this is about Malcolm Gladwell's tome, not the last Roots album.

have you read it? in the book, Gladwell asserts that certain cultural phenomena (fashion trends, disease epidemics, crime waves) don't catch on gradually, but explode because the right person (or wrong person, depending on the phenomenon).

this seems to hold true in the universe of Okayplayer too; there was a time when *no* one would have repped the Dips and now...well, you know.

i know we have some amateur social scientists here (bongo, Olu, Lardlad) ; and i was curious as to whether anyone could point to some popular trend *here* that could be traced back to a "Patient Zero."

(or failing that, titties)

i've said time and time again that the addition of d'angelo was a turning point (if not a death-knell)

bfnh was quite the tastemaker (npa and all that)

there's tons of lemming-like stuff round these parts

>there's tons of lemming-like stuff round these parts

read the book (all 60 of us..lol) and we actually had a lunch with malcolm to discuss the book....smart, charming guy.

there are quite a few here in okp...i'd have to think on it though.

on the bottom....a lot of people do that now...well, eclipsed doesn't.

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i'm curious as to who started the ask me questions business?

and the ^^^^^>>>>><<<<< business...

i vaguely remember "cosign" wasn't always around either.

like before we had login names, till right after we had to register.

Don't ask me why.
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R.


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-Albert Einstein

"^^^^" was Quez, who is mainly a Lesson poster now.
Cats (including The Doc) saw his hilarious back-and-forths
in The Lesson, took the ball and ran with it.

He was in GD for a minute, dipped out, then dipped out of OKP altogether. Also, Quez is the tipping point for anything Dipset
in OKP...with him it seemed like it was overnight, as well.

>"^^^^" was Quez, who is mainly a Lesson poster now.
>Cats (including The Doc) saw his hilarious back-and-forths
>in The Lesson, took the ball and ran with it.
>
>He was in GD for a minute, dipped out, then dipped out of OKP
>altogether. Also, Quez is the tipping point for anything
>Dipset
>in OKP...with him it seemed like it was overnight, as well.



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Again, the inclusion of D'Angelo to Okayplayer has been commonly blamed if only because of the influx of people.
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trends



i mean vocab is too easy
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i mean, this site used to be a haven for stuck-up music nerds who would have laughed at anyone who said they were serious fan of Cam's cronies, and now?

i think fire has a huge part to play in it, as she carries a good deal of 'weight' in both GD and 'The Lesson'.

as well as the world around us. many people realized those they idolized were barely an arms length away from those they despised.

shouldnt the peer pressure of the nerds also be contemplated

like..

did fire just ALLOW ppl to feel free to enjoy dipset whereas the 'fitting in' aspect of the 'music nerds' previously didnt allow for this?

or did ppl begin liking dipset just to be like fire?

obviously we would be remiss if we didnt mention quez but i figured id roll with your example

she's a follower
the followers followed her

none of them liked cam when he first came out

is the one who got yall dipped up?!?!

>i think fire has a huge part to play in it, as she carries a
>good deal of 'weight' in both GD and 'The Lesson'.


yes she did
Dove too
(they both live in Harlem too)

and Lord Vinture and Quez too


i think the Dipset fans were here but silent..
then they came out

AND THEN

they got joined.. because they make entertainning posts


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she hasn't even been living in nyc that long
you are reaching

shouldn't we forget that AT THE SAME EXACT TIME, Dipset was embraced by the hipster and especially the hipster press ?
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an attempt to assume crediblity by claiming something atypical to their stereotype.

it's like the model chicks who cavort through complex magazine with "rap thugs" like 50 cent.

the same for a music snob who professes their love for less than quality music, to a fault. not to compare the quality of 50 cent's personage to the quality of an average-to-bad group like the diplomats.

laid the foundation to it too ?

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and there's another group i can't think of the name right now that kind of quickly garnered mass appeal in here...i dunno who to credit for that though...*shrug*

folks aren't following their leader to fall off a cliff.

has definitely had its cultish moments.
for better or worse, every 6 months or so, there is a new flavor of kool aid.

as far as the "lemming" usage, hyperbole is always fun.

(and we're all lemmings to some extent)

people have to hear it before they like it or not
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he did the earlier post about them i can think of


but then again there might be some less "known" posters before


he may have been the tipping point tho
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at least i think he's the one that put me on to them.

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2) followers
3) haters

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I still need to read both 'The tipping point' and 'blink' but I can grasp the basic concept.

