Off topic, but what's up with these "discovery threads" and people---I'm assuming younger, less experienced people---posting tons and tons of animated GIFs to try and communicate their experience?

This behavior is becoming quite prevalent in many online communities, especially ones that attract younger people. It's been interesting watching it develop over the years and moving from shady/seedy/weird sites to, well, everything. I'm sure you could write a lengthy, varied analysis on it all...the history of it, how it supplements and sometimes replaces regular language, how improvements in networking and other hardware/software technology allowed it to spread, etc.

I'm wondering if there's some hidden repository of GIFs that people pull from when posting like this. I'd get tired of posting images all the time even if I built up my own collection, I think.

Too lazy to make a long post atm, but I think it comes down to the internet's userbase expanding faster than ever. 

There was a time when only people who had to or seriously wanted to express themselves online were found on message boards.  Now, though, there are people who stumbled in through Reddit, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. who see meme images far removed from their original context and think "that's the internet!"  So they're more "internetting" instead of using the internet for some end. 

Iuno how well that applies to Head-Fi, but it totally comes into play when i watch my mother and her friends use FaceBook or people who have never, like, been part of a real online community using a site like Reddit.  It shows in how shallow and vapid most of the largest YT stars are -- they're not being dumb, just all-inclusive.

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I have friends who would consider my post here a "tl;dr".  They're not stupid or illiterate.  Hell, one of the ones I have in mind actually reads a lot more often than I do.  This behavior of mine is literally just foreign to them.

I have another friend who's been a bit bummed due to a lack of people in his life who share his level of interest in fighting games.  I've often suggested he "just join SRK or something", but some mental block keeps him from doing such.  It's just not a viable form of friend-making for him.  He will passively read /v/, though, and post the occasional meme image.

hello,

awesome!

I didn't like them either. I returned them the day after I got them. I did put them on a similar level with the headphones whose sound signature I didn't like in the first place, like the K545 and W1000X (though I think my pair of W1000X's were defective...the right driver blew the week I bought it), but I think even $90 is a bit much for them. I prefer even my Portapros to the Mikros. I wanted to be much meaner about them in the other thread, but they really don't like when people don't praise them, so leaving them be seemed like the better option.

There is so much hype about this , I am not sure if OP got a defective one or shills are just hyping it.