👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this…
fatmetr1
. (Let me just reacquire my scholarly composure here...it still feels a bit weird saying that out loud.)
Now, frankly, the origin of this little monstrosity is delightfully murky. Basically, it started as anomeric, joking shorthand in some rather aggressively nerdy corners of early 2010's online shitposting and ASCII art fandom. Early meme culture was obsessed with manipulating text into bizarre shapes, a bit like we still kinda are now, but in the days before easily available fancy fonts. Here’s what it essentially means, distilled down: Fatmetr1 roughly equates to "the feeling of utter, spectacular failure when your carefully constructed ASCII monstrosity, meant for ironic effect, just… doesn't look right and you immediately realise that this is the result of an atrocious inability to actually fucking manipulate the damn letters. It’s a beautiful, concentrated form of self-deprecating misery specifically relating to technical incompetence in a very performative way." Let's unpack it. 1) You try to make something visually arresting (ASCII art – think little stick figures and weird symbols, basically). 2. That attempt spectacularly fails. It’s…off. The stupid, pointy thing you wanted to look like a skull now just looks vaguely disturbing. 3. It then becomes an excuse for a very loud, very emphatic
