Closing Logos Group / CLG Wiki - Spooky scary TV logos! (NIGHTMARE FACTOR)

[Tehshigelisok]

Wow, of course Erik Mokracek is in here. I remember encountering him several times.

The first was back when Yahoo! Groups was more of a thing. There was a group called “Remembering Retail” and it was basically discussion on anything retail related, past or present. Mokracek showed up there and spammed a ton of links to groups he’d made pertaining to obscure chains like Hot Sam Pretzels. I love retail history myself, but we don’t need a subsection for every chain. I also remember him having a forum that was equally subdivided into about a million subfora, none of which had any posts in them. He also spammed his Yahoo! Groups in the forum of Ames Fan Club, a barely active website dedicated to the defunct department store Ames.

The second encounter with him was a game show forum’s subsection on video footage. Every now and then someone would post one of Mokracek’s videos for the lulz until one of the admins stepped in and said “okay, this isn’t funny anymore.” The ensuing crapstorm is probably the reason why the video of him “singing” the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour theme has only lived on in archival form. Erik had actually posted on the forum's predecessor, the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows, back around 2002-03, and the only thing I remember of him back then was that he had a DragonTales quote in his sig.

 

[Super Collie]

@Stoned Age, thank you for necroing this thread because @Tehshigelisok's post is one of the best things to come out of this thread. God damn, putting Mokracek's post together for this thread was madness. The rabbit hole just kept getting deeper and deeper.

Anyways now that my thread is alive again maybe I can find an excuse to put up some more "Logophile Spotlights", if anyone's interested. :3

 

[sparklemilhouse]

The first was back when Yahoo! Groups was more of a thing. There was a group called “Remembering Retail” and it was basically discussion on anything retail related, past or present. Mokracek showed up there and spammed a ton of links to groups he’d made pertaining to obscure chains like Hot Sam Pretzels. I love retail history myself, but we don’t need a subsection for every chain. I also remember him having a forum that was equally subdivided into about a million subfora, none of which had any posts in them. He also spammed his Yahoo! Groups in the forum of Ames Fan Club, a barely active website dedicated to the defunct department store Ames.

Ugh I am also a retail historian, and these guys are everywhere. Always guys, always tismal.

I like to imagine the guy who made the pbs blooper reel making a long list of what the pbs logo could do next.

 

[Tehshigelisok]

Not all of the autistics who hit the retail world are bad though. I know one guy who's got a major mind for retail history, especially pertaining to Ohio. He's an overweight, gay, high-functioning autistic, 50-something guy with a very flat, nasal voice, but my experiences with him have been nothing but pleasant. He's also apparently a bit of a cult figure, as he was written into a comic book series, appeared in some MTV segments in the late 80s, and played lead in a Troma horror movie.

 

[Stoned Age]

@Stoned Age, thank you for necroing this thread because @Tehshigelisok's post is one of the best things to come out of this thread. God damn, putting Mokracek's post together for this thread was madness. The rabbit hole just kept getting deeper and deeper.

Anyways now that my thread is alive again maybe I can find an excuse to put up some more "Logophile Spotlights", if anyone's interested. :3

Well, the thread was mentioned in Wikia Autism, and once I read it, I needed to put some cents in.

Past experience, y'know.

 

[benis]

http://www.closinglogos.com/thread/5253289/I+think+the+spammer+is+back...

they seem to be quite annoyed at us. someone is "fixing" this autism hive.

I want to give the man responsible for this my sincere thanks and possibly a beer.

 

[Lunete]

I could understand this if it were from a more artistic standpoint. As a graphic design major, I do have an interest in logo design and history. Sometimes I'll see an old logo and I'll catch myself wondering how they achieved that design or animation in a time before modern CGI and computers.
But why sperg out over stupid shit like "scariness."

 

[benis]

But why sperg out over stupid shit like "scariness."

because they have autism

 

[Big Nasty]

But why sperg out over stupid shit like "scariness."

Fear is the mindkiller.

 

[Super Collie]

Well, the thread was mentioned in Wikia Autism, and once I read it, I needed to put some cents in.

Past experience, y'know.

This thread got a plug in one of their home bases?

 

[Stoned Age]

This thread got a plug in one of their home bases?

It's a thread here.

 

[Strelok]

I'll admit, I'm part of the site, but I don't take logos as seriously as the rest of the members. Plus, I do agree the rules are sporty (come on, no swearing, g rated site?) The site is practically populated by grown ass men.

Why would you bump a months old thread to say that.

 

[BustedArmchair]

Why would you bump a months old thread to say that.

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Oh, I thought this thread was still semi active. My mistake.

 

[Super Collie]

Thanks for bumping my only featured thread.

What's your favorite logo?

 

[BustedArmchair]

Thanks for bumping my only featured thread.

What's your favorite logo?

Still deciding on that one.

 

[MalWart]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but what's with these logo nuts having some retarded acronym attached to their equally retarded username? A lot of these people have usernames like:

"(insert thing they love here)Yes(Insert thing they hate here)No VGCP EDCP", etc.

 

[Super Collie]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but what's with these logo nuts having some retarded acronym attached to their equally retarded username? A lot of these people have usernames like:

"(insert thing they love here)Yes(Insert thing they hate here)No VGCP EDCP", etc.

Autism.

Really though it likely has something to do with the pervasiveness of acronyms and broadcast call signs (WGBH, etc) in television. Logophiles have also given arbitrary acronyms to nicknames for logos, like the "Super Scary Face" (SSF) Klasky-Csupo logo. It only makes sense to the people who come up with them, really.

 

[Cable 7]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but what's with these logo nuts having some retarded acronym attached to their equally retarded username? A lot of these people have usernames like:

"(insert thing they love here)Yes(Insert thing they hate here)No VGCP EDCP", etc.

IIRC: VGCP stands for Video Game Cartoon Police. Think UTTP but with people "dealing" with "trolls" on video games and cartoon shit. At this point, it's synonymous with autistic kids and Go!Animate.

 

[Super Collie]

You sure VGCP is "Video Game Cartoon Police"? Because from your explanation it sounds more like "Virgins Gonna Create Problems".

 

[MalWart]

IIRC: VGCP stands for Video Game Cartoon Police. Think UTTP but with people "dealing" with "trolls" on video games and cartoon shit. At this point, it's synonymous with autistic kids and Go!Animate.

A lot of them have a hate-boner for Harry Partridge all because he poked fun at Go!Animate. One of those spergs even went as far as to announce in the comments that he had flagged the video. A lot of these people also seem to make really pointless videos in which they ask viewers what they think of certain songs or cartoon characters. Their autism knows no bounds.

I'm curious now, would these people be good material for their own thread?