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Originally Posted by DaFace
On a meta note, this thread is a fascinating study in social media dynamics. Really, the "countdown" itself is pretty underwhelming and not really all that entertaining. However, for some reason it's done a great job of spawning a wide variety of mildly entertaining side topics. It's kind of like the random thought thread, but less...well...random.
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It's only fascinating if you overthink it. This thread consists of the most entertaining poster on CP providing hundreds of posters with free entertainment while other posters who hate him (KCNative and Frazod) do their unfunny shtick in an attempt to gravy train off of hootie's thread. In reality, they are making it almost unreadable.
If they were smarter, I would give them credit for their subterfuge, but it isn't actually by design. Instead, it's page after page of "stupid post is stupid" and "pootie scale" (it's funny because he's calling him pootie instead of hootie) that you have to slog through in hopes of finding something actually worth reading.
If that's not enough, Phil and Clay, strong contributors themselves, can't stand not being the center of attention, so they criticize from the sidelines, angry that they didn't come up with the idea themselves.