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[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 76 points 1 year ago

Successful black man where have you been?

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

Trump has been in office. He went into hiding.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago
[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

There are no successful black men, and we'll prove it by making sure they leave the country.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 72 points 1 year ago

There was a time when all memes were demotivational posters.

[-] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago

Despair.com (apparently still around!) was my go-to back in the day for those

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Mim@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

It was a more civilized age back then…

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

We where supposed to build the future.

Got addicted to memes instead.

Sorry Gen Z

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Mim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Ate too many Avocado Toasts for it and forgot to shake the job tree with all the jobs for us.

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I CAN'T HANG IN THERE TIL FRIDAY

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

THAT'S OK, YOU'RE WORKING SATURDAY TOO

[-] Steve@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago

There was a time when all memes were le text

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

What the fuck did you just call me? *holds up spork*

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 31 points 1 year ago

I remember when memes were just a picture of a duck with wheels or a gif of a dancing baby.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I remember when we sent memes via fax…

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

My ancestors inscribed memes on big-ass boulders.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Alright Gramma, let's get you back to bed

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

I wasted untold hours on the old quickmeme site.

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

There was a time before that too.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah plain text based & image only memes

I put on my robe and wizard hat, that dancing baby gif, all your base, etc

There was also some push back on posting images with text embedded because it makes the text unsearchable/not compatible with screen readers at the time/forced font and color that can make it harder to read, but then the image macro sites took off that made it simple for anyone to create from a template and there was no turning back

[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

there was also the motivational poster era, the "wut" year, whatever ytmnd was/is...

[-] cuteness@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised that All Your Base hasn’t made a comeback. I figured with the broken English, catchy phrase, and danceable tune it would surely trend again.

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[-] Mustard 20 points 1 year ago

Back when racism was at least thinly veiled...

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I always saw it as mocking racists, but with the power of hindsight I guess it’s a real Schrödinger’s racist situation.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Agree. The whole point is to lean into a racist stereotype, and then subvert it.

[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I miss the veil

[-] trk@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago
[-] Rokin@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

I missed this guy!

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] arotrios@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I miss philosoraptor

[-] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

There was a time when memes were just dudes fighting snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔬𝔬𝔱𝔥! 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡. ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Speaking of ancient memes I showed this to my teen the other day and they didn't even begin to understand.

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

BUY PIZZA

PAY WITH SNAKES

[-] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get half of the comments. Ragecomic boomer here.

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