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where did this come from? (quokk.au)
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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

It started with these two homies

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Internet? They were on t-shirts.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did that art style not originate at State Fair souvenir t-shirt booths? I thought it sprang from the same evolutionary branch as the airbrushed art painted on the sides of the rides.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It did. I saw them all the time long before I begged my parents for AOL

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Mario Mario: 1981

Bugs Bunny: 1940

[–] mateofeo85@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The people that wore these now wear horror movie tshirts. Especially Halloween.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Where's black Goku

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Evidence of people’s distorted view of what “the internet” is and how they think it’s totally disconnected from the reality it exists inside of and not apart from.