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Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee
I am an old man and too lazy to search Wikipedia, Wiktionary or whatever for what this Insider Kiddie Lingo means. Will you or KLo take pity on me?
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Recently I've been becoming more and more absorbed with internet culture and in that, I've become a regular visitor/poster in 4chan in a few of the boards on that site. One of the boards on the site, /b/, where you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, is notorious for having literally no rules of what goes on (other than no child pornography, which unfortunately isn't closely regulated). Aside from the horrors of /b/, it's an entire legitimate culture strewn with lingo, code, inside jokes, trolling, etc.
One of the "family traditions" if you will is getting "dubs/doubles", "trips/triples", "quads", "quints", and so on. This is possible because as you've taken the effort to find which post throughout the entire forum was say, post #180,000, the post number is visible on every post.
(pardon the subject matter, but merely observe the post numbering system)
An enjoyable feat is correctly predicting whether your post number will end in doubles (00,11,22, so on), by posting a humorous picture (or some variant) of an image pointing to the post number.
BLABLABLABLAKFJALSOISKJSDFSDPOIJSADFOPIF Post #322125221325688
So, "getting" doubles is a moderately amusing achievement. However, it's not very difficult. Excuse my late-night maff skills, but methinks the chances of getting dubs is about one in ten.
Therefore, it is more impressive to get trips, which as you've guessed is three of the same number at the end of the post number.
Even more so, quads. Quads are much more rare, and often threads are spawned where people mindlessly "play" to get quads and "win" the game.
Currently, the popular subject of quads games are the tax master.
Quints are similar to quads in that the goal is to kill/slay the tax master, but because of the even greater difficulty of getting quads, the image posted by the original poster is usually more humorous and extreme (I can't find it, but at one point there was a fire-breathing, three-headed, flying tax master)
Sextuples are so rare people don't even have a game or shortened name for it.
Recently, someone got something like 8 or 9 2's in a row. It was quite the shit storm, I can assure you, as I was there trying to get the octuples (or whatever it was)
So as you can see, my mentioning of obtaining quads pleasing me was an inside joke to primarily myself and anyone else who may have understood. Quads aren't better or worse in regards to the number, I just happen to like the way zeroes look.
Sorry for my pretty brief explanation, I wouldn't be surprised if you still don't understand.
I'm not necessarily advocating you corrupt your mind, but it may be an interesting experience to visit 4chan (specifically, /b/ (a.k.a. random)) and just enjoy the hilarity of it all. Word of advise: don't ever click on a link, don't ever do anything they say, don't ever download anything, and generally don't antagonize /b/. I'll leave it to you and a few google searches to discover the collective power of /b/ and the entire anon community.