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...and what is going on with the recent spate of "dip my balls in liquid morkite" posts? I feel like I fell asleep in class and missed something important.
Edit: I'm serious. I have no idea what is going on.
External link →...and what is going on with the recent spate of "dip my balls in liquid morkite" posts? I feel like I fell asleep in class and missed something important.
Edit: I'm serious. I have no idea what is going on.
External link →Pretty much. It's only being made worse because of the Streisand effect, where the people yelling to "stop making such childish jokes and grow up already" are ironically only drawing more attention to it, causing it to keep living when it may have possibly died out if they hadn't.
That’s not really the Streisand effect. There’s nothing wrong with the meme. The issue was constantly spamming it here and other places.
On a positive note, people have gotten creative with it now, and that’s actually funny.
The Streisand effect is when someone attempts to censor, remove, or suppress information, and it has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness. Maybe if you only consider the term via it's absolute most strictest possible definition, but regardless of how much they are downvoted, posts like these increase awareness of it, and posts like these are only being made because of the outrage about it.
I'm not saying your banning of the dude was the cause for it, but its the Internet "interneting", someone does something, a few people react to it, a few people make a fuss about that reaction and how they shouldn't have reacted, and their outrage is what triggers a massive wave of people doing that very thing.
But we’re not trying to have something removed from the internet, we’re reducing the amount of spam. The Streisand Effect is about wanting something specific removed completely but I digress. I get what you’re saying, and it’s the same cycle we’ve seen before, so it’s not unexpected. The good thing is that it’s also fostering new memes, which is desireable. (Also it creates engagement, which is kinda my job.)
Your handling of the "issue" (it's so stupid that this is even an issue lmao) has been great, keep it up. So many actual issues in the world and these guys have made dipping their balls in morkite a hill to die on
Not my first rodeo, and definitely not my last. 😅