Poll of the Day > How can you be "forum famous" when there are no more forums?

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 7:20:10 PM
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I know we're on a forum now, but the forum nowadays might as well not exist. To be an important name on NeoGAF today means a lot less than it did... 7+ years ago.

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Mead
06/30/21 7:20:56 PM
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What are you even talking about

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Greenfox111
06/30/21 7:24:53 PM
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i mean if youre still known by everyone on a forum then i guess you'd be considered forum famous, no?
although i've never actually heard anyone say the term "forum famous" before this topic

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Mead
06/30/21 7:26:06 PM
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Greenfox111 posted...
although i've never actually heard anyone say the term "forum famous" before this topic

yeah this

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 7:47:35 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Things change on the internet? Whoamahgawd

Things change everywhere. The question is, at what cost?

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Mead
06/30/21 7:56:55 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
Things change everywhere. The question is, at what cost?

The cost of change is. . .change.

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 8:05:09 PM
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Mead posted...
The cost of change is. . .change.

But what have we lost specifically? The cost of an expensive haircut is a little under $100. What have we lost in migrating from forums to this "content & audience"-centric Internet?

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ParanoidObsessive
06/30/21 8:05:19 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
To be an important name on NeoGAF today means a lot less than it did... 7+ years ago.

It means pretty much about the same, because it didn't mean jack shit back then, either.
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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 8:06:51 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
It means pretty much about the same, because it didn't mean jack shit back then, either.

Forum fame, back when forum fame meant something, will at least get you a video essay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfnQcFNCp4

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Judgmenl
06/30/21 8:07:04 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBiewQrpBBA

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Metalsonic66
06/30/21 8:55:00 PM
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Is reddit not a forum?

Because I don't think that is going anywhere

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Blightzkrieg
06/30/21 8:57:52 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Is reddit not a forum?

Because I don't think that is going anywhere
Famous Redditors don't make cash off it though, at least to my knowledge. It's not a money farm like live streaming.

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Metalsonic66
06/30/21 9:02:29 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
Famous Redditors don't make cash off it though, at least to my knowledge. It's not a money farm like live streaming.
What does that have to do with anything? I thought this thread was about fame, not money

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 9:04:03 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Is reddit not a forum?

Because I don't think that is going anywhere

I wouldn't call Reddit a forum. If you're Reddit famous, you're famous for one very popular thread. The subreddits have no "community" like a forum does. Everyone blends in. And Reddit knows this, that's why they recently started letting people have avatars/create their own Snoo. Which is still a futile effort because Reddit simply isn't designed like a forum. It's designed around content, not community or discussion.

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Metalsonic66
06/30/21 9:05:40 PM
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That sounds exactly like every forum

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 9:17:31 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
That sounds exactly like every forum

I wouldn't say so. On a real forum, people have reputations built up over multiple incidents. Like mrduckbear. People know mrduckbear because he has a reputation in the community. He the individual. Not just for any one thread he's made.

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Blightzkrieg
06/30/21 9:19:28 PM
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idk, to me chewy is just a pic of some hairy balls

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Metalsonic66
06/30/21 9:23:33 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
I wouldn't say so. On a real forum, people have reputations built up over multiple incidents. Like mrduckbear. People know mrduckbear because he has a reputation in the community. He the individual. Not just for any one thread he's made.
Yeah but Endgame is the most famous Gamefaqser ever and people only know him because one time he got high and said HOT SKITTY ON WAILORD ACTION.

Even Duckbear isn't actually well known outside of this one tiny corner of the site

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 9:24:00 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
idk, to me chewy is just a pic of some hairy balls

What about @ICOYAR? Remember him? Whatever happened to him? The fact that he was driven away, I think, is testament to the very real community of this board. That he left, because of perceived pressure from actual people.

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Mead
06/30/21 9:24:20 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
But what have we lost specifically? The cost of an expensive haircut is a little under $100. What have we lost in migrating from forums to this "content & audience"-centric Internet?

The cost of an expensive haircut is far more than $100 and that has been the case for decades

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Blightzkrieg
06/30/21 9:25:08 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
What about @ICOYAR? Remember him? Whatever happened to him? The fact that he was driven away, I think, is testament to the very real community of this board. That he left, because of perceived pressure from actual people.
He's just some pointy nipples

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ItsKaljinyuTime
06/30/21 9:26:06 PM
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Mead posted...
The cost of an expensive haircut is far more than $100 and that has been the case for decades

So what's a reasonable haircut cost?

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Mead
06/30/21 9:34:43 PM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
So what's a reasonable haircut cost?

