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Comment by lemevi | Hacker News Reader

As a participant, the chat was fun actually. Usually chat can be super toxic or even useless at the speed at which it was happening on Bob Ross. The RUINED and SAVED meme was interesting and enjoyable. I don't know why it was such fun, but it felt like a great and huge temporary community considerably limited in their ability to interact. One could really only join in the mob at the right time and when I did so it felt pretty rewarding and fun.

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I think my favorite meme was "blue OP plz nerf" whenever Bob mentioned he was using more crimson than blue, because blue was much stronger. I thought that was an interesting mix of gaming and art culture.

Similarly "VAC" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat whenever he does something seemingly impossible (like knowing about the stream or doing a particularly impressive save).

I also liked the "gg gb wp" at the end - the standard "good game" and "well played" that got changed to "well painted", combined with Ross's "god bless". "gg gb wp" made its way to some of the regular game chats by now.

I was really surprised at how positive the chat was. I also expected it to be toxic, but instead it was good-natured and often funny. I didn't participate, but I glanced at it whenever something significant happened in the stream.

it was definitely fun after you got used to it. when I first checked out the stream and it was constant spam I felt really frustrated, until I could tell what was going on and my mind joined the hive ;)

but if you had a valid question, or wanted to try out a real conversation... nope

This mass meme-spamming form of discussion should not even be called chat in my opinion. It can be fun, but nobody interacts with it as if it was chat above a certain number of participants.

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