Random Thoughts 3.0

[Laurence]

They way this was before the last time Peter poked around in the server to change the X Factor icon into a bin?

Also... Remember a new user joining and @matthew also correcting them about smileys and the told him to fuck off, fuck PJ and left? Icon.

Wait it was posted right below but it did not appear in the screenshots.

In this instance, Frederick’s visual mode of expression—possibly used with the goal of appearing friendly—was rebuked. Fredrick’s reaction to the rule was to proclaim in another post “That is the dumbest fucking shit ever. Delete my account” (Smiley Extremist). He was promptly banned from the forum, and his username was changed to “Smiley Extremist” to the amusement of other members

 

[Subwaykid]

What’s their translingual analysis of this

 

[devilpray]

I MADE IT!

The fact that "Normani - Debut Album" is there means this screenshot could be from anywhere in the last 5786 years

 

[Inland Empire]

NOT the Disco Elysium icon

 

[Mirwais Ahmadzaï]

Them clocking the way some users get banned/warned/posts removed for certain things whilst other users get numerous likes for the same conveyed message

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It's always something with her

 

[devilpray]

Great day today :)

 

[Lapras]

Randomly came across this essay - Building Communities Beyond Borders: The Translingual Practices of Transnational Fans of Korean Pop Culture - and I'm screaming at how it uses this forum as one of the examples. We've been thoroughly studied.

and "Staff Member"

 

[Applause]

Great day today :)

 

[RJF]

I'm always stunned at anyone caring about the politics of this forum at this point.

 

[devilpray]

I'm always stunned at anyone caring about the politics of this forum at this point.

It's funny when I remember the rules because 95% of my posts are gifs only or the worst English ever.

 

[Raichu]

My YA fantasy novel protagonist just killed a giant disembodied hand. I hate writing action scenes but I think it turned out well. I've tried to use the technique of making the fights more like a puzzle the protagonist has to figure out, so it doesn't read in a tedious way.

 

[Applause]

My YA fantasy novel protagonist just killed a giant disembodied hand.

This Silent Hill serve!

 

[aaronhansome]

The BPG rate ends and all the collective insanity of the forum has to manifest elsewhere now, I love it. Coming on here to feast on takes I didn't even know were possible.

 

[Lapras]

They way this was before the last time Peter poked around in the server to change the X Factor icon into a bin?

Also... Remember a new user joining and @matthew also correcting them about smileys and the told him to fuck off, fuck PJ and left? Icon.

The irony of you tagging yet another matthew

 

[Square]

However, although newer members might not be allowed to use smileys, other translingual practices seem to come naturally for older users of Popjustice, who continuously break the rules, not always writing in “fully formed English sentences” and definitely making posts “that consist entirely or mainly of a reaction GIF, a smiley, an emoji, webspeak” (Robison).

They called @Phloo a delinquent

 

[Friday Night]

Zephyr in the sky at night, I wonder. Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun?

 

[Andy French]

having a mome

 

[Maki]

Randomly came across this essay - Building Communities Beyond Borders: The Translingual Practices of Transnational Fans of Korean Pop Culture - and I'm screaming at how it uses this forum as one of the examples. We've been thoroughly studied.

So we are locked inside this forum with registrations closed as a case study.

 

[LTG]

They called @Phloo a delinquent

And they were right.

 

[V3RYP05H]

I know we are a public forum but, ethically, shouldn’t the researcher have asked permission to publish these quotes, especially with these screenshots?