Intro video for the '/v/ vidya gaem awards'

I was asked to help out on /v/'s game awards show by making them an intro, i figured i'd post it here as it has some relation to video games

http://vimeo.com/36626083

I..uhm...what?

@Swoxx said:

I..uhm...what?

It was an award show in response to the Spike VGAs that was streamed live yesterday made by people from 4chan's video games board.

Pretty enjoyable, but there was a lot of bias for Valve and Bastion I'd say.

Also the full show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tGTjc3ElU and I think that would be a better thing to put in the OP since it has more discussion value.

@Jack268: If I made a food award show and there were a lot of awards given to pizza would you say there was a bias? Of course not...BECAUSE PIZZA IS AWESOME.

Haha, that was awesome. Especially the part where they eliminated votes from Reddit ahahaha. No, but seriously. The goddamn feel threads are pathetic.

Also, related picture.

Ugh, that show was terrible.  
But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Lost me at "4chan". Well, lost me when Jack268 explained that this was something to do with 4chan.

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

@Vegetable_Side_Dish said:

@Branthog: It was a better 'show' than the so called proper VGAs, at least.

... but what isn't.

@ZeForgotten said:

Ugh, that show was terrible. But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Soon as I saw "4chan" I was completely disinterested.

@ccampb89 said:

@ZeForgotten said:

Ugh, that show was terrible. But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Soon as I saw "4chan" I was completely disinterested.

4chan is like the house in a shitty neighborhood that makes and deals meth. No matter how shitty the rest of the neighborhood is, they can all band together in agreeing that the meth house is full of assholes. :D

@ZeForgotten said:

Ugh, that show was terrible. But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Soon as I saw "4chan" I was completely disinterested.

#CHAN

I was put off by the start of the show (before your intro), but I skipped ahead to a random point and was impressed by the production quality. The editorial voice is bizarre in a way that only an anonymous panel of rabid gaming fans could produce, but the actor conveying that voice is talented and thoroughly listenable.

There are certainly a number of reasons something like this wouldn't be suitable for broadcast television, and in that, I think there is something of a failing. I would have been more impressed if /v/ worked within the constraints of the Spike problem and made something that could air in place of the actual VGAs while serving the purpose of a video game award show more effectively. That would be a more difficult challenge than making something for internet distribution only, but it seems to me that it would make a stronger argument.

All that said, your intro is spectacular — thanks for sharing!

@valrog said:

Haha, that was awesome. Especially the part where they eliminated votes from Reddit ahahaha. No, but seriously. The goddamn feel threads are pathetic.

Also, related picture.

I laughed, more than i should have? Probably. Oh well, time to rewatch Green Street Hooligans and then go look at some porn.

I thought it was alright as far as production quality goes. Some of the between-award 'skits' were pretty funny and all that, but some of the choices in the categories just felt way off. Valve as best publisher, when they literally only publish their own games? A bit far off the mark. Doesn't help that a ton of votes came from outside of /v/ so it kind of destroys the whole point of having them be by /v/, for /v/.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

All of 4chan isn't /b/ you know.

@Jack268 said:

Also the full show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tGTjc3ElU and I think that would be a better thing to put in the OP since it has more discussion value.

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content.

Yep, sounds like 4chan alright.

EDIT-- Oh by the way, nice video effects and animation stuff!

@I_smell said:

@Jack268 said:

Also the full show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tGTjc3ElU and I think that would be a better thing to put in the OP since it has more discussion value.

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content.

Yep, sounds like 4chan alright.

They had a several minute tribute to CWC in there where he's having sex with a blow-up doll, so I'm not surprised.

@benjaebe said:

@I_smell said:

@Jack268 said:

Also the full show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tGTjc3ElU and I think that would be a better thing to put in the OP since it has more discussion value.

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content.

Yep, sounds like 4chan alright.

They had a several minute tribute to CWC in there where he's having sex with a blow-up doll, so I'm not surprised.

