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• Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now they’re mostly Twitter screenshots ;_;

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We need to go back.

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or, as Cory Doctorow put it, “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.”

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  • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• kronarbob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1000022439

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• poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Back when I visited icanhascheesburger

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  • wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was big on memebase back then

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      9gag

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  • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Icanhas and Failblog were hilarious back in the day. I think that CEO Ben whatshisname wrecked it by commercializing it.

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  old people memes lol

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    !remindme 10 years “call this guy old”

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As if I am not already an old fuck merely pointing out ownership by labeling these memes appropriately
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  • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no no no old people memes is ai slop posted by bots on facebook

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, mid thirties isn’t old.

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey, 39 is still mid thirties!

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    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, but it is middle aged

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  • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My dilated eyes must be tripping me out because I swear that cat is moving ever so slightly

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All your base are belong to us

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mr T ate my balls! Also BRING BACK SNACKS

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, we all come from somewhere.

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all come from the past.

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  • boboliosisjones@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here I was thinking these examples were new age memes from the post Reddit era

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  15 years !

  Haha, this is clearly engagement bait ! I remember these memes from I was I at university, which was only … 15 years ago. Fuck!

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  • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haha get fucked old person…oh wait…

    Fuck…

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relive the old days on !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The good’old days of r/adviceanimals…

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  15? this is more like 20.

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  • 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

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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!

      iamold

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• fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why is philosoraptor crying?

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  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those aren’t tears, it’s a face tattoo. They were all the rage back then in the before times. Example A:

    spoiler

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    • restingOface@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Example B:

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  • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have the same question. Is this how my dad feels when he sees an aftermarket part on a classic car?

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure we’re all crying these days

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• pleb_maximus@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And things were better for it.

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• cikano@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This post is giving me psychic damage

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stan’s used coffins from monkey island, because it’s an old reference for reference to old stuff so might as well but a slightly used coffin

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• muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m old enough to remember this

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    and

    ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL
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    • Incidion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My roflcopter goes SHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSH

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You misspelled “image macros.”

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah my first thought was that those aren’t memes, they are the “guidance” I guess. The words are the message, the background sets the tone. Bad luck Brian isn’t the meme, he’s what sets the stage that lets you know the tone for the hook.

    If someone says:

    “Toenail needs cutting Kick a brick wall”

    Youd be like okay that’s excessive … but you put chaos wolf behind it and your like, I shouldve expected that

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• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember when a meme was coined by Richard Dawkins before the Internet meme became the standard.

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I too am old friend. I also read The Selfish Gene before the world glommed onto it.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  good times

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• boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they still do on lemmy

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• ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3! My sweet child, I was 30 at the time.

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• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what was up with the multicolor haxagonal-ish backgrounds?

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  • Hapankaali@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was the style at the time.

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  • axo10tl@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the hallmark of the “Advice Animals” category of memes.

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  • butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just how they were. That’s like asking “why are they all screenshots underneath plain text on a white background?” re memes now.

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      well easy answer. cause its easy to make, and the white background ensure test readability that may be lost if overlayed on the meme itself.

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• lambipapp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rage comics, shit bricks-memes and socially awkward penguin. An then came nyancat

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• Arrkk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I stared at this for 5 minutes trying to figure out if it was loss or not.

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  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• cybercafe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The thing about this though, is that before the advice dog and the impact font era, memes had a lot more variety. To me, this was watered down normie shit.

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Life was good.

  Still is.

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now trying to turn this into a PCM

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