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I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
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So much jpeg
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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New grounds flash games
Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.
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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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"
I do remember. 2003.
Close, 1998.
Lets see how many oldies are here. No repeat users
DIE MONSTER!
All your base
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out
We're talking about Dr. Snuggles right?
I'm remembering an old wow machima "the internet is for porn"
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And this looks like old Tumblr, where by around the 12th reply the original post would be completely indented out of sight.
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
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.
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.
Damn totally forgot about "all your base are belong to us" what a trip. But i was going for viral normie memes since i mainly remember these memes taking popularity outside of the internet. People were singing the hamster song at parties when i was little so i think its influence as a meme was way more than even dancing baby. And then later 2003 or 4 the badger song. And after a while that duck song took off and my little sister wouldnt stop asking "got any grapes"?
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A/S/L?
/slap
Are you challenging me to a bass off?
19/F/Hawaii any hot guys here?
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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"
I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
Remember goatse? Wasn't that a cute rabbit?
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
No, that was the 2001 election webpage. You're thinking of tubgirl.
No, that was a shock site. You're thinking of Blue Waffle.
Sending your friend's email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
Was always quite fond of TubGirl, myself
So to this day, I don’t know, what was on her face? I’m not talking about the liquid diarrhoea, but like was it a slice of American cheese?
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👅🐴 ... There is not a raisin emoji.
🎼 Get on my horse….. 🎶