Meme Shmeme

Tuesday Jun 28th 2005

As one who scans LJ (that’s LiveJournal) from time to time, one thing that I see a lot of that truly puts a hair in my Cream O’ Wheat is meme quizzes by Memegen. Just about everyone I see on LJ posts one (or hundreds) of these things. “How sexy are you”, “How goth are you”, “How redundant are you”, “How [insert star sign here] are you” and so on.

I

hate

them.

Not only do they get in the way of real content, but half the time the people who posts these things get the html code wrong and completely screw up the look of their post(s). ARRGHHGHGHH..

Here’s my own quiz:

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Memegen-masturbation quiz

(each “yes” answer counts as one point)

Question 1. Have you ever put a memegen quiz on your blog?

Question 2. Have you ever put two memegen quizzes on your blog?

Question 3. Have you ever put more than two memegen quizzes on your blog?

Question 4. Have you ever put more than two memgen quizzes on your blog in the same week?

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1 point: You are hereby put on blog probation and are let off with a warning. Don’t let it happen again.

2 points: You have committed 1st degree memegen-masturbation, giving others full right to think nasty thoughts about you.

3 points: You have committed 2nd degree memegen-masturbation. Were I to have control over your computer, you would be banned from using it for one week.

4 points: You have committed 3rd degree memegen-masturbation. You are officially beyond hope. People who read your blog are doomed to encounter at least 2 to FIVE quizzes a week or more.. the horror. You probably even share quizzes with other LJ bloggers. Make it stop.. MAKE IT STOP..

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Seriously speaking, quizzes are retarded. Think of it this way. You’re reading a book, and on every 10th page you are forced to read through a quiz that has absolutely nothing to do with the book you’re reading. Gets kind of annoying around the 20th time you do it, right?

Right.

Don’t do it.

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