[Ads-l] "copypasta' -- new to me

Mon Jun 13 14:49:06 UTC 2016

Ben and his co-author included copypasta and creepypasta in their
column in the journal "American Speech" in Winter 2011:

[Begin ADS-L message from Ben dated Apr 30, 2012]
"Among the New Words," AmSp, Winter 2011, pp. 454-479
Benjamin Zimmer and Charles E. Carson
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/4/454.citation
special "Internet meme" edition:
Advice Animal, auto-tune, banhammer, bubbling, cinemagraph, copypasta,
creepypasta, (herp) derp, double rainbow, Droste effect, escalator
spinning, exploitable, facebomb, facepalm, headdesk, honey badger,
hover hand, image macro, lulz, O RLY, photobomb, rickroll, supercut,
Swede, Teabonics, tl;dr.
[End message from Ben]

Garson

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> " "Anti-Racist is Code for Anti-White," a slogan that was lifted from an early-2000s pro-segregationist tract called "The Mantra," has proliferated online as a piece of white supremacist copypasta -- text that's obsessively copied and pasted across internet forums."
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> Amanda Hess [frequent contributor to the Sunday "First Words" column], "They Punctuate Their Messages With Subtle Symbols of Hatred," New York Times, Saturday, June 11, 2016, C4/2 (New England Edition).  An extremely disturbing article on the "echo" -- surrounding a name taken to be Jewish with three parentheses -- used by anti-Semitic and white nationalist hate groups.  Hess discusses the encouragement such groups are taking from Donald Trump's candicacy.
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> A very superficial search shows an Urban Dictionary submission it dates April 20, 2006; in Google News I find uses from 2010, including once again the NYTimes:
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> "Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares," By AUSTIN CONSIDINE, NOV. 12, 2010:
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> "Mike Rugnetta, who is a researcher for KnowYourMeme.com, a Manhattan-based project devoted to tracking and documenting bits of viral Web ephemera — or memes — explained that creepypasta derives from a term called “copypasta,” which described any piece of text that was endlessly “copy-pasted” across the Internet. Creepypasta probably arose as a creepy form of copypasta around 2007, Mr. Rugnetta said, though it’s only recently become really popular."
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> A usage also appearing in 2010 denotes copied computer code.
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> P.S.  I don't find "creepypasta" in the OED either.
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