15 years ago was 40 years ago, the time flies
Look how far we’ve come
I remember when memes looked like this
This way sir
The orly owl has always been a personal favorite.
I’m old enough to remember this
and
ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL _^___ L __/ [] \ LOL===__ \ L \________] I I --------/My roflcopter goes SHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSHSHOOWSH
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…
they still do on lemmy
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.
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
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
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.
Relive the old days on !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
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.
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.
