Tell me...Have you seen the marvelous bread fish? Swimming in the ocean water?
I don't get this. And I'm le tired.
I'll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
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"
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
I think that's cute they think those were the first memes.
this is the most Eternal September thing I've ever heard
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"
Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary's silly dance and lip sync to the "numa numa" song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don't miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days...
I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so itโs not only kids.
๐ด ๐
๐ด ๐คฉ
๐ ๐ด ... There is not a raisin emoji.
โ๏ธ๐ด
๐ฉ
๐ด
โ๏ธ๐
Or something like that
I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
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.
Weebl released a video on youtube marking the 20th anniversery of badger badger badger a while ago, he released one for the 15th too and the 10th
I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
Snape, snape, severus snape- DUMBLEDORE
Thanks, now I have that freakinโ song stuck in my head.
And fuck I feel old now. Get off my lawn!!!
I'm still stuck on CAT. Imma kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance, and I dance-dance-dance
New grounds flash games
the way things are going the "Nigger stole my bike" might even do a comeback
Edit: but in all honesty it is actually hard to imagine that it was a thing once
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
