Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Like a bad smell.

Like most campaigns nowadays. They are all shit

XH your complaint that "viral" is now used for "video on the internet" is suspiciously similar to my old-as-the-hills bugbear that "meme" is now used for... well i don't know. all of that ^^ lot.

i'm not making any value judgments, some of it i find funny, some of it really not. but as a phenomenon this lot needs a new collective name i think.

the moment it got a fixed set of formats/parameters and started to be shared deliberately and knowingly I think it became something different from the original definition of "meme".

and before some points it out, i don't think "sort-of meme" covers it either.

answers on a postcard...

^ this

the thing i hear all the time from clients that makes my skin crawl and the poc happens all up in the gaff is then they say we want you to make us something that will go viral.

rant thread>>>>>>>>

Since I watched 'How To Get Ahead In Advertising' I just can't take the idea of working in advertising seriously.

People do take advertising too seriously

You'll end up like this xander, a madman with a box on his head talking to a boil, just don't do it

I would be more than happy if i end up like that

^ For the right price

))<>((

Goatsie?

You'll end up like this xander, a madman with a box on his head talking to a boil, just don't do it

Brave?

Goatsie?

back and forth. forever.

back and forth. forever.

You are crazy and you are making me very hot.

the thing i hear all the time from clients that makes my skin crawl and the poc happens all up in the gaff is then they say we want you to make us something that will go viral.

Sequence some dodgy RNA plasmids, bung them in a suitable vector and hey presto...it'll go viral.

If your clients work in marketing, Ebola would be a good place to start.

"Fly you fools"

^^^see also mainstream media use of "troll" for anyone busted saying something punishably illegal on the netz... particularly twitter for some reason. haven't quite figured out why the entire media seems to think that that particular platform is somehow special or different from any other?

likewise "hack" for any theft/spying/general invasion of privacy more contemporary that going though someone's bins.

fuck. sorry. i know!

#rant thread
#crap buzzword thread

TS repped. I loved all of those

ahahha! watergate horse.