bzl wrote:the rest is history.
Holy crap, that's how I found this place too.
[/not the real Dread Pirate Roberts]
How I Found Song Fight
Okay, it all goes back to long long long when ago I was doing my student teaching. And there was this girl named Karen in my cohort. Karen often felt like the black sheep around the rest of the cohort because she didn't drink, and she was this big ole Christian (like she would go to China posing as a foreign exchange student, but she was really doing missionary work). So we would be all, "HEY LETS GO TO A BAR" and Karen would be all "awwwwman". So when Karen invites me to her brother's birthday party, I say yes, because Karen's cool and we don't get to hang out.
So. Karen's brother tells us all about this online game called Acrophobia where people compete by expanding a series of letters into phrases or sentences that relate to a certain theme. (Like LATT becomes "Los Angeles traffic: terrible!"). So after the party I went home and played it, for like hours and hours on end, I think possibly all night, because I can be quite obsessive sometimes.
I moved to New York and took my addiction with me, and realized (after having played the game for about 6 months) that certain players formed teams, and so I joined one. One night, playing a game, this one guy on my team changed his name so that it was AYBABTU. And I was all "What the heck does that mean?" And then he tells me "All your base are belong to us", to which I reply "I still have no idea what that means". He explains that it's a meme currently floating around the internet, and this was the first I had ever heard the word meme, so I'm still "I still don't understand you, and am starting to think I may never understand you again." My brain was just not getting the concept.
a long time ago, two guys playing an online game pretty much wrote:"So a meme is an idea? Why the hell do we need a new word for it?"
"Well, it's kind of like an idea, but it's really the way in which that idea spreads. How people hear it and then do other things with it. It's like how a genome carries genetic information, a meme carries information about ideas."
"Okay, my brain is exploding now."
And somewhere along the line, he was like "Go to memepool.com", either to try and help me understand AYBABTU or to understand what a meme is. And so I went there and obsessively went through every link they had archived. One of which was a something about a place called songfight.com.
) thus being linked to MC Frontalot, thus being linked to SF, thus me going 'whoa' and joining. Or it was me finding somesongs, where I found Josh, where I found Songfight. First time I ever did a song(a horrible horrible one, as all firsts are) was by Josh's pushing, so you have him to blame for my crappy music here.
oh well. it shall remain privy only to the select few that read it the first time.
