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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm sitting here like "memes? Motherfucker most people didn't have internet in '94". The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn't even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.

I am not saying social media hasn't had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn't the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Our copy of doom had a handwritten label

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago