I dunno, but i think the chances of the meme getting repetitive and dull are slim...

Though I hope we don't get as bad as /b/

Nahhh, but I don't think this is the place for memes really...

At its most simple level, a "meme" is simple reproduction of the same material. /b/ does this through copying, /r9k/ could do it through slight alteration. For example, if we had a thread of "Obama ______ _______, because he's a nigger." We could repeat that ad libitum spawning a "meme" without simply reposting something like "ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH" endlessly.

Has a meme emerged from here actually

>>2427616

Ah, so like some memes include WORD WORD (FILL IN BLANK HERE) WORD WORD would work?

>>2427601

that pic is awfully unrelated....

>>2427601
Hmm.

Not related but whats with that picture? It interests me a bit. It from a book or something (The text that is)

>>2427621

dunno....

But would the fear of getting muted or banned for not having completely original content prevent some people from responding to things, meaning only forced memes can prevail?

>>2427626

Well, that's an arbitrary example, but in theory yes. If we apply a "meme" to the real world. It could be that the conventional greeting is changed from "hi" into naming the color of the other person's shirt. So now a single unique greeting has transformed into a multiple option variable that functions essentially the same way.

FUCKING A LOT OF DUDES.
meme.

Probably not.

PS I am the ham fucker

>>2427646

OP here, I'm into steampunk and particularly airships...A while ago I got a lot of pics of them, if you want me to dump them I will

>>2427654

It does seem doubtful.

PS I am the cow fucker.

>>2427659

I count this as unlikely.

PS I am the donkey fucker.

>>2427649

That would be true of written memes but picture-wise memes could still be created....

>>2427654
>>2427665
>>2427660

I sense a meme being forced here.....hmmm

>>2427660
This is highly unlikely,

PS. I am the jailbait fucker

So the last series of posts have led me to think that any variation upon "Mute block" at the end of the message is a kind of unique "meme" to /r9k/. In this case it is functioning as a calling card that you belong to a group of individuals that only frequents this board. If you posted as such on /b/, for example, only those people who view both boards would recognize it. Similarly to referring to Pepsi or Coke as "Soda" or "Pop". It only makes sense in some contexts, as conditioned by the surrounding culture.

Let me apply the Fermi Paradox here....

If a meme is possible in being created on /r9k/, then why haven't we witnessed this?

>>2427668

No, what you are seeing is faggots who haven't been here long at all.

>>2427686

They could of least come up with something remotely funny

>Then again if you do not care or want memes which can help stamp your place in the internet this does not matter at all
>do not care or want memes which can help stamp your place in the internet this does not matter at all
>do not [...] want
>this does not matter at all

>>2427682

So what happens in "Dignified Gentlemen" threads? Are those unique to our culture here?

>>2427657
Nah i was more looking at the text. Thought it may have been from a book or something.

>>2427682


OP here, I think you may be onto a point. The meme is something that reaches general consensus and understanding, not necessary a line being repeated endlessly. The mute block and even the term robots instead of guys or something

>>2427651 as in your point

It may be we have memes but that are strictly restricted to the /r9k/ community as it would be nonsensical to other online communities

I like /r9k/ memes because people know about them but they don't fucking spam them like crazy. Until a thread like this comes up and we spam all the memes and then everyone gets pissed off and we don't use the memes again for another few weeks.

>>2427711

Oh lawdy is that some GO? I love that game!

PS Hamfucker, etc.

>>2427709

Also to add on, the popularity of meme factories such as /b/ and so forth has meant the memes have had the ability to be spread across the internet which is less likely here as the traffic is less meaning it cannot be spread easily outside this community

>>2427729

yes, it will most likely remain micro and never become macro

All memes from here will somehow link back to robotics

Hmmm I can't rule out a proper meme ever emerging from here (ie Advice dog, longcat and other funnyoncecrap) but due to the filter I believe it can't become overrun much like /b/. Though i'm surprised by the lack of the other negative aspects that /b/ brings apart from repeated crap

>>2427761

It's merely profiling, my friend. The same person who is not creative enough to expand past imitating other people's ideas, i.e. advice dog, longcat, etc., is also frustrated by getting muted. Thus that person will inevitably either leave back to /b/ or just watch, or lurk, /r9k/.

>>2427676
I somehow doubt this.

PS I am the loli fucker

>>2427601
/r9k/ can't make a meme is now a meme.

>>2427780

I'd believe it could happen.

PS I am the fucker jailbait.

The song Africa by Toto originated from here I'll have you know

>>2427783

Fuck you Milhouse! Fuck you right in the ear!

>>2427795

I find the chances of this being true remote.

PS I'm a robosexual.

I don't think it'd happen.

PS fuck you is a meme now.

>>2427780
>>2427794

I cannot find any humour within this....

You want to know something?
Meme is now a meme because it's one of the most commonly used words on all of 4chan, let alone r9k
So therefore, meme, is now a meme.

Also, The Game.

>>2427813

I couldn't find any humor in your mom last night!

PS No, seriously she just cried the entire time we watched a movie. It was so disturbing.

>>2427818

'the' is a more common word i believe...is that a meme?

>>2427827
I believe "t" is a meme, so sure, why not "the". Also faggot's now a meme. You want to know something? The alphabet is also a meme.

>>2427827

meme

(noun)

1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)

2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable

3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture
- meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual
- memetic (adj.) : relating to memes
- memetics (n.) : the study of memes

4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog

5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information

>>2427848

do you understand i was using rhetoric good sir?

I can never tell on the internet if people are playing along with my joke or if they are just idiots.

>>2427746

that would be so awesomest thing ever?

>>2427616

You mean like relationship threads? I'd say "/relationship9k/" is probably a meme.

>>2427657

Yes, please, dump them. This shit is awesome.

Though there is no fucking way the harpoon in your opening pic can be built in an hour.

>>2427905

no, they're a form of post....and didn't originate from r9k

>>2427905

It is unique to our culture. Memes seem to be used to differential different social groups from outsiders. Much like a password. If you don't have the password, you are excluded. See any "newfag" references from /b/. It seems a similar rite of passage is participating in a relationship thread on /r9k/.

>>2427874

if you are making reference to such as >>2427780

they're just idiots.

>>2427915

I don't think it matters if they originated from /r9k/ or not. I mean, if I watched a movie with some friends and we started quoting lines from it as a greeting, it would be our tradition, even if it came from a movie.

>>2427932

or just one guy posting the same joke over and over again...

"if it's not funny once, maybe it will be if i say it 30 times'

>>2427937

yes, but the relationship threads here bare no difference the millions anywhere else on the internet that existed for months before they did here

>>2427937

Yeah, the meme isn't just the relationship thread as such, but that /r9k/ is full of them. It's a (sometimes true) in-joke.

>>2427942

Now this is why memes don't spawn on /r9k/. If there is any form of imitation it is immediately squashed as being unintellectual. /r9k/ has its head so far up its own ass being elitist that it won't allow a meme to develop because that would be too /b/-like. Communication begins with imitation, robots, you must allow it to develop naturally or stop complaining about its lack of development.

>>2427970

I have the freedom to dislike it, if other people wish to contribute to making it a meme then let it. But I didn't contribute to advice dog and i don't like it...doesn't ruin it's status as a meme

>>2427981

I'm not questioning your individual dislike. I meant the culture of /r9k/ as a whole. You just happened to be the example I picked on. Apologies, nothing personal, sir. Especially as this is an anonymous board.

>>2427992

it's okay and to an extent I believe you...the original content obsession here does kinda squash a meme ever reaching that status

>>2428002

That is the joy of /b/. If you are among retards you have no fear of criticism, as none of their opinions matter. Here, much like in college, there are a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals and real intellectuals that you have to impress in order to have value.

To summarize. Dick butt.

>>2427970

I like that about /r9k/. /r9k/ HAS memes, but you don't hear that much about them too much because of that sort of elitist suppression that exists. Therefore, a well-placed "A LOT OF DUDES" still has the opportunity to make me laugh, instead of making me rage about overuse of a shitty meme.

>>2428044

hmmm, i don't know any...

-Rowboats
-Gentlemen
-Ham Fucker
-A LOT OF DUDES
-"original content"

All examples that prove that in fact, memes do exist here too.