re: oppa homeless style

(submitted by anon)

you should know that, contra this anon, garfimbo did not in fact find the original oppa homeless style post indexed in g search. 

first, consider that when one searches the same excerpt garfimbo had chosen, with the “before:” operator set to 2013, the relevant results are as follows:

we find that two tags show up: the dancing homeless (tdh) and shrieky. however, we are able to go back further than 2013. with the before: operator set to 2012, we obtain:

shrieky disappears, but tdh remains. we can go back still further:

indeed, we can do this until we reach the year 1997 and still obtain the tdh result!

the significance of this is not quite that google’s system for dating its search results is faulty—anyone working in seo knows that already—, so much as it is that we are now able to make some kind of determination about what it is we’re receiving. think of it as quote-unquote “metadata”. carnival-phantasm’s post, which appears in both the tdh and shrieky tags’ cached pages, is a response to an anon ask. the ask is the following text: “what’s the history behind this url?”. when we search for that text with the site:tumblr operator and various dates, here is what we find:

namely, we discover that, when we intentionally target carnival-phantasm’s post, both tdh and shrieky expire at years corresponding to the ones we found when we were looking for homeless oppa style. the rather obvious conclusion is that we have only ever been receiving carnival-phantasm’s post this entire time; the original post is not, in fact, indexed.

as for the XMP data (not all image file metadata is “EXIF data”) on the original imgur post indicating that the image was edited in photoshop, that is likely due to r/thathappened’s policy compelling users to censor usernames when submitting screenshots. hence, the image is edited so as to be censored. in the original post, a user from 2014 remarks that they cannot find the original:

let’s take a look at u/MechaMew2's submission history around the time he first posted the image. here are some examples of tumblr screenshots he posted to r/thathappened and similar subreddits mocking social media posts around that time:

the first thing i’d note is the sheer volume of these. he has posted a lot, and most have similar formats. they are also, in my opinion, written in a rather similar style. i mean that both the prose styles and ‘posting styles’ are similar. for example, excluding the tags, sentences are always capitalized. moreover, i cannot find a single post here, even the ones that are shown to have gone viral! (i may be wrong about that.) 

u/MechaMew2 said that he lifted the oppa homeless style screenshot from 4chan. i am unable to find any imageboard post (that precedes the reddit post) with an image whose dimensions match mm2’s post, 554x1151, in any imageboard archive. most of /b/ pre-2016 is not covered by an archive, unfortunately. nor can i find any reference to “oppa homeless style”, “homeless tumblr”, “sjw homeless”, or other keywords in any imageboard archive that yields useful results. if oppa homeless style had an existence prior to mm2’s reddit post, it has been annihilated from the internet.