go ahead and get it out of your system lol
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what gives you the right to whats funny or not and telling what other people to enjoy?
Your no comedic king around here, if it sucks, it will die down eventually.
And its only within our circle makes our humor unique, its a forum inside joke, it gives it some merit doesn't it?
btw im going to sleep so don't expect a reply anytime soon, ciao.
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United States24701 Posts
On October 27 2008 12:19 ._. wrote:
what gives you the right to whats funny or not and telling what other people to enjoy?
Your no comedic king around here, if it sucks, it will die down eventually.
And its only within our circle makes our humor unique, its a forum inside joke, it gives it some merit doesn't it?
btw im going to sleep so don't expect a reply anytime soon, ciao.
No I don't choose anything. You guys do democratically.
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ican'ttakethepressureofbeingRomanian...maybeillswitchtoprotoss.
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But it gets extremely old after awhile =P. Especially when people kill the 1a2a3a protoss ez joke (though I'll admit that I've conformed to it a couple of times ;( ).
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the 1a2a3a is kinda annoying, even if ur not a toss user
but combat ex is open game as far as im concerned
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On October 27 2008 12:21 paper wrote:
ican'ttakethepressureofbeingRomanian...maybeillswitchtoprotoss.
oh, i see what u did there
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holla at meeeee number 1!
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is awesome32275 Posts
On October 27 2008 12:21 paper wrote:
ican'ttakethepressureofbeingRomanian...maybeillswitchtoprotoss.
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United States24701 Posts
If you guys feel strongly, then make a poll. If it's obvious, then I'll add it to the OP.
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On October 27 2008 12:19 ._. wrote:
what gives you the right to whats funny or not and telling what other people to enjoy?
Your no comedic king around here, if it sucks, it will die down eventually.
And its only within our circle makes our humor unique, its a forum inside joke, it gives it some merit doesn't it?
btw im going to sleep so don't expect a reply anytime soon, ciao.
lol
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I recall 'down down down' was just something people spammed in IRC as the song was playing, didn't really think it was a meme. I think combat-ex was about 4pooling yourself to a high rank on ICC? (not sure on that)
I remember jlig (just let it go), and one more that was related to it, might be meme-ish. Or maybe that incident with the Bear? don't remember the exact threads these took place in.
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On October 27 2008 12:21 paper wrote:
ican'ttakethepressureofbeingRomanian...maybeillswitchtoprotoss.
hahahaha
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It's a replay!? was at the same time as down down down. Both were during TSL, and were mostly just things that were spammed in IRC.
edit: at ghostclaws, down down down is sort of a meme because people will still say it if a live stream goes down
edit2: I agree with d.arkive, Bisu Build must be included.
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Oh, maybe klazart bashing might count. Yea we know he's not that great, but it's not really that funny to bring him up every time there's a new commentator =p.
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When YellOw wins an OSL. I find it to be quite funny, but whatever.
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Does making jokes about GGnet/SC2GG members count as a meme?
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4: Protoss is ez (1a2a3a): Around when bisu became popular, protoss become a more successful race for several reasons. A joke propagated that protoss is the easiest race, and that you can get away with just using 1a2a3a to win matches.
ex:
Bob: Damn almost all of the letter keys on my keyboard are missing.
Jane: Is the 'a' key still there? You can always switch to protoss.
I wasnt aware that was a joke
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On October 27 2008 12:12 micronesia wrote:
[green]3: down down down: Intro song in TSL. More information required.
The TSL's intro song was called "Prayer of the Refugee," and the particular part of the song used was the chorus. The lyrics are as follows:
Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!
Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!
Because of the prevalence of the word "down," people on IRC would spam it when the intro came up. Due to a stream issue where the stream failed around this time, people joked about the stream being "down" as well.
6: It's a replay?: More information required.
Also from TSL. Because of the possibility cheating and/or technical difficulties, the broadcast games were always played beforehand, then the commentators commentated on the replay. Many people on IRC and on the forums did not expect this and were somewhat offended, exclaiming "It's a replay?" when they found out. Now it's become a sort of running joke similar to Romania.
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