HAWKWARD!
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Mushroom... Mushroom....
Oh God...
Ohhhh its a snaaakeeee
Ohhhhh its a snake
Its a
Badger
Badger
Badger
... Still loving it and already showed it to my kids
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
My first memes were all in ascii art.
In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire
I still remember seeing those for the first time, right up there with hearing dr. sbaitso and the wav2pc speaker app.
Mine were PETSCII using C-64 graphical codes from shifted letters. I had an animated signature line on one BBS of the Enterprise that would redraw it, making it warp out to the side of the screen. It works well because of the slow baud rate. :D
Missing 2004: ‘All your base are belong to us’ sliding in right after this.
Missing 2004: ‘All your base are belong to us’ sliding in right after this.
Try 1999 or 2000! I forget when exactly, but it predated all of these.
These really go show how memes used to have a much longer shelf life than most memes today. I remember seeing references to these exact memes up until about 2011.
I remember seeing 3 of the 4 here in the past year.
O RLY?
i still reference the badger song any time i see a badger 😭 it was the first thing that popped into my head the moment i saw that badger game at the game awards
edit: wait sorry what i mean to say is rizzed up by 24 karat gold labubu with dubai chocolate we are charlie kirk nightcore version 😔
When we were in highschool, I convinced my mate to make a 10 minute loop of the badger badger badger song and to see how long he can play it at the school social before a teacher came to tell him to change it, we lasted about 7 minutes of it looping. The crowed loved it tho.
I still use the ORLY expression sometimes. Some people get it still.
Was dancing baby the OG though?
Flying toaster Screensaver came first, I think...
Some Millienals complain about "brain rot content", but likewise speaking of the badger as the "Meme of the year" tells enough
We did some nastys in the pastys.
Yes and no. We definitely had brain rot content. Charlie the Unicorn also comes to mind, or Fingertips. But it was nowhere near as widespread, popular, or in such vast quantities as today. The internet is more accessible than ever with the advent of smartphones in everyone's pockets and social media is ever-expanding no matter how much people complain about it. And meme culture exploded because of that.
I had to explain Charlie the Unicorn to my SO, whose native language is French. That was very awkward.
Banana Phone https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU
Star Wars Kid https://youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
Badgers https://youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
I don't know about orly :(
Thanks! I think I saw that image somewhere but thought it was from a video. I liked this one from the link:
Star wars kid!
...At least he got out early, but man that was tragic!
Apparently I live in that dude's hometown at the moment. Kind of a crowning achievement for me. Still feel bad for him, though.
Never liked that one. Internet bullying
We need to go back
WAAAZZZZUPPP?!
We bought it to help with your homework! And the household accounts...
Orly is ~~2001~~ 2003
O' Rly??
Quite rly
(I have no idea I just have to kthxbye)
*Ya rly!
Peanut butter jelly is 2002 from what I can gather