The Fragmentation of the Getbig Meme and what to do about it

[Smokincrazy]

Fat Alex dont try to minimize what you did.  You created another board and you just dont whip that up overnight.  It failed because nobody went there and now your back at Getbig.  Your site and you=big fat jokes

[Rearden Metal]

guest feature should be put back in.  That is how alot of our pros from the past posted. 

Right, because they can't choose a name like Aerian to post under anonymously.

[BayGBM]

No real way to reunify GB... Bodybuilding has become just all to blantenly homosexual... A lot of us guys that are hetro that got a kick out of picking on the other guys that are hetro about being gay for liking bodybuilding, has lost its fun because we found out many of these "hetro" guy are actually closet homo's.... That and there is absolutely no respect for bodybuilding from the everyday people like there was in the past....

Closet homo's in bodybuilding?  In the audience?  On stage? or behind the camera?  Either way, I find it hard to believe? 

[Thin Lizzy]

The funny thing is, that people try to make you feel guilty about not having 2087176198790 "friends". Fuck that. I have three real friends, and that's plenty. I can go to each of them for a quick few thousands or a place to stay, and I will get it -- no questions asked. That is real friendship. Anything else is just acquaintances who take up time but never really contribute. They can go die in a pubic hair inferno.

When the final verdict is in, imo, social networking: myspace, facebook etc.; will be seen as a giant failure. Something that promised alot more than it delivered.

[Fury]

I agree.

 The people complaining are just on a trip like "I'm a serious bodybulder and I want this place to be serious! blah blah blah."

 It's not gonna happen. Fuck all that.

 Getbig has always been kind of rowdy and strange since day 1.

There's rowdy and funny and then there is rowdy yet boring and pathetic. You and Stark fall into the latter category.

[Alex23]

When the final verdict is in, imo, social networking: myspace, facebook etc.; will be seen as a giant failure. Something that promised alot more than it delivered.

"OK" ThickLizzy...

[~UN_$ung~]

As Mayhem became more exclusive, MD required their athletes to only post there, Rx split and watered down the MD collective knowledge base, and Bodybuilding.com went mainstream and became soaked with "great gains, dreamer!" types....

Well, it seems like the great thinkers were peeled away.  The great debates left with them.  Instead of all of them being great members here, they became 'okay' leaders slsewhere.  Everyone wanted to build the next great message board.  I did it too, maybe 5 or 6 years ago with the Boom7 thing with garraeth.  Everyone wanted that control, that way to feel empowered when Bob Chick modified their post or so-and-so mod had beef with them.  and once the mag editors said "I don't want you posting THERE anymore..."


At this point... I don't know what the solution could be.   The powers/mags own the forums.  Money's involved now, people who can't write are forced to on their own boards, and aside from everyone getting gimmicks and posting in one place because they WANT to... I don't know how it could return to how it was.

that is a pretty spot on analysis........getbig will never return to its former glory because the industry has changed

it used to be all the people in one spot., now it has fragmented into multiple feifdoms where everyone wants to preside over the masses.........but they forget that not all that many people are into bodybuilding anyway so there is not a very large pool to draw from.  so as the message boards fragment into smaller boards, it just becomes one dude  running a board with 20 or 30 posters

steve blechman didnt help things either, with the precedent of paying athletes to post exclusively on one forum.......he really is a piece of garbage and i hope he dies.

[pluck]

I like it how it is.
Every board out there evolves...getbig too.
I was on Mayhem for about 5 years until the ass kissing and Lana Dora appreciation thread and other b.s. got to be too lame to handle.

The good thing about this board is that it keeps it real. It's all the shit that you really want to say in real life...but never will come out because you would get your ass beat in real life by a 300 lb powerlifter if you say his squat was shit or that a 260lb bodybuilder physique looks like Palumbo on crack.

The schmoes and skinnyfat twinks who have never even driven past a gym do spam too much though.

[SusanFitness]

doesn't help when people get butthurt because of internet ownings and start stalking the best posters. 

