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the subtlety of everything got lost on you there spotter..
Its almost 10 years old, no longer funny to me
spotter's kryptonite: people incorrectly identifying primates
You could say it sends him ape.
This is true, I'm a great natural history fan. I dislike people monkeying about with Entomology.
He'll fight you. He will. Any gibbon sunday.
rep'd
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What you on about, it does have a tail. Look closer....
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god that was quick prince
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i think what i'm trying to say is that my view is different to that of RPM's..
It was part of a much bigger article, but I do agree that the likes of spotter are far, far more creatively intelligent than the morons who wrote that imbecilic song. And the nerds are just doing it for fun, not for a living.
The amount of capital gained from the song is completely irrelevant in my opinion, the value of a person in this world is famously awry as we all know (footballers vs nurses and bankers vs teachers) -
Don't call me "dude" son, a "dude" is a guy that works at a ranch.
True saying.^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc
Hmm, Baltimore seemed a lot different in 'The Wire'...
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been back to the start of the internet i see?
I was about at the start of the internet but this one had passed me by.
Have a gay birthday cake and except my Apologies.
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It was part of a much bigger article, but I do agree that the likes of spotter are far, far more creatively intelligent than the morons who wrote that imbecilic song. And the nerds are just doing it for fun, not for a living.
The amount of capital gained from the song is completely irrelevant in my opinion, the value of a person in this world is famously awry as we all know (footballers vs nurses and bankers vs teachers)I don't think the money side is irrelevant. (As an aside, even most bankers and all footballers have put in effort to have some value to start making money, no matter how disproportionate their wealth then becomes; as far as I can see Black's effort and value involved her being the spoilt child of doting Orange County parents.) Though i suppose i meant the money side more as a shorthand for the overall visibility of the record/girl/producers. that shit should have died a quick death, and yeah it's not the first time a shit record has come out and made money, but this seems to be some kind of new watermark as the people who were revelling in its awfulness are the very ones who have enabled its success. and money is being made by the bucketload out of that.. so again, what 'brave new world' have the 'nerds' created exactly?
I also think you're overestimating what's going on if you think the level of creative intelligence in meme variants is generally 'far, far more' than the producers of the song. I started this thread because of the brilliance I was glimpsing behind some of the memes, and the fact that, due to the unique medium, the best of the funny ones couldn't have even been expressed twenty years ago, which seems pretty significant if you think about it long enough. But an awful lot of the shit in here is remedial both in its focus and its expression, even with an unlikely group of people acting as filters. 'Creative boredom' seems more apt. 90% of it is no more creative or witty than the captions and speech bubbles boys deface school textbooks with. i'll get interested in the potential for the creative intelligence of internet geeks when they prevent a song as shit as that from reaching the surface, not when they orchestrate its ubiquity.
Of course there are far worse things happening in the world than people trying to make money out of a shit song and other people trying to make funny memes about it.. but Professor Belcher's point seems to suggest he thinks 'the students and workers' somehow stand above or outside the bullshit of Western 21st century life when they are often the happy, unremunerated exacerbators of it.
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But an awful lot of the shit in here is remedial both in its focus and its expression, even with an unlikely group of people acting as filters. 'Creative boredom' seems more apt. 90% of it is no more creative or witty than the captions and speech bubbles boys deface school textbooks with. i'll get interested in the potential for the creative intelligence of internet geeks when they prevent a song as shit as that from reaching the surface, not when they orchestrate its ubiquity.
You scumbag, I can't believe this from you. You've changed.
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that shit should have died a quick death, and yeah it's not the first time a shit record has come out and made money, but this seems to be some kind of new watermark as the people who were revelling in its awfulness are the very ones who have enabled its success.
The Bieber effect. I'm not even joking.
I'm totally with you on this pj's - I thought the article was excellent entertainment but deeply overstated the importance of the part played by the 'nerds' (and for 'nerds' read: bored people at work).
I don't understand how it's empowering for the internet to have catapulted yet another talentless turd into the charts - although it has just occurred to me that people may start to engineer deliberately bad music and videos in order to use meme's as a catalyst in the future? Or perhaps it's already happening...
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