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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Area 64 on August 20, 2009, 11:42:20 PM
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I was browsing the internet as usual when I stumbled across this interesting picture.
http://elontirien.deviantart.com/art/Internet-University-Cast-120846620 (http://elontirien.deviantart.com/art/Internet-University-Cast-120846620)
I have to say, I find this picture quite impressive. The "characters" really look to have a lot of personality, and even their clothes somehow seem fitting to their internet counterparts. And why stop with just these seven; who knows how many websites would make for interesting personifications?
Also, that story sounds really interesting. I hope the artist posts it eventually.
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Pretty accurate, although Facebook and MySpace should be teenage girls and Twitter should be more openly gay.
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I picture Wikipedia as generally giving decent, if obtuse and/or poorly worded answers in class, but occassionally answering with "CARL IS GAY PENIS PENIS PENIS" before quickly correcting himself and apologizing. And he'll punch you in the face if you ever try to talk about anything too obscure for him to care about -- and if you ever (correctly) retort that some of the things he cares about are way more obscure and unimportant than the stuff you talk about, he'll slap you while yelling "WP:OTHERSTUFF, *****!")
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Good God, I wonder what Encyclopedia Dramatica looks like.
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4chan would be a disheveled, unshaved, pale, creepy young man who always hangs out behind the K-Mart for like hours each day, wearing the exact same hoodie and jeans, except no one tells him to go away since they're afraid he'll bite them and give them hepatitis. His speech consists almost entirely of internally developed, bizarre catchphrases, and profanity. Despite his appearance and personality, he is somehow manages to convince people he's never met to do him favors and spread knowledge of him, though refuses to return any favors. In his spare time, he helps catch pedophiles and would-be terrorists, though for his own personal amusement instead of any sense of morality.
Encyclopedia Dramatica would be a very neat, tidy, mild-mannered white homeschooled kid with almost no real friends who tries really hard to be exactly like 4chan until he has to go home for bedtime at eight every day.
TV Tropes would be that one nerd in school that everyone sees as cool and treats with respect, and no one knows why. Tends to hold conversations that can last for hours on end, but are never boring.
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TV Tropes would be that one nerd in school that everyone sees as cool and treats with respect, and no one knows why. Tends to hold conversations that can last for hours on end, but are never boring.
No wonder I love the site so much, that's exactly the role I had in my last year of high school. :P
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TV Tropes would be that one nerd in school that everyone sees as cool and treats with respect, and no one knows why. Tends to hold conversations that can last for hours on end, but are never boring.
For some reason, I imagine TV Tropes being a girl. Maybe the nerdy, fanfic-writing, pop-culture saavy twin sister of Wikipedia.
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Like this (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope-tan)?
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MySpace IRL
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_pH66PHRFF6M%2FSlnZKgMxW8I%2FAAAAAAAAFLU%2F4zrEqFC1y2g%2Fs400%2F989523FatManAtComputer.jpg&hash=f85c422d14d4b348f409a8cb3a015fdf)
...Which begs the question, what would TMK look like?
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Weegee keeps dissing MySpace because he's jealous of all the people who have one.
TMK would be a nerd that nobody likes.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.telus.net%2Fegeldart%2Fmedia%2Fmarioron.jpg&hash=4cc4b043b6d8a613ccfbe46844e57b32)
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.eurielec.etsit.upm.es%2Fgaldecoa%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2007%2F05%2Fron-jeremy-super-mario.jpg&hash=309aa26d300fa41812b1ccacc850fa34)
That's what TMK would look like.
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Never seen the second photo before.
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TK would be a nerd that nobody likes.
Fixed.
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TMK would be a nerd that nobody likes.
You're describing yourself.
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Wow, the illustrator got DeviantArt completely and utterly wrong. But its no surprise since the picture comes from a Tartlet itself.
dA should be an overwieght, hambeast girl wearing tons of pseudo-japanese clothing covered in buttons from Hot Topic (many of which would feature characters from popular anime or "dark" cartoons). Also, she should be crying about how much life hates her.
Facebook isn't white enough in my opinion. Give him blond hair and a Barack Obama bumper sticker.
MySpace needs to be a minority.
YouTube and Google look accurate enough though. Love how Google looks at all of them in disgust, because he knows all their problems and has seen some stuff even worse than what they represent.
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Since when did Warp become Ped Xing?
Weegee keeps dissing MySpace because he's jealous of all the people who have one.
Nah, more the fact that it's now viewed by most as "the Facebook for child predators everywhere".
Oh, and couldn't Youtube alternatively be seen as an oppressive, megalomaniacal dictator whose former benevolence was corrupted by corporate greed?
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Youtube was never good though.
