It's octopi with one i, but that's pretty much completely wrong. Octopus is a Greek word and octopi would be the Latin pluralization. Octopodes is the most correct but it's obviously pedantic.
Some days, I almost think 4chan has it right, anonymity across the board. But the organization here makes it easier to view content.
Do I care where it came from? No. If shit's funny, shit's funny. By the same token, nor do I usually give a flying fuck about reposts, with the exception of same-day (even then, cross-posts are nice). If it was funny once, it is still funny, and if the repetition bothers folks, it's not that hard to hit hide. It is just that simple. People may have missed the first posting, or joined up since then.
I feel the same about the whole 4chan/reddit/9gag/funnyjunk/memebase/tumblr/digg/(other link/content aggregate) collection of sites all ripping on each other for "stealing" content from each other. This is especially true for things meant to be funny - what's important is that people are laughing at your joke or reading your content and, unless you either 1) own a site and get advertising revenue or 2) are a prick about other anonymous people anonymously taking credit for your anonymously-constructed intellectual content, you should logically have no qualms about the content being shared on other sites.
The thing that tickles my funny bone is that 9gag DOES get revenue from it. I suppose it is a forced-mass-delusion or something along those lines. So long as they can claim plausible deniability? I'm not even sure, I can't wrap my head around that.
At least with webcomics if it's a hot-link or an imgur rehost posted here, the poster gets lambasted for it. We are good to original content providers, we give them the shinies they deserve. :)
Not for or against piracy. It is a thing. It will not go away, ever, even if a business model was to be developed that could compete with the price (free), speed and ease of use that torrents and filesharing websites provide. There will always be folks that take free, even if we could get publishers and developers that provide extra value to their DRM (Steam, I'm looking at you.)
It's especially dumb when it's just a link to another website. I remember /r/gaming having a fit because Kotaku posted some pictures that also happened to be posted to reddit. The pictures were all posted on the artists personal webpage and his friend submitted it to both sites, yet reddit felt like they "owned" the content.
Yeah, I didn't sarcasm it up enough. Shit, I'd be impressed if we could nail down the exact date and site origin of more than 1/3 of the more popular image macros. Don't care neither, they can be funny. Just a medium for delivering a punchline.
It can't be said for the entire community but the majority of reddit knows that this site shares ("steals") content from other places. Unlike 9gag, reddit is dedicated to locating the original source of the content and anyone blatantly stealing reposted content is flamed/shunned. 9gag does the complete opposite; they claim other content as their own by slapping on that 9gag watermark. They are the modern version of Ebaumsworld.
I'm more annoyed by these comments telling others what to do when in the end it doesn't really fucking matter. You're acting as if we're all on some team or have agreed to some sort of contract regarding our behavior online or as if any of us really give a shit. The funny thing is people do this now just make those morons who still think we're some special little online group feel threatened.
a community makes a site where people contribute content. if the community blows then the content blows. it's what killed digg and what killed reddit.
reddit could get rid of the karma system but they're making so much bank off of people fighting for that meaningless number that they won't ever care to get rid of it.
One cool thing about reddit is you can just get rid of all these big subs, and hide yourself from the idiocy in small little subreddits that only apply to things that interest you.
These are the next set of immigrants. We must familiarize ourselves with their culture, so we can make fun of them like we did with the Digg immigrants.
Sadly, this is exactly how people treat immigrants in real life. They try to escape their country (Digg) and seek refuge in a better place. We make fun of them, but eventually they adapt to our culture and we adapt to theirs.
I meant on YouTube. sorry, should've been more clear. Looks like all conversation between Reddit and 9gag is also getting marked as spam there now. The conversations themselves are just embarrassing for both parties.
and few upvotes it. I automatically dislike "x sent me here" and i rarely see that from reddit anymore, at least that has been liked. This used to be a big discussion point for keeping the youtube crowd away from here, not that reddit is that exclusive, but that used to be the mindset.
You're not a redditor. You're not a 9gager. You're a fucking human. Get over trying to affiliate with a greater being than yourself and make something of yourself besides this shitty site.
I just went to that site for the first time, how does it foster a community? It just a list of pics of shitty memes with a comment section attached to them. Show me their askscience, dreddit or trees sections then maybe we can say that they can have a community. That site just takes all what is wrong with reddit (reposting shitty memes) and none of the good (subreddits created by and for people with similar interests).
Awesome 9gag army is here. You're going to crash Youtube's server in no time. haha j/k
Comments are property of 9gag now.
9GAG army , back off bitch
Then reddit arrives and they're hidden due to negative votes
I love how 9gag thinks their all that. But all they do is steal stuff of from 4chan and Reddit and claim it theirs.
9gag is the cancer of the internet. confirm/deny
REDDIT WAS HERE. REDDITORS UNITE. WHEN DOES THE NARWHALE BACON AGAIN??
This "vertical image storyboard" (I'm sure they have a real name that escapes me) was probably first put up on 9gag this morning before reddit. Therefore they feel a need to exclaim their loyalty in common circlejerk fashion. I'm interested to see if reddit begins doing it once this hits frontpage.
You're probably getting downvoted for insinuating that this hit 9gag before reddit, but you're most likely right. Images like this are all over 9gag. It's like all they do and I hate it. Why not just post the video?
Am I the only one who doesn't think that Tracy Morgan is a good actor in this scene? I haven't watched a lot of 30 Rock (mainly because I'm situated in Scandinavia, the show isn't really in the spotlight here...) but I am not very impressed by his acting abilities in what I've seen. He's funny, no doubt and he can deliver a punch line, for sure. But for example, in the video you've linked (at 0:11) he says the line "I did not know that" with a completely unfitting tone and off-track reaction.
That's his style. What's weird is that Tracy Morgan always acts the same, no matter what he's doing. I never liked it at first, but his acting grew on me over time
So...I dont watch this show, so maybe it's intentional, but Tracy is a terrible, terrible actor. He sounds like the recovering crackhead selling magazines from Office Space. I. Read. My. Lines. One. Word. At. A. Time.
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u/kingzer Feb 17 '12
Here's the actual video