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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

It's called "shifting baselines."

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Johnny Cash would have been a nobody if it wasn't for Trent Reznor! (/j)

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 62 points 1 year ago

THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

[-] chrislowles@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

THEY'RE TAKING THE HOMEBOYS TO LASERTAG

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

You think that’s bad? Watch any Star Wars movie. Especially Revenge of the Sith.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Both AoTc and RoTS are just meme compilations at this point. Nearly every scene of both movies has been memed to death for years

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

How dare those writers steal memes from the Internet to make a movie!! Somebody should do something!

[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Perhaps make a movie about it to raise awareness.

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This happened to me with Monty python and the holy grail.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Hamlet too. We LOLed reading it in high school because it was made entirely out of cliches

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Wav_function@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is a Dodge

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is like that maga cunt complaining about the clothing brand Nirvana

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 year ago

The Beatles are so derivative, they just take popular rhythms and made a song with it.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since I've never seen either, I always thought the one does not simply thing came from game of thrones. Today I learned.

[-] FateOfTheCrow 13 points 1 year ago

It's said by Sean Bean, who would later go on to star in Game of Thrones.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

What about the LOTR books?

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Thats kinda how I felt when I played MGR:revengance

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