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Dec 19
2008

Acceptance Through the Replication of Mistakes

ghostlightning, lolikappa, and lolikitsune crafted this last love song.
It's categorized as meta anibloggery.
It's tagged over nine thousand things, including: authorcame harder than omocruel angel thesescryptologydigitalboyforced memesghostlightningichigo mashimarokyousora.comlelangirlolikiteanlupusmemesmikenever gonna give you upnogizaka haruka no himitsunsfwomisythomonomonoomosexualityorgasmowenrick astleytoradora. What a slut.
At least it only has 13 comments and 1,104 views.

Comrade ghostlightning proclaims:

In this post I track the development of a meme. I may sound theoretical and profound, but the entire framework of this exercise is only based on an excerpt from this guide to some fruity way to live life at a higher level.

The excerpt:

6. Like all things, memes fit better with some things than others. Some memes naturally fit better in people’s minds. Some memes naturally fit better with other memes. When a group of memes fit well together and pull the strings of someone’s mouth and vocal cords so that they pass them on to others, a new, self-replicating thing gets created. The new thing is called a memeplex.

Self-replication is the most powerful force in the universe. One person tells two, two tell four, four tell eight, and pretty soon the whole universe is full of people sharing the memeplex.

Sometimes a self-replicating memeplex makes a mistake in copying itself. The memeplex with a mistake in it will either be better, worse, or the same at making copies of itself. If it’s better soon there will be more copies of the new memeplex than the old in the universe.

The only way for a new idea to gain acceptance is by a series of copying mistakes that turn out to be better after all.

And,

8. Every new idea we think of immediately becomes transformed by copying mistakes that change it into something that is better at making copies of itself after all. A key part of the idea may be sacrificed to something better for copying.

The only control we have over the spread of our ideas is in making them as resistant to copying mistakes as possible.

Okay, so let’s pretend that the quotes above are actually true. Now let’s look at this meme that I’ve been following, and have used in a few occasions:

“coming harder than omo”

It contains the ff. elements:

  • An orgasm (the objective of most sexual activities)
  • Omo (the blogger from the Omonomono blog)

The context for the meme developing finds its genesis in the comments section of this post on Owen’s Cruel Angel Theses blog, which accused omo of being a poseur for playing games and watching anime raw (unsubbed). Big drama in the comments section. Lelangir caught on and gave us this:

12-owen

See the full comic here. Epic aniblogger metacomedy is epic. The statement actually reads “I already came.” However, the elements are the same: 1. Orgasm, 2. Omo. This gets copied, in sequence, several times:

1. 21stcenturydigital boy, no stranger to aniblogger metasex (lelangir documents his tryst with Omisyth here) posted some pornographic Toradora! fanfic which elicited a comment from lelangir himself:

lelangir Says:
December 15, 2008 at 8:21 PM

I came harder than omo.

2. These came out on the same day.

1st example:

  1. Everyone came harder than omo.

    ghostlightning — 12/16/08 @ 5:43 am | #Link | Reply

  2. Have you Come Harder Than Omo Yet?

    lelangir — 12/16/08 @ 6:13 am | #Link | Reply

  3. @ghostlightning: best aniblog meme to date, gotta thank all the good folks involved for that.

    @lelangir: I’m going to have to find some way of putting that into KYOUSORA.COM as a tagline or something. It’s too genius.

    lolikitsune — 12/16/08 @ 7:14 am | #Link | Reply

2nd example:

ghostlightning Says:
December 16, 2008 at 9:10 PM

MOAR porn. I didn’t go where you went with Ryuji and Taiga, but you know I boned the shit out of Kinon.

Mix anime characters and add bloggers into it. That’ll mess things up quite nicely and everyone can come harder than omo.

Now it can be argued that the repeaters of the meme are forcing it. It doesn’t matter for the purposes of this post that the meme is forced. Looking back at the fruity guide to meme development: in copying the proto-meme, we were all doing it wrong. It is mistakes like this that stick. We now end up with a meme “coming harder than omo” that means what exactly? Not quite sure yet, but I’m very interested to find out.

Dr. lolikit sez:

If we apply lolikitean cryptology to “came harder than omo,” well, we come harder than omo. And because I’m a practicer of schadenfaggen, I don’t intend to share that with all of you. Gweheheh.

For now… go stand in the hallway.

P.S. Here’s to looking at a small blue bird, kid.

