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Remember the past (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 104 points 10 months ago

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

[-] mtpender@piefed.social 19 points 10 months ago

"No way, Man! We're gonna keep on rockin' forever!"

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago
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[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Ha

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This meme is so old Al Gore was still relevant as a politician and wasn't a meme himself quite yet.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

Move ZIG.

For great justice

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[-] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!

[-] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You thought that deer was alive? NOPE

[-] justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 months ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like memes

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago
[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago
[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago
[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Punch the keys, for God's sake!

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] janonymous@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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...

[-] Krono@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months 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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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

ALL YOUR BASE!

[-] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

This was the only one i dont recognize

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[-] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

No Advice Dog or Can I Haz Cheeseburgers?

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 9 points 10 months 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.

[-] RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

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

Absolutely wild times

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You buried the Mordor meme alive bro, get him out

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Cool story bro.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 10 months 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... 🤔

[-] Metostopholes@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"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.

[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago
[-] Prox@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Interesting tale, hermano.

[-] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No Grumpycat?

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

When memes were more a feeling

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago
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[-] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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