I'm sure this person was joking, but this kind of thing really is one of the most infuriating parts of getting older... I'm having flashbacks to a conversation I had with someone who thought that Johnny Cash wrote the song Hurt and that Nine Inch Nails were a relatively unknown band who had covered it
The aspect of this that really bugs me is that people never get how revolutionary something was. Like taking your example of music, people listen to songs by The Beatles or Nirvana or David Bowie and think "Their fine, but I don't know what's so great about them - 100 other bands sound the same." But the thing is, at the time, no other bands sounded the same, they were just copied like crazy.
You see it with movies, too. Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Blade Runner - all really good movies in their own right, but putting them in the context of the movies of the time shows how influential they were. All highly copied afterwards.
It's called "shifting baselines."
Johnny Cash would have been a nobody if it wasn't for Trent Reznor! (/j)
I've heard there's a trope called "Seinfeld's not funny." It's named after the idea that a lot of people who watch Seinfeld today think its jokes are overdone or cliche, not realizing that the reason they're overdone now is because they were popularized by the show.
More generally, it refers to works that are seen as cliche nowadays by people who didn't grow up with them, but were actually the ones to start the trend in the first place, when it was new and innovative.
This is the third time I've seen exactly this referenced on Lemmy. Is this becoming a thing? I feel like this is becoming a thing.
He killed it in his version, though.
THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOMEBOYS TO LASERTAG
You think that’s bad? Watch any Star Wars movie. Especially Revenge of the Sith.
Both AoTc and RoTS are just meme compilations at this point. Nearly every scene of both movies has been memed to death for years
How dare those writers steal memes from the Internet to make a movie!! Somebody should do something!
Perhaps make a movie about it to raise awareness.
This happened to me with Monty python and the holy grail.
Hamlet too. We LOLed reading it in high school because it was made entirely out of cliches
Okay lets be real reddit never made original content.
Most of these memes were created long before reddit was even a thing, mostly on random forums and blog sites. Reddit became popular as a repost media platform like Digg.
Hell even youtube had a fair share of reuploads despite being one of the first dedicated video sites.
Forgot about 9gag?
9gag routinely stole memes from other sites.
At one point, it got really awkward because they were stealing "The Button" memes while deleting all comments referring to Reddit. So, at one point, you had a bunch of rainbow memes show up and no one could give the real reason why.
Tangentially related, but I wonder how many people know "I'm the juggernaut bitch" originated in a meme video?
I didn't know that until I read this comment
This is a Dodge
This is like that maga cunt complaining about the clothing brand Nirvana
The Beatles are so derivative, they just take popular rhythms and made a song with it.
Since I've never seen either, I always thought the one does not simply thing came from game of thrones. Today I learned.
It's said by Sean Bean, who would later go on to star in Game of Thrones.
What about the LOTR books?
Nope. Two things:
First: I was raised in a whacko religious cult that forbade reading novels of any kind.
Second: While I eventually got out of that nonsense and started reading, I've always had an irrational aversion to fantasy and period fiction like the kind with Victorian costumes and pretentious language. Lord of the Rings never appealed to me. I preferred reading early to mid twentieth century stuff like Steinbeck.
ORLY?
Thats kinda how I felt when I played MGR:revengance
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