Wasn’t that like 15 years ago. 10 years ago was gamergate
They’ll rise up any day now, against…
Something. I was never quite sure. Women bad, I guess.
They did. Ian Danskin (Innuendo Studios) documented them and the rise of the alt right. They’re the same people.
game critics take payola and thats bad but its especially bad when bad websites i dont pay any attention to publish positive reviews of works by women because women bad
in theory critics being bribed or coerced into positive reviews is a good thing to be against, but in reality the campaign was coopted within about 2 minutes of coming into existence by right wing agenda pushers who think a pride flag cosmetic or a woman who doesn’t solely exist to have rule 34 made of her means a game is leftist propanda or some insane nonsense like that.
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Otherwise.
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Sure I’ll catch you at that place at that time, how about that?
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
kiss kiss kiss
Philosoraptor is 15 years old, Bad Luck Brian and Success Kid are 12 years, but Doge (without that background) is 10 years. Best I can do is $3.50
Doge is older than philosaraptor, forced meme and was a bannable offense on just about every *chan site for 10 years
Once was a bannable offense, now a cryptocurrency affected by Musk xweets
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There’s no point or sense in my comment, pretty much the same as with what’s going on with the world as of lately
They could only kill the messengers, but never the message
Where is overly attached girlfriend and karate kid?
Doge (without that background) is 10 years.
The last one is a mix of doge and advice dog, which is almost 18 years.
One might say a forgery
almost 18 years
👴
Cheapskate Rick? I have a whole warehouse filled with him. You’d have to pay me rent to pawn that.
Bad Luck Brian and Success Kid are 12 years
Bad Luck Brian looking old af was in a recent “The General Auto Insurance” commercial.
That was actually pretty good for what it was
I mean, it just tricked some Lemmings into watching an ad.
First, I’m amazed no other insurance company has thought of this.
Second, Bad Luck Brian can deliver his lines better than Shaq.
Your facts hurt. I feel old
Was about to say this, no way these memes are 10 years old. Even feels wrong regarding Doge tbh
Never gives us up
2000s internet was simpler times
This is synonymous to me with fark.com.
Is everyone forgetting the ~half decade of “demotivators”? The ones with a picture on a black background?
I miss those.
Oh man, we thought everything was so bad, turns out those were the good times
I was never sure why it wanted a cheeseburger, and no one else seemed interested in the question.
TAKE ME BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
COUNTRY ROOOOOOOAD
That just makes me think of this:
The internet peaked in 1999
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/999/AllYourBaseAnimated.gif
Based
Hello all you gentlemen.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
You are on way to destruction
Someone set us up the bomb!
Edit: someone already said this quote. May I suggest:
“You have no chance to survive, make your time”
this but unironically
Having Ally McBeal flashbacks.
I tried watching that a few years ago, and had to stop almost immediately. I mean, what was going on with those random hallucination cuts?! No explanation or anything, it just cuts to her falling into a big wine glass, or something like that out of nowhere. Also it was too geared towards Gen X humor for me (which feels very dated. See Friends and its “haha because gay” jokes)
In all fairness, we genXers were raised by extremely anti-gay parents and Ronald Reagan. Most of us eventually got over it and don’t find the “because gay” humor funny at all anymore.
I’ll admit to making some heartfelt apologies in adulthood to some gay high school classmates. I said some pretty nasty shit back then. I just didn’t know any better until I got a few years under my belt and found some gay friends with enough patience to explain certain things to me in college.
Single female lawyer,
Fighting for her clients,
Wearing sexy miniskirts
And being self-reliant
lol
for others: video (futurama)
What happen?
Someone set us up the bomb! (WHAT?)
WHAT YOU SAY!?
Web 2.0 happened :/
It centralized control to a few large corporations and lowered the barrier to entry for users such that everything became a popularity contest for eyeballs. TikTok, reddit, facebook, youtube, instagram, OF, its all a brainless race for engagement
Just wait till Web 3.0. We get blockchains!!! /s
I kinda miss having to visit individual websites to see if they posted any new content/videos. Newgrounds, Squirrelly, Homestar Runner, Stickdeath, thebestpageintheuniverse. Just going to check was part of the fun.
This post smells like my grandmothers house on Thanksgiving.
This made me wonder what the oldest internet meme still in common usage is.
I still see the penguin on occasion, but probably not enough to be common.
Maybe the rick roll? I don’t think that’ll ever die.
Sadly, rick-rolls are ruined by forced ads for many.
Even goats.ex has ads on it now.
Truly a dark age for the internet.
Rick Roll was one that came to mind for me, too. Looks like it dates back to around 2007.
Definitely not pre youtube (2005)
I was def getting Rick rolled before that.
If you remember anything specific, submit it here, because you’d be predating the earliest known usage.
