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Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by corin_ on Saturday April 09, 2011 @07:47PM (#2428426)
Can anyone explain to me why I find 99.9% of memes boring as hell?

I have an extremely immature sense of humour, I spend a hell of a lot of time on the internet, they ought to be perfect for me. And they can be so popular that there must be something I'm missing.

Who else just doesn't care about memes?

Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by theoneill on Saturday April 09, 2011 @08:32PM (#2428504)
Depends what you mean by memes. The things on this site aren't really memes in the original sense of the word. The reason these things are boring is probably that as humor they fall on the far billboard end of the billboard-Shakespeare continuum: they are designed for quick (but inevitably shallow) appeal.
Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by ktsmith on Saturday April 09, 2011 @08:26PM (#2428497)
I hate everything about them, it's not just you.
Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by petervandijck on Saturday April 09, 2011 @08:08PM (#2428451)
Good idea, but the site is a little slow. Also, it'd be nice if you could get rid of all the visual noise around the photos, it's distracting.
Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by revorad on Saturday April 09, 2011 @07:32PM (#2428388)
It's quite fun. There's something strangely addictive about these click-on-one-of-the-two=pics sites.

Are you just scraping the icanhascheezburger network for the images?

Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by thatusertwo on Sunday April 10, 2011 @01:17AM (#2428883)
naw, some are from that site, but a lot of them are just collected over time from the internet in general.
Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by wushupork on Saturday April 09, 2011 @08:08PM (#2428453)
This is so funny - it's great. I bet you can find people who will spend a whole afternoon on this.
Re:Ask HN: Rate my weekend project. by user9756 on Saturday April 09, 2011 @07:37PM (#2428401)
Your site claimed 11 minutes of my life...

It was worth it ;)