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  • 2004 Jun 2026 A Thread POST YOUR RIGS 2004 EDITION. A reconstructed forum thread from the golden age of hardware forums — when people argued about Athlon vs. Prescott, mocked each other's beige cases, and accidentally built the best technical knowledge base in history.
  • 2011-present Jun 2026 Ken M: The Internet's Most Beloved Troll (2011-present) A Comedy Central copywriter named Kenneth McCarthy spent years posting deliberately absurd comments on Yahoo News as 'Ken M' — proving that the best way to defuse toxic comment sections is not moderation but absurdity.
  • Jun 2026 Trolling Is Not Bullying Death threats are not trolling. Doxxing is not trolling. The distinction is not a matter of degree -- it is a difference in kind, and the media's refusal to learn it has made both problems harder to address.
  • Jun 2026 Memes Are Folk Art Memes satisfy every criterion folklorists use to identify folk art: anonymous authorship, communal transmission, iterative refinement, and ephemeral survival. They are the first folk art tradition that operates at the speed of light.

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