The Many Memes of Meta - Meta Stack Overflow

На Stack Overflow есть отдельный подсайт для обсуждения самого Stack Overflow, называется, разумеется, meta.stackoverflow. А там есть отдельная ветка с мемами сообщества, их историей и (иногда) обсуждениями.

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence “going viral”). As with their IRL counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others are endemic to specific regions.

Stack Overflow and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Overflow have seen more than their fair share of these pathological social constructs spread through the user base. They are now ingrained units of our collective culture as SOpedians (a term which I hate, by the way).