Ponies' popularity grew to the point where Jeff Atwood and the Stack Overflow development team implemented the Cornify button on all questions and answers for April Fools' Day 2009. The comment "I like ponies" would be interjected into threads, seemingly at random, which inevitably led to those threads getting completely derailed.īefore long, it became evident that TheTXI was not the only SOpedian who found ponies to be the most wonderfullest things ever. Its first recorded usages can be traced back to long-running comment threads and arguments on both Stack Overflow and User Voice. Related: What is the origin of "6 to 8 weeks" and is it really the Crazy Frog?īackground: The pony meme began without fanfare early in TheTXI's time as a member of Stack Overflow. Spolsky: So how do you get this 6 to 8 weeks? What's this based on? DidĪtwood: uh no, I er… That's just sort of… off the top of my head. And you have like a notepad file type thing.Ītwood: Pretty much, it's just a basic text file. Spolsky: Wait how do you invite what? Through what mechanism do youĪtwood: Basically they email me directly and then, I add them to the Taken from the transcript of Podcast 005, from 03 min 18 secsĪtwood: Some people have been asking about scheduling, and I want to Return to FAQ index On other Stack Exchange sitesĭefinition: The time estimate given "off the top of my head" when the Stack Overflow team has only a vague idea of how long a task will take because they have little-to-no formal scheduling or even a list of tasks. Especially considering that a lot of these memes aren't really understandable to newer users who weren't around in the early years of the network, or are based on system features that no longer exist. Please actually explain each meme in a way understandable to those not already in the know. I therefore propose that this space be used to document the memes endemic to Stack Exchange's culture.Įach meme should be listed in a separate answer and I hope that we as a community will be able to provide greater context to each one. Just as travelers' immune systems can be assaulted by new diseases in new places, new users are increasingly likely to be miffed by an ingrained meme and left sitting scratching their heads. They are now ingrained units of our collective culture as SOpedians (a term which I hate, by the way). Stack Overflow, and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Exchange, have seen more than their fair share of these pathological social constructs spread through the user base. As with their real-life counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others are endemic to specific regions. This attempt at making the game ‘immersive’ came across as quite tasteless to a majority of people.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"). Thus, what could’ve been a thing that should’ve just been included in the cutscene, you’re basically forced to press F to pay respect. The thing is, you don’t really have any other choice than to press F. When you press F, the protagonist pats the coffin, taking a moment to reflect. The primary reason for “Press F To Pay Respect” becoming a meme is the absolute lack of self-awareness the game has with how it treats the death of a dear comrade.
(A subreddit where users can ask about trending things that they have no knowledge on) (He was playing the console version)Īs the mockery surrounding the inclusion of “ Press F To Pay Respect ” grew, Reddit users who were left in the dark sought answers in the r/OutOfTheLoop subreddit. In an episode of his Clueless Gamer series, Late Night show celebrity Conan O’Brien reviewed the game and criticized most of the gameplay including the “Press X to Pay Respects” scene, not seeing what the point was.
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