What's CWC?

@I_smell said:

@benjaebe said:

@I_smell said:

@Jack268 said:

Also the full show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tGTjc3ElU and I think that would be a better thing to put in the OP since it has more discussion value.

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content.

Yep, sounds like 4chan alright.

They had a several minute tribute to CWC in there where he's having sex with a blow-up doll, so I'm not surprised.

What's CWC?

You don't want to know who he is.

In all honesty, I can't really say I'd expect a video game awards presentation by /v/ to be any better or worse than Spike TV's. Spike tries way too hard to be funny and insults the intelligence of the core gamer while trying to appeal to their target demographic. /v/ just goes out of their way to be offensive to everyone and everything.

I was really impressed by the awards show, actually. Considering that it was all done in these peoples spare time, the production values were great. it ws filled with /v/ inside jokes and i enjoyed that they actually explained WHY games won the awards they did.

That said, Valve won a lot of shit. It doesnt really surprise me since /v/ is all over their dick all the time. its pretty funny how many /v/-goers are getting mad at it for that, though.

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

I actually went to Digg a couple months ago. Man, it just . . . ugh. I remember back in the beginning when it was all geek and tech and it was addictive and fun (and Reddit was like the uninteresting and incomplete cousin to it, at the time). And the interface was really nice. Clean and modern. I was so active on it during work that I was the #1 or #2 commenter back in 2006. I even responded to a story that appeared about a young boy with muscular dystrophy whose home was burglarized and everything he had was stolen (games, movies, last generation consoles, etc) by organizing fellow members into raising several thousand dollars in under two days to replace all his stuff (and with much cooler, newer stuff - like a 360, a PSP, an HDTV, etc). And that was before Reddit was known for doing that sort of thing.

And then my account was randomly and inexplicably banned. I have absolutely no reason why. I'm pretty sure it was the result of them playing around with algorithms back then to automatically deal with submissions that people manipulated into being voted-up (which I only say because the very last action I committed before my account was locked was voting up a random story I found interesting).

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

@themangalist said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

FUCK THE (INTERNET) POLICE!

@Branthog said:

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

As I recall K. Rose's last work on the site was an update that basically broke Digg and sent everyone fleeing to Reddit. He was run out of his own company after that.

Edit: Holy thread hijack Batman. So, uh, how bout those video game awards, huh guys?

Where can I see the video? Morbid curiosity impels me.

@Grimluck343 said:

@themangalist said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

FUCK THE (INTERNET) POLICE!

@Branthog said:

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

As I recall K. Rose's last work on the site was an update that basically broke Digg and sent everyone fleeing to Reddit. He was run out of his own company after that.

Edit: Holy thread hijack Batman. So, uh, how bout those video game awards, huh guys?

More or less, though it's not like the decision was solely his. In a bid to stay relevant in the face of upcoming threats like Facebook and Twitter, they implemented "Digg v.4", which socialized the crap out of the site. Whether that's what drove users away or the migration elsewhere was inevitable, I have no idea. I think if they had stuck to "tech/geek" and not tried to become an all-encompassing topic site, they'd have retained much more of their user base.

I hate the internet.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

@Branthog said:

@ccampb89 said:

@ZeForgotten said:

Ugh, that show was terrible. But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Soon as I saw "4chan" I was completely disinterested.

4chan is like the house in a shitty neighborhood that makes and deals meth. No matter how shitty the rest of the neighborhood is, they can all band together in agreeing that the meth house is full of assholes. :D

@benjaebe said:

I thought it was alright as far as production quality goes. Some of the between-award 'skits' were pretty funny and all that, but some of the choices in the categories just felt way off. Valve as best publisher, when they literally only publish their own games? A bit far off the mark. Doesn't help that a ton of votes came from outside of /v/ so it kind of destroys the whole point of having them be by /v/, for /v/.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

All of 4chan isn't /b/ you know.

