WTF And FTW!!

[Ducky]

Well , I was talking to a friend yesterday.. And I quoted a post saying something like ,

"Super Smash Bros. FTW!!!!"
Then he said.. " This guy is stupid .. Super Smash Bros. is a great game! "
I answerd : "Thats exactly what he said.. Thats why there is FTW in there.."
He said : " Wait.. What is FTW?"
I answerd : "For the win!!!!!!!!!"
He said : " WHAT?! *laughed* That would explain soo many problems.. "
I answerd : "What do you meen by that?"
He said : " I thought FTW is F**k the what ... "
I laughed.. soo hard : "Like WTF? "



End ..

 

[OSW]

that solves many of my problems too.

 

[Maktub]

Many people use "FTW" as a mocking derivation of "WTF", for a fact. You just have to go to /b/ and see. I have actually included FTW as a variation for WTF and "For The Win" as well on a speech I made some months ago about /b/ at my official languages school here at Spain.

Edit: And I recorded it

I'm still wondering if I should upload such enclearing document on youtube, fearful of the btards and anonymous response... Anyone minds blurring my face?

 

[Vater Unser]

a speech I made some months ago about /b/ at my official languages school here at Spain.

Why would anyone do that?

 

[Jax]

a speech I made some months ago about /b/ at my official languages school here at Spain.

Rules 1 and 2!

You broke them!

 

[Hitto]

Any coder knows that WTF also stands for WORSE THAN FAILURE!

 

[Shinji]

Work Time Fun.

I remember when I first saw FTW I was thinking "Fut the Wuck".

Oh yeah and... Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien.

 

[Veho]

I remember when I first saw FTW I was thinking "Fut the Wuck".

When I first saw FTW I was like

"What's that supposed to be? Free the whale? Feel the wind? Fight the walrus?"

 

[Mewgia]

When I first saw ftw I did not know what it meant, so I just asked my friend who had just used it :/

 

[Maktub]

a speech I made some months ago about /b/ at my official languages school here at Spain.

Rules 1 and 2!

You broke them!

I know

@Vater Unser:
Well, most people were talking about how amazing their shephard-controlled 2 week stance in another country was (a scholarship some people get, which I got, and which is like a camp... pretty boring to hear all those people who never got out of their country telling how bad food was at the canteen). So I decided to go for something that at least involved some research and was harder than "Food was bad, but it was very FUN"

 

[hollabackitsobi]

I thought it mean Fuck the What.

 

[xcalibur]

i thought internet grammar killed english worse than it possible could when stuff like
FUCK THE WHAt makes sense?
now i get its for the win
got it from a wow addict
13375P33K(leetspeek) is developed online so if you dont know what it means ask who plays online a lot

 

[Ace Gunman]

I've always known it to be "for the win", I do believe. Although I did once see something about someone thinking it meant "fuck the world", so the term was banned from some school. I may not be remembering many of the details correctly, but meh.

 

[Urza]

in b4 testing area

 

[Ace Gunman]

in b4 testing area

Urza, it's comments like that that will put this topic in the testing area. This is a legitimate discussion about a popular internet meme. Whereas your comment is off-topic to the point of spam.

 

[pasc]

I knew it since I saw Master Chief sucks at Halo. nuff said

 

[Urza]

Urza, it's comments like that that will put this topic in the testing area. This is a legitimate discussion about a popular internet meme. Whereas your comment is off-topic to the point of spam.

First of all, this is not an "internet meme". We call these acronyms.

If you don't see the OP as testing area material, then I seriously question your judge of value.

 

[Ace Gunman]

Urza, it's comments like that that will put this topic in the testing area. This is a legitimate discussion about a popular internet meme. Whereas your comment is off-topic to the point of spam.

First of all, this is not an "internet meme". We call these acronyms.

If you don't see the OP as testing area material, then I seriously question your judge of value.



It may be an acronym, but it's also an internet meme.

QUOTE

The term Internet meme (IPA: /in-t?r-?net me:me/) is a neologism used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads in a faddish way from person to person via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, but is used loosely to refer to things that are not necessarily memes in a technical sense.

As you can see an internet meme is by definition a fad that spreads through the internet. So terms like "pwned", "ftw", etc... are all memes. And saying "in b4 testing area" doesn't contribute to a topic in the least. It really only serves to push the topic on a downward spiral into spammy madness. It's essentially the mid-topic version of "first post!". Now back to the topic at hand~

 

[Nero]

Wow.. I thought everyone used it as ForTheWin.

~Nero

 

[Urza]

It may be an acronym, but it's also an internet meme.

The term Internet meme (IPA: /in-t?r-?net me:me/) is a neologism used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads in a faddish way from person to person via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, but is used loosely to refer to things that are not necessarily memes in a technical sense.

As you can see an internet meme is by definition a fad that spreads through the internet. So terms like "pwned", "ftw", etc... are all memes. And saying "in b4 testing area" doesn't contribute to a topic in the least. It really only serves to push the topic on a downward spiral into spammy madness. It's essentially the mid-topic version of "first post!". Now back to the topic at hand~

Except the phrases "what the fuck" and "for the win" were used, and popular, before their prevalence on the internet.

If a mod feels this topic wasn't originally something worthy of the term "spam", he can feel free to delete my posts.