Memetic X Cleanup

Speaking of that, I removed a Scrappy entry for him just recently, due to the hate being about the event rather than his character.

Edited by PlasmaPower on Apr 4th 2020 at 11:45:01 AM

Do Goku and Vegeta really belong on MemeticBadass.Anime And Manga? Also, the image looks like uncredited fanart of Kamina^note I haven't watched the show, so it could be a stitched screenshot with an Art Shift which doesn't show the "memetic" part or the "badass" part.

It’s Just a Face and a Caption, take it to the Image Pickin’ thread to get it pulled.

YMMV.Animal Crossing New Horizons

• Memetic Mutation:
  • Fishing memes:
    • I caught a sea bass! No wait — it's at least a C+! ^Explanation Sea bass are back, and just as annoying as before. They have a large shadow, making it easy to mistake them for a different, much more valuable large fish like an oarfish or coelacanth, only to be rewarded with a common fish that sells for a whopping 400 Bells. Of course, this just means that the pun associated with catching it is as prominent as the fish itself, and the catching dialogue doesn't change to a remark on their common nature after a few catches this time.
    • In a similar vein: Manila is my favorite flavor of clam! ^Explanation You get this every time you dig up a clam on the beach. Gained memetic status in light of just how many clams people were digging up to make into bait to prepare for the Fishing Tourney.
    • I caught a black bass! The most metal of all fish!^Explanation Similar to above, except on rivers. Particularly applicable when players are trying to catch a stringfish or snapping turtle.
    • I caught a carp! If I catch another they can carpool!^Explanation The Pond equivalent to Sea and Black Bass.
    • That's an egg, not a fish!^Explanation During the Bunny Day event, it's possible to fish up eggs from any source of water; with frustratingly common frequency (it doesn't help that the eggs use medium-sized shadows, which is shared by a trove of other fish in the rivers and especially the oceans in April). Seeing this line over and over, some can't help but at least think it was an intentional troll from the localization staff Lampshade Hanging the frequence with which they show up.
    • Can we go back to sea bass? ^Explanation In response to practically every medium-sized fish being replaced with an egg, many have◊ made◊ jokes◊ about how they'd rather go back to endless sea bass and other common fish rather than perpetual sea eggs.

  • Please end the conversation.^Explanation Whenever a another player joins over Wi-Fi, there is a brief scene where the character can be seen flying over the island and disembarking from the airport. If a player is currently talking to a town NPC at the time, this not only delays the scene, but holds everyone else hostage as they are unable to move while this is going on. Given the increased player count online, this can easily snowball into large portions of time where players can't do anything, either unintentionally (like if a bunch of players are flooding the town to sell turnips at a high price) or intentionally. As such, the phrase asking the player to end the conversation has become infamous among the online Animal Crossing players.
    • Wuh-oh! Looks like we're getting interference... Hang on... Someone not put their NookPhone into airplane mode again?^Explanation Quote from Orville when trying to enter or leave someone's island while someone on that island is in a conversation or is on one of the menus and doesn't end it fast enough.

Do these seem like complaining memes?

I'd say all of those are valid except "Can we go back to sea bass?" which just looks like a general complaint rather than a meme.

I have no idea what counts as a meme but came across this while cleaning-up Examples Are Not Recent an wondered if it was really an example:

• Memetic Mutation: After some teasers for the new Idoneth Deepkin faction, the phrase "Deepkin WHEN" started doing the rounds.

Bringing up these examples from New Warriors 2020:

• Memetic Loser: The entire team suffers from this to a certain degree, with B-Negative being the sole exception (given his powers are similar to those of Michael Morbius).
  • Trailblazer is generally called useless, with or without her magic backpack, since even when she has it, it's up to chance if she'll actually end up useful or not. Some even made jokes about someone stealing the backpack, essentially rendering her completely useless.
  • Screentime, for being a "meme-obsessed teen", is frequently portrayed as a NEET or Sad Clown. Nevermind to how the internet might actually scar him for life, which is always Played for Laughs.
• Memetic Mutation: the term "Experimental internet gas" quickly became a meme due to how narmy it sounded.

Uh, is that series even out yet? I don't think it's appropriate to be adding Memetic X entries based on people's reactions to a (admittedly widely-ridiculed) ad.

~Highfalutin Quelea just removed a bunch of entries from Memes.US Politics without an edit reason.

Admittedly, that page could probably use a major trim of "memes" that died out after half an hour, but given the particular entries removed, I'm concerned about possible bias?

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Apr 23rd 2020 at 7:51:04 AM

Hey, guys. It's just that the "memes" seem less like "memes" and more of political attacks and insulting hashtags. I guess they kind of are memes in a certain format, but it just seems like mudslinging.

Politics being politics, a lot of the memes are going to be jokes at the expense of one candidate or another.

Like I said, we could certainly trim away "memes" that are just something funny one person said once, but being clearly anti-one-particular-candidate isn't by itself enough to remove an entry.

It looks like most of what was deleted was anti-Biden. They might have a bit of an agenda.

Maybe bring them in here?

They did post immediately after me, so we've got that part down

i was the one that put in the Pete and "Status Quo" Joe memes and those memes and puns did spread and were used during the primary, "Wall Street" Pete and "Status Quo" Joe were some of the first nicknames they got during the primary

I really should take Memes.US Politics off my watchlist entirely, because there's no way it's ever not gonna be a cesspool, but before I do, can someone glance over the recent additions by Aacorn Soup and see if you get the same Righting Great Wrongs vibe I did?

There's definitely something off with those particular edits.

Recently, a bunch of examples for Memetic Mutation on YMMV.Despicable Me were un-commented-out:

• "CURSE YOU TINY TOILET!"
• "Does this count as annoying?"
• "Freeze Ray!"
• "WHAAAAAAAAT?"
• "Liiiightbulb!"
• "Knocked oooooveeeeer!"

Not only do they all lack context, I’ve never seen any of these lines become full-on memes. Should I just cut them all?

That's just a list of quotes with no explanation behind them. Cut.

Oooooooh, what memetic page has tons of ZCE's?

...Okay, on a serious note, Memes.Spongebob Squarepants needs a scrubbing. A lot of quotes with no explanation as to why they're memes.

Let's get meta for a moment: Memes.TV Tropes is horribly outdated, with some ZCEs, memes that aren't exclusive to this site or even really memes at all (just a troper Verbal Tic if anything), and it's just generally outdated so that it's hard to understand if you joined the site past the time these memes were popular (and some of these memes seem at least a decade old).

Any "meme" without an explanation is a ZCE and can be removed.

I'd say commented out, but... these are so old. The ones that aren't just troper Verbal Tic are things that happened so long ago. If we can't give them context, is it worth waiting around for someone who knows the context to finally come along?

Edited by WarJay77 on Jul 21st 2020 at 9:12:09 AM

I mean, if they were really popular memes at some point they're worth noting. We have old shows on here that spurned memes that are long gone, but they still existed at some point. I'm hoping one of the veterans will add some context and maybe cut any examples that weren't actually big memes.

I think we have Discredited Meme for these ancient items.