How did the schizophrenic ramblings of an unhinged man hiding from a sociopathic robot in the walls of an abandoned research laboratory become an early meme amongst rawr xd random hot topic 14 year olds in 2007?
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How did the schizophrenic ramblings of an unhinged man hiding from a sociopathic robot in the walls of an abandoned research laboratory become an early meme amongst rawr xd random hot topic 14 year olds in 2007?
Because cake is a random-ish word and it was a popular culture reference I guess? Now that I think about it though, the first portal was a good schizo game.
The series should have ended with the first one and maybe get an easter egg or reference in future HL games (lol)
Honestly miss those days, the internet was more wild but less culture war-centric.
Same
The culture war is important you fucking fence-sitting pussy
kys fag
Oh boy, we got some culture warriors here.
I just don't think genital mutilation should be state mandated
Circumcision is not state mandated
You might not care about the culture war, but the culture war cares about you.
How does any meme ever start?
I decide whether or not I think something is funny.
If I think it's funny, I keep posting it.
If I don't think it's funny, I don't keep posting it.
I have been doing this for forty years any nothing else in my life is more important that creating memes for the internet.
I am not paid anything to do this, I do it for the folks looking for a momentary distraction from their lives.
I require no thanks, no praise, and court no malice.
I just make memes.
Only I.
I'd take the lolrandom invader zim tshirt wearing teenage weirdos of the 2000s over the chud shit of now any day.
They were the first to do this type of thing. The first game was so mysterious, why did steam have to ruin valve.
HL2 ruined Valve
they tried so hard to make this happen again with cave johnson lel
It did happen with Cave Johnson, multiple times.
The burn your house down with lemons thing was everywhere.
on internet sites like reddit & Ganker maybe, it didn't have near the reach as portal 1's single meme tho
Are you fucking retarded?
just look at OPs example
>an early meme amongst rawr xd random hot topic 14 year olds
you really think those types were repeating those long drawn out portal 2 memes as well?
portal 1's were simple enough that people probably didn't even have to play the game to start repeating them, meanwhile portal 2's just ended up as reddit & web comic bait
>you really think those types were repeating those long drawn out portal 2 memes as well?
Yes you fucking idiot. I was there.
well I guess you weren't there for portal 1 then
You double retard.
just look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cake_is_a_lie
whole section about "Depictions in popular culture", bunch of TV shows referencing it, etc.
meanwhile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Johnson_(Portal)
0 references listed, largest section is game reviewers giving it praise.
if you can find me one non-internet show or movie that references the cave johnson quotes I'll concede, I didn't try looking but pretty doubtful though.
Retard
They sold posters of that in Hot Topic
GlaDOS offers you a cake in the game too, it's not just the graffiti
I assume the OP is being a sarcastic twat, but it's this
The cake at the end is the most bizarre carrot possible for the literal death trials you go through. Rat man was going through a breakdown, and was simply writing out that there was no reward at the end. You were just doing tests until you died.
He was right.
Until you finish the credits.
>Why did thing from organically popular game become incredibly popular meme?
Next you'll ask me why people still say that THE HEAVY IS DEAD!
The heavy is dead?!
My professional opinion? THE HEAVY WAS KILLED
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Because it was a reference you would only get if you played and completed the game.
Portal 1 was a pretty short yet popular game, so it became sort of a "basic" gamer type of game, became the equivalent of making a "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this!" joke.
back then, this was enough to make the internet collectively shit its pants
Take me back, I wanna see longcat again
ya rly
more of a lol wut pear guy myself
HELLO GAMERS
i thought portal was 2009 not 2007 goddamn
How the fuck did you make that mistake?
sorry for not remembering the correct year, anon. the gulf of time is a vast blur
Honestly the way most people treated/delivered variations of the joke, made me assume most people didn't actually play the game.
But it's a great way to separate the fake geeks from us true gamers. If you hear someone say the word "cake", you're legally obligated to say the line.
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