Depends on what you consider a reasonable price? You can get a budget cut for around $15 or so

If you want a trained and fancy stylist then yeah youre looking at close to $100 at least and its been that way for a long time, it takes skill and its time consuming so its a pricey thing

or you can be like me and buy some clippers for $10 and just buzz your own hair

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Krazy_Kirby
06/30/21 9:51:21 PM
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ParanoidObsessive
07/01/21 7:36:28 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Yeah but Endgame is the most famous Gamefaqser ever

I've literally never heard of him, and I've been here 18 years.

It doesn't really matter if you come up with a meme that runs wild if no one knows or cares that you're the one who came up with it.
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Metalsonic66
07/01/21 7:45:45 PM
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Unfortunately that's how internet fame works most of the time.

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Mead
07/01/21 7:48:04 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I've literally never heard of him

same

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ParanoidObsessive
07/01/21 7:48:09 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Unfortunately that's how internet fame works most of the time.

Yeah, that's sort of my point. Most Internet "fame" isn't really fame at all.
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Metalsonic66
07/01/21 7:52:02 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Yeah, that's sort of my point. Most Internet "fame" isn't really fame at all.
I agree. Which is why I still don't really get what the TC was getting at

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ItsKaljinyuTime
07/01/21 9:48:07 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Yeah, that's sort of my point. Most Internet "fame" isn't really fame at all.

Then what is real fame?

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Molitheus
07/02/21 2:39:02 AM
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There was this one Gamefaqser who set a church on fire and posted it on CE.

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Mead
07/02/21 2:50:22 AM
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Molitheus posted...
There was this one Gamefaqser who set a church on fire and posted it on CE.

so famous that we still remember his name

Gamefaqser

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Molitheus
07/02/21 3:00:59 AM
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Mead posted...
so famous that we still remember his name

Gamefaqser
No, it was Jedimutant12345.

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Molitheus
07/02/21 3:14:59 AM
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Molitheus posted...
No, it was Jedimutant12345.
I stand corrected. It was Jediknight12345 not Jedimutant12345.

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Mead
07/02/21 3:17:36 AM
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Molitheus posted...
I stand corrected. It was Jediknight12345 not Jedimutant12345.

ah yes, the one and only

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Molitheus
07/02/21 3:21:01 AM
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Mead posted...
ah yes, the one and only
Believe me, if you look it up you can find the story. The guy who done it is from Missouri. That was really weird. The guy got prison time out of it.

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Metalsonic66
07/02/21 3:24:58 AM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
Then what is real fame?
What is fame?
What is life? The universe? Everything?
What is love? Baby, don't hurt me.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
07/02/21 5:04:09 AM
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Molitheus posted...
There was this one Gamefaqser who set a church on fire and posted it on CE.
Thats more infamy.

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mooreandrew58
07/02/21 6:28:13 AM
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There was a user here who had his own Wikipedia page about him. Anyone asked for any help abouy ff7 and hed go on about getting kotr as soon as feasibly possible and just spamming the the rest of the game. Made out like it was the optimal way to play the game. Think he had similarl outlandish "optimal" ways to beat other games that he'd always go on about. Vegetsther or some nane like that

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Blightzkrieg
07/02/21 9:58:53 AM
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There was a user who was one of Tucker Carlson's writers, I saw him post on the politics board just this week.

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BTH_Phoenix
07/02/21 10:33:05 AM
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A similar conundrum faced by radio and silent film actors.

Some will adapt to other mediums. Some will fade away.

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Krazy_Kirby
07/02/21 11:21:53 AM
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BTH_Phoenix posted...
A similar conundrum faced by radio and silent film actors.

Some will adapt to other mediums. Some will fade away.


except those had actual fame
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wwinterj25
07/02/21 11:33:46 AM
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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...
I know we're on a forum now, but the forum nowadays might as well not exist

Yet they do and some folk are just more popular than you. I don't understand why you would care this much. I've never cared about being popular in real life so certainly don't care about it on the internet.

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Greenfox111
07/02/21 2:56:24 PM
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mooreandrew58 posted...
There was a user here who had his own Wikipedia page about him. Anyone asked for any help abouy ff7 and hed go on about getting kotr as soon as feasibly possible and just spamming the the rest of the game. Made out like it was the optimal way to play the game. Think he had similarl outlandish "optimal" ways to beat other games that he'd always go on about. Vegetsther or some nane like that
Oh yeah veghesther. He's crazy. He got banned like a year or two ago. Sometimes you can still find him in youtube comments. Dude is an enigma

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mooreandrew58
07/02/21 9:12:32 PM
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Greenfox111 posted...
Oh yeah veghesther. He's crazy. He got banned like a year or two ago. Sometimes you can still find him in youtube comments. Dude is an enigma

Yeah I ran into him a time or two but was already aware of him so I wouldnt engage a convo with him even when he replied to to something I said.


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