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Answer by Luuklag for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: The homepage is being YaakovedOriginator: Shadow 10 Years Wizard (in chat)Cultural height: just nowBackground: When launching a new feature that has been discussed for years. Yaakov Ellis ♦ will...

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Answer by E_net4 the downvoter for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Iterative shrug evolutionOriginator:¯\_(ツ)_/¯Cultural Height:¯\_(ツ)_/¯Background: The shrug character requires additional care to be properly printed in a post, by escaping the backslash...

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Answer by Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: WizardsOriginators:Shadow Wizard, Ask a Question WizardCultural height: As tall as the wizardry tower goesBackground: Shadow Wizard is one of the most prolific users here on Meta. While their...

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Answer by Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: grabs/gets popcornOriginator: UnknownFirst Seen: December 3rd, 2010Cultural Height: As long as there is drama somewhere Background: Chat meme. Whenever a drama is about to begin, or is ongoing,...

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Answer by E_net4 the downvoter for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Twitter-driven development (also occasionally called Twittergate)Origin:Meta Stack Exchange on revisiting the Hot Network Questions feature TwitterCultural height: Whenever a feature is proposed...

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Answer by iBug says Reinstate Monica for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: StackExchange™ Buggy Features™Originator: Unknown, possibly badpCultural Height: Every time a StackExchange™"Feature" Report™ comes upBackground: Starting with Stack Exchange™ MultiCollider...

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Answer by iBug says Reinstate Monica for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Z̭͙̳ͮ̐̂̆̍̒̚͢a͇̬̯̮̱̮̮͆ͯͣ͋ͬ̚l͒̂g͖͙̲̭͋ͫ̓́̚o͊́͏͉̫̮̬͍̣̟̯͚͕͓̍ͯ͐ͬ̃͑ͅt͇̤͈͓̺͎̍͗̄̂͂ͮ̑e̺̗͎̘̋̄̐̉͒x͈t̟̮͓͚̟̘̃ͮ̀͠Originator: Unknown, possibly bobinceCultural Height: Taller than...

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Answer by Glorfindel for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Getting ShoggedOrigin: Unknown (possibly the Tavern)Cultural Height: unfortunately, somewhere in the pastUsage: whenever somebody, having posted an (often unfounded) complaint about Stack...

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Answer by Chris for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: RoombaOrigin: Antiquity (or 2002, if irobot.com is to be believed)Cultural Height: Fears of premature deletion in March 2013 (this and this). Still discussed regularly on meta. A comment on this...

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Answer by L_Church for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Moderator paper bagOriginator: Martijn PietersCultural Height: It was highlighted as a needed thing from this comment: Why was I suspended? but seems to have only two instances (latter...

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Answer by Adelin for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Downvote, flag and move onOriginator: TBDCultural Height: TBDDescription: The response to most of "What should we do when a question is low quality" or "What should be the response for behavior...

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Answer by iBug says Reinstate Monica for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: !!/blameOriginator: Undo (this commit)Cultural Height: Every time this command is being issued in Charcoal HQ or Tavern on the Meta or another chat roomBackground: SmokeDetector is a...

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Answer by Rosário Pereira Fernandes for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: bring back the polyglotOriginators:gparyani, the4kmanBackground: It started when the Stack Overflow 404 page was changed to no longer include the polyglot. gparyani asked Bring back the 404...

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Answer by anonymous2 for The Many Memes of Meta

Même:His Madnificents! (alternate versions include Madnifiscents, Madnifisense, etc.)Originator:GhanimaBackground: It started when @Aurora0001 was automatically added as room owner of the IoT main chat...

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Answer by JAL for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Too Many ShogsOriginator: JALFirst Heard:A bug report posted by JAL where when Shog closed a question as multiple duplicates, the iOS Stack Exchange App would show that the question was closed by...

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Answer by Nissa for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Tim Post lost his keysOriginator:Tim PostCultural Height: TBDBackground: In his answer to Should 'drive by' downvoting be more effectively caught?, Tim Post describes a long chain of events,...

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Answer by Andrew Morton for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Option Strict OnOriginator: VB.NETCultural Height: It's larger in need than it appears.Background:Visual Basic 6.0 wasn't too fussy about strict typing. You could add integers to strings and...

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Answer by Travis J for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: ProfitOriginator: South ParkFirst Used At Stack Exchange: Oct 9 '08Cultural Height: TBDBackground: Used in various meta posts often in conjunction with "fun", whatever that is. Often used to add...

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Answer by apaul for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: We Hate FunOriginator: Jeff Atwood, https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/Mentioned: Wherever fun is being had.Background: This meme may have started before the...

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Answer by AStopher for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: BoomOriginator: That Evil Chatroom that Organises Votes (aka, the SOCVR Chat)Cultural Height: Early 2015-Mid 2016(ish?)Background: Boom (or 'Booming') originated from the SOCVR chat-room, as a...

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Answer by Bergi for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Puns in the titles of tag-related requestsOriginator: UnknownCultural Height: 2015Background: With first appearances in 2013 (All the [movement] has ceased| Hack at the hacking tag), it has...

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Answer by AStopher for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Thanks in AdvantageOriginator: Stack OverflowCultural Height: UnknownBackground: On Stack Overflow it had become somewhat common for a new user to place 'Thanks in advantage' in their questions...

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Answer by Infinite Recursion for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: BartOriginator:Bart, in chatCultural Height: The usage of the iconic glasses as profile images by multiple users.Background: Bart, his glasses, his smiting stick and his stars are legendary in...

