Sho_Nuff82
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#151

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
Yeah, I'll stick to penny arcade.
Ventilaator
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#152

Sweet bro and hella Jeff was never approaching anything funny. The Simpsons comics were utter trash. Dolan is funny.

How?
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#153

Originally Posted by Gouty: View Post
Finally!

I've always wanted to say how incredibly unfunny the Dolan comics are but knew shitting up the funny pics thread was the greater sin.

FUCK DOLAN
wait a sec. are you trying to rustle my jimmies?
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#154

Gooby pls
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#155

Truly the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job of webcomics
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#156

Most Dolan comics are needlessly horrible, but some of them are so fucking funny, holy shit.
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#157

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
This is an incredible post.

Better not be copypasta.
D.Lo
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#158

Originally Posted by Plywood: View Post
This is an incredible post.

Better not be copypasta.
Good sir, I assure you this is hand-typed original NeoGAF™ content.
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#159

wondered if the dolan doing uncle scrooge from behind comic would be posted. guess we got the edited version.
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#160

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
Good sir, I assure you this is hand-typed original NeoGAF™ content.
Your username could pose as a Dolan spelling of his own name.
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#161

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
Good sir, I assure you this is hand-typed original NeoGAF™ content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6l3p2TiWS8
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#162

Originally Posted by GremlinFool: View Post
Not to toot my own horn, but I go to Dartmouth and love these. My friends who go to school with me do as well. While I'd rather not assert that going to a good school is directly correlated with having a high IQ (which is really an antiquated measure of "intelligence" that compartmentalizes and pigeonholes only one particular subset of analytical, intellectual thought and fails to even accurately serve as a barometer of that form of intelligence), I'd also prefer that you not make sweeping generalizations about a person's intelligence based simply off of their comedic preferences.

In the interest of levity:
[img]http://i.minus.com/ijzO86wt7jWx.jpg[img]
This is probably the funniest thing I have ever read on GAF.

That isn't a compliment either.
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#163

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
I like this post, but the bolded part is completely incorrect. Troll physics is just a tiny branch in the long history of the trollface meme.
Yes, I feel horrible for knowing this.
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#164

GOOFY PLS
D.Lo
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#165

Originally Posted by Hoo-doo: View Post
I like this post, but the bolded part is completely incorrect. Troll physics is just a tiny branch in the long history of the trollface meme.
Yes, I feel horrible for knowing this.
Don't want to get caught up in details, it's pretty hard to have seen every comic from every scene all the time. Just anecdotal from my own Reddit experience in 2010, but trollface really solidified in meaning and popularity as the 'prankster' after Troll Physics. I seem to remember it being used as a sort of 'poker face' meaning before that, at least in a few cases. Actually it might have been Troll Dad that turned/returned it into 'cheeky asshole', along with the Melvin version.

Actually GAF was a great way to grab 'best-of' current memes back then, there was a great Troll Physics thread that sorted out the good ones.
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#166

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
Don't want to get caught up in details, it's pretty hard to have seen every comic from every scene all the time. Just anecdotal from my own Reddit experience in 2010, but trollface really solidified in meaning and popularity as the 'prankster' after Troll Physics. I seem to remember it being used as a sort of 'poker face' meaning before that, at least in a few cases. Actually it might have been Troll Dad that turned/returned it into 'cheeky asshole', along with the Melvin version.

Actually GAF was a great way to grab 'best-of' current memes back then, there was a great Troll Physics thread that sorted out the good ones.
You do realize that all these memes come directly from 4chan right? Only Reddit picks them up months/years later, and beats them into the fucking ground.
I don't want to be a "meme-purist" here, but claiming you know memes when your only source is Reddit, that's just wrong.
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#168

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.
...
This is what adds a little bit of a punch to the Dolan comics for me. Disney's crazy history with copyright makes these all the funnier. There is no stopping this.

D.Lo
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#169

Originally Posted by Hoo-doo: View Post
You do realize that all these memes come directly from 4chan right? Only Reddit picks them up months/years later, and beats them into the fucking ground.
I don't want to be a "meme-purist" here, but claiming you know memes when your only source is Reddit, that's just wrong.
Yes of course. I was qualifying my previous comment.
It's sometimes a bit more rapid than 'months' though, I don't and didn't have time to always plow through the chan all the time (though visit to get the vibe at times), and at least back then Reddit was a fairly rapid aggregator of 4chan's creations.

I'm not claiming anything, just giving my take on what I think of the zeitgeist.
Fjordson
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#170

Originally Posted by Davidion: View Post
There's a really strange and near unexplainable charm to some of the Dolan comics. I think it started a little slow but some of the variants, particularly the gooby pls shit, is hilarious.
Honestly, I agree.

There's a good deal of them that I fail to find funny in the least, but there are some that are great.
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#171

Originally Posted by lush: View Post
I'd seriously hunt down and kill everyone who found this humorous if at all possible.
come at me... I'll be waiting.
Valnen
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#172

Are these supposed to be funny?
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#173

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
nice post! i like a few dolan comics and the ones i like are hilarious.
Misterinenja
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#174

Dolan was starting to get really bad in Finland and going international didn't help. Some of the humor just doesn't "translate" over the borders.

