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.
You’re totally right! They were there, but sequestered to very specific places. You wouldn’t have run into a lot of memes or image macros at all unless you were part of the big sites for “internet culture”: LUE, SA, YTMND, /b/, then finally more mainstream stuff like Digg, Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit. Shoot, “memes” had a whole different meaning than they do now! They weren’t even CALLED memes in th’ early 2000s even though the term existed, they began as being called “fads” and “meme” caught on in the early to mid 2000s!
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
2006 we weren’t posting image macros en-masse like this. They may have 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
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Maybe you weren’t, but in the places they were born they were quite massive. Enough that the rules officially said you could be banned for it.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’re totally right! They were there, but sequestered to very specific places. You wouldn’t have run into a lot of memes or image macros at all unless you were part of the big sites for “internet culture”: LUE, SA, YTMND, /b/, then finally more mainstream stuff like Digg, Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit. Shoot, “memes” had a whole different meaning than they do now! They weren’t even CALLED memes in th’ early 2000s even though the term existed, they began as being called “fads” and “meme” caught on in the early to mid 2000s!
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