Valve actually doesn't even publish it's own games alone. Over the years, they've had significant help with that side of things from EA. So anything you don't play on Steam probably has EA's publishing power in there somewhere. Also, as far as I know, the only game they even DEVELOPED was Portal 2 this year. Maybe they think of Steam as publishing games?

Also fuck 4chan. There's a reason no one respects it. Except assholes, pervs, and people with no e-home.

@Branthog said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@themangalist said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

FUCK THE (INTERNET) POLICE!

@Branthog said:

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

As I recall K. Rose's last work on the site was an update that basically broke Digg and sent everyone fleeing to Reddit. He was run out of his own company after that.

Edit: Holy thread hijack Batman. So, uh, how bout those video game awards, huh guys?

More or less, though it's not like the decision was solely his. In a bid to stay relevant in the face of upcoming threats like Facebook and Twitter, they implemented "Digg v.4", which socialized the crap out of the site. Whether that's what drove users away or the migration elsewhere was inevitable, I have no idea. I think if they had stuck to "tech/geek" and not tried to become an all-encompassing topic site, they'd have retained much more of their user base.

You moan about things a LOT

@Fallen189 said:

@Branthog said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@themangalist said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

FUCK THE (INTERNET) POLICE!

@Branthog said:

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

As I recall K. Rose's last work on the site was an update that basically broke Digg and sent everyone fleeing to Reddit. He was run out of his own company after that.

Edit: Holy thread hijack Batman. So, uh, how bout those video game awards, huh guys?

More or less, though it's not like the decision was solely his. In a bid to stay relevant in the face of upcoming threats like Facebook and Twitter, they implemented "Digg v.4", which socialized the crap out of the site. Whether that's what drove users away or the migration elsewhere was inevitable, I have no idea. I think if they had stuck to "tech/geek" and not tried to become an all-encompassing topic site, they'd have retained much more of their user base.

You moan about things a LOT

Yes, commenting on the evolution of Digg is moaning. Go fuck yourself.

@Branthog said:

@Fallen189 said:

@Branthog said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@themangalist said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

The only subreddit that matters is r/circlejerk.

No, but seriously. Fuck 4chan. Fuck reddit. And go ahead and fuck Digg again while we're here.

Fuck the internet.

FUCK THE (INTERNET) POLICE!

@Branthog said:

Anyway, so I obviously stopped using the site, since my account didn't work and there was no way to get help with it. Then I went back recently and . . . holy crap. It looks dated. It's messy. It's cluttered. It's filled with political crap and random bullshit. No wonder Kevin Rose ditched it and moved on to being an "idea man" and an angel investor. Couldn't run away from the massive riches-to-rags drop the site underwent overnight, fast enough.

As I recall K. Rose's last work on the site was an update that basically broke Digg and sent everyone fleeing to Reddit. He was run out of his own company after that.

Edit: Holy thread hijack Batman. So, uh, how bout those video game awards, huh guys?

More or less, though it's not like the decision was solely his. In a bid to stay relevant in the face of upcoming threats like Facebook and Twitter, they implemented "Digg v.4", which socialized the crap out of the site. Whether that's what drove users away or the migration elsewhere was inevitable, I have no idea. I think if they had stuck to "tech/geek" and not tried to become an all-encompassing topic site, they'd have retained much more of their user base.

You moan about things a LOT

Yes, commenting on the evolution of Digg is moaning. Go fuck yourself.

What a typical response. Well done

Forget about how 4chan is full of dumb stuff. How do people even browse that site without getting a headache? It's so poorly designed. It's like one notch above freerepublic.com.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

@Branthog said:

@ccampb89 said:

@ZeForgotten said:

Ugh, that show was terrible. But then again, that's kinda what you expect when you know where it came from

Soon as I saw "4chan" I was completely disinterested.

