Meaning of copypasta | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.
   Internet, countable, uncountable
2. Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.
   countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Gikope is a really useful program⟳ for keeping up with AA and copypasta. I've rapidshared my own⟳ achieve⟳, which includes 1000s of AAs and a large collection of copypasta.”

“Our Father, who art in 4chan, Anonymous be thy name⟳. Thy sage come⟳, thy will be done on Gaia as it is in 4chan. Give⟳ us this day our copypasta, And forgive⟳ us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive⟳ those who COMBO BREAK⟳ against us And lead⟳ us not into CP, but deliver⟳ us from Piro. For thine is the sandwich, and the win⟳, and the awesome forever and ever. I guarantee⟳ it.”

“On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.”

“Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums.”

“It's essentially a (sort⟳ of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times […]”

“Mike Rugnetta […] explained that creepypasta derives from a term called "copypasta," which described any piece of text that was endlessly "copy-pasted" across the Internet.”

“This ambivalence is reflected in the countless warnings, rumors, and life tips that are posted on the board⟳. Some of them tried-and-true copypasta, these narratives often include⟳ images, annotated instructions, or other ostensibly helpful information.”

“Fix⟳ copypasta error in previous patch.”

“There are a number⟳ of file⟳ systems that have⟳ copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.”

“Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make⟳ it clear, and instead encourage⟳ copypasta.”

“This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.”

“Something like⟳ 30% of large codebases on "big name⟳" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have⟳ "copypasta errors" in code of the form⟳ like⟳ this, a shit-headed way to compare⟳ two arrays for reverse equality: if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] && array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]”

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