Dipset is a pretty good example. As far as I remember, fire was patient zero for that. I was here very sporadically until recently though, so I won't be much use in identifying older trends.

It would be interesting to see where the new breed of conservative thought came from

>It would be interesting to see where the new breed of
>conservative thought came from

though i think most black people are social conservatives, something happened to make it okay for people to more outwardly so (there was a time when people would have at least offered up the perfunctory 'i'm not a racist/homophobe/etc, but...')

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them, all the NGEs, the Muslim crew (Allah and them), and the freshman revolutionaries.

or did they have better manners ?
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or they just lurked.

I don't think you can divorce okp from the larger society though. As the society around us has become increasingly polarized, that seems to have filtered through unto the boards too.

It could just be that what used to be unpopular opinions are less so these days

Because it didn't useto be like that.

there are certainly posters who are more vocal(ie - stace, crich), and might make other folks more comfortable.

as an easy scapegoat, but I think there's more to it than that.

it's a struggle because the word is a prominent showpiece in my lexicon. It isn't as if I don't have a vast vocabulary; I do and that wouldn't be questioned.

I think it's an easy word to use. It's an almost-curse word. It has a lot of familiar pain and also reverence attached to it. It flows in "speech", or in our cases onscreen.

The rise of the word doesn't indicate anything save for the fact folks are typing it.

Is it right or wrong? That determination need not be broad. If it's right or wrong for you, deal with it within the confines of your mind.

add free use of bitch and hoe along with that...

Not that nigger wasn't being used in the black community as a term of endearment before then, but NWA took it to the next level.

It opened the flood gates in hip hop. Throw in 2$hort and 2 Live Crew, and hip hop had potty mouth and a way to get to the people.

Your folks mighta had a Redd Foxx album, but they bought it when they was grown, and they grew up in a diff time.

connect the dots man

that's what the post is about, is it not?

Every post title didn't have 'nigga' in it a few years ago.

and more boho-ish.
its as simple as times change.

there's your trinity herewise

(maybe fire too, she's good for that)

ha.

geez. lay that garbage directly @ praverbs & staces door

.

after richard pryor's "conversion" it was passe

then came cub n nem and suddenly it was the move (again)

all it takes is a seemingly well thought out justification to "tip"

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(like most things really)
but everyone knows someone who's trying to be in real estate these days. only makes sense it would trickle in here.

real estate is like rapping when you get older.
everyone is doing it. or trying to.

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-myspace.com/nicq-

.

I think Stace started it with Confession Wednesday.
piece,
R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

.

piece,
R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

i think Riccochet followed with fuck you fridays

then confession wednesdays (stacy again..this is where it went nuts)

then the "what did we learn"

confession wednesday is the most popular

but i do think positive friday was the first...

i dont remember confession wednesday being around say last november....

but i think idenitifying patient zero is more about who made something popular versus who started it...

Started by Sereion(sp) and I think she started that at another board I used to be on...

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friendster...replaced blackplanet...but when did it become all about myspace?

i noticed this first at my second home aka the apple store
back in the day everyone would come in to use the free computers
to check their hotmail and friedster page
now it's their gmail and myspace page
but back then u heard lots of complaints about friendster timing out n shit

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i've been here since 1999.

i dont remember a serious notch up in the usage rate until the last 2 years, at most.

not saying nobody else ever did it, but he went through a phase where every post title was bitch this, bitch that, and it stuck.

around the same time you had that gaggle of women talking calling each other bitches like it was cool/funny

witty/snarky posters at the time?
there aren't many women that are vocal and on that tip these days.
(not that this has a relation to "bitch" usage. just a thought)

who was the first to have a myspace page in their sig?

when did :)~ go from a thing of shame to the international symbol for
hollahollaholla?

"the moving to ny" trend, who started that?


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people got accounts to be able to check those


Vonclay ?
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.

KAWright went before him but she went before her identity was strongly tied to where ever she moved from. was she in Atlanta? see, i don't even remember where she used to live. Brain is different. he was 100% Indiana and then moved. watching him succeed and fail there emboldened some ppl to either make a move or at least talk about their move here.