HEY THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR
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Back to 4Chan,
How Moot sees /b/tards:
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fc2.api.ning.com%2Ffiles%2FfYpzyspeoIpfPZCPmgWyaxTEoVg96gjRQQ4H6ol-9Lbpk0ICZOewrs-u0HyaYjSutJJmQVIhtzV79ATdWGVWNmLHlZD1qcCM%2Fyotsuba.jpg&hash=6090744d4556b9c43fbc1660da639421)
How media sees /b/tards:
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdeathby1000papercuts.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F09%2F300px-anonymous_scientology_4a_by_david_shankbone.jpg&hash=7fda359a20cb16f24a39736ee768b1f7)
How a /b/tard's mom sees her son:
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_txnr5mob49s%2FR9oC8MV4iCI%2FAAAAAAAAAIQ%2FW8qkDILVxhA%2Fs400%2Fnerd2.JPG&hash=e55c4ffc8e021baa049a82e4aa7afaf5)
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How come nobody ever thinks these look accurate? Every time this picture is posted, people always envision only what the worst possible user of that particular website would look like and don't try to analyze why the artist went with the designs in question.
Facebook is just a normal social networking site; no ground-breaking features or things that set it apart from everything else. Hence, normal looking college guy.
Twitter is the newest of the bunch, something of a mix between a social networking site and a chatroom; people are constantly "tweeting" each other ad nauseum. That's why the Twitter kid is the youngest looking, and looks like he could talk your ear off.
While I admit, there are some people who have used Myspace for unpure, corrupt purposes, the majority of Myspace users are just average high-school-and-college-aged preppy type kids. Most people only get Myspace accounts so they can connect with friends they already have, on Myspace. The headphones and smug expression kind of symbolize how Myspace is seen as more popular and "trendy" than Facebook, and I could easily see the Myspace and Facebook characters being rivals. The character could also equally well as a girl, though the relationship with the Facebook character would be slightly different (love-hate, maybe?).
No one's really complained about Wikipedia, and I can see why: looks super-intelligent, the kid you go to for all your hoework answers, looks serious about his education and could easily be a professor-in-training. For some reason, the green sweater is really fitting.
The Deviantart character is definately the most contested one. Firstly, I think making the character female was a good choice, since women are usually seen as more artistic than men, and the clothing colors really fit. What people complain about is how she doesn't look "depraved" enough; you really have to consider the target demographic the website creators intended the website for. Look at the character's physical appearance; mesh top and jumper, cap with rainbow gradient and little picture on the front, purple hair, etc. Her design is all about colors, textures, and gradients, key factors in creating and observing art. She looks like an individualist, she sets her own styles and doesn't go by what's popular, and is very unpredictable. I think this character captures the eccentricity of Deviantart just enough without going into the boundaries of depravity and hideousness. I mean, there are some horrible people on DA, but there are horrible people on all websites. The problem with how people perceive DA is that they let that ugliness be the only impression they have of the site, a trait that is shared with the perception of Myspace.
It took me a while to figure out the meaning of the YouTube character, but from what I have gathered, the character symbolizes being uninhibited and uncensored (while ironically being censored himself). This is fitting since, over the years, many people have turned to YouTube as an alternative to conventional TV shows, due to it being more "edgy" and, for the most part, uncensored. It is also a medium for people to freely express their opinions to anyone willing to tune in (like how the character is "expressing" his opinion of the class to Google). His and DA's clothes are actually my favorite outfits of the group.
Google, when compared to the other websites, can be seen as more business-oriented. It's layout is simple, yet iconic. It is usually the first place people go to when they want to research something on the web. Appropriately, the character is a neatly-dressed business-oriented professor. He can be seen as having seniority over the other characters since the website is used in a more professional manner compared to the others. He is a professor because he is the dispenser of knowledge, which is the same function as a search engine.
So to me, all the characters are fitting, and I think the artist did a good job with this personification. There are just some subtle details people usually don't pick up on that cause them to challenge its accurateness.
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Non-4chan members casually talking about "Moot" and "/b/tards" is like people from Kansas casually talking about districts of New York when they've never even been anywhere north. Except the north isn't full of losers.
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Glorb, one little question for you: have you ever actually been to 4chan? I find the annoying kids with the "WE R LEGION" crap to be as equally as annoying as the killjoys that act like bashing 4chan makes them so cool.
I don't really care either way, but its not making you look any better by constantly putting down 4chan lurkers or ED editors or whatever.
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Yes. My main beef with 4chan is the fact that it serves pretty much no purpose but recieves a ridiculous amount of attention. Any boring [dukar] that happens there becomes global internet breaking news the next day.
And trust me, more people treat 4chan as a badge of coolness then hating 4chan.
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I suppose A64's original image is accurate from an idealistic standpoint: That is, what the users of each repective site generally want to be depicted as. For instance, the savvy, postmodern, individualistic-yet-undoubtably-popular DeviantArt girl is simply a caricature of the facade offered by that particular website. While the creepy hambeasts (no offense to any Tartlets here, nor to my fellow hambeasts) who actualy frequent the site may indeed strive to exude the characteristics of such an idealized personification, few do. This formula also applies to the Facebook and MySpace representees.
Yes. My main beef with 4chan is the fact that it serves pretty much no purpose but recieves a ridiculous amount of attention. Any boring [dukar] that happens there becomes global internet breaking news the next day.
