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Successful black man where have you been?
Trump has been in office. He went into hiding.
Venezuela.
There are no successful black men, and we’ll prove it by making sure they leave the country.
I wasted untold hours on the old quickmeme site.
I missed this guy!
Memecenter dweller?
I wish I had saved some of the super niche memes from back in my days on the Penny-Arcade and usenet forums I frequented in the late 90’s up until about graduating high school. I suspect many of them would be confusing as shit even when they weren’t in-jokes centered around those specific communities just because they’re like ancient Egyptian to these more 18th century aged memes.
I remember when memes were just a picture of a duck with wheels or a gif of a dancing baby.
I remember when we sent memes via fax…
My ancestors inscribed memes on big-ass boulders.
Alright Gramma, let’s get you back to bed
You used to have to call the internet on the phone!
There was a time when all memes were demotivational posters.
Despair.com (apparently still around!) was my go-to back in the day for those
I CAN’T HANG IN THERE TIL FRIDAY
THAT’S OK, YOU’RE WORKING SATURDAY TOO
I miss those
It was a more civilized age back then…
We where supposed to build the future.
Got addicted to memes instead.
Sorry Gen Z
Wait, TikTok wasn’t supposed to be the whole future? /s
Ate too many Avocado Toasts for it and forgot to shake the job tree with all the jobs for us.
But those memes though
There was a time when all memes were le text
What the fuck did you just call me? *holds up spork*
I am le tired of that.
Well go take a nap, and then le text all the memes
I had to blow the dust off this one https://conanzeromus.ytmnd.com/
Jesus Christ, I can’t believe ytmnd is still around
Was obsessed back in the day.
There was a time before that too.
Yeah plain text based & image only memes
I put on my robe and wizard hat, that dancing baby gif, all your base, etc
There was also some push back on posting images with text embedded because it makes the text unsearchable/not compatible with screen readers at the time/forced font and color that can make it harder to read, but then the image macro sites took off that made it simple for anyone to create from a template and there was no turning back
there was also the motivational poster era, the “wut” year, whatever ytmnd was/is…
I’m surprised that All Your Base hasn’t made a comeback. I figured with the broken English, catchy phrase, and danceable tune it would surely trend again.
I dunno if it’s gonna take off (every zig)
It has no chance to survive
Make your time.
Speaking of ancient memes I showed this to my teen the other day and they didn’t even begin to understand.
Hmm, wired earbuds (RIP) and the phone with buttons dates it a bit, but captchas are still around (and infidelity). Although, I’m seeing less and less of the distorted text kind these days.
I haven’t seen a captcha like that in years and my teen didn’t even understand it as a captcha at all. If you’re still seeing those I’m definitely curious where.
Uhh, I’m thinking I’ve had to fill them out to read scientific papers at some point recently. Maybe other more web 1.0 type pages, although most of them are moving over to the Cloudflare JavaScript checkbox service.
A simple crop turns it into a modern meme
Where I go when I feel sick
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me getting married
Me watching your wedding
Ah yes, people used to break the internet, now we’re breaking real life.
All good with these coming back, but let’s keep the racist puffin in the past.
