What's the OLDEST surviving meme that YOU still use today, regardless of format, either with or without an image?
I can't imagine It's over 9000 ever dying.
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You have no chance to survive make your time.
I had the pleasure of dropping this in a work context not that long ago:
Relevant in this topic
Nice xD
It pops up in programmer humor from time to time, but with the original wording xD
AoE and AoE2 still having an active player base and community makes me so happy. AoE2 is truly a timeless game
Whenever I want to sum up what capitalism is all about.
I think NT era?
Btw, what was this show again?
This is still my favorite meme.
Sooo this exact sequence was totes on my MySpace page at some point. Heh heh...heh...
👉👈
The nostalgia. I used put these up on the class boards... before the term meme was even a thing
Holy CRAP this one brought me back. :D
I am not coming at you or anybody who appreciated this one. But my God did I hate it with the fire of 10^18 suns
orly?
Each sun is the equivalent of one VY Canis Majoris
No wai!
Of course lol
i still reply 14/f/cali anytime asks me my age.
and thats from like..the early/mid 90s. before memes as we knew it were a thing.
Whenever I'm somewhere I haven't been
Does
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nlcount?I still use this on occasion when my wife's cooking or
ishas a snack I want.I'm surprised not to see ceiling cat here so..
Honestly surprised how long it took for someone to drop that, lol. Thanks.
Also literally my cat at times -_-
I always loved this one too
I'm gonna use this when my partner is a snack I want.
I still use icanhazip.com to find my wan ip.
Omg I forgot about this one! I love it!
ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY
These fine owls are still living rent free in my head.
But the worst are probably Goatse, 2girls1cup, 1guy1jar, all the nazi ascii stuff. Modern day memers have it easy.
Ooh, I need to bring that one back into my rotation. I loved that one.
I'm just commenting here because every single popular post I commented on this community was magically deleted several days later and I'm too lazy to go parse the modlog to see if its mods being dumb or people deleting their own posts for no reason.
EDIT:
Risitas will always be funny
Leeeerooooy jenkins!
Regularly?
Recently I went "woop woop woop woop woop" and a friend thought it was 3 stooges, so I replied "Why not zoidberg??"
Infrequently
I don't really use the picture, but I'm particularly fond of "I'll make my own [thing], with blackjack and hookers!"
Damn. While I absolutely LOVE Futurama, I never saw or used this meme growing up.
Play him off keyboard cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7CVqbtW0A&t=26
This is the one that comes to mind. I love the work of Allie Brosh, it was cool to see one of her drawing becoming a meme.
And the "A Lot" monster too:
Badger Badger Badger
I love how the optics have changed over the years...
I still remember when it was a big deal that Gangnam Style broke 1 billion views
Yeah me too xD And incidentally this reminded me of how people hated me for liking the version that features Hyuna more :(
You know what I remember about this? I remember that if you let it play long enough, the audio and video went out of sync.
No way! Like, the original on Newgrounds?
Whatever Weebl’s own site was called. That’s where I usually went because I liked his other stuff too.
sucks that newgrounds get the credit even on the knowyourmeme page. Yeah weebl uploaded it there too, but I hate that people think "newgrounds" before they think the actual creator who ran their own site that wasn't entirely made of other people's stuff
https://weebls-stuff.com/ - it's still up and he still posts there!
Also checkout the band Savlonic. Their music is similar to the music from the site but a little less silly. Still sort of silly. I love their cover of Fashion is Danger.
I listened to the first few songs back on weebls-stuff, didn't realise they kept releasing more stuff!
Hes the one who did bag full of crabs isn't he? Man that still gets stuck in my head in occasion.
Damn it! Now the song is in my head just from reading "Badger Badger Badger"
It's okay, I can help you with that. All you gotta do is...
Look at my horse...
...my horse is AMAZING
Good night ;)))))
Rest in piece, flash.
Yeah :'(
The OG memes don't even need text.
Aight. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
It's got to be the helicopter dog.
Ea-Nassir. For some weird reason, it seems to come up in conversations about fanart.
For the win…
I see your Venus figurine and raise you the thinkers of Hamangia
Well played! Cheers! I’ve got a Wikipedia page to read! Thank you.
good luck. see ya next week.
Why did they reverse the one with a leg out in the picture? Whyyyyyy?
Is this a Japanese doguu? What's the meme? xD
That is the Venus of Willendorf that is ~30,000 years old and many other figurines like it have been found throughout Europe and Eurasia. The earliest know example is the Venus of Hohle Fels from ~41,000 years ago.
