Random googlers who stuck around and became regulars: C/D?

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I am one, so, Dud.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Me!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

If six months of killing threads with stoned+dopey unthoughtout posts that I don't even remember til the next day classes me as a regular then I'm in. Sorry folks.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Isn't almost everyone?

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 May 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

(applies both to "random googler" and "sorry folks" :-) )

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 May 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

C/D? I think Google-inspired entropy is classic. Regulars are the bread-and-butter of ILx. So, this would seem to be another case of two great tastes that taste great together.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I was one.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

That metaphor is confusing. If regulars were the bread and butter of ILX, then wouldn't googlers be like the stuff that sticks when you drop the bread butter-side-down on the kitchen floor? And then would googlers that become regulars be like if you dropped the bread butter-side-down, but it just happened to land on some bacon crumbles you'd dropped earlier, which turned out to be tasty? I don't know how long we can keep this up.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 6 May 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

me too!

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

i found ilx this way

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

nabisco in overthinking shocker! (by way of self-parody, but still...)

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

For a very long time, the only way I could find ILX was by typing "seriouser issues" into Google where the first result is a Betty Boo thread on ILM.

― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I found ILX through a NY Press article, excerpted here:

Of course, Broken Social Scene actually isn’t that new. It all started with Feel Good Lost, an instrumental album Drew and a few friends made in a basement a couple winters ago. When You Forgot It in People dropped in Canada last year, Broken Social Scene were crowned as geniuses. Stores couldn’t keep enough copies of the album in stock. The band won prestigious awards.

Over here in America, nobody had any idea. That changed in February, when online review site Pitchfork raved about the band, telling readers they simply had to hear this for themselves. The review prompted me to check out Broken Social Scene at Northsix a few weeks later, and given Pitchfork’s influence, it surely resulted in hundreds of Google searches about the band. No matter what anybody says, this one online review started the band’s momentum in the U.S.

Problem is, so many music-critic pretenders, who gather in places like the incorrectly named "I Love Music" message board, hate Pitchfork. These writers have wasted thousands of words railing against Pitchfork’s fakeness, shallowness, whatever. Of course, these are the same scribes who get aroused the most when the Village Voice publishes their impenetrable prose.

i was like, "lol i better see what the fuss is about"

― gear (gear), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I googled my way in here one day and now I'm stuck waiting for the next ill wind to blow me out again but really there are less people I want to kill with a lumphammer on here than any other board I've ever come across.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Interesting, the number of people who googled their way here. I knew Tom from Frank's APA way back about 10 year ago, harassed him into letting me contribute to Freaky Trigger a couple of years ago, started seeing these references to ILM and ILX there, and eventually wandered over.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

im hoping this happens to abdullaalzeed - Gwar - Baby Dick Fuck

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I want to eat off nabisco's floor!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I guess the next step is to confess the random google that got you here. In my case it was an attempt at creating a 'cheesecake album covers' deathmatch at the very nearly defunct music board 'I Spit on Your Groove.'

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I was googeling for the Majesticons LP, found a thread about it and posted on it. The rest is... less than history, but more than sound and fury, I'd say.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Didn't some regular come hear through a link to Gear's couch thread?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

:-( tuomas is my fault :-(

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I got sonned by a white kid in an undie rap thread.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

unfunny shit like ^^^that^^^ is cuz he googled my thread!!! :.(.....

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

i was googling for tuomasundae.jpg and decided to stay

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

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