Ask HN: Rate my weekend project.

swores · on April 9, 2011

Can anyone explain to me why I find 99.9% of memes boring as hell?

I have an extremely immature sense of humour, I spend a hell of a lot of time on the internet, they ought to be perfect for me. And they can be so popular that there must be something I'm missing.

Who else just doesn't care about memes?

theoneill · on April 10, 2011

Depends what you mean by memes. The things on this site aren't really memes in the original sense of the word. The reason these things are boring is probably that as humor they fall on the far billboard end of the billboard-Shakespeare continuum: they are designed for quick (but inevitably shallow) appeal.

ktsmith · on April 10, 2011

I hate everything about them, it's not just you.

petervandijck · on April 10, 2011

Good idea, but the site is a little slow. Also, it'd be nice if you could get rid of all the visual noise around the photos, it's distracting.

revorad · on April 9, 2011

It's quite fun. There's something strangely addictive about these click-on-one-of-the-two=pics sites.

Are you just scraping the icanhascheezburger network for the images?

thatusertwo · on April 10, 2011

naw, some are from that site, but a lot of them are just collected over time from the internet in general.

wushupork · on April 10, 2011

This is so funny - it's great. I bet you can find people who will spend a whole afternoon on this.

user9756 · on April 9, 2011

Your site claimed 11 minutes of my life...

It was worth it ;)