I can’t imagine It’s over 9000 ever dying.

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    5 days ago

    Not all of them, but there’s definitely a very large category of “forgotten” memes that if anybody from that era saved and saw pop back up on the screen, a lot of people would go “woah”

    Like one of my favorites is courage wolf. VERY few of those from the first or second waves have survived, most are from the later waves, where even the spinoff memes with the blue pinguin or the rainbow hat dog were old. I have a folder around here with some that I saved, but it’s sparse and some of the greatest, most actually inspiring ones were lost among the dumber, more sexist ones and remakes from memory.

    I’d argue that courage wolf was one of the most popular memes, and it’s weird to wonder what is still out there, yet to be remembered.

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        Ooo… chaos wolf was pretty good… I don’t have any of those, but looking back, I should have saved those too, because they were ridiculous.

        I wonder if there’s a better archive/repository of memes like this stuff out there somewhere…

        It’s kinda weird, looking back, at all the shit like this that we took for granted. We just sorta let it pass by without valuing it, and now most of it only exists in our memories. The age old wisdom says that’s as it should be, as the fleeting nature is what makes it special, and I definitely at least partially agree.

        But I still can’t help but doubt the should be part, and wonder if or when there will be an age of people that live in infinity, able to relive any past moment in neutral-link perfection, almost like that braindance tech in cyberpunk 2077, but less voyeuristic omnispace playback and more recording the exact thoughts, feelings, and focus, perfectly as they originally were.

        Uhhh, yeah. Courage wolf chaos wolf. I don’t have adhd, you have adhd.