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If it's not just me who finds the whole Joycore thing an annoying addition to the noise side of the signal/noise balance, I feel better. Or when you say 'people', do you just mean me?
It's not just you. A fairly quick search of any thread with the word 'core' in the title, plus a few others, will reveal this. Various people have expressed various degrees of dissatisfaction with the Joycore threads.
By the way, I'm a little surprised to find you resorting to "but it's just a joke, if you don't think it's funny, you're boring"
I'd be surprised too, if I'd actually said that. But I said no such thing, as I begin to suspect you may well know. I said: some of the people who don't themselves find it amusing or entertaining have expressed that in particular pompous and censorious tones... they themselves become the essence of 'borecore'. To paraphrase, a sub-set of the people who don't think it's funny or fun have also been suggesting that it's an actively Bad Thing, and harming the board - I think it is harmless at worse, so I take issue with the latter. Are we clear now? Not finding it funny or fun = fine by me. Saying it needs to go away = wrong, and being a killjoy.
If what you're trying to do is draw a comparison between this case and cases in the past where I've said that certain things are inappropriate on the board and have been called a killjoy - please don't, this is a very weak rhetorical device. There's a big difference between objecting to something on the grounds that it is misogynistic, or otherwise bigotted and offensive, and objecting to something on aesthetic grounds, which is what seems to be happening here. Joycore brings you love, Sam. It wants to give you a hug. Embrace it!
If there is a quiet swell of dislike - even a minority one - and there wasn't one for Pirates and Ninjas, then that points to some kind of difference in the way people receive the Joycore thing, or to a difference of type in the thing itself.
There have been many expressions of dissatisfaction with the pirates/ninjas meme, ranging from the humorous to the genuinely exasperated. I'm pretty sure I remember you being around at the time. Same for asscandling, which isn't the best example since it only crops up in text form, but for a while it did crop up every time a newbie started an introduction thread. This led me to once describe it as "a joke that has run its course", but I never seriously suggested it might be detrimental to the ideal functioning of Barbelith, and should cease. To do so would be borecore.
Finally, please don't try and suggest that if some of the followers of Joycore disagree on minor ecumenical matters, the entire glittering edifice may collapse. Joycore is a broad church.
STEP INSIDE THE CHURCH OF JOYCORE!
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