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Badger, badger.... (lemmy.world)
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[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 61 points 1 week ago

In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.

"I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup....those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more"

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago

Remember goatse? Wasn't that a cute rabbit?

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Sending your friend's email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Was always quite fond of TubGirl, myself

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So to this day, I donโ€™t know, what was on her face? Iโ€™m not talking about the liquid diarrhoea, but like was it a slice of American cheese?

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

No, that was a shock site. Youโ€™re thinking of Lemon Party.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, that was the 2001 election webpage. You're thinking of tubgirl.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

No, that was a shock site. You're thinking of Blue Waffle.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago

You mean people won't even remember who all the base are belong to?

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[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers

Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff's 1997 cover of Blue Swede's cover of BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling"

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[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿด ๐Ÿ‘€

๐Ÿด ๐Ÿคฉ

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿ‘…๐Ÿด ... There is not a raisin emoji.

[-] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

โœŠ๏ธ๐Ÿด

๐Ÿ›ฉ

๐Ÿด

โœŠ๏ธ๐Ÿ†

Or something like that

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿคฎ

๐Ÿซต๐Ÿค”

๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ™ˆ

๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿญ

๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ‹

[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿด
๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธโ€โžก๏ธโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿช
(๐ŸŒ†๐ŸŒ‡๐ŸŒ‰)
โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿค“ ๐Ÿช>(๐ŸŒ†๐ŸŒ‡๐ŸŒ‰)
๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿ‘ฉ ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿด

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

๐ŸŽผ Get on my horseโ€ฆ.. ๐ŸŽถ

[-] Redredme@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

I don't get this. And I'm le tired.

I'll take a nap.

AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.

[-] jayemar@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago
[-] LoreSoong@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago

The first? Idk about that, im 27. And am well aware of memes prior to my existance. The oldest i can think of is the dancing baby meme.

https://youtu.be/eyR6O0eHz-o

Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance

https://youtu.be/6WpMlwVwydo

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 32 points 1 week ago

Dancing Baby was the first normie meme. Its popularity spread through TV and print.

All Your Base is more of an actual โ€œfirstโ€ internet meme.

[-] LoreSoong@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Damn totally forgot about "all your base are belong to us" what a trip. But i was going for viral normie memes since i mainly remember these memes taking popularity outside of the internet. People were singing the hamster song at parties when i was little so i think its influence as a meme was way more than even dancing baby. And then later 2003 or 4 the badger song. And after a while that duck song took off and my little sister wouldnt stop asking "got any grapes"?

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Memes are also not inherently digital. Going back to the definition set by Richard Dawkins (trans-hating bigot he is), a meme is anything that "conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." Perhaps that's a bit broad of a definition compared to what we conventionally think of as memes, but it's how we got to where we are.

People in ancient Egypt building pyramids and obelisks because someone before them built pyramids and obelisks is a meme. Cathedrals being built in much the same way throughout Renaissance Europe is a meme.

But those examples aside, there are still a few pre-internet examples that would still resonate more with the idea of memes as we know them today. Kilroy was Here is considered a meme and goes back to World War II. Or a bit before that, this "How you think you look" cartoon which I am not entirely sure was overly meme-like in its day but certainly feels relatable today.

But even slogans or popular sayings could be considered memes; if we consider internet terms/phrases like "pog" or "Are ya winning, son?" or (dating myself) "I can haz cheezburger?" to be memes, what about pre-internet sayings like "Luke, I am your father," "It's just a flesh wound," or "Where's the beef?" Or going way, way back, what about saying "Break a leg" before a performance, or "All the world's a stage," or even "Carpe diem"? I think one could make a case for just about any repeated and widely understood concept, really.

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[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

Weebl released a video on youtube marking the 20th anniversery of badger badger badger a while ago, he released one for the 15th too and the 10th

[-] androogee@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

I've seen Weebl videos. I've seen them with my eyes.

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[-] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

And this looks like old Tumblr, where by around the 12th reply the original post would be completely indented out of sight.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I've fallen and I can't get up!

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You went back too far man! Pull back! Pull baaaack!

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago

New grounds flash games

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

Dunno maybe this was localized but

Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.

It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D

It still freaking slaps. :D

It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary's silly dance and lip sync to the "numa numa" song was proliferating everywhere.

I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don't miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days...

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

EVERYONE LOVES

MAGICAL TREVOR

Edit: beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans yeah yeah

Edit2: hey guys did weebls stuff predict Lemmy memes?

[-] crayolaswift@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?

Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Snape, snape, severus snape- DUMBLEDORE

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[-] LoreSoong@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

Lets see how many oldies are here. No repeat users

DIE MONSTER!

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

All your base

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago

Itโ€™s an older meme sir, but it checks out

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[-] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I can hear this still

[-] drool@lemmy.catsp.it 7 points 1 week ago
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