I am clueless

[mamajoan]

Can someone please explain to me this "heds pastede on yay" thing, because it is everywhere and I am clueless. I feel as dumb as I did when the "all our base are belong to you" thing first got started.

Does it have something to do with the movie "Troy"? I was thinking about seeing it, but I've been having such fun reading people's various hilarious satire-summaries on LJ, so now I sense that the actual movie would be a letdown. Alas.

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[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either, but I will never be someone who is in the know when it comes to geek/internet stuff. I'm not sure I get the "all our base are belong to you" thing either--wasn't that a line of code in some virus that went around or something? I am so out of the know, in fact, that I had to do a google search to figure out what L33T meant.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

No, the "all our base" line is from some originally-Japanese video game that was in Engrish. Apparently at some point in the game it would say "all your base are belong to us" which was a poorly-translated version of "We have captured all your bases" (I guess it was a military-type game) and the amusing mistranslation became an in-joke.

But I only know that because I asked someone to explain it to me.

[dpaul007.livejournal.com]

"...and the amusing mistranslation became an in-joke."

The in-joke phase started when someone (or a few someones) used the phrase while playing a multi-user military-type game online (like Tribes, for example) and when the actual capturing of the bases occurred, the dreaded "AYBABTU" was broadcast throughout the game.

It was met with mixed reactions; there were some who thought it was a European (or Asian) player with poor English skills (and therefore mockable), Others thought it was a hypertypo (typing so fast you can't help but make mistakes).

Regardless, it took off exponentially, and now even my Dad knows about it (which is my yardstick of something no longer being with it or cool).

Thus endeth the lesson. There will be a short quiz next week.

[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

Somebody in LotR fandom got caught manipping Dominic Mon... er, I can't spell his last name- that Dom guy, into pictures of her bedroom, etc., it ended up on fandom_wank, and somebody commented "my hed is pasteded on, yay!" and it sort of took off from there.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I'll say it took off! If you check some of the links that ide_cyan posted below, you'll see there are even "my hed is pastede on yay" t-shirts for sale now. LOL!!!!

I repeat: these people need lives. Or possibly just psychiatric help. ;)

[ms-maree.livejournal.com]

But, it was addictive, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, and every time I went to work it had exploded by 30 pages.

In the end I had to give it up, but it was fun..while it lasted. Now I got to get the shirt for the next LotR con ;)

Ah good times.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

LOL. I hate to tell you this, but among my personal friends-list, you are definitely at the top of the "needs psychiatric help to deal with the fangrrl obsession" list. ;)

[ms-maree.livejournal.com]

I know, now don't be jealous. Wait, you have a LJ filter list for that? ;)

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I too was utterly confoozled by this thing, but then I Googled it, and found this explanatory website.

It all began with a LOTR fan Photoshopping some Dominic Monaghan photographs and claiming them as her friend's/her own artwork/whatever and devolved into a huge fanwankfest, so much so that the line has become a catchphrase, from what I can gather.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

um, WOW. Thanks for the link. That was truly The Wank That Ate Ohio.

I feel a bit better now about not having gotten it at first, because clearly it means that I, unlike most of the people involved in this wank, have a life. ;)

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

because clearly it means that I, unlike most of the people involved in this wank, have a life. ;)

Or, at any rate, Isaac. :->

They don't sell children's apparel for the wank, alas.

[xochiquetzl]

Yes, as people pointed out, it's a fandom_wank thing. I believe the original use was of her picture of one of the LOTR actors in her bedroom: they said he had a "my hed is pastede on yay!" effect.