In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.
“I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup…those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more”
Remember goatse? Wasn’t that a cute rabbit?
Sending your friend’s email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
Was always quite fond of TubGirl, myself
So to this day, I don’t know, what was on her face? I’m not talking about the liquid diarrhoea, but like was it a slice of American cheese?
Same thing
I think it was just a weirdly square splash? I actually had to go look it up because I didn’t remember anything other than the golden arch.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
No, that was the 2001 election webpage. You’re thinking of tubgirl.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Blue Waffle.
My fav sfw
Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.
You mean people won’t even remember who all the base are belong to?
Or even who can have a cheeseburger
I only remember who can has cheeseburger.
Who can have one?
Fat kitty cat can haz chezburgr, but that cropped up a few years later, I believe.
Make your time.
I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
You forgot Tubgirl
No I didn’t… You never forget
Truth.
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R
Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff’s 1997 cover of Blue Swede’s cover of BJ Thomas’s “Hooked on a Feeling”
I do remember. 2003.
Close, 1998.
Technically, 1996.
Figuratively, 1987.
Theoretically 1832.
The episode aired in January 1998
Remember Mr T Ate My Balls? Remember Mahir “I Will Kiss You”?
Do you remember “Papa Smurf, Can I Lick Your Ass?” None of my friends do. It was either weeble’s stuff or ebaum’s world, I don’t even remember, it’s all like rustling leaves in my brain.
🐴 👀
🐴 🤩
👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.
✊️🐴
🛩
🐴
✊️🍆
Or something like that
👧🤮
🫵🤔
🚫🙈
📍🍋🏭
🍬🍋
👉🐴
🚶♂️➡️➡️👀🪐
(🌆🌇🌉)
☝️🤓 🪐>(🌆🌇🌉)
🤫👩 👉🐴You win, that was genuinely magical
I could hear this comment thread
🐴 🕶️ 🎹
🎼 Get on my horse…… 🎶
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
The original was better
And more accessible to photosensitive epileptics!
Legend.
What you say…?
Kilroy was here
Damn, an even more ancient meme
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…
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
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.
Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here’s awesome band Red Baraat covering it!
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 just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
Terrible‽ The fuck you on about?
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
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?
Yup
hunter2
Bash.org is still available - https://bash-org-archive.com/
/slap
Are you challenging me to a bass off?
That’s not a meme. That’s a chat room.
14/f/france
🎶 Can’t touch this
🛑🔨⌚
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.
Anything that showed up on Family Guy is a certified normie meme.
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.
Even further back, cave paintings of spirals and stenciled hands.
Memes don’t need to be digital
“the first memes” yeah right
The Hampster Dance meme happened 5 years before the Badger meme.
Whoever made that gif should be punished.
It’s Hampster, because it’s in honor of Hampton the Hampster.
Also, did you know where the Hampster dance is from, as music? I was today years old when I learned this.
Also fine, but I guess what I was trying to express is that memes have existed forever and any claim that this is the “first” one is just silly.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg
All your base are belong to us!
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Too too too doodledoo
🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
👤🤙🍕
👤🤙🐱
👤🤙⬜🏠, 💬🗨️
👤🤙🌎
👷🫱🇨🇳
🍌📞
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Hey guys… remember Newgrounds? Heh… Remember Spoony? Hehe…
How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven’t kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.
He was doing let’s plays last night saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.
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.
Oh that’s pretty smart of mom.
I’m getting nostalgic over thinking about the sound of the modem and the emotions that went with it.
If she knew a little more, she could be calling until crash the connection.
Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
a few years earlier
7 years earlier, to be precise.
Yeah, but back then the internet wasn’t as obiquitous as it is now, so something being online didn’t necessarily mean that you’d have seen it, whereas now if something is a hit you’ll see it in a matter of hours, really.
Like I probably did see the Hampster dance in the 90’s possibly, but like the computer in the library wasn’t one you could really use the speakers on, and I think it took until like 99-00 for dad to get a computer with an Internet connection. No it couldn’t have been that late I was looking up Zelda faqs when playing Ocarina of Time and that was a few years earlier, as N64 came out in 1996. OOT came out in 98 okay.
Same.
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!
It was a Flash animation originally. Many of his animations looped, but some of them had the issue that the sound and imagery weren’t exactly the same length, so would go out of sync as it repeated.
edit: Here’s the original hosted on the Internet Archive, running on the Ruffle emulator: https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
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2009? Definitely not the first meme.
The YouTube video is a repost. Pretty sure the original was Flash from the early 2000s.
Still definitely not the first meme.
I do miss albinoblacksheep and joecartoon as Flash apps.
And it altars that I’m the only one who can count all the way to shfifty-five.
Weebl released a video on youtube marking the 20th anniversery of badger badger badger a while ago, he released one for the 15th too and the 10th
I’ve seen Weebl videos. I’ve seen them with my eyes.
I’ve seen things. They’re often in disguise.
The ones in your face?
Your eyes are like two gelatinous orbs that see things!
Are you fond of Owls? Everyone is fond of Owls, except for mice, shrew and Simon Cowells