4chan is like the house in a shitty neighborhood that makes and deals meth. No matter how shitty the rest of the neighborhood is, they can all band together in agreeing that the meth house is full of assholes. :D

@benjaebe said:

I thought it was alright as far as production quality goes. Some of the between-award 'skits' were pretty funny and all that, but some of the choices in the categories just felt way off. Valve as best publisher, when they literally only publish their own games? A bit far off the mark. Doesn't help that a ton of votes came from outside of /v/ so it kind of destroys the whole point of having them be by /v/, for /v/.

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

All of 4chan isn't /b/ you know.

Valve actually doesn't even publish it's own games alone. Over the years, they've had significant help with that side of things from EA. So anything you don't play on Steam probably has EA's publishing power in there somewhere. Also, as far as I know, the only game they even DEVELOPED was Portal 2 this year. Maybe they think of Steam as publishing games?

Also fuck 4chan. There's a reason no one respects it. Except assholes, pervs, and people with no e-home.

4Chan?

I'll be polite. Please go away.

@Branthog said:

@Butler said:

Fuck 4chan. I am so tired of their putrid influence on the net. More and more I see it infecting these forums.

I'd also like to add Reddit to that list. Completely miss the point of memes and try to force their creation on an hourly basis and flood their pages with college and high school students posting things like "Today I Learned . . . SOMETHING EVERYONE FUCKING ALREADY KNOWS".

Ugh, sorry. Reddit just makes me feel really old. I'm probably unusually harsh on them. But, also, because they're pretty shitty compared to what they were almost six years ago, when they were a nice little cross between original (pre-cover-all-topics) Digg and Hacker News.

I completely agree. Reddit used to be great when I started using it years ago. Now it feels like everyone comes from 4chan so people can upvote their stupid meme jpgs and get an arbitrary score for it. It also makes me feel old. It used to seem like it was mostly interesting college students and professionals with something cool to share.

Check out this image of this thing that my roommate made. Yeah, the one that's been on the internet for years. Does anyone else do this ridiculously common thing? Yes? Oh good, thanks for upvoting me because you also flush public toilets with your foot. I don't know how to put together an interesting sentence or come up with an interesting topic, so here's a 6 panel rage comic explaining how my coworker forgot to return my pen. Here's a picture that I've titled, "What it feels like to do _____ on reddit," because reddit really doesn't talk about itself enough.

The thing that it has going to it is the simple, efficient site design that they haven't screwed up. Too many sites start simple and eventually bloat. It ratio of good content to garbage may be getting worse, but at least the pages load quickly and are easy to scroll through.

@Branthog@Fallen189 Well this conversation took a weird turn south.

Where can I see the video? Morbid curiosity impels me.

you lost me when nyanners started talking. GOD DAMN that girl has an annoying voice. granted i think her videos are funny when they aren't too related to name to where i don't understand what's going on. but she really needs to use a proper speaking voice and not try to talk like a bad underage anime girl.

more on topic: still better than the VGAs, though still made by a crowd i'd rather not be involved with.

@chrismafuchris: @Legend: http://vidyagaemawards.com/index.php

Go away and never come back.

Just finished it. A long sloppy blowjob to Valve and predictable nerd rage and whining at bioware fans. Surprised to see Deus Ex as "Least Hated Game".

Goddamn, people really fucking hated Dragon Age 2 didn't they?

They have data to backup the results and a Q&A. The only problem is that it requires steam for casting your votes.

http://vidyagaemawards.com/results.php

Even some of the winners responded.

https://twitter.com/#!/SupergiantGames/status/168495924656607232

https://twitter.com/#!/geoffkeighley/status/168484773331865600

https://twitter.com/#!/ijustine/status/168592014017966080

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/168619151890464768

As a game design student who had to produce a video in a storyboarding class using After Effects last semester, I have an immense amount of appreciation for video guys. Fantastic job.

Lost me at "4chan". Well, lost me when Jack268 explained that this was something to do with 4chan.

@AxleFGK: Nyanners is a guy.