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[–] 104 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Used to love the chuck Norris memes till i found out hes a MAGA dirtbag

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Yo dawg, I heard you like memes

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    Remember when memes were “motivational posters” and were mainly kittens in fields

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I did not come from Chuck Norris. I've been telling people he's a piece of shit for decades.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If those are the past, what I think of as classics must be fucking paleontology.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    What about all the different Nic Cage faces we would use?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That is not dead which can eternal lie.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You buried the Mordor meme alive bro, get him out

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Cool story bro.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No Advice Dog or Can I Haz Cheeseburgers?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    When you accidentally killed yourself in BF Bad Company 2 it said Epic Fail on your screen.

    Absolutely wild times

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    "This headstone is so worn I can barely read it... 'Ate'... 'Ate My Balls'?"

    Edit: For you youngsters, this was once the height of internet humour.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Am I the only one who remembers when there was a failed effort to replace Chuck Norris with Vin Diesel? Like the same jokes, but with different actors.

    Or maybe I really did step through a wormhole into another dimension... 🤔

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Grumpy cat an Nyan cat are missing. Pretty sure forrest gump was a meme at one point.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    When memes were more a feeling

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Interesting tale, hermano.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    No Grumpycat?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I distinctively remember when these were the new "cancer" memes like skibidi toilet is now :/

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of memes...

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So where is the digital museum? There must be one right?

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