Edit: Actually some of the comics are funny. But they're kinda missing the original intent.
Last edited by Misterinenja; 05-01-2012 at 08:17 AM.
D.Lo
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#175

Originally Posted by FantasticMrFoxdie: View Post
This is what adds a little bit of a punch to the Dolan comics for me. Disney's crazy history with copyright makes these all the funnier.
Yep.

Anyway one of my favourites
PersonaX
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#176

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a FINNISH board originally if I remember correctly?),
Fixd.
Radec
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#177

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Ok.

That is disturbingly funny.

lol
DemonNite
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#178

made this one a while back

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#180

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
K
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#182

Originally Posted by GremlinFool: View Post
Not really sure what that means, nor will I waste my time on refuting such a ridiculous post.
It means I'm calling you out for attempting to discount the quality of standardized intelligence tests and at the same time trying to sound like you possess some level of intelligence to even make such a claim, and to back it up by name dropping your shitty university.

I guess thesaurus.com wasn't able to extrapolate my last post to an east-to-read format. I hope this clears it up.

Regards,
RavDM
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#183

I hate Dolan...yet I can't stop clicking on this thread. What is wrong with me
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#184

Originally Posted by Snkfanatic: View Post
I hate Dolan...yet I can't stop clicking on this thread. What is wrong with me
Snkfanatic pls
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#185

Originally Posted by Snkfanatic: View Post
I hate Dolan...yet I can't stop clicking on this thread. What is wrong with me
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#186

The one with goofy and pluto cracks me up everytime.
Musha_Soturi
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#187

When I first saw the Dolan comics I didn't get it, I just thought they were stupid. But over time I have grown to love them, I know I shouldn't, but I just do, can't explain why.
Neo Child
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#188

Originally Posted by animlboogy: View Post
I've seen this same exact comic in eight billion different forms, with other childhood characters "subverted."

I do not find the humor in just putting recognizable characters in fucked up situations. I'm not offended, it's just not funny in and of itself.

I'm also getting tired of grotesque drawings of recognizable characters used as shorthand for "funny".

Some talented webcomics artist is starving to death right now and it's your fault.
or as some people would say - "lol"
FStop7
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#189

Originally Posted by D.Lo: View Post
It's not really the jokes that are funny with Dolan, it's what it represents - the simultaneous evolution and devolution of language and meaning in the meme sphere. It's the Monty Python of memes, a sense of the ridiculous created by exaggerating what's already being done to crazy proportions. It just happenned that this outlet was with poorly drawn Disney characters.

Rage comics got overtaken by mundane real life activities being depicted as observational comedy. Witness the watering down of Me Gusta from what was originally meant to mean 'disgusting pleasure' (things like enjoying smelling farts) to mean pleasure of any sort, it became just another 'fuck yeah' type response. Stuff like Spiderpman had to be created to fill the void of the original Me Gusta face's meaning. Troll took off because of great Troll physics jokes, and now has been used just to denote 'asshole' as often as not.

And it all became too clean. All those traced celebrities, kids stating the obvious over and over, too many panels, boring politically correct content...

Dolan's broken, inconsistent art (stolen from a Dutch board originally if I remember correctly?), completely childish broken English, and over the top violence and sex were originally counterpoints to the swamp of meaningless Rage. Witness also 'Monkey Face!' a few weeks ago, which was a parody of the way lower-rung sites trace over anything 4chan puts out there and calls it a Rage face.

Of course Dolan has also become what it paradies, as someone said last page. And there are now a few face-value meme elements to it that are quite funny, Gooby Plz with the main Dolan face is a great punchline.
D.Lo pls
G_Berry
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#190

You know you can actually buy Dolan T-Shirts online?

So tempted.
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#191

Originally Posted by Sho_Nuff82: View Post
Yeah, I'll stick to penny arcade.
Originally Posted by I Push Fat Kids: View Post
Your username could pose as a Dolan spelling of his own name.
Originally Posted by Valnen: View Post
Are these supposed to be funny?
Originally Posted by Jimothy: View Post
K
Originally Posted by FStop7: View Post
D.Lo pls
fak of

Originally Posted by PersonaX: View Post
Fixd.
Urop is all saym contree

EDIT: Dammit I wanted to post some classics but I'm not risking it.
Last edited by D.Lo; 05-01-2012 at 01:14 PM.
vas_a_morir
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#192

I think Dolan is really funny. Some Dolan comics are funnier than other ones.
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#193

I bet this guy is pissed:



GAF CHALLENGE:
I expect 'Goofy pls' to be the top rated comment by this afternoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf2sxN6vSQ4
Last edited by Double D; 05-01-2012 at 01:49 PM.
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#194

Originally Posted by edornob: View Post
uh, is it terrible that i love this?
MThanded
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#195

these comics are lame.
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#196

i dont like dolan but i cant stop laughing
Kinyou
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#197

Originally Posted by verdures: View Post
By far the best dolan comic
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#198

Originally Posted by Double D: View Post
I bet this guy is pissed:



GAF CHALLENGE:
I expect 'Goofy pls' to be the top rated comment by this afternoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf2sxN6vSQ4
Done. Now go thumb it up.
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Originally Posted by Karl2177: View Post
Done. Now go thumb it up.
Thumb'd dnow nd flaggerd fro spam

Karl2177 pls
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#200

I don't know why I find them funny, there is just a kind of innocence to the humour.



This is the best, I think its the combination of the fork and the way joocy steks sounds in my head lol