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
I’ve seen Weebl videos. I’ve seen them with my eyes.
Are you fond of Owls? Everyone is fond of Owls, except for mice, shrew and Simon Cowells
I’ve seen things. They’re often in disguise.
Oh how I miss those times sometimes.
Take me back to candy mountain Charlie 🦄 😢
Fuck, you took my kidney.
🐴 👀
🐴 🤩
👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.
✊️🐴
🛩
🐴
✊️🍆
Or something like that
👧🤮
🫵🤔
🚫🙈
📍🍋🏭
🍬🍋
👉🐴
🚶♂️➡️➡️👀🪐
(🌆🌇🌉)
☝️🤓 🪐>(🌆🌇🌉)
🤫👩 👉🐴I could hear this comment thread
You win, that was genuinely magical
🐴 🕶️ 🎹
🎼 Get on my horse…… 🎶
“¡¡Pero que hermosa Hueva!!”
So much jpeg
Removed by mod
Goatse? Or Meat Spin. Trying to figure out what gets you banhammered so fast.
(funny to think those were the types of things we’d spray paint in TF2)
the way things are going the “Nigger stole my bike” might even do a comeback
Nah.
Maybe on truth social?
What’s-her-face!
the ugly one!
I can hear this still
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
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Do you have stairs in your house?
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 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.
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?
/slap
Are you challenging me to a bass off?
That’s not a meme. That’s a chat room.
14/f/france
🎶 Can’t touch this
🛑🔨⌚
19/F/Hawaii any hot guys here?
I should download an IRC client. Is mIRC still around?
hunter2
Bash.org is still available - https://bash-org-archive.com/
Yup
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 don’t need to be digital
I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
Same.
Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.
Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for “nerds”.
I remember when nornies didn’t even know how to.
And now we’ve gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.
Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.
My mom used to call the house from work at a random time between when my brother and I got home from school and when she left work. If she got a busy signal, she would wait about 15 minutes to half an hour and call back. If she got a busy signal a second time she would assume one of us was on the Internet and we would get in trouble when she got home.
If she knew a little more, she could be calling until crash the connection.
Oh that’s pretty smart of mom.
I’m getting nostalgic over thinking about the sound of the modem and the emotions that went with it.
a few years earlier
7 years earlier, to be precise.
Yeah, but back then the internet wasn’t as obiquitous as it is now, so something being online didn’t necessarily mean that you’d have seen it, whereas now if something is a hit you’ll see it in a matter of hours, really.
Like I probably did see the Hampster dance in the 90’s possibly, but like the computer in the library wasn’t one you could really use the speakers on, and I think it took until like 99-00 for dad to get a computer with an Internet connection. No it couldn’t have been that late I was looking up Zelda faqs when playing Ocarina of Time and that was a few years earlier, as N64 came out in 1996. OOT came out in 98 okay.
That’s true enough, I guess we were formed & forged out of necessity. If you wanted to surf web well, you had to figure all kinds of shit out. If you wanted to pirate, same deal. Watch porn? Better delete that web history, but also make it look believable.
It was baked into our brains at a young, impressionable age. And we absorbed it all.
Now these kids don’t seem to know how to do shit. Frustrating. They should be tech savvy.
I know parents who don’t own PCs. Just phones. A bunch of working class kids are without access to a PC. Of course they’re going to be worse at it than we were. How are they supposed to learn?
It’s not like we did it because we wanted to show off our useful skills on the job market, lol.
I was chronically online back then! Haha I mean, not chronically necessarily, but I got super into el interneto around 1995 and then waxing and waning every now and again. 2002 I was a journalist…yep chronically online for sure!
Anyway, thanks for linking that. I realized that I just completely forgot about anything other than the “badger badger badger” line. It’s been so long and I’m old. :)
Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the word f*ggot was used constantly.
Like, constantly.
Hardly unique to there though. It was a dark time.
Eddie Murphy’s one earlier standup special (Raw?) drops it a bunch. I meannn even in the later oughts the one big joke in The Hangover was “paging Dr. Faggot!!!” Straight up trailer material to boot, if I’m not mistaken. More like 80s-early 2000s. Most people learned over time to change for the better socially, for a bit at least.
