I am em effing sick and dang tired of this "phrase-of-the-day" culture in gaming. I haven’t seen an original thought online in over a decade. People have no personalities and must latch on to "memes" (which, don’t get me started, don’t actually exist, and are popular image macros or comedy videos) and use them without even knowing the meaning.
I was getting some Silksong content recommended to me after I did a review of it on YouTube. One of the comments on a video was "Primal aspid go brr" - this makes so little sense you would think it was evidence for a conspiracy theory.
The original format of this phrase was from someone talking about stabilizing the economy during Covid, with a retort of "haha money printer go brr." It was a dumb person not caring about advanced techniques and simply using a simple method that they are amused by. People say "thing go brr" now, because their brains are incapable of creating something and they must regurgitate a popular phrase they found online in an annoying game of my-only-hobby-is-my-entire-personality Madlibs. It now means nothing. It means less than nothing. It was bastardized from the original to mean using a method that is brutish and unrefined as opposed to dynamic systems. Now people just say it. There is no context in which this phrase makes sense, except to identify a person who should be in a mental hospital, or perhaps a torture device.
How about "Lobotomy drill goes brr" and I empty out your skull. Your brain doesn’t work anyway. You are not a conscious human being, but a vessel to transmit bullshit. Here’s a little test for you: next time you are about to make a comment on a video, imagine saying it out loud to your father at Thanksgiving dinner. If you would stand up and do this and not be ashamed to the point of suicide, go ahead and post it. They should put a warning on YouTube. Before you are about to make a comment, instead of a pop up that might read “Are you sure?” It will now say “Would you feel comfortable if this was read aloud in a room full of your peers during an IQ-check intervention?”
It has more recently even become a trend to black out words in an image macro and simply replace them with your own, which is so miraculously devoid of integrity I can’t believe how widely accepted it is. People used to get mad about theft. I remember the first time I became aware of this becoming so popular that I started ripping my hair out. Most popular video formats are born, exist, and then burn out quickly. I can’t remember the exact viral clip, but I do remember the video game that stole it. There was a video with the text along the lines of “When <character> does <thing>“ on the top half, and the bottom half was a reaction gif. Not only has this broken down human communication back to cave drawings by showing a video of someone else simply having an emotion, the original <character> and <thing> got removed, and when I saw it, they were replaced with characters from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a 2019 release. I was so mad when I saw this, I had to go to the YMCA and put the first person I saw in the changing rooms into a locker to get the bullying out of my system before I annihilated my family in a blind rage. You can only push a man so far before he changes his stance on gun ownership.
Speaking of memes, you would think nerds would have risen above this, as they suffered at the hands of it for so long. This is like hazing. People get hazed and hate it and say “This shit sucks.” Then they get in the position where they are allowed to haze people and they rub their hands together like a villain and say “heehee my turn.” Nerds used to be cool because they would rise above jock tactics. They’d stay in their lane, and there is a sort of swagger to having that principle. They were excluded from popular stuff so they had to post up with their other nerd homies and form a nerd clique. Harmless and effete, but decent, perhaps even honorable. Now I see Fire Emblem-brand, stolen, braindead jokes with tens of thousands of likes. If I ever met someone and they told me they posted a Fire Emblem joke video online, I would pants them, and then sign them up to join ISIS.
If you think maybe I’m being too harsh; why is he this angry over a little joke? Teehee I’m just a silly little joker trying to bring a smidge of joy and merriment to this cruel world, please stop persecuting me. It doesn’t hurt anybody to not only post a pale imitation of a joke online but to have the entire format be stolen and repurposed for my interests. You couldn’t be more wrong. This is a legit emergency. I took a break from writing this to jerk off and I scrolled some Instagram reels after. I got an ad selling an anime T-shirt that read “She neon on my genesis til I evangelion. Episode:69. Extremely loud incorrect buzzer.” The collective intelligence of the human race is being actively driven down by how low quality all your content is, and if you like this stuff, you are a terrorist to the human race. Twenty years ago, Star Trek fans used to have PhDs. You can respect a nerd like that. Now we have recycled memes from high school drop-out “content creators” with vitamin deficiencies. I don’t even respect the worms in their brain that are doing the best with the pile of g-fuel powered mush they infected, after traveling there from the only meal these cretins will eat: fast food chicken tenders and fries. The internet was a mistake.
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