I've noticed in recent years much more awareness of Terry and references to him (mentions of "glowies" etc.) among normies and normie social media. At one time knowing him basically confirmed you lurk /g/ or similar sites but now your grandma on Facebook probably knows the CIA glows in the dark. I'm just curious how exactly did this happen? Was there one specific video or something that caused this?
Welcome to 2023
>windows 10 end of service >windows 11 is unusable >ai slop everywhere >more people become aware or technology >more people looking for alternatives (linux)>steam's proton makes games run on linux, so the main thing keeping people on windows is gone>youtube's algorithm starts recommending more linux and tech related stuff to people who are looking up tutorials>this crazy christian OS made by one schizo, full of strange looking visuals seems interesting probably due to those
>>109439662the term "glowie" broke out to the normalfagspace, much like "bait" did ("ragebait" is used a lot now). I don't think most of them know Terry, however.>whyusers of social media sites became too interloped. lots of stuff from X/twitter is just reposted here and vice versa, for example. lingo gets used and spreads
>>109439723tbf I see a renewed interest in Amiga/Commodore/Borland old school machines you could master one man one mind one machine.
most people who know the "glowies" meme don't even know Terry.
Since my tiktok feed has a lot of GNU/Linux slop I see meme tiktoks about Linux related things and occasionally TempleOS pops up. An example is those "political compasses" about Linux users and distros.
who else will tell you that swap file/paging is an abomination? me and T.Davis.though he wont tell you that ECH is cloudflare spying, because he's dead.midwits or normies will only take something retarded like quacks about glowies or negroes, which is irrelevant and simply a hype fuel
>>109439662Percival's chirping can still be heard in the distance when we think back to those live broadcasts.
I sometimes wonder if ChatGPT and LLMs in general would have completely broken Terry.
Reminder that slither.io guy was donating 1000s to him
>>109439905I have a swapfile so systemd doesn't OOM kill
i didnt know glowies had anything to do with terry until 20 seconds agothought it was a /pol/ thing
>>109439662you'd better avoid this topic
>>109439662Yes it's called becoming an internet meme (pronounced: maymay). It's real crazy stuff.
>>109440015ye, he did lots of jokes about GNUnixoids.. like GNUnixoids can run 2 games simultaneously and faster than <insertOShere>, he put his TempleOS, but generally ye, those things are only understood by some elite species like myself
>>109439966reminder that schizobabble is not generally decypherable, like your past days memories in from of screencaps
>>109440312i thought you just called yourself "the elite space kike", my fucking sleep deprivation is having some effects
>>109439662He was the subject of a few video essays that got a lot of traction.
>>109439966kek, why?
>>109439662> Don't trust everything you read on the internet.--Abraham LincolnMany normalfags can post this quote, but that doesn't make Lincoln mainstream
>>109439662I miss him
>>109439662This is how a lot of culture works. Fringe group uses lingo that to show that they're part of the fringe group. If lingo is liked by someone more normal it gets passed up to the next ring of normalness and so on until it's completely mainstream. That being said I do hate how the lingo gets chinese whispered. "Based" and "incel" are different to how they were used originally.
>>109439662Not mainstream, it's breadtubers reaching for low hanging fruit, everything is on the table. All your favorite things about chan culture will become a documentary so that some normalfag can narrate a 10+ minute video for adbucks.
>>109439662would terry be an snailcat
>>109439662Yes, he's nichestream. I mean most programmers know him and there are a lot of YouTube videos and now even many tiktok edits. I don't know if anons created those tiktoks or other newfags. He's also very popular in Linux spaces.
>>109442068The term was always "glownigger" and it got neutered into "glowie". Fucking disgusting.
>>109439662We are living in a post covid monoculture.No more unique scenes or alternative spaces its just one big pile of grey digital slop.. I don’t know why this is surprising anymore when its guaranteed that you get at least 2 active shitter imported threads and discourses in the catalog at any given time, every big website has lost its culture and what made it special in the first place a long time ago
>>109439662Terry was more popular while he was alive and for a few years after his death
>>109443051only for 4chan
This board ruined the fun. Terry was a lot more interesting when only progriders and some other niche places knew about him.
>>109443227Blame the kiwi troons not the chans.
Popular with Generation Alpha, unfortunately.
>>109443227Wrong. Completely wrong. It increased the fun. Reddit worthy post.
>>109439729>>109442300See also: commercialization of '-maxxing' to sell product and encourage consumption of product
>>109442068>That being said I do hate how the lingo gets chinese whispered. >"Based" and "incel" are different to how they were used originally.This also sometimes work in the other direction. The term "chud" was coined by leftists