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Answer by ProgramFOX for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: GIF of fox jumping in the snowOriginator: TGMCians, in chatCultural height: TBDBackground: TGMCians posted the animated GIF of the fox jumping in the snow in chat, and later, the image was posted...

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Answer by juergen d for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Caching (“caching, it's always caching”)Originator: Jonathan Sampson (here)Cultural height: just now Background: Many "bugs" turn out to be a caching issue (client-side, or server-side, or in...

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Answer by einsteinsci for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Parsing HTML with RegExOriginator: BobinceCultural Height:Untl̕L H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̶̧̨̬̩̱̹̭̯̾͛ͪ̈́̀́ͧ̾ͬ͘C̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅBackground: This meme began as bobince has...

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Answer by gnat for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Meta effect.Originator:Mat (?)Mentioned:MSO comments, 2011-09-08Background: Increase of voting activities observed on main-site posts that have been exposed at meta. Most ironic when someone...

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Answer by BoltClock's a Unicorn for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: OscillationOriginator:asdf_enel_hakFirst Heard:February 3rd, 2013 (Deleted. >10k only. Screenshot for mortals)Cultural Height: Oscillates between then and nowDefinition: The repetitive...

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Answer by John for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: A Stack Overflow CarolOriginator:Tim PostCultural Height: ChristmasAbout: One day near Christmas 2011, Tim Post decided to change his name to Tiny Tim, a character from Charles Dickens's A...

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Answer by Pekka for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Porblem, Proble, Halting Issue, Pro-blem, pr0blem, proble*Originator: Kevin MontroseCultural Height: TBDBackground: Late 2011, the SO devs decided to add a filter to question titles blocking...

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Answer by ckittel for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: BurninatedOrigin: Possibly Jeff Atwood / Strongbad: Trogdor the Burninator(no Flash Youtube video)Cultural Height: 2010 - …Background: Used in reference to deleting a tag from the system. See...

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Answer by BinaryMisfit for The Many Memes of Meta

This meme is officially deprecated.Please do not use this meme. It remains here while links to it are still quite 'out in the wild' as a reference to inform folks that they shouldn't be using it, and...

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Answer by Gelatin for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Hyphen siteOriginator: UnknownCultural Height: TBDBackground: Jeff Atwood created a blog-post defining Stack Overflow as the anti-Experts-Exchange. experts-exchange.com was originally just...

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Answer by perbert for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme:Oh! the huge Manatee!Originator: The image already existed as a general Internet Meme, it was used first on a scared question by voyager.First Heard:Stickers for non US residents? on Sep 17...

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Answer by Brad Gilbert for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Changing your display name on a whim.Originator:WelbogCultural Height: TBDOfficial Response:Limited to one change every 30 days.Background: User Welbog likes to change his profile whenever it...

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Answer by TheTXI for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Friday AfternoonOrigin: Olafur WaageCultural Height: Friday in IcelandBackground: Friday Afternoon is generally recognized as the period of the week when programmers like to slack off (more than...

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Answer by Shog9 for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Everything is a memeOriginator:TheTXICultural Height:2009-09-10 16:41:20ZBackground: This meme began with TheTXI's obsession over memes in general, starting memes on Stack Overflow, and claiming...

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Answer by DisgruntledGoat for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Two problems.Originator: Unknown (the quote itself is by Jamie Zawinski)Cultural Height: NeverendingBackground: A quotation by Jamie Zawinski goes like this:Some people, when confronted with a...

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Answer by John Rasch for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme:plzsendtehcodezOriginator:TheDailyWTF, as documented here.First Use of Tag: Documented Here.Cultural Height: UnknownBackground: The plzsendtehcodez tag was predominantly used on SO to label...

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Answer by TheTXI for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Freehand CirclesOriginator: TheTXICultural Height: TBD Variation: during Winter Bash season, some members substitute the freehand circles for freehand hats. Unlike the hats, they won't disappear...

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Answer by Robert Cartaino for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: 6 to 8 WeeksOriginator:Jeff AtwoodFirst Heard: May 13th, 2008Cultural Height: In about 6 to 8 weeksDefinition: The time estimate given "off the top of my head" when the Stack Overflow team has...

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Answer by TheTXI for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Jon SkeetOriginator: Jon SkeetCultural Height: Every Day. Ever.Background: Jon Skeet is an avid user of Stack Overflow, whose many answers (primarily in c# and .net) earned him over a million...

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Answer by TheTXI for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: jQueryOriginator: Unknown (possibly Ólafur Waage)Cultural Height: TBDBackground: A Stack Overflow-centric meme, jQuery began its career early on as the answer to beat for any question that even...

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Answer by John Rudy for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Boat ProgrammingOrigin: SantiagoCultural Height: Discussed on both the podcast and the blog.Background:See here.Related:Capture of a capture of the original question

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Answer by GEOCHET for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMEDOriginator: TheTXICultural Height: Early July 2009Background: HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED is Rich B. The oldest surviving reference is here, earlier references having been...

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Answer by TheTXI for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Unicorns (née Ponies)Origin: TheTXICultural Height: April 1st, 2009Background: The pony meme began without fanfare early in TheTXI's time as a member of Stack Overflow. Its first recorded usages...

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The Many Memes of Meta

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As...

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Answer by Ekadh Singh for The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: gjlhglhfhOriginator: UnknownCultural height: TBDBackground: Whenever somebody suggests making comments mandatory with downvotes, a common argument against it is that people will just comment...

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