Its funny how AI in 2024 can't come up with content as amusing or original as shitposts cooked up by teenagers from over a decade ago.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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Modern memes are not nearly as good imo.
Modern memes are incomprehensible, just take a random picture and slap some completely unrelated text on top of it. Or maybe I'm just too old to get it. 🤷
Because they're not memes. I had a heck of a time explaining to my partner that a picture with next on it does not constitute a meme - the same picture used repeatedly with different text captions? Meme.
It did not compute.
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That's not what advice dog looked like?
This made me wonder what the oldest internet meme still in common usage is.
Exploitables where you change or add text in a picture is quite old and now one of the most common memes. It's a huge category, so maybe not what you meant, but it looks like it started in 2006 according to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/exploitables
That's more of a type of meme than a meme itself.
Probably Caramel Dansen. I remember it from when I was a kid, and I still see it every once in a while.
Never heard of that one.
I suddenly feel very old.
I'm pretty old myself, so I think it's more on me than time.
ALL YOUR BASE?
People still refer to it from time to time, but generally only in the context that it's old.
RIP Mr T ate my balls
I still see the penguin on occasion, but probably not enough to be common.
Maybe the rick roll? I don't think that'll ever die.
Rick Roll was one that came to mind for me, too. Looks like it dates back to around 2007.
I was def getting Rick rolled before that.
If you remember anything specific, submit it here, because you'd be predating the earliest known usage.
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Still featuring daily on adviceanimals
Meme-evolution.
This post smells like my grandmothers house on Thanksgiving.
The internet peaked in 1999
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/999/AllYourBaseAnimated.gif
What happen?
Web 2.0 happened :/
It centralized control to a few large corporations and lowered the barrier to entry for users such that everything became a popularity contest for eyeballs. TikTok, reddit, facebook, youtube, instagram, OF, its all a brainless race for engagement
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Based
Hello all you gentlemen.
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Never gives us up
Philosoraptor is 15 years old, Bad Luck Brian and Success Kid are 12 years, but Doge (without that background) is 10 years. Best I can do is $3.50
Was about to say this, no way these memes are 10 years old. Even feels wrong regarding Doge tbh
Doge (without that background) is 10 years.
The last one is a mix of doge and advice dog, which is almost 18 years.
One might say a forgery
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Cheapskate Rick? I have a whole warehouse filled with him. You'd have to pay me rent to pawn that.
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