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DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#1: Apr 24th 2012 at 11:59:37 AM

Discussion about Thread Simulators: Those wacky videos that provide a realistic simulation of life in an online Image Board forum thread.

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#2: Apr 25th 2012 at 10:08:43 AM

I watched all the big ones, but my favorites remain the Homestuck ones. IMO, they're required watching for anyone who doesn't frequent 4chan, just to get an accurate representation of the exact level of bullshit involved.

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Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#3: Apr 25th 2012 at 10:10:33 AM

this is a thing?

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#4: Apr 25th 2012 at 10:12:19 AM

I found the ones I saw to be tasteless. This thread sounds like importing drama/creepiness to me.

Actually, they were rather like the This Troper series.

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DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#5: Apr 26th 2012 at 5:11:22 AM

Sometimes they can be genuinely funny, but most of them are funny in the "overly-obscene" sense. Though given that most of them are based on 4Chan threads, however, it's not very surprising that the latter case is more prevalent.

Things can get just as weird on the Off-Topic Forum on Roblox or in Youtube comments, the latter case more so.

Although the majority of Thread Sims are hurricanes of typical Internet idiocy, the idiocy is just about the only thing that makes them interesting. I'd imagine that a sim based on more tame forums like Tvtropes or Ponychan would not have as big an impact, though that would depend on the sort of thread they used.

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