Tell me…Have you seen the marvelous bread fish? Swimming in the ocean water?
Good God, this takes me back to middle school when we were obsessed with this song/chant/animation (what even was it?)
!badgers? anyone?
And this looks like old Tumblr, where by around the 12th reply the original post would be completely indented out of sight.
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”
You forgot Tubgirl
No I didn’t… You never forget
Truth.
Remember goatse? Wasn’t that a cute rabbit?
My fav sfw
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Blue Waffle.
No, that was the 2001 election webpage. Your thinking of tubgirl.
Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.
Sending your friend’s email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
Was always quite fond of TubGirl, myself
So to this day, I don’t know, what was on her face? I’m not talking about the liquid diarrhoea, but like was it a slice of American cheese?
I think it was just a weirdly square splash? I actually had to go look it up because I didn’t remember anything other than the golden arch.
Same thing
I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
You mean people won’t even remember who all the base are belong to?
Or even who can have a cheeseburger
I only remember who can has cheeseburger.
Who can have one?
Fat kitty cat can haz chezburgr, but that cropped up a few years later, I believe.
I think that’s cute they think those were the first memes.
I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.
And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.
I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.
And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.
Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!
Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.
And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.
That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.
That badger animation is from 2003. “First memes,” my ass!
First ERA of memes is implied.
2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.
But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.
Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.
Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!
Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”
this is the most Eternal September thing I’ve ever heard
Allow me to help: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
2009? Definitely not the first meme.
The YouTube video is a repost. Pretty sure the original was Flash from the early 2000s.
Thanks. I was OOL simply cause I wasn’t a huge YouTube kid but I saw the badgers and could only think Honey Badger don’t give a shit.
Another classic!
It was a Flash animation originally. Many of his animations looped, but some of them had the issue that the sound and imagery weren’t exactly the same length, so would go out of sync as it repeated.
edit: Here’s the original hosted on the Internet Archive, running on the Ruffle emulator: https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
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.
Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance
Memes don’t need to be digital
Dancing Baby was the first normie meme. Its popularity spread through TV and print.
All Your Base is more of an actual “first” internet meme.
A/S/L?
14/f/france
🎶 Can’t touch this
🛑🔨⌚
That’s not a meme. That’s a chat room.
19/F/Hawaii any hot guys here?
I should download an IRC client. Is mIRC still around?
Yup
hunter2
Bash.org is still available - https://bash-org-archive.com/
/slap
Are you challenging me to a bass off?
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”?
You normie. You forgot the 2002 classic, Peanut butter Jelly time.
damn… you got me. Heres my degen card.
You can have it back, but im putting a hole punch in it first.
And with 10 holes you get a free sub.
Anything that showed up on Family Guy is a certified normie meme.
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.
Knights fighting snails goes back even further.
Even further back, cave paintings of spirals and stenciled hands.
Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
I do remember. 2003.
Close, 1998.
Technically, 1996.
Figuratively, 1987.
Theoretically 1832.
Remember Mr T Ate My Balls? Remember Mahir “I Will Kiss You”?
Do you remember “Papa Smurf, Can I Lick Your Ass?” None of my friends do. It was either weeble’s stuff or ebaum’s world, I don’t even remember, it’s all like rustling leaves in my brain.
Lets see how many oldies are here. No repeat users
DIE MONSTER!
Myah hee Myah haaa!
Carl and Phil are MONKEY NINJAS!!
YOU DON’T BELONG IN THIS WORLD
It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.
Tribute? You steal men’s souls, and make them your slaves!
Perhaps the same could be said of all religions…
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out
We’re talking about Dr. Snuggles right?
I’m remembering an old wow machima “the internet is for porn”
What is a mane.
All your base
Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.
I just want to say all you degenerates.In this thread are my people. Thank you!
Remember the time you defended deportation for autism awareness tattoos?
No because I didn’t do that, you’re still a moron and a stalker that is worthy of reporting.
Report away friend, just make sure you don’t have any visible tattoos because that might cause problems.
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?
New grounds flash games
I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
Snape, snape, severus snape- DUMBLEDORE
One of the first viral vids I saw was the Harry Potter Puppet sing-along: https://youtu.be/Tx1XIm6q4r4
