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wish i wasn't 3 15 years ago
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Now they're mostly Twitter screenshots ;_;
right-winger posts some obscene post.
left-winger replies with a "gotcha" style of reply, disregarding anything else.
Both continue to use the same platform.
Or, as Cory Doctorow put it, “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.”
I miss the days when the only things identifiable as memes required text drawn in all caps white Impact font with black outlines, over literally any image.
Back when I visited icanhascheesburger
I was big on memebase back then
9gag
Same, untill it became a nazi cesspool. Then reddit, untill the API ban.
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15 years !
Haha, this is clearly engagement bait !
I remember these memes from when I was at university, which was only .... 15 years ago. Fuck!
I remember when memes looked like this
I’m old enough to remember this
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Wasn't this the o rly owl? The one that actually looks like it's saying "oh, really?"
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old people memes lol
Hey, mid thirties isn't old.
Hey, 39 is still mid thirties!
It's literally the end of thirties.
Mid to late 30s
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no no no old people memes is ai slop posted by bots on facebook
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15? this is more like 20.
2006 we weren't posting image macros en-masse like this. They definitely existed but I don't remember seeing a lot of these until at least 2009-2010
Keep in mind the general population wasn't really on Facebook until 2007 and people weren't posting this stuff to myspace
I'm also being nitpicky and autistic about it so feel free to ignore me
yeah it was definitely more niche. i remember when the motiwational poster format made way to the advice dog format, and at that paint we banically just copy-pasted the images around different forums.
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And things were better for it.
This post is giving me psychic damage
I remember when a meme was coined by Richard Dawkins before the Internet meme became the standard.
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what was up with the multicolor haxagonal-ish backgrounds?
It's the hallmark of the "Advice Animals" category of memes.
Advice Animals [...] are a type of image macro series featuring animals [...] that are accompanied by captioned text to represent a character trait or an archetype that fits the role of a "stock character". While many Advice Animals use a color wheel background, some use unedited versions of the original photo.
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3! My sweet child, I was 30 at the time.
good times
they still do on lemmy
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