Subculture becomes culture
by uber
In the old days, the secret language of homosexuality snuck into the stage acts and elicited laughter from people who had, for the most part, little notion of the implications of the terms. In the modern era, we’ve seen the same thing as lolcats and other memes have surfaced from the darkest pits of the internet. For one example, I give you:
I only shudder to think what’s next.
*Incidentally, the real loituma site is gone (the rancid.fi domain). Internet history is fleeting.
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Odd, the loituma site was there as recently as Christmas, cos I stuck it on to annoy Suzie at some point over the holiday.