I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too
I remember back when they were Vin Diesel jokes and then suddenly people were doing them with Chuck Norris instead. And I wondered why people were so into that guy on the Texas cop propaganda show.
Kids these days don't even know what memes are. For them webcomics and social media screenshots, even plain political ones without a shred of humor, are just memes. Everything is a meme now...
If we use the original definition of the word "meme", which is "a unit of cultural transmission" then yes literally everything is a meme.
It was coined to be analogous to the word "gene". One of the similarities is that the borders of genes and memes are fuzzy: when you split a gene in half, you get two genes. Both genes and memes are nested inside of themselves like a Russian doll.
The misdefinition of "meme" as "image macro on the internet" was ill informed, and is thankfully going out of style.
The term was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 in, "the Selfish Gene".
The main problem with that definition of the word is that it's really hard to use. It requires both the speaker and the listener to be comfortable with the fungibility of data and code.
Just yesterday I was at a cat cafe with two of my kids. My 9y/o is with me as we are petting a British “blue” shorthair and I tell it “you CAN haz cheesburger.” He laughs and is like “dad, what is that?” And I realize that that meme is practically ancient history for him. So I pull out the phone and show him the kernel of all he finds funny today.
Am I the only one who remembers when there was a failed effort to replace Chuck Norris with Vin Diesel? Like the same jokes, but with different actors.
Or maybe I really did step through a wormhole into another dimension... 🤔
Wanna feel that meme happen to you in real time? When Saving Private Ryan released on July 24 1998, Matt Damon (born October 8 1970) was 27 years, 9 months, 16 days old.
From the release of the movie to today (October 4 2025) is 27 years, 2 months, 10 days. We have almost reached the point that someone born the day the movie came out will be older than Matt Damon was when the movie premiered.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too
"No way, Man! We're gonna keep on rockin' forever!"
I was just never with it.
They only secure way to be with it is to not give a damn and do your own thing.
"The only winning move is not to play."
Had to read this a few times, it was a bit of a /c/aneurysmposting moment for me.
Blame Brent Forrester, he wrote the line in The Simpsons episode 😜
All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Ha
Whelp, time to rewatch!
"Original": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVOu9nKBck
This meme is so old Al Gore was still relevant as a politician and wasn't a meme himself quite yet.
Move ZIG.
For great justice
Do a barrel roll
Used to love the chuck Norris memes till i found out hes a MAGA dirtbag
Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!
You thought that deer was alive? NOPE
Yo dawg, I heard you like memes
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/71/76/b77176f7418b6a0d7af1473022296d87.gif
Remember when memes were “motivational posters” and were mainly kittens in fields
You're the man now, dog.
Punch the keys, for God's sake!
I did not come from Chuck Norris. I've been telling people he's a piece of shit for decades.
I remember back when they were Vin Diesel jokes and then suddenly people were doing them with Chuck Norris instead. And I wondered why people were so into that guy on the Texas cop propaganda show.
Kids these days don't even know what memes are. For them webcomics and social media screenshots, even plain political ones without a shred of humor, are just memes. Everything is a meme now...
If we use the original definition of the word "meme", which is "a unit of cultural transmission" then yes literally everything is a meme.
It was coined to be analogous to the word "gene". One of the similarities is that the borders of genes and memes are fuzzy: when you split a gene in half, you get two genes. Both genes and memes are nested inside of themselves like a Russian doll.
The misdefinition of "meme" as "image macro on the internet" was ill informed, and is thankfully going out of style.
The term was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 in, "the Selfish Gene".
The main problem with that definition of the word is that it's really hard to use. It requires both the speaker and the listener to be comfortable with the fungibility of data and code.
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A MEME!!!11!ONE
If those are the past, what I think of as classics must be fucking paleontology.
ALL YOUR BASE!
What about all the different Nic Cage faces we would use?
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.
This was the only one i dont recognize
No wonder I don't recognize it.
When you accidentally killed yourself in BF Bad Company 2 it said Epic Fail on your screen.
Absolutely wild times
No Advice Dog or Can I Haz Cheeseburgers?
Just yesterday I was at a cat cafe with two of my kids. My 9y/o is with me as we are petting a British “blue” shorthair and I tell it “you CAN haz cheesburger.” He laughs and is like “dad, what is that?” And I realize that that meme is practically ancient history for him. So I pull out the phone and show him the kernel of all he finds funny today.
You buried the Mordor meme alive bro, get him out
Cool story bro.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Grumpy cat an Nyan cat are missing. Pretty sure forrest gump was a meme at one point.
lolcats
"This headstone is so worn I can barely read it... 'Ate'... 'Ate My Balls'?"
Edit: For you youngsters, this was once the height of internet humour.
Am I the only one who remembers when there was a failed effort to replace Chuck Norris with Vin Diesel? Like the same jokes, but with different actors.
Or maybe I really did step through a wormhole into another dimension... 🤔
No Grumpycat?
No goatsie?
or tubgirl or... where is it... goddamn it... moves 10 files of memes from 2005
aaah, here we go: You could get a lot of traction posting that in /b/ back in the day.
I honestly think tubgirl was worse.... like way worse lol
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
When memes were more a feeling
Interesting tale, hermano.
I miss rage comics/memes
I distinctively remember when these were the new "cancer" memes like skibidi toilet is now :/
All your base are belong to us
Skibidi toilet reminds me of old Gmod TF2 videos.
They're made with the same software (Source film maker)
https://youtu.be/mfhBM_Yay6w
oh and
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of memes...
Once upon a time there was a website called "meat spin dot com"...
I hear if you stay for one more spin it takes you to goatse.
So where is the digital museum? There must be one right?
https://knowyourmeme.com/
They should implement a 'history' or way to see pages made in order chronologically to kind of build out a timeline
Troll face is timeless and still makes its rounds.
tom_hanks_aging_facemorph.jpg
Matt Damon aging actually. Tom Hanks died during the final battle scene.
Damn you're right.
Wanna feel that meme happen to you in real time? When Saving Private Ryan released on July 24 1998, Matt Damon (born October 8 1970) was 27 years, 9 months, 16 days old.
From the release of the movie to today (October 4 2025) is 27 years, 2 months, 10 days. We have almost reached the point that someone born the day the movie came out will be older than Matt Damon was when the movie premiered.
Time comes for us all.
You forgot shriek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qnFE1um_xo
Those old memes certainly had an IMPACT
After the rage comic fire, Wojack rises from the ashes.
epic is dead?