Tell me…Have you seen the marvelous bread fish? Swimming in the ocean water?
Oh how I miss those times sometimes.
Take me back to candy mountain Charlie 🦄 😢
Fuck, you took my kidney.
Allow me to help: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
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!
2009? Definitely not the first meme.
The YouTube video is a repost. Pretty sure the original was Flash from the early 2000s.
I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
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.
Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
Same.
What’s-her-face!
the ugly one!
I am too old to remember this
Yeah, I came here to say that the first generation of memes is 10 years older than this new stuff from the 2000s
Now get off my lawn
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Dasus slaps foggy around a bit with a large trout.
I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
One of the first viral vids I saw was the Harry Potter Puppet sing-along: https://youtu.be/Tx1XIm6q4r4
Snape, snape, severus snape- DUMBLEDORE
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?
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
14/f/france
🎶 Can’t touch this
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That’s not a meme. That’s a chat room.
/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.
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.
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.
Weebls is still making stuff https://youtube.com/@weebl
I fucking love Mr Weebl. The Grandpa of the Internet!
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…
Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect…
Fun story: Someone said he was only popular because of the pretty girls in his videos, so he dropped this banger with only himself in it.
There’s been an HD version for a few years now
That’s beautiful. It’s looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D
Don’t check his Wikipedia page if you still want to enjoy that song.
After all these years I still don’t understand if what he did was amoral-- the “human trafficking” listed on the page was to smuggle people into the US, but that’s as much information as I can find. If he put those people into nefarious circumstances that’s one thing, but if he basically acted as a conduit to get people into the US who otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity it’s a different matter entirely.
I’d love some clarification on the issue.
From what I can find, he took money from some people to get them into Canada and the US illegally then did nothing, then he took 2 groups into the US as his tour dancers so they could enter the US illegally.
He’s no sex trafficker as far as I can see, but taking money from people trying to get out of their country then not doing it is a cunt act, even if they were gonna be going into the us illegally.
I think that’s cute they think those were the first memes.
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.
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.
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
You went back too far man! Pull back! Pull baaaack!
Kilroy!
Domo arigato.
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Or something like that
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I could hear this comment thread
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