591: Troll Slayer
| Troll Slayer |
 Title text: We have met the enemy and he is us. |
Explanation
Stephenie Meyer is the author of the Twilight series, a series of novels popular with young teens. It is a love it or hate it type of novel, with a large following and a large portion of haters as well.
In the comic, 4chan, an imageboard, is featured. Imageboards have the feature to post anonymously, a most commonly associated with 4chan. The users of 4chan launch an attack on a Twilight board and Stephenie Meyer asks them to stop. When they refuse, Meyer writes 4chan into her next novel, thereby drawing in a large number of fans of her novel as a counter-attack to what 4chan ran on the Twilight forum. This results in what the original 4chan users consider a ruined imageboard.
The title of the topic is drawn from the internet slang term troll, which refers to actively attempting to get a rise out of a forum. In this instance, 4chan attempted to troll a Twilight board and Meyer acted against the troll, making her a "slayer" of them. (Granted, releasing Twilight fans into 4chan is akin to releasing freshwater fish into a saltwater shark feeding frenzy, but that's beside the point).
The title text refers to Walt Kelly's famous saying. Kelly used it to refer to all of mankind, whereas here it refers to the users of 4chan, by bringing on the enemy of their forum themselves.
Transcript
- [A website where people can post comments alongside pictures.]
- [Next to a picture of a website.] Hey, let's troll the fuck out of the Twilight boards.
- [Next to a picture of some people.] I'm in. Should be fun.
- [Next to a picture of a man with sword and trumpet.] Me too. Signing on now.
- [Next to a picture of "LOL".] Lol angsty teens.
- Hours Later:
- [Stephenie Meyer, at a computer.]
- Stephenie Meyer: Hi, it's Stephenie Meyer. Fine, you don't like my books. But please leave us alone.
- Hairy: Show us your tits.
- Stephenie Meyer: I asked politely. Don't make me get tough.
- [Hairy at computer.]
- Hairy: And what, call the internet police? You don't get it, do you? We've been trolling for years. We're all anonymous. There's nothing you can do to hurt us. We're the net's hate machine.
- Stephenie Meyer: Okay. Just remember, I gave you a chance. *Disconnected*
- Six Months Later:
- [A page from a book.]
- Vampires! Book VI
- Edward ran a pale hand through his perfect golden-bronze hair, then signed on to 4chan.org, the darkest place on the internet, where all his vampire compatriots spent their time.
- Suddenly, there was a loud knock at the door [...] swept in [...] ing
- [The rest of the page is cut off.]
- Shortly Thereafter:
- [On the same website as the first panel.]
- [Next to a picture of two people hugging.] OMG I love this place it's so edgy being anonymous.
- [Next to a picture of "DAWNE".] Whos your favorite vampire
- [Next to a picture of someone with black hair and shirt.] Check out my pic Im so dark just like this site
- [Next to a picture of a chess piece.] Any Twilight fans in Dallas want to meet a lonely
- [Hairy at his computer.]
- Hairy: Oh... Oh God.
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The quote is "We have met the enemy and he is us." Us refers to the trollers. I think by meddling with the twilight forums, they brought on trolls to their own. I have changed the text to reflect the reference of the quote accordingly (currently it says they brought on the enemy themselves - focus is wrong). Adityarajbhatt (talk) 19:06, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
For some reasons, there are "twilight borards", not "forums". Apparently, /b/turds attacked people with decent aptness in "board culture". It would be even funnier if this comic implied the mouseover text is a quote from would-be book of Twilight series. 162.158.183.127 08:54, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Personally, I don't think such a counter-attack would be effective. The /b/tards' standard defense mechanism would be to just flood the board with tubgirl and 50-Hilter-posts, and hammer that spike of Twilight fans right back down again. 169.233.101.195 01:43, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- True but in the comic it obviously worked on the poor pimple faced boy who is totally dejected in the last picture. Remember there are many more vampire fans than geeks on 4chan. ;-) Also this is the comics explanation and here in the comic it worked --Kynde (talk) 08:50, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
- That defense mechanism works against a short termed spike, which is typically generated by other online media. However the mention in the printed book might push more towards a raise of the general level, instead of a single spike. --Lupo (talk) 09:04, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
The title of topic can be a reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. /b/tars tried to slay Twilight fans (all of them would rather be vampires than humans) and got a quick reversal. 108.162.231.201 07:45, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Is just me or are the boy's pimples shaped like the EURion constellation? 172.70.254.95 21:23, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
