Now they’re mostly Twitter screenshots ;_;
We need to go back.
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.
I remember when memes looked like this
Wasn’t this the o rly owl? The one that actually looks like it’s saying “oh, really?”I’m old enough to remember this
and
ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL _^___ L __/ [] \ LOL===__ \ L \________] I I --------/My roflcopter goes SHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSH
Ooga chaga ooga ooga
This way sir
-ɯ-(ꞋʊꞋ)-ɯ-
Is older than my grandparents.The orly owl has always been a personal favorite.
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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!
Haha get fucked old person…oh wait…
Fuck…
get fucked
easier said than done
Back when I visited icanhascheesburger
I cannot believe that site is still up
I was big on memebase back then
9gag
Same, untill it became a nazi cesspool. Then reddit, untill the API ban.
Haha, I had the exact same route and for the same reasons
Yeah 9gag had the dankest memes for a while
Icanhas and Failblog were hilarious back in the day. I think that CEO Ben whatshisname wrecked it by commercializing it.
15 years ago was 40 years ago, the time flies
15 years ago I was 40. Time sucks
See you in 15 friend
Way she goes
Yeah, I feel so old. 2011 is 15 years ago. What a simpler time
old people memes lol
!remindme 10 years “call this guy old”
As if I am not already an old fuck merely pointing out ownership by labeling these memes appropriately
no no no old people memes is ai slop posted by bots on facebook
Hey, mid thirties isn’t old.
Hey, 39 is still mid thirties!
It’s literally the end of thirties.
lalalala not listening
40 is just second 39!
Mid to late 30s
No, but it is middle aged
My dilated eyes must be tripping me out because I swear that cat is moving ever so slightly
All your base are belong to us
Mr T ate my balls! Also BRING BACK SNACKS
Hey, we all come from somewhere.
We all come from the past.
We are all time travellers ✨
Here I was thinking these examples were new age memes from the post Reddit era
Why is philosoraptor crying?
I have the same question. Is this how my dad feels when he sees an aftermarket part on a classic car?
Those aren’t tears, it’s a face tattoo. They were all the rage back then in the before times. Example A:
spoiler
Example B:
Pretty sure we’re all crying these days
Relive the old days on !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
The good’old days of r/adviceanimals…
I remember when a meme was coined by Richard Dawkins before the Internet meme became the standard.
I too am old friend. I also read The Selfish Gene before the world glommed onto it.
You misspelled “image macros.”
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
And things were better for it.
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.
Fuck I remember the motivational posters now lmao that’s a blast from the past
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.
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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