LOLcows who want to be forgotten. -

[Chipmunk With A Banana]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon.../internet-memes-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten

An interesting article about some of the Internet's most well-known lolcow memes. Although most LOLcows are horrified with their infamy and want to be left alone, some actually make the most of it, such as "Overly Attached Girlfriend", who has even made a comedy career out of her meme-ness.

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[Watcher]

Almost every lolcow comes here and demands we remove their thread and forget about them

It's not like it's going to happen just because they ask. The right to be forgotten should be earned, not demanded.

Like in the case of Connor he was given numerous opportunities to be forgotten as long as he stopped visiting the forum and moved on with his life. And he did neither.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

Most lolcows don't seem to grasp the *very* easy concepts of what'll make attention on them die down:

a) Ignoring threads here and letting people forget about them by not posting *cough*LordChurch*Cough*
b) Owning up to your sperging by going "Yeah, I'm a lolcow, I'll answer any questions you have" and just being generally civil.

IIRC, a few lolcows faded from the radar because of option b on this forum, right?

 

[Jaimas]

The core of any lolcow is a lack of humility.

If you know and show humility, by your very nature, you cannot be a profitable lolcow.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

In my opinion this forum is actually pretty lenient when it comes to closing threads. There was a man who actually thought he was going to become a menstrual pad somehow—he's much weirder than a lot of the people we discuss here—but he got his own thread closed because he asked politely, and didn't flail his arms and insult the users here. More recently Mr. Dogfucker's thread was closed, and he still posts in these forums despite our knowledge of his deviant interests.

If you want to be forgotten, just act normal and don't respond when people try to provoke you. It's that easy. If you can't do that, then it's clear you don't know how to act in public, and you deserve to be made fun of.

 

[The Damned Thing]

The core of any lolcow is a lack of humility.

If you know and show humility, by your very nature, you cannot be a profitable lolcow.

I know how to show humidity. Does that count?

 

[Ca Ira]

How can Overly Attached Girlfriend be considered a lolcow?

 

[Watcher]

How can Overly Attached Girlfriend be considered a lolcow?

The article in question isn't about lolcows. It's about internet memes or people associated with them.

To be fair though there are people who have been negatively impacted by internet memes. I recall this one image of a grown man with down syndrome holding a sign went viral some years ago and the family tried to sue the guy who uploaded the image.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

That poor baby in the article, I didn't see anything that would make that baby a meme.

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I remember there was this girl who had a sub forum on guru gossip, a girlnamednat (nat neagle) who was a lolcow. A disturbing image of her pierced nipple leaked and wound up on porn website ads, and someone found a post in a swingers group or craigslist where her and her husband wanted a third partner. The biggest kicker was she claimed one day she woke up and could not walk, so she instagrammed everything, the ambulance ride was the strangest of all..who instagrams that when they woke up and could not walk? They began to go on go fund me and beg for money. I forgot HOW, but someone got it shut down, and her husband blew a gasket on fb, about how their family refuses to help them --- hmm i wonder why. Maybe because you two are liars?

After nobody helped them, she pretty much fell off the internet planet, thankfully. She wants to be forgotten, but her nipple survives google image search result for almost any beauty guru lolcow.

 

[☻]

"But the Internet is a difficult place to police." - NPR

Memes have become mundane anyway. Using memes is like trying to play a fun video game when your baby brother wants to ruin it every chance he gets by making shitty jokes about said game. He fails to see how the jokes are shitty, and thinks he is adding unique fun and enriching the experience. The lack of understanding of the common people that use memes is unbearable.
I'd also like to point out that this article quotes someone saying memes are mostly sexist, when they list bad luck brian and scumbag steve as the two male memes, which reflect negatively on men. The article, or rather the quoted professor, then argues that memes in general are meant to hurt women. He does not cite a statistic, and just gives out what is an opinion at best, and an ignorant opinion in reality. This poor professor that they cited has no idea what he's talking about.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Memes have become mundane anyway. Using memes is like trying to play a fun video game when your baby brother wants to ruin it every chance he gets by making shitty jokes about said game.

Like every boy on YouTube these days who is trying to be the next pewdiepie?

 

[Konstantinos]

In trying to find obscurity, lolcows fan the flames of their flamboyance.