• rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      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.

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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.

  • dumbass@piefed.socialEnglish
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    19 days ago

    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.

    • Kojichan@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Apparently I live in that dude’s hometown at the moment. Kind of a crowning achievement for me. Still feel bad for him, though.

  • Actionschnils@feddit.org
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    18 days ago

    Some Millienals complain about “brain rot content”, but likewise speaking of the badger as the “Meme of the year” tells enough

    • ICCrawler@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      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.

      • Kojichan@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        I had to explain Charlie the Unicorn to my SO, whose native language is French. That was very awkward.