this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Trippin' Through Time

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Tripping' Through Time

A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that cat robbing someone with a rat?

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

More warpstone! Yes!Yes!

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 1 month ago

Before laser cats

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

"Gimme those eggs and no one gets the plague"

[–] shani66@ani.social 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'll never understand why old art looks like that. They demonstrably have skill, but they just had absolutely rancid aesthetics.

[–] cikano@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I think it's a mix between art-style and salvaging minor mistakes

[–] undeadotter@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I think part of it is basing everything off adult human proportions. Like top right has a fat old man face in a cat body, and bottom left has like a buff human body with a cat head.

It's similar to old paintings of children and babies, where they've just done an adult human but smaller, instead of looking at how the proportions of small children are actually completely different.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Lead paint.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Top left is sorta accurate.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Is this political compass?