No goatsie?
or tubgirl or… where is it… goddamn it… moves 10 files of memes from 2005
aaah, here we go: You could get a lot of traction posting that in /b/ back in the day.
I honestly think tubgirl was worse… like way worse lol
No Grumpycat?
Kids these days don’t even know what memes are. For them webcomics and social media screenshots, even plain political ones without a shred of humor, are just memes. Everything is a meme now…
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A MEME!!!11!ONE
If we use the original definition of the word “meme”, which is “a unit of cultural transmission” then yes literally everything is a meme.
It was coined to be analogous to the word “gene”. One of the similarities is that the borders of genes and memes are fuzzy: when you split a gene in half, you get two genes. Both genes and memes are nested inside of themselves like a Russian doll.
The misdefinition of “meme” as “image macro on the internet” was ill informed, and is thankfully going out of style.
The term was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 in, “the Selfish Gene”.
The main problem with that definition of the word is that it’s really hard to use. It requires both the speaker and the listener to be comfortable with the fungibility of data and code.
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of memes…
Once upon a time there was a website called “meat spin dot com”…
I hear if you stay for one more spin it takes you to goatse.
What about all the different Nic Cage faces we would use?
No Advice Dog or Can I Haz Cheeseburgers?
Just yesterday I was at a cat cafe with two of my kids. My 9y/o is with me as we are petting a British “blue” shorthair and I tell it “you CAN haz cheesburger.” He laughs and is like “dad, what is that?” And I realize that that meme is practically ancient history for him. So I pull out the phone and show him the kernel of all he finds funny today.
epic is dead?
After the rage comic fire, Wojack rises from the ashes.
Used to love the chuck Norris memes till i found out hes a MAGA dirtbag
Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!
You thought that deer was alive? NOPE
So where is the digital museum? There must be one right?
They should implement a ‘history’ or way to see pages made in order chronologically to kind of build out a timeline
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
You forgot shriek
I did not come from Chuck Norris. I’ve been telling people he’s a piece of shit for decades.
I remember back when they were Vin Diesel jokes and then suddenly people were doing them with Chuck Norris instead. And I wondered why people were so into that guy on the Texas cop propaganda show.
You buried the Mordor meme alive bro, get him out