It was over ICQ, IRC or msn messenger back when all I had was dialup. A lot of modern internet culture seems to be appropriated from the kind of old web ne’er-do-wells I hung out with on IRC back in the day. Didn’t think to keep records tbh. The original ‘rickroll’ was goatse or lemon party (nsfw, tbh I would not google those if you don’t know what they are).
I do remember getting Rick rolled with Never gonna give you up by a counter strike clan team member over ventrilo back in 2005. It must be 2004-05 because the clan I was in disbanded after Oct. 2005.
Rickrolling itself doesn’t count, it has to be with that specific song. So your clan member was ahead of his time!
I mean, it’s still just a bait and switch. I never really got why doing it with Rick Astley was groundbreaking.
maybe trollface? it’s at least as common as rare-but-recognizable wojaks
:) I was thinking kilroy, but then I read the word internet.
SPAM?
I think of spam as a term that originated from that skit more than a meme.
I’ll bow to their judgement that it’s a meme, but I was thinking of visual memes. This one probably wins as far as internet memes in general goes.
You made me look up the origin of the word meme
“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme’s propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.” Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976
Goatse launched in 1999 and was just widely referenced this month with the eclipse.
I’m not saying we should be proud of goatse’s legacy and staying power, I’m just observing the reality we’ve all built.
Not the evergreen meme we need, but the one we deserve
Eternal September is one that dates back to irc and Usenet. I’m guessing there was some jokester sending ASCII dicks on Arpanet.
I’m talking about memes that are still commonly seen today.
The smiley emoji - :-) - is from 1982
That’s an emoticon. Emojis are these: 😜
There’s an entry for emoticons, though I’m not sure I’d qualify all of them as memes. Not the kind I was thinking about, at least.
Well, they are memes in that they went viral and are now spread with slight variations. And I must note that a lot of contemporary post-irony, meta-irony, or even something further memes probably wouldn’t qualify as memes either
Probably Caramel Dansen. I remember it from when I was a kid, and I still see it every once in a while.
Never heard of that one.
I suddenly feel very old.
I’m pretty old myself, so I think it’s more on me than time.
RIP Mr T ate my balls
ALL YOUR BASE?
People still refer to it from time to time, but generally only in the context that it’s old.
Exploitables where you change or add text in a picture is quite old and now one of the most common memes. It’s a huge category, so maybe not what you meant, but it looks like it started in 2006 according to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/exploitables
That’s more of a type of meme than a meme itself.
Meme-evolution.
Modern memes are not nearly as good imo.
Modern memes are incomprehensible, just take a random picture and slap some completely unrelated text on top of it. Or maybe I’m just too old to get it. 🤷
Because they’re not memes. I had a heck of a time explaining to my partner that a picture with next on it does not constitute a meme - the same picture used repeatedly with different text captions? Meme.
It did not compute.
Who decides what a meme is? Consensus? The creator? A random moderator? This comment is a meme if we decide it is. Every one of these “memes “ were just random pictures with text until they went viral? Were they not memes until then?
Your last two sentences is how I would describe it.
It’s text on pictures until it ascends to meme-hood.
Those are just image macros. Not every image macro becomes a meme
And not every meme is in the form of an image macro
From the dictionary:
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.
Its exactly the part where it is copied and spread. It’s just an image macro until then.
A arbitrary comment or image isn’t a meme if nobody copies it and spreads it
It annoys me that they specify humorous and internet, even if neither of them is required for something to be a meme. Any idea is a meme if it proves successful in spreading among other people.
“I like Ike” was a meme from the election where Eisenhower became president.
That could be covered by the 2nd definition, I just didn’t think it was relevant here:
Either everything can be a meme, or memes don’t exist.
If nothing is a meme until it is, then all original content is, by definition, not a meme. They only become “memes” when spread and repeated.
So, any original picture with text is thus, not a meme, or potentially a meme. If it is not a meme at conception, then it shouldn’t be proliferated in meme communities, because it’s not a meme.
If everything is a meme then there is no novelty or uniqueness to the content, thus making “memes” superfluous and ubiquitous to the point of nonexistence.
So, the qualifications are arbitrary.
ok boomer
It’s the poorly drawn black/white dudes that bother me the most.
The rage comics?
No, I like those. I mean the newer ones-
This was actually peak comedy in 2018 though
Absurdist memes were/are peak
Still featuring daily on adviceanimals
In 2014 these were already old I think
It’s an old pic itself
Just add a new “ten years ago memes looked like this” frame to it every decade.
That’s not what advice dog looked like?
Bro that’s like 15 years ago
Raptors are extinct by now
Its funny how AI in 2024 can’t come up with content as amusing or original as shitposts cooked up by teenagers from over a decade ago.
Fuckin random, but ok
If an AI will start shitposting at a human level what will all of us do?
That’s why I’m not on Reddit.