[pluck]

People need to stop being little bitches and not take shit personal that's posted on here...or click on that little X in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

[newmom]

doesn't help when people get butthurt because of internet ownings and start stalking the best posters. 

lmao

[newmom]

People need to stop being little bitches and not take shit personal that's posted on here...or click on that little X in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

Exactly

[Natural Man]

bodybuilding = homosexuality, drug abuse and insecurity.  
Getbig= closet homosexuals, schmoes, insecure 40 yo losers and 120 lbs teens with no life.  

Who wants to be associated with that?

[~UN_$ung~]

I like it how it is.
Every board out there evolves...getbig too.
I was on Mayhem for about 5 years until the ass kissing and Lana Dora appreciation thread and other b.s. got to be too lame to handle.

The good thing about this board is that it keeps it real. It's all the shit that you really want to say in real life...but never will come out because you would get your ass beat in real life by a 300 lb powerlifter if you say his squat was shit or that a 260lb bodybuilder physique looks like Palumbo on crack.

The schmoes and skinnyfat twinks who have never even driven past a gym do spam too much though.

who is lana dora

[Van_Bilderass]

who is lana dora

The Godmother of all bodybuilders.

[Fury]

bodybuilding = homosexuality, drug abuse and insecurity.  
Getbig= homosexual schmoes, insecure 40 yo losers and 120 lbs teens with no life.  

Who wants to be associated with that?

Which one applies to you? You're far and away the most insecure person on this site. Massive self-esteem and mommy issues while painting yourself as a know-it-all.

[pluck]

who is lana dora

An Italian goddess that Mayhem worships.

[newmom]

An Italian goddess that Mayhem worships.

How many pages is the appreciation thread at now for her

[polychronopolous]

I think alot of it comes down to quality posters either being in timeout or their personal info being exposed or they just plain left the site.

Think about just one year ago compared to today, Squadfather, Mass_04, Blockhead, Special Ed, Man of Steel, Mars, Karl Kox, Geo....All pretty much gone and all of them were brilliant. Now we have a bunch of delusional twinks and gimmicks who just are not very funny or interesting filling their places.

Of course the quality of the site is going to go down when that is the case.

[~UN_$ung~]

How many pages is the appreciation thread at now for her

it makes me wanna puke.......

http://www.musclemayhem.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33296

[polychronopolous]

bodybuilding = homosexuality, drug abuse and insecurity.  
Getbig= closet homosexuals, schmoes, insecure 40 yo losers and 120 lbs teens with no life.  

Who wants to be associated with that?

That is the stupidest thing I have ever read, For a so called "smart guy" you really are dumbass.

It never crossed your mind that a portion of getbig are just regular dudes who like to lift weights and come on here to crack jokes and have a few laughs?

[pluck]

851 pages with over 17,000 replies

I still remember when that thread got started and then got stickied.
Christ.

[newmom]

it makes me wanna puke.......

http://www.musclemayhem.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33296

I never read that thread but once. Nothing against Lana though. I barely sign on there anymore. All new posts are the twitter updates. Used to be good when I joined back in 03

[w8m8]

doesn't help when people get butthurt because of internet ownings and start stalking the best posters. 

x 100

add that taking it to a personal level is beyond over the line ... it's mentally deranged ... gathering peoples personal info and posting it { like drkaje said earlier }  shouldn't be tolerated or forgiven  

[Thin Lizzy]

"OK" ThickLizzy...

Most of these morons kids on these sites are gonna find out the hard way that sharing personal details with strangers has zero upside and and big downside.

And, weren't you the same guy who said that employers are now looking to see if their employees have myspace/facebook pages?

Social networking is just a way for regular, everyday people to inflate themselves, kinda like what you do here.

Facebook users reveal risky details
by Lance Whitney
 
More than half of Facebook and MySpace users surveyed have posted risky personal details about themselves online, according to the results of a new survey from Consumer Reports.

The magazine's State of the Net 2010 report, published in its June 2010 issue and discussed in its Electronics blog on Tuesday, also discovered that 23 percent of Facebook users don't even know about the site's privacy controls or just don't bother to use them.

The Consumer Reports National Research Center, which conducted the survey, found that about 1,300 of the 2,000 U.S. households included in the study now use social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. That's about twice as many as a year ago. But many of those people seem to be in the dark about the potential risks of using a social network. Of those surveyed, 40 percent had posted their full birth date, potentially exposing them to identify theft, said Consumer Reports.