I remember when memes looked like this
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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...
3! My sweet child, I was 30 at the time.
good times
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.
Rage comics, shit bricks-memes and socially awkward penguin. An then came nyancat
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
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
Pretty sure we're all crying these days
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.
Back when I visited icanhascheesburger
Icanhas and Failblog were hilarious back in the day. I think that CEO Ben whatshisname wrecked it by commercializing it.
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
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Now they're mostly Twitter screenshots ;_;
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.
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.
We need to go back.
The good'old days of r/adviceanimals...
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