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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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