KAWright went before him but she went before her identity was strongly tied to where ever she moved from. was she in Atlanta? see, i don't even remember where she used to live. Brain is different. he was 100% Indiana and then moved. watching him succeed and fail there emboldened some ppl to either make a move or at least talk about their move here.

piece,
R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

back when i joined up i think there was only Sankofa, 25percenter, and Pointfivefag.

y'all got vocal or more agressive
people who attack you got more vocal/aggressive

both because of the "other"



i think y'all went at it harder after the ^5 crew got on y'all case
or was it on janey ?

i'm lost
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I feel left out.
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R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

i think there was a 5th. maybe Prolix? is 7Shy Prolix?

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there may have been 5 or 6...maybe not.

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*high five*

?
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Poster: I hate when black folks talk about white folks
#1: That's cuz you're a cracka
#2: I thought it was obvious
#1: Man, I bet he got a white wife
#3: Hahahaha...Becky
#4: That's cuz he's too weak
#1: Yahmean?
#2: Yahmean?
#3: Yahmean?
#4: Yahmean.

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really?
piece,
R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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Prolix ain't 7Shy

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>is 7Shy Prolix?

cocoascholar, keybored, and someone else who I guess wasn't that important...I kid, jarobi.


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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
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never forget the Dyke Chronicles

as far as dudes... i know that weekend when rush and ahmsofunky descended on the boards the okgay movement became a lot less about politics and more of an equal mixture of politics/entertainment/humor/relating.

i probably would've been out here anyway but she made it easier as did Sankofa, 25, and Pointfive.

>never forget the Dyke Chronicles

the original OK blog.

>as far as dudes... i know that weekend when rush and
>ahmsofunky descended on the boards the okgay movement became a
>lot less about politics and more of an equal mixture of
>politics/entertainment/humor/relating.

there was no OKG before them. there were gay OKPs but we didn't gather...or at least *i* wasn't part of any gatherings that happened. lol

somebody posts a sensitive topic like that

good response by and large

the crash of okp two years ago
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From my experience:
Drew is my man and such, but "cursing" wasn't allowed until Drew came in. Elephantdefecation took it to the next next next level with the whole shock posting.

We never used to say fuck, but eff...ish instead of shit.

It's like this...most of the stuff happen here because it was funny at first and then they just ran with it.

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-hyperlinking in sigs (RIP)
-FYP, DTS, and such

I mean in a way PI is the son of bfnh (no offense).

Don't quote me on this but Nobi might be the first one to broadcast live before 3030 Radio got off the ground cuz folks were using shoutcast with their reg ip address and not a server (ugh...run on)


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the whole (c) was all me, but he took (c) and made it ©
-hipped folks to BGOL
-probably the first one to post a naked porno pic

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which i still dont get

or, truth0ne.

truth0ne = ...

He started it...

i.e. nuff said.
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R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

upon meeting and getting hit with . a few times

it has a good range of meaning
- silence = you said something very very stupid, read a 'you big dummy' look/of sarcasm/irony/humor
- silence = presence (kinda lurker like)
- silence = you are correct
- silence = i am here, make commentary, i haven't much to say


Truth can verify?





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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ~Twain

*{waits to see who is in the know}*

I'm not the only person watching that show huh?

*has no idea of what the hey you talkin bout*
piece,
R.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

i don't think i would have stuck around as long as i have if there were constantly posts filled with really ignorant and offensive things about mexicans. i mean mexicans in particular because i don't see as much hate against other latino groups.

with that, more hate on racial, ethnic and religious (anti-semitism) groups.
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after napster, who started the audio galaxy movement?

when audio galaxy was shut down, i remember some floundering, as people tried different sites, looking for the new napster, the new audio galaxy.

who then led us from ag, to soulseek?

was there a citizen zero, with the usendit music sharing movement on the boards?




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~ she's looking down at us, pointin' & laffin'. ~

Dis...Generation 8 Track

aim: SerotoninSlurpee


~ i love you, cocoateddybear. ~
~ she's looking down at us, pointin' & laffin'. ~

i feel safe in being able to take claim for helping set things in motion.

eccentric sent the music to von pea who sent it to me...

i took it, got permission to post it publicly and the buzz started on the boards.

went over LB's heads and slipped a copy of "the listening" to ?uestlove who was already a fan just off of "whatever you say" in may 2002.

got the quote from ?uesto that LB and ABB used in a lot of their promo materials.

not to mention... running a copy of Fruity Loops over to Baseline Studios one afternoon after getting a call from 9th Wonder saying Jay-Z was on his way in.

they call me the architect for a reason...

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