I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.
Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.
woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time
Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?
I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.
The world may never know…
Maybe it’s something mathematical?
I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.
It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.
(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)
“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).
It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.
So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.
100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.
Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.
I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.
It’s fucking spooky to know that youtubers walk among us within society like got damn you’re supposed to be contained within little rooms in a lab in a remote location
It’s fucking spooky to know that youtubers walk among us within society like got damn you’re supposed to be contained within little rooms in a lab in a remote location
“IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE NOTHING MAKES A SOUND SO I MIGHT AS WELL SCREAM YOUR NAME BEFORE I LOSE MY BREATH”
and, I’d like to remind you all, my desktop and phone background was made using Midjourney & DALL•E 2
I think AI (more properly, machine learning algorithms, since there’s nothing “intelligent” about current programs that we call AI) is a TOOL.
And that being used for training data should be OPT-IN, not OPT-OUT.
Do I want to train these tools?
Since I use them it’d be hypocritical not to.
I’m just scared for eventual bad actors,
what if a corporation uses these tools to replace real workers?
what if someone copies someone’s art style and puts them into hot water or out of business?
I don’t want photographers who study and learn how to properly frame, compose, edit and have the patience to wait for the perfect shot and spend fortunes on gear to be replaced or poorly compensated for their amazing work and talent.
I don’t want people who painstakingly learn how to draw and waste their hand out to be replaced or poorly compensated for their amazing work and talent.
I can be replaced, my work is that of grabbing images I have and mashing them together, of sliding up some RGB values, I don’t do anything special, I’m very similar to generative content in a primordial sense.
“I can’t believe it’s nyaambxr” - nyaambxr
But I don’t want this to happen to real artists, the singers, the producers, the illustrators, the photographers, the animators, the editors, the 3D modelers, everyone.
le mosche attaccate alla finestra (che dà sui tubi della caldaia) della scala tra il primo piano ed il piano terra nel condominio dove abita mia nonna.
STOP RECORDING QUEER PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND POSTING IT ONLINE YOU ARE PUTTING US IN DANGER‼️‼️‼️
AT SOCIAL GATHERINGS AT PRIDE IN THE STREET DOESN’T MATTER ASK THEIR PERMISSION‼️‼️‼️‼️
EXISTING IN PUBLIC NO MATTER HOW “WEIRD”≠ CONSENT TO BE IN A WANNABE INFLUENCER’S VIDEO FOR ALL TO SEE
STOP RECORDING PEOPLE IN GENERAL ‼️ ITS FUCKING CREEPY AND YOU COULD BE ACTIVELY PUTTING THEM IN DANGER ‼️‼️ YOU DON’T KNOW WHO’S HIDING FROM SOMETHING OR JUST LEFT A BAD SITUATION ‼️‼️ ALSO EVEN IF THEY WERENT YOU STILL SHOULDN’T RECORD THEM WITHOUT PERMISSION AND OPEN THEM TO RIDICULE AND HAVING TO DEAL WITH A VIDEO THEY DONT WANT ONLINE ‼️‼️‼️ HAVE SOME BASIC FUCKING DECENCY ‼️‼️‼️
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“My client has 2 death penalties, 3 life sentences, 273 years in prison, 7 years of mandatory parole and he’s a registered sex offender. How the fuck can i prove that he’s not guilty.”
SUND JUST DROPPED THE HARDEST CROSSOVER IN HISTORY
Science isn’t about “WHY”. It’s about WHY NOT! Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won’t hit you in the butt on the way out, because YOU ARE FIRED!
