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
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
Bad Luck Brian and Success Kid are 12 years
Bad Luck Brian looking old af was in a recent "The General Auto Insurance" commercial.
First, I'm amazed no other insurance company has thought of this.
Second, Bad Luck Brian can deliver his lines better than Shaq.
I'm the original creator of the "Still waiting on OP" meme from The Shining and have a mildly interesting story behind its creation if anyone would care to hear.
I would like to hear!
This is a mildly interesting story at best.
In 2010 I was working at a video rental store (RIP) and got access to new movies before they were available to the public. Every day I'd grab one, and every night I'd stream them online for 4channers on /tv and /r9k. There was a chat built into the stream and we had a lot of fun for months and months, hanging out watching movies and chatting. It built a pretty big following. Think Twitch before Twitch existed.
One night there were no new movies so I grabbed The Shining. We watched through it, and when that scene came on the screen I paused it to take a closer look. We joked and carried on about it in chat, and I screenshotted it and opened Photoshop and made the meme then and there. Everyone loved it. Several folks posted it on 4chan boards and it took off in a big way. We finished the movie and had a great night.
One of my favorite young adult memories.
That sounds like a good time. It's a little sad that you probably couldn't easily get away with that now.
Agreed. The modern internet is so locked down that it's difficult to find those kind of fun, niche communities. Lemmy has a similar feeling at least.
In 2014 these were already old I think
Just add a new "ten years ago memes looked like this" frame to it every decade.
Were these popular in 2014? I feel like these were more like 2010. I could be wrong.
I think they were still lingering around somewhat. I just cleared off my old laptop last night and found advice animal memes from 2014 on it. I'll probably drop a few of the better ones in 196 on Monday, maybe I'll spread the love to antique memes roadshow.
I remember a time when they weren't even called memes. They were just "image macros."
The internet peaked in 1999
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/999/AllYourBaseAnimated.gif
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These weren't even what we called "memes" back then (closer to twenty years ago).
These were image macros or caption images. A meme back then was usually a phrase or saying like Over 9000 and other crap like that.
But whether we called them memes or not, by definition they were. The Selfish Gene came out in 1976, where Dawkins coined it as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation".
Truly it was a golden age
Bro that's like 15 years ago
Raptors are extinct by now
Doge is the best meme ever created and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Otherwise.
Modern memes are not nearly as good imo.
Edit: these
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.
I still like them, honestly...
I used to frequent imgur's user-sub back then. I never made a front-page post, but I did get top comment of the day once. I nearly earned the green giraffe token. Over time the community grew more cringey by the week, and devolved into selfies and sob stories. I made the switch to reddit and never cared about karma again. What a time.
The irony is that Imgur was originally created as a an image hosting service specifically for Reddit, then became its own society and culture. Only to have you return right back where it came from
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