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[-] amio@kbin.social 73 points 11 months ago

"Gimme five lolcats for a demotivational," we'd say...

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I wore an o’rly owl on my geocities.

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 19 points 11 months ago

We couldn't has cheeseburgers, because of the war.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I’ll do you one better than the other guy.

It was “because of teh war.”

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

We couldn’t has cheeseburgers, because ~~of the war~~ war was beginning.

FTFY

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Which was the fashion of the time…

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We used to call em "demotivationals." You'd say "post your best demotivational" while posting yours, which we all did. Those were the good old days.

[-] flicker@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Now we called them demotivationals because they were made in reaction to motivationals, which were all the rage in Shelbyville. And one demotivational was worth ten motivationals. 'Gimme one for the ten,' you'd say, and you would post your motivationals so the wizards of memes could photoshop them, or you might say "shop." Which was the style at the time.

You could always tell a shop from some of the pixels, or from seeing quite a few shops in your time. Whichever was easier.

(I put way more effort into this than it called for.)

[-] grahamja@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

I enjoyed this a lot, thank you for the nostalgia.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago
[-] N0body@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 months ago

I tied a ROFLcopter to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to make a shitpost cost a cheeseburger, and in those days, cheeseburgers came with pictures of cats on 'em. "I can has cheezburger," you'd say.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Never could remember that cos I had so much trouble trying to hold all those pesky limes

[-] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

So this is what the retirement home is going to be like for us? Just fondly remembering old memes while we drift into the void.

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yes please. Sign me up.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

That's just a holdover from Demotivational posters.

[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Which were a parody of the motivational posters.

[-] teuast@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Which was the fashion at the time.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Is that not the reference?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

A more civilised meme for a more civilised time. ;p

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reminds me of the "when you see it, you'll shit bricks" pictures.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

This is brilliant.

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