Dept. of Propaganda & Re-Education

The amount of Ws this woman has racked up in such a short amount of time are astounding

“THE WOMAN WAS ALMOST 98 YEARS OF AGE” 😭

all the photos of him are like this, I love that this guy understood he had been born with the face of a wizard or axe murderer and just leaned fully into it

he knew EXACTLY what he was doing

he got what he wanted

Also

Rb'ing with the latest addition!

You need a degree in obscure internet history to fully understand why it's called a rickroll.

You say "just" like the following text isn't entirely incomprehensible to anybody not already familiar with obscure internet lore.

I've been online since 2000. I do not know what any of this means. I know "moot" means "mutual" these days, but judging from how old rickroll is, I bet "moot" didn't mean "mutual" back then because "moot = mutual" is actually a Tumblr thing.

take this w a grain of salt i could be wrong but iirc:

-4chan moderator named moot created a word filter that turned all instances of the word “egg” to the word “duck” in the mid 2000s (2005? 6?)

-in a thread discussing egg rolls, this created the term “duck roll”. someone posted a picture of a duck in roller skates in response to this.

-links to the “duckroll” image were used similarly to rickrolling now

-the rest is pretty understandable

[ID: A comment from kaiasky, reading “isn't it just moot s/egg/duck -> duckrolls -> duckroll image -> 'rolling' becomes a synonym for fake links -> rickroll'd”. End ID.]

Close enough.

Moot is the creator and owner of 4chan (which he created when he was 15), not just a moderator.

And the duck roll isn’t wearing roller skates, it’s got monster truck wheels

I still don’t understand why the filter changing egg to duck came about.

I fucking love etymology

just had a realisation

this is a bug

There is another way

By the Nine, keep your whore mouth shut

Pretty sure the other way involves keeping your whore mouth open

god please can someone help me find the gif of the white $20-banana looking-lady from like, an 80s show it looks like, she’s stumbling around in a downtown area looking disoriented and keeps seeing gay signs like “LEBANESE” and “CURRY PUFFS” please i need it

a legendary bit lmao

this guy's beef got old enough to have geology

Item: did you know that if you leave beef broth in a bottle long enough you can grow Beef Crystals

The group this was posted in has been advertised to me several times on FB, and I think it's important to know where it's from- the group is called Dull Men's Club (gender neutral though, their rules explain the name was kept from the I think 80s when they started and had separate groups but anyone that believes in and agrees to abide by their rules can join).

The group's major conceit is only this: finding joy in ordinary (see: dull) things.

And they often do

God, I love weird people, MY people

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

ideal woman to me and i am not kidding

SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB

I don’t think the club could handle her

on the subject of ads

i run blockers on EVERYTHING. even my iphone has an adblock browser. i also run sponsorblock. and xkit. if a site blocks me due to having an ad blocker, i simply block the element that blocks me and continue anyway. you literally cannot advertise to me on pc.

i recently re-installed the operating system on my pc, and for a second i forgot to put an ad blocker on it. in that second, i found that the internet is LITERALLY UNUSABLE without one. the number of ads - predatory ads that cosplay as what you're looking for even though they're completely irrelevant - was so intense that a user from the 2000s would think i had every virus known to humanity.

how did we get here? WHY are we here?

how did we get here: advertisers are incapable of understanding that they are capable of Loosing the ad wars. (the war betwen the advertisers and the user) they are, because they took college level education in a field based on pseudoscience, incapable of understanding that advertising (as opposed to information campaing) does not work. the average person is advertisement adverse, and in fringe cases advertisement can have the opposite effect

we are here because since the 90s a quiet conversation/argument has been raging as a sort of background radiation of the internet corperate interests insisit that the internet is a vehicle for profit the user insisists that the internet is a vehicle for knowledge & entertainment

to the corerate interests K&E takes a back seat to profit

to the user profit takes a back seat K&E

these two viewpoints are incompatable, and at the end of the day the User holds final sway because they can and will find ways of determining what data they receive, and if they cannot redact the profit from the data, they will throw away that source as useless. the corperations beleive they have final sway because they are the ones hosting the data and delivering it, and have all the time and money i the world to find new ways of Forcing the user to accept the profit motive. they are incorrect.

because of this however, they have tried to Force "projected profits" to happen regardless of the reality of the situation, which is that most people arent buying what they're selling.

this has led to them responding to """lost"""" profits by foisting the unviewed ads onto anyone who can still see them. the frog has boiled so severely at this point that the internet, sans adblock or "pay to remove", is Fully unusable.

Ohhhhh my god u found out somebody has a physically impossible fetish? should we tell everyone? Should we write a callout post?should we invite sigmund freud

@nyan-biney you're so real for this

Sokka's girlfriend looked great today.

Continuation of my sirens post, and a friendly reminder that batman isn’t on the side of the law, he’s on the side of justice