That 30 secret question meme.

[randomness]

As it turns out, there are at least a couple of versions of that meme going on.

http://vakkotaur.insanejournal.com/228904.html has details:

A few days ago I posted a link to a list of questions used in that "30 Questions" thing that's been going around LJ (and, I assume, other places) for a while. Last night someone pointed out another link to the questions. The interesting thing is a comment on that posting, pointing out that some questions had changed.

Did you get this one, which seems fairly innocuous:

05. Someone who seems easy to talk to.
21. Someone who you are grateful to.
22. Someone who makes you laugh.

Or this one, which implies different, not necessarily pleasant, things:

05. Someone who seems like a chatterbox.
21. Someone S-type.
22. Someone M-type.

That's at least two versions of the list. How many versions are there?

Since it's trivially easy to just copy and paste, this isn't just a transmission-reception or mis-hearing-mis-remembering-mis-speaking error as happens in the Telephone Game. This was deliberate. Someone decided to make things more revealing, perhaps more dramatic. And as long as the general secrecy was maintained, there was no way to verify that the set of questions or descriptors you had was identical to the list someone else had worked from.

Me, I'm just thinking, "Jaguars?", "MGs?" or even "asteroids?" :)

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I dunno; I found the different variants interesting rather than malevolent.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I'm surprised by "S-type" and "M-type". What's that about?

All the years I've been in the scene and I've never heard those terms. Perhaps it is about asteroids.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that bemused me, too... Having been in the scene, I'd never heard those terms either.

I like asteroids better.

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

I'm working on a 30-questions answer myself, but I am taking the liberty to change some of the questions :) Otherwise since the meme's been around a bit now, no one would need to answer, they probably know the questions already!

[spatch]

This kind of meme switcheroonie is on par with the lj-crush thing from a while back.

It's as if someone's getting some serious and probably well-deserved revenge for all those old junior high mash books.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I think that's just human nature. We're having lots of "fun" on campus these days with "Confessional" sites: anonymous, unassailable legally, not ip-logged, easy places to air whatever gripes about whichever. Yes, they get nasty.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

And I'll bet they're still in junior high school, too!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Here and I could barely even handle the nice version. :-)