Everything that you have ever seen on the internet has gone through 4Chan at some point or another. Additionally, its massive userbase almost guarantees that any proposition made there will be fulfilled. Of course you already know this, but 4Chan is also the epicentre of trolling and general negative online behaviour, whether it be virus creation or CP distribution. Between avoiding being PartyV& (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=4chan%20party%20van) and bringing animal abusers to justice, the site is essentially the Pentagon of the internet, because nobody knows exactly why it's there or what it does but everyone knows it's important.
EDIT: I honestly never knew that "guarantee" is spelled as such. Thank you, TEM. You deserve a very special present.
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garuntees
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epicentre
behaviour
No real problem; I just don't like prissy European spellings of words.
And Weegee's post exemplifies the problem I have with 4chan and its fans: People act like it's the ****ing capital of the internet or whatever. No, everything on the internet has not gone through 4chan. No, it's not like the Pentagon. Hundreds of people stop pedophiles and animal abusers on a much larger scale and never see any appreciation for it. It's just a website, full of creepy nerds just like most other websites. Stop kissing its butt, please (and nobody make an image of somebody kissing an anthroporphic personification of 4chan's butt).
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I suppose it's less like the Pentagon and more like the society of intelligent reptilian humanoids who live deep beneath the earth's crust and covertly control most of the world's major political powers.
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the kid you go to for all your homework answers
Fixed the typo. FIXED IT!
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Darn! I was gonna mention something about how those Wikipedia editors get around more than we assume, but it slipped my mind. Too late now... Oh well.
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anthroporphic
Let's re-name this The Typo Thread and be done with it.
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I had a bit of a read through the comments of that pic, and, surprise surprise, they were talking about the dA girl;
heh... the deviantart character looks way too normal. have you ever really looked at the things that make it into the popular sections?
Oh jeez. If I made her look like what was popular here, she'd have ginormous boobs, ears and a tail, and probably wings. Guuuuhhh.
still too normal. you forgot about her being fat, nude, half-covered in fur (probably shaven in the right spots?) and ... well, i could make you a list. anyway, nice try
Ew. Well then screw that. She has to represent the non-freaks on here too. XD
myeah, okay. you're right. and i guess you want her to remain at least somewhat visually appealing, right?
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I think that Twitter's friends would only be celebrities who hire other people to talk to him, and pompous bloggers.
Also, xkcd would be somebody who used to be really cool and popular without really knowing it until he/she realized it and then turned into a massive ******bag.
Something Awful would be a young man, about 20 years old, with a temp job, who makes a very big deal about passing himself off as very unfriendly and "cynical", but generally fails since he's actually a pretty cool guy. Of course moments of genuine weirdness occasionally seep through and creep people out on occasion.
Zombo.com would be the coolest person ever that everyone always wants to hang with because he's so cool.
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Since when has Lizard Dude been the physical embodiment of Something Awful? Anyways, we've yet to cover Yahoo: I envision it to be the corpse of some long-dead inventor whose groundbreaking discoveries changed the world in his day, although nobody uses whatever he invented anymore... you know? Of course, that layout could also work for AOL.
eBay would be a fat, balding divorced white man whose knowledge of computers is so limited that he has yet to figure out how to type capital letters.
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eBay would be a fat, balding divorced white man whose knowledge of computers is so limited that he has yet to figure out how to type capital letters.
...L@@K!!!!
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The "e" in '"eBay" is always written in lower case, if that's what you're referring to.
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Actually I was referring to the many examples of those said eBay listing descriptions. You know, the ones that say, "VERY RARE!! IN MINT CONDITION!! L@@K!!!"
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To me, eBay seems more like the old guy down the street whose attic is cluttered with junk, and who's always selling the stuff he finds in his yard sales. He always seems to be selling just what everyone is looking for.
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Something Awful would be a young man, about 20 years old, with a temp job, who makes a very big deal about passing himself off as very unfriendly and "cynical", but generally fails since he's actually a pretty cool guy. Of course moments of genuine weirdness occasionally seep through and creep people out on occasion.
So let me get this straight. You hate 4chan because all the kids at your school act like its a status symbol to be in the know about current memes...but you like Something Awful because it fails at being what 4chan is or something?
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haha what
EDIT: no seriously what
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dA should be an overwieght, hambeast girl wearing tons of pseudo-japanese clothing covered in buttons from Hot Topic (many of which would feature characters from popular anime or "dark" cartoons).
Blahahahaha, that's exactly what I was thinking
...looks super-intelligent, the kid you go to for all your hoework answers...
Toad already mentioned it, but hahaha.
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Expanded edition:
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4chanarchive.org%2Fimages%2F234404045%2F1275388414794.jpg&hash=bf018cd7d6efdaad4540b821f831c872)
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Where's TV Tropes?
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You really think TV Tropes belongs in that image?
Edit: And three pages? Come on guys.
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If deviantART and 4chan belong there, TV Tropes is equally as justifiable.
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Not really. dA and 4Chan rank among the world's most popular sites, while TV Tropes is a corny hangout for literature nuts.
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That, and a giant art gallery of softcore hentai and the world's most NSFW image board have more personification potential than what basically amounts to Jaded English Major: The Website.
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How has nobody fixed dA yet?
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I suppose that by "fixed", you mean "added 100 pounds"?