'hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork*' — the opening of a mid-2000s copypasta written in the voice of a hyperactive forum newcomer who is 'random' and 'lol so quirky', signed 't3h PeNgU1N oF d00m'. The record notes it was a parody when it was written, that it is now the only surviving specimen of the style it parodied, and that the spork is still held up.
Obituary, honest version: Penguin of Doom did not die of neglect. It died of attention — overquoted — which is the way most of these go and the way this one went.
The record remembers 2007, when the penguin was posted under every introduction thread on every forum, and the moderators' fatigue. It has since been cited in academic papers about 'random humour', which the penguin would have found lol so random.
Definition, posthumous. Penguin of Doom meant something specific in 2008 and nothing at all by 2012, which is roughly the life expectancy of anything the internet loves out loud.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
