Here is a Saturday morning meme for you:<\/p>\n
Back in 2006, fanfic writer Squirrelking authored a Half-Life story about John Freeman, brother of Gordon. Squirrelking had only recently learned [a bit of] English and so the writing was perhaps a bit… unpolished. (The other problems with the story we can probably attribute to youth, although his age isn’t known.) It’s generally not nice to laugh at people struggling to learn a new language, and it’s even worse to laugh at young people who are trying to learn to be creative, but the internet is a cruel place and Squirrelking’s unfortunate writing was wickedly, unintentionally, hilarious<\/em>. It achieved a sort of Ed Wood-esqe following of people who were intrigued by the perfect awfulness of the work and celebrated it through collaboration. <\/p>\n From there, a very minor and short-lived meme was spawned. Someone did a dramatic reading of the thing. Then someone else did an animation of it using Garry’s Mod:<\/p>\n