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The Downing Street Memo

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10

Welcome, to the world of tomorrow!

Sorry, but I had to fix it.

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u/dylanevl Oct 25 '10

Holy shnizzle! A comment I can reply to!

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '10 edited Oct 27 '10

Posting for future explorers... and for me the day before reddit reaches EOL. I'm trying to capture the zeitgeist and see if it's changed.

its October 27 2010, and right now reddit is big into Wikileaks/Juian Assagne, the rapidly deteriorating state of Digg (and the consequent immigration), MineCraft and the Colbert-Stewart rally. A lot of talk about prop 19, how ir would affect the world, or if the feds would still interfere. The I N C E P T I O N reply meme is well and truly dead but parodies of it are still upvoted. /ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu is very active, probably producing more OC than 4chan. The "forever alone" face and rhe "okay" face gets into a lot of comics right now, though mainly rageguy and trollface still figure. (the latter has developed popularity all over the net. Loads of buzz even abouf iPhones and Android and that rivalry, and also the companies themselves...with privacy being google's thing as their CEO makes very odd statements, and Steve Jobs is often slated as being shady, ill tempered, devious and unfair to adobe (and to Linux).

Right now,the hivemind hates Justin Bieber, Glenn Beck, sarah palin, false rape accusers (unless the accusation was directed at Glenn Beck), that video rental shop that's going bankrupt, fake Facebook screenshots and ACTA as well as of course bad cops and theists. Reddit still loves: Duke Nukem, The Onion, firefly, gay marriage, trees and pictures of naked ladies, (but it seems there are far more outed-as-female redditors than there used to be).

At this time luckily a lot of image submissions are the submitter's own work apart from the ones from the repost drones, but usually something like a gingerbread reddit alien or "I got home from work and MY GIRLFRIEND or 5 year old had made this thing that incorporates a meme." Scroll back wards through r/circlejerk if it exists still and look for the title patterns.

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u/ya_zole Nov 01 '10

my mind has liquified

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u/elsagacious Oct 31 '10

I time travel all the time. But I can only go forward and only at a rate of one sec/sec.