Tell me...Have you seen the marvelous bread fish? Swimming in the ocean water?
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In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.
"I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup....those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more"
Remember goatse? Wasn't that a cute rabbit?
Sending your friend's email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
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I don't get this. And I'm le tired.
I'll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
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Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff's 1997 cover of Blue Swede's cover of BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling"
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Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
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Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary's silly dance and lip sync to the "numa numa" song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don't miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days...
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I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
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I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.
Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for "nerds".
I remember when nornies didn't even know how to.
And now we've gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.
Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.
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The first? Idk about that, im 27. And am well aware of memes prior to my existance. The oldest i can think of is the dancing baby meme.
Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance
Dancing Baby was the first normie meme. Its popularity spread through TV and print.
All Your Base is more of an actual “first” internet meme.
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Memes are also not inherently digital. Going back to the definition set by Richard Dawkins (trans-hating bigot he is), a meme is anything that "conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." Perhaps that's a bit broad of a definition compared to what we conventionally think of as memes, but it's how we got to where we are.
People in ancient Egypt building pyramids and obelisks because someone before them built pyramids and obelisks is a meme. Cathedrals being built in much the same way throughout Renaissance Europe is a meme.
But those examples aside, there are still a few pre-internet examples that would still resonate more with the idea of memes as we know them today. Kilroy was Here is considered a meme and goes back to World War II. Or a bit before that, this "How you think you look" cartoon which I am not entirely sure was overly meme-like in its day but certainly feels relatable today.
But even slogans or popular sayings could be considered memes; if we consider internet terms/phrases like "pog" or "Are ya winning, son?" or (dating myself) "I can haz cheezburger?" to be memes, what about pre-internet sayings like "Luke, I am your father," "It's just a flesh wound," or "Where's the beef?" Or going way, way back, what about saying "Break a leg" before a performance, or "All the world's a stage," or even "Carpe diem"? I think one could make a case for just about any repeated and widely understood concept, really.
Weebl released a video on youtube marking the 20th anniversery of badger badger badger a while ago, he released one for the 15th too and the 10th
I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
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EVERYONE LOVES
MAGICAL TREVOR
Edit: beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans yeah yeah
Edit2: hey guys did weebls stuff predict Lemmy memes?
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New grounds flash games
Thanks, now I have that freakin’ song stuck in my head.
And fuck I feel old now. Get off my lawn!!!
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Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.
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