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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by river_styx on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:03PM (#335824)
It surely must be a sign of the apocalypse when we start seeing coverage of 4chan memes in mainstream media.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by biohacker42 on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:40PM (#335863)
How bad is it when we're seeing coverage of mainstream media's coverage of internet memes, on the internet.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by olefoo on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:00PM (#335999)
We will know the tubocalypse has truly arrived when someone suggests that "Congress should work like Digg"; and they get play in the mainstream media.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by jhancock on Friday October 17, 2008 @11:36PM (#336238)
Congress already works like Digg; except you acquire karma points by lining someone's pocket ;)
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by unalone on Friday October 17, 2008 @03:06PM (#335884)
Nah. It's pretty awesome: we're seeing, day by day, the birth of the new media.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by MaysonL on Saturday October 18, 2008 @03:53PM (#336599)
It is interesting that everyone here considers Slate a mainstream medium...
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by marvin on Saturday October 18, 2008 @12:13PM (#336492)
It's worse than this, my regional newspaper actually covered /b/ itself - "the place where the Internet throws up at 4 in the morning".
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by markbao on Saturday October 18, 2008 @03:09PM (#336583)
Wow, talk about rules 1 and 2.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by dfranke on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:54PM (#335874)
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".
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by swombat on Friday October 17, 2008 @01:20PM (#335784)
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".

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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by hugh on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:13PM (#335832)
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.

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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by smanek on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:21PM (#336174)
way that their reacted

Noun fail!

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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by mhartl on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:51PM (#336186)
Everyone said "FAIL" about three months ago. Get with the times, dude!
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by jmilton on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:26PM (#335845)
Because everyone loves Schadenfreude.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by louislouis on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:18PM (#336173)
..because success just doesn't taste as sweet without it.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by aswanson on Saturday October 18, 2008 @04:09PM (#336614)
Beause it's epic.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by radley on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:41PM (#336033)
FAIL

(writer overlooks "FTW" as meme partner...)

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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by morphle2 on Saturday October 18, 2008 @10:06AM (#336445)
SUCCES!
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by time_management on Friday October 17, 2008 @06:17PM (#336063)
That article was over 9000. 4chan slang got 10/15'd.
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by markbao on Friday October 17, 2008 @11:12PM (#336220)
You're doing it wrong.

;)

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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by time_management on Friday October 17, 2008 @11:44PM (#336245)
I'm sooooo confused!
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by qqq on Friday October 17, 2008 @04:57PM (#335996)
fail
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Re:Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? by whacked_new on Friday October 17, 2008 @08:10PM (#336137)
Answer to question FAIL.
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