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in reply to @DespiaShrq's post:
the shaka, when the walls fell energy of this post. utterly incomprehensible to the random passerby without context. you literally had to be there
ah, I was referencing a star trek episode about memes and how they make use of cultural context to communicate complex information about history and shared cultural experiences, "shaka when the walls fell" being a phrase used heavily in that episode
If you're asking about what the context in this case is, @sleeps-darkly created an image based off of a thing I suggested in another post, hosted on a webserver, of a game boy that, when viewed/downloaded, would gradually degrade in image quality. Overnight it turned into blood-red static, which is the image being used in this referentially.
i saw the gamecube thing, i was referring to the star trek reference haha
I've never seen star trek so...
I would say this is one of those things where, some amount of people who probably have not seen star trek have heard of this specific reference for just like, internet culture reasons (since the episode is, in essence, about "what if there was a language that was only comprised of referential memes", but kind of predates a lot of internet culture itself, since it was aired in 1991). I highly recommend looking it up sometime, it's one of the handful of episodes i've actually watched myself. I believe the episode is called "Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra"
i might watch a little bit of star trek one day, i heard it's good