Worst Internet clichés, and Internet pet peeves of yours (besides forum questions like this lol)

[Johanthemonster666]

In your opinion, what are some of the worst or most irritating things you see on the internet on a regular basis. Messages left by people, internet fads, and "internet memes that must die".

To narrow this down, youtube comments, forum comments, random memes that crawl out of 4Chan, and similar sites.

For me right now, it's going to every internet site that allows individuals to leave comments (with little moderation) such as on youtube, social sites, and news articles just to see Justin Bieber rants(in the most random places at that), politically obsessed trolls copying and pasting the same inflammatory message or rant to all the articles.

Oh and my personal pet peeves of all comments

"Me: Hey mom, I'm going to go kill ___ people who voted thumbs down on a video I liked
Mom: Are you going alone?
ME: No,___ people are coming with me!"

and

"Vote *Thumbs Up* if you think (some obvious statement/observation or popular sentiment)."

 

[Woodsey]

I can't fucking stand people who seem to think that because it's the internet they can write like complete morons, and who then moan when people say they can't understand a word they've written.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

YouTube sub 4 subbers.

I can't stand them. They don't even usually make any videos. If they do, people who sub 4 subbed with them aren't going to watch them. What's the bloody point?

Also, you know that thing that some of the YouTube partners have - an annotation the size of the whole video that has a subscribe link, so if you click on the video to pause it, it takes you to the subscription centre? Yeah? Well, fuck that.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

People who constantly use internet abbreviations or even worse people who speak them in real life.

 

[Nannernade]

Well let's see... where to start... in my online game people are constantly abusing the "it's over 9,000" meem... and I really hate when people speak "leet" I thought that was only popular in the 90's...

 

[popepaul3]

Here's a phenomenon perhaps not exclusively restricted to the internet but it's the only place i've really encountered it.
Idiots on your side in a disscussion/arguement. completely undermining your points by having them associated with their jibberish.

 

[MurderousToaster]

For the first cliché, people saying "THUMBS UP BECAUSE (shitty reason that would only be left by some kind of idiotic shell of a person here)".

For the pet peeve, people not understanding the difference between then and than.

 

[Kajt]

Worst Internet clichés, and Internet pet peeves of yours (besides forum questions like this lol)

That. I find it incredibly annoying when people just add "lol" to the end of a sentence. Makes you sound like a bloody idiot and makes me less likely to even bother with your posts and threads. Good day, sir.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

Worst Internet clichés, and Internet pet peeves of yours (besides forum questions like this lol)

I sense much troll anger in your sir lol (I'm just pulling your leg)

I tend to add "lol" to inform the reader of my tone,usually just to poking fun at myself.
I rarely use this and don't take me for an idiot due to one sentence.

I get mocked for being a "grammar teacher", or writing in a semi-formal fashion on-line, so take my use "lol" anyway you like.

It is a terrbile cliché, and it only survives due to habit on my part.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Gotta be when on any type of music video everyone says 'Better than Justin Bieber/Lil Wayne/WHATEVER'.

We know this, which is why we're not watching it! Stop making these pointless comments to get likes on them. It's pointless, annoying, and frankly pathetic.

 

[drbarno]

those youtube comments, the ones that go "X people did this" Where X = the amount of dislikes the video happens to have. What really annoys me about these it that they always in the top comments section so there's at least one of these as soon as I scroll down.

 

[ThePerfectionist]

Convenient timing; I just finished ranting in another thread about one of my pet peeves.

I limit my interactions with other people on the internet, so I'm going to have to go with two types of YouTube comments:

1. People who put down the video/content, not with constructive criticism, but with flames (and possibly the intent to start a comment-flame-war)
Why the hell did you watch it then?

2. That *insert several creative curse words here* petition that was being posted on practically every rock music video I watched one day trying to get music fans to unite against Justin Bieber. I don't even LIKE the guy and that kind of immaturity just....GAH

As MovieBob would say, I HAVE FURY!!!

EDIT:

I'm not a fan of the myth that 4chan is the Tortuga of the internet. It's a great place if you know which boards to go to. Go there sometime. See what it's like. It's not scary. As for /b/, it's mostly just gross. They have a continuous contest to gross each other out, and they only ever use the same pool of pictures. They're not nearly as funny or powerful as they'd like you to think.

Oh, and that link is totally not safe for work.

This too. 4chan is a handy time-waster if you aren't easily offended, and even if you are 80% of the boards won't bother you any.

 

[ABLb0y]

that stupid ad for the social network that plays whenever i try to watch zp.

 

[nunqual]

Worst Internet clichés, and Internet pet peeves of yours (besides forum questions like this lol)

That. I find it incredibly annoying when people just add "lol" to the end of a sentence. Makes you sound like a bloody idiot and makes me less likely to even bother with your posts and threads. Good day, sir.

Eh, the acronym is annoying, but it serves a definite point. It helps convey the emotion of the preceding sentence, something that is not easy to do with just words. It could easily be replaced with 'haha' or something like that, but it is sometimes necessary in internet communication.

 

[Minch]

that stupid ad for the social network that plays whenever i try to watch zp.

this x1000

 

[LastMondaysHangover]

Lady Gaga fans who claim she's the messiah and making it known in every possible facet of the internet. She's been re-releasing her first album every year for the past 2 years. I have to give her a hand though being able to get that many fans in such a short period of time, that actually does take effort...

 

[LogicNProportion]

I...don't really care that much.

If anything, I hate it when people outside the internet crowd (parents, preps, etc) discover a meme that's been out forever, and then use it. And then I say "Slowpoke is slow", thinking they'll get that too, and I just get a weird look.

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