Tangent: Where the Banana Led...
I had been seeing this unmistakable dancing banana expressing joy, revelry, or blind faith for forumites throughout the internet. Little did I know where its dancing would lead.
No, not to worship the banana (or despotic smiley) itself; instead I was compelled to search out a Wikipedia article explaining the rise of the banana as an outlet for e-motions (with apologies to Master Shake). Like many internet cliches, the banana arose from a flash animation, dancing long after the song Peanut Butter & Jelly Time comes to a close. The final point on the banana timeline I had the patience to notice was a gem of media-mashing, a dancing banana that changes color according to the current Homeland alert status, written in what i believe is XML (please correct me if I am wrong). I do not know if this is the penultimate form that the banana will take, but I can only love the banana inasmuch as it helps me understand the evolutionary theory of internet memes.
THe banana was only one example, however. I found a linkpost site through another linkpost site (the subject of another tangential in the near future), but the latter had a link to the banana, along with All your base are belong to us, Yatta!, and other temporary obsessions of the connected demographic. This site is called glasscocx, a name whose explanation is best left to the site's FAQ:
The most cliched links are often referred to being "glasscock", named after the famous image of a female golfer kissing a trophy. This image was once so ubiquitous that presently it is thought that the entire B3ta community had seen it, hence the name.
At glasscocx the editors monitor internet discourse for the formation of new cliches and post them as they appear. Some days, I feel like they have the correct method, and they are honorable folks. But what are we trying to understand?
Perhaps bananas are best left unpicked.
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kerinth of ithaca
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10:51 PM
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A truly intriguing and ghastly pool of internet meme inpreeding can be found at www.ytmnd.com. Unforunately Mozilla will not play most of its sounds correctly so one must use the accursed Internet Explorer, but it is certainly a sight to see. A public forum for humorous and rediculous things found throughout the internet which are subsequently parodied ad infinitum until they have mutated and evolved eons past their original forms. Disgusting, beautiful and most importantly quite funny at times.
-D.G.B.
Wow.
Although I imagine readers were similarly overwhelmed when newspapers or journals started cataloging birth, deaths, and stock prices unabashedly together as if they belonged, one must be party to "the griefs of the the ages," and move on as if sure of a sensible outcome.
But thank you devon for another vantage point to look into the swirling abyss.
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