History of the IFC: Guess the Airline and Aircraft
Who knew it would take me almost an entire year to create another one of these topics? I mean, I guess I did but still. I have oncemore returned to traumatize Marc with some more random history of the IFC. Anyways, as you know the IFC has a rich history of absolute greatness and strangeness. I am here to retell it to you in an easy to digest format. So without further to do, let’s get into the history of Guess the Airline and Aircraft.
Section One: From the Window
There are many different topics that range across the IFC, some good, some bad. Let me tell you, as someone who has posted everything, there is a lot. It was in March of 2018 that user @Northwest hatched an idea. Games were not usually tolerated on the IFC, and still aren’t. However, this was a bit different. Why not try and test the knowledge of fellow aviation geeks on the IFC. What would be the easiest way to do this? The answer was quite simple, post a picture of a plane, leaving most of it ambiguous, and let them guess the aircraft and airline it belonged to. The idea was foolproof, so a bit of formatting later and click. The topic was posted.
Little did @Northwest know, but his topic would soon become one of the most popular on the IFC.
Section Two: Guessing to Success
It was a few minutes later that the topic truly began to blow up. In just a few short minutes, the masses had guessed his own aircraft, that being a Delta CRJ-700. Many others soon began to join in, posting their own pictures for others to guess. Some were easy, others were much harder. It had become one of the most rapid growing topics on the entire IFC for the time, with others returning multiple times to continue guessing or even post their own topics. The rules were quite easy, the first person posts a heavily cropped picture of an airplane. The others then have to guess the type of plane, and what airline it belonged to. The person who guessed both first then got to post their own picture, repeat this over and over again and you have an engaging topic for others to play.
Guess the Airline and Aircraft also gave way to multiple derivatives, including Cabin Edition. This was where people guessed the airline and aircraft via the cabin of the plane, as well as an IF version where those used simulator shots in order to guess. The concept was rather simple, and could be fit to other methods of picture. There was a lot of flexibility with this one, and it seemed the IFC was having a fun time. A month or so later, and the original topic had been closed due to having more comments than Discorce could handle. These topics then began opening and closing due to capacity over Eight times. It had truly blown up to massive proportions.
The reception to the topic series was greatly received. Many people loved the simpleness of the game, and that anyone could play it. It was a very popular topic series during its time, and had a lot of active users in it. Even the mods chimed in to play from time to time, and more and more people flocked to the topic to play it.
Guess the Airline and Aircraft also gave way to some memes on the IFC. It was an origin place for the Oatmeal Meme. There were also viral posts that came from it, such as @schyllberg’s A380 Post (Refer to Part 6 for that one). Other than that, it remained as a popular topic on the forum.
The downfall of the topic was a matter of great debate among the mods. As this had been a topic rich in the IFC, and was very popular to boot. Many loved this topic, however, with recent changes to forum policy it was time to make a tough decision. Ultimately, @Marc came in to deliver the bad news.
"Hi everyone!
After a long and thorough discussion in the moderator team we now decided that the automatic closure of Guess the Airline and Aircraft! [Part 7] last week will mark the end of all public “Guess the…” topics here on the IFC." -@Marc
The response was expected, as many community members were annoyed with this happening. Afterwards, they began to forum community PMs in order to continue the game on. These still somewhat go today, with very active members who enjoy doing them. On top of that, the event was brought back with some of the monthly games put on by the regulars. It still, however, is a shell of it’s former self.
Perhaps one day, Guess the Airline and Aircraft will return. I still think fondly of the game, and I still miss it to this day. I met a lot of cool people on those topics, some of whom I know in real life now. Other than that, it remains mostly underground now, resurrected from time to time. As time passes, many are starting to forget this once common topic, and new users continue to join. Perhaps there will be a day we will get to see this once great topic again, however, for now all we can do is hope.
Well then, another History of the IFC has been completed. I know it took over a year to get this one done but I’m really proud of it. I hope you guys enjoy it, as it is less of a meme topic this time. As always, tell me what you think in the comments. Or speak into the cabbage that magically reads these topics to you. Vote what you think of this topic below.
- Loved it
- Liked it
- It was ok
- Meh
- Didn’t like it
- Hated it
- This should burn and Mattheus should burn with it
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@Marc How was that psychiatrist appointment?
