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"9. RARE PEPES In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection."

Things that you have never thought would appear on a bonafide research paper for 800$.

EDIT: 4Chan thread regarding this paper, this is worth the read on it's own. http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/92612923/a-longitudinal-m...

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This sentence -- not to mention the rare pepe collection at the end -- made me pause a bit and wonder if the paper isn't a particularly elaborate chan troll. Clearly "rare pepe" is a chan in-joke.

Rare Pepe is the "name" of the meme as far as the subject specific custom pepe images/shops go.

But I still can't believe that there is a research paper out there where there is a section which describes the researcher's "collection" of rare pepe memes with visual aide samples.

I can't believe that a presidential candidate prominently featured a page on their website attacking a stupid internet meme. I think the Aztecs fudged their calculations somehow, and it was really supposed to be 2016...

Or maybe they knew all along http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/077/485/576...

Was it not the Mayans who predicted some kind of cataclysm?

But yeah, I agree it's ridiculous how the Clinton campaign took the bait and now apparently a cartoon frog is a "hate symbol".

Well, they also think 4chan is a person... ("The hacker known as 4chan" - which has become a meme on its own)

Neither predicted a cataclysm. A certain cycle of the Mayan calendar just ended in 2012.

We though they were speaking to us in code, but really it was just emoji.

Not to mention the rickroll in page 2.

The best is Footnote 2: "For readers unfamiliar with memes, we suggest a review of the documentary available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ."

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Germany is full of surprises so far.

Here is another link to the same documentary, though without the video:

https://youtu.be/6_b7RDuLwcI?t=13s

And if that doesn't work, someone else reproduced the same work here:

https://youtu.be/m2ATf01v4hw?t=46s

Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little English and LaTeX can publish on arXiv. It will likely not make it into a journal.

Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

It's really not pronounced "lay-tecks"? Damn, I've been pronouncing that incorrectly for years, then.

LaTeX: /ˈlɑːtɛx/ LAH-tekh, also pronounced as /ˈlɑːtɛk/ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek

Knuth, in his book, memorably decreed a pronunciation (and case mixing in the written form) for TeX, with a hard /ch/ at the end (literally, "your monitor should become slightly moist"), backed by a clever and erudite rationale involving the etymology of words like technique.

Leslie Lamport, in his book on LaTeX, decreed a case mixing, but (as you say) ok'd any reasonable pronunciation.

Originally, a TeX user would've been called a TeXnician, which, according to Don Knuth, would be pronounced the same as "technician."

Yes- it comes from the same root.

I guess we're in the same boat on that one. It's a weird pronunciation, though, so it barely counts against us. ;)

Archive is spelled "arkiv" in several languages, and the etymology goes back (via latin) to the Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon), so it's a quite clever name.

Where "clever" is a synonym for "needlessly unintuitive." Not that I'm complaining.

Took me a long time to figure out that NGINX is not supposed to be spelled out.

> I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

Same. You've blown my mind!

It is not entirely a free-for all (as in, anyone can submit papers), there is an endorsement system [1]. Of course, it's only networking and who-knows-who - but there is controversy, as in established contributors think that the endorsement system is too high a barrier.

[1] https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement

Not sure, I think it will make it in, also the response from 4chan was pretty funny via one of the authors. https://twitter.com/jhblackb/status/786301793064017920

It's almost as bad as HackerNews comments

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