How clued up is the average doper on Internet Memes?

[Argent_Towers]

I hate them, and I especially hate that I’m seeing this shit pop up on forums which are dedicated to one specific thing, like bass playing or guns. I don’t give a shit about pictures of your cat with some kooky shit going on and a dumbass caption with misspelled words, and beyond that, I’m completely out of the loop.

[Vox_Imperatoris]

@The_Tao_s_Revenge

I personally have a 4chan gold account.

Pssh, I’ve got a Diamond Account: The Hardest Metal Known to Man.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

[The_Tao_s_Revenge]

@Vox_Imperatoris

Pssh, I’ve got a Diamond Account: The Hardest Metal Known to Man.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

Yea well I got some fukkin bismuth!

[st1d]

@Cleophus

For anyone who doesn’t get the meme in the OP, the standard form goes like this:

Troll: I just accidentally a Coca-Coca bottle. Is this dangerous?
Unsuspecting person: Accidentally what?
T: The whole bottle! What do I do?
UP: I don’t understand. What did you do with the bottle?
T: I accidentally the whole thing! This is serious, what do I do?

etc., etc. Other objects can be substituted for the bottle. The joke is the intentional omission of the verb involved, leading to speculation from the UP or others, usually of a sexual nature. The captioned image is yet another meme being combined with this one.

Also, I’d disagree with it being an “Internet” meme. It’s definitely just a *chan meme. Some *chan memes, like LOLcats, become general Internet memes, but most don’t (thank God). If you’re not active in the *chan community there’s no reason you’d have anything more than incidental exposure to this meme.

Maybe it’s just a misinterpretation, but while the missing verb is part of the joke, the real focus of the joke is playing it off as a possible mistake in translation, repeating it every so often, until minutes later, the victim realizes the whole thing was a joke at their expense. The typical target is customer support.

Folks that get it usually comment back with an appropriate choice of responses, while the naive keep trying to help, while the con slowly increases the frequency of the “I accidentally…” comments. Then when the mark finally realizes they’ve been played, and gets mad, they usually flip out a little, adding to the amusement, aka many lulz.

This is usually done by groups of 4chan-types, and when a good target is found, that customer support person/team can find themselves bombarded by thousands of customer support requests, most of which are nothing more than the joke. As it’s their job, they can’t just “give up”, and they can’t necessarily brush off customers till they’re sure, they might upset someone who’s real. So they’re stuck playing along for a while.

Once they get wise to the basic joke, then other approaches are used to string along the mark, until boredom sets in and they “I accidentally…”, letting the CS person off the hook. That said, it’s not unusual for a CS site to go offline temporarily during these attacks. Sometimes several times, till the chans decide to offer mercy and move on. As it’s distributed, there’s pretty much no way to counter these attacks, you’re at their mercy.

In general, I agree that most “internet memes” are stretching the definition pretty far.

BTW, 4chan isn’t what it used to be…