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3liza · 24 days ago

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"why do you talk about something awful so much" it has surprised me quite a bit as I've gotten older but the 2000s-2010s SA culture has only become more relevant to current events and media as time goes on, i assume from the natural watershed effects from people aging into their 30s and making media properties that go on to become incredibly influential. I was never a big poster there, I was a lurker 99% of the time and had zero influence on the site, so it's really not personal for me except for stuff like Dropsy, since I was there for the original thread. the SA millennials started popping up in noticeable ways as early as 30 Rock (recall the "lemon party" recurring joke for example) and as the younger members age into their prime output years we're just going to keep seeing more of it.

#something awful #something awful forums #to be clear i dont think this is either good or bad it just Is #and i cant help pointing at the tv like an ape when I Understand the Reference (or even just the allusion)#so thats part of it #and the other part is that im obsessed with Context in general #because Context can often tell you EVERYTHING about why something happens a certain way #and this particular context is just a big one to my particular wheelhouse #the penny arcade forums as well but maybe a tiny bit less so?#next posters are right; johnny fiveaces in fallout was probably the earlier one #lemon party wasn't exclusively an SA thing either and wasnt hosted on SA but i associate it with the site because of the frontpage #“theres a frontpage?”#the frontpage really acted as a clearinghouse for that era's memes and shock images #and the frontpage got their material from the forum

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