Madame lolikappa moans:

Furthermore, we are already beginning to see the way the meme is evolving. Originally it only applied to single people coming harder than omo, but is now increasing in number, spreading to meta-omogasmic aniblogger orgies. Clearly, the meme is well on its way to self-sufficiency, as it strives to find the form of maximum repetition. By switching to a multi-aniblogger mode, it broadens its potential contextuality; anibloggers can refer to entire teamblogs of anibloggers coming harder than omo simultaneously, in a single instance of the meme.

In conclusion, fuck you all, you’re all just goddamn membots, completely co-opted by the meta. You’re one epicly stupid meme away from being memeoids. Watch your asses.

Comrade ghostlightning Re-claims, In Conclusion:

Had to be done, after such an inconclusive attempt at a conclusion. That said, lolikappa’s use of a maho shoujo wand and a dance sequence turning all of you into memecha titillates me into hoping for another memetic neon genesis. See what we did here! In tracking the development of a forced meme we’re forcing an entirely new one! I think I just came harder than omo. This post is omosexual.


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  1. I’m still confused by that last panel. Mostly because it doesn’t seem as if Owen tried to reconcile in the first place. :v

    But fun post. And I wonder what omo himself thinks about the meme.

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    TheBigN — 12/19/08 @ 1:36 pm | #Link

  2. @TheBigN: yeah the comic didn’t actually make any sense, kind of like the argument between Omo and Owen (it didn’t make any sense, Owen didn’t try to reconcile, omo went back to sucking his dick, happy ending). As for what omo thinks? I’d be interested to know as well, but for all we know “to omo” may now mean “to jizz in one’s pants.”

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    lolikitsune — 12/19/08 @ 1:42 pm | #Link

  3. You must expect that the meme will simply spread further at this point. After this post went live, the galaxy came harder than omo.

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    Omisyth — 12/19/08 @ 1:45 pm | #Link

  4. @Omisyth: omo pierces the aniblogosphere with her(?) orgasms.

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    lolikitsune — 12/19/08 @ 1:55 pm | #Link

  5. ghostlightning is everywhere~! \^o^/

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    picchar — 12/19/08 @ 2:01 pm | #Link

  6. what the fuck? You missed the starting point! Lelangir said ‘i came hardre than omo’ because I said the same on his post about lolikit on yukan 2 days before. Get your facts straight!

    EDIT: “to jizz in one’s pants.”

    FUCKING CLEVER

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    digitalboy — 12/19/08 @ 2:06 pm | #Link

  7. I’m pretty sure lelangir didn’t say it first.

    On the other hand, lolikitean cryptology is much funnier.

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    i came harder than omo — 12/19/08 @ 3:13 pm | #Link

  8. This will ruin us all. omosexuality is the beginning of ruin. I think I need to eat Casshern.

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    ghostlightning — 12/19/08 @ 6:29 pm | #Link

  9. Consider as well, scrutinizing the strip panel above that serves as the ‘primordial memetic soup’ reveals that omo doe not come ‘hard’.

    omo comes fast.

    The copying mistake that resulted in the substitution of intensity over speed is the one that sticks, or at least is being forced to do so.

    See lelangir’s hesitation here: http://lelangir.dasaku.net/?p=668, and complete this moebius strip of linking.

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    ghostlightning — 12/20/08 @ 9:23 am | #Link

  10. Wait, wouldn’t hard and fast be an improvement?

    In fact, the interchangeability overall is an improvement over a rigid adherence. One of the point of this post, indeed.

    I don’t think Owen ever reconciled because he isn’t wrong on a basic level. He just had no clue what I was saying about BICS understanding and cartoons. It’s like saying Author doesn’t reconcile, he just says “I don’t require anyone to e-mail their comments.”

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    omo — 12/20/08 @ 10:44 am | #Link

  11. @ omo

    As the meme is used, coming harder than you is an improvement and is desirable. You’ve been re-created in this mythical meme-space wherein cumming forth, the spewing of cum is delivered in a specific hard way that serves as a benchmark: as Sunrise is to trainwrecking (it succeeds at it in the minds of the meme-traffickers), only people want to do so.

    To come harder than you is to win at life (for the moment).

    To come earlier (faster) than you, hmmm… maybe not so much.

    In this case, the mistakes in replication have led to a desirable accepted (if forced) meme.

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    ghostlightning — 12/20/08 @ 4:15 pm | #Link

  12. Coming fast is a sign of a lack of self-control. So I think it’s only coming hard that’s truly a compliment.

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    Michael — 12/21/08 @ 2:54 am | #Link

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