4404: The Pudding Pops Protest

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The Pudding Pops Protest

Made by: Memes-In-Your-Dreams

Explanation

This strip and its corresponding author's notes are basically a giant jab at the "constantly changing"/"pudding pops" running gag initially started by 268: Garfield Linus Garfield. The author points out the disproportionate ratio of strips part of that singular running gag (figures calculated as of when the author's notes were written, written around the time 3440: Donut Infighting--itself part of another Square Root of Minus Garfield running gag--first ran) and compares the running gag to the sizable number of memes floating about on the rest of the Internet.

The author explicitly asks contributors to stop contributing to the "constantly changing"/"pudding pops" running gag, implies the special slow-rate queue designed for that running gag does not work, and even begged Manyhills to start outright rejecting such strips instead of maintaining a slow-trickle queue of them.

The author makes further jabs against the "constantly changing"/"pudding pops" running gag in an "original strip credit" designed to parody the way original strip credits have been rendered for many strips that first ran prior to the implementation of the original Garfield strip date search function on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site after said function was implemented, wrapping up said rant with a paraphrase of one of the lines from the original Garfield strip.

The author writes:

I hate frozen pudding pops. I hate them with a burning passion. When I go back through the early archives, I can't go five strips without stumbling on this meme. Why has it grown so big?! At the time I write this, there are 3440 SRoMG strips, around 150 of which are this meme. That's 4.3%, too much. It's pretty much impossible that much of the entire Internet is a singular meme, maybe even every meme put together.

Contributors, it's time to end this rampage of strips. SRoMG is a beautiful website, and this meme has done nothing but corrupt its splendor. The extra-slow queue has done nothing. There are still many, many strips in it. Manyhills, you're delaying the inevitable. After this strip goes in, I urge you to not even put the pudding pops strips in a separate buffer. Unless they're very good, I urge you to warn the contributor and then straight up delete them. This madness must end.

[[Original strip: You KNOW it already! You've seen it more than 100 times before! All those other memes (of which there are many: Jon's Donut, Beware of Dog, Blender, Snail, etc.) have got nothing on this. I have been reading SRoMG since it only had 2 strips, and when the meme was at a nice level, I actually enjoyed it. Now it has cascaded into an overflow of bad humor. It's done nothing good for the site. Nothing. Whenever one escapes from the buffer, I want to scream. As with everything, memes are good in moderation. This greatly, greatly exceeds moderation. My eyes were burning by the time I finished this strip. I hope you're happy.

No.

The world is not constantly changing.

And it's time it did. ]]

Original strip: 2001-11-28.

Transcript

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