That is amazing!
I use this with my wife and kids all the time. They don't even get the reference.
I cast magic missile at the darkness.
Forsooth! This tapestry hath been altered. My knowledge doth derive from the stitching, as well as having observ'd many such forgeries in mine time.
The Bayeux Tapestry is probably one of the oldest memes (or at least the base for a set of memes) still in use in the digital age. So many earlier others based on wordplay or written text in general are probably incomprehensible now except to specific Tolkienesque ancient language nerds, since modern languages have mutated so much since medieval times, and are therefore lost.
Second place may belong to the Cool S.
All your base are belong to us
Care to demonstrate how you use that TODAY? 🤣
If there is a relevant situation of someone getting the drop on me or the lads, I'll say, "SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB"
I work in IT and constantly use "We Get Signal" and "Main Screen Turn On" while troubleshooting tvs and monitors.
Lololol
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
I use this in Helldivers every so often.
I am so going to start saying that xD NOICE
I use "conglaturation" and "a winner is you!!" If we're doing bad video game translations
Or from that bad Big Rigs racing game: "You're Winner!"
I can't for the life of me which game "a winner is you" is from. Is it a fighting game?
"conglaturation" has now replaced the other one, so, thanks :)))
“Alright guys, I’m capturing the objective from the enemy!” Enters monotone robotic voice: “All your base are belong to us.”
Ah, well, goes to show: I never really learned to like multiplayer games :(
I smile every time I see this one. GOD THE NOSTALGIA.
How is babby formed. And pregnate, and all the other weird ass yahoo answer screen caps there were. It was wild
Usually gaming online or when I think about how psychopathic and hateful our current government.
Explain my trophy then:
😤
Pffftt nice 2000s Photoshop text effects. My magic is ancient, it predates [H]
gonna post this to my geocities. brb
Pre memes we had movies like Billy Madison and Tommy Boy. Those quotes are permanently part of my vocabulary. "Stop look at me swan", Housekeeping. You want mint for pillow?".
The oldest actual meme/Internet thing I regularly reference is "here is the earth, round" or "the cheat is grounded "
this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQhfoRwSGU
My client shows the link preview. I saw it coming a mile away.
So your client never let you down?
It has its bugs, but im never gonna give it up.
Well this kind of gave it away, but I'll clink the link anyw...
I can't be the only one who unironically likes this song.
His voice is fantastic. He did a cover of Everlong by the Foo Fighters a while ago which is definitely worth a listen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oeWHngDS4
Reaalllyyy....is that so?
...w...wait...YES. It's true. I expected to get 'rolld!
It's a great song, I love it honestly.
And so do I!
I have it on vinyl.
The single sold millions of copies and is still fairly popular even outside the use in memes. You are not the only one.
Never gave that one up, did you?
I’m no stranger to this meme.
Why isn’t it XcQ?
To trap the lazy
I think I first saw this on 4Chan circa like 2005? It lives rent free in my head.
The missile knows where it is, at all times. It knows this, because it knows where it isn't.
eight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.
aka 8008135
I don't remember this one xD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
I must out myself: I don't know what this is from. :'(
It was ubiquitous post-WW2. Robert Heinlein used 'Kilroy Was Here' as the name of the first space ship to reach Mars, and Isaac Asimov did a short story where it was a message from a time traveler who'd been told to make sure he didn't do anything to change the timeline.
You use that one?
"Bye Felicia 🙄" Friday (1995)
All your base?
My kid definitely uses it.
Actually the oldest I know of might be "23 skidoo" or maybe the word "O.K.", but not sure if those qualify as memes. Although if "6 7" qualifies, then they do too.
Ceiling cat, trogdor, “drop a train on them”
"Firmly grasp it."
"Pregananant."
I still use 1337 5P34K in certain games
Lol we used it as teens in case your parents were looking over your shoulder. Takes a bit longer to register and you can just close that AIM chat real quick lol.
I knew I was about to receive something spicy or awful when it was preceded by "PoS?"
::: spoiler Meaning: "Person over shoulder?" Also as a statement :"PoS" like "Person over shoulder. Don't send me bewbs or something." :::
Haha yeah
It's still my go-to username! (Usually 5t00)
Where/what is it from? :D
Back in the days of ASCII art, before the days of emojis, people would pretend to be elite hackers by changing numbers and symbols for letters.
Come onnn xD ngl, I used to use 1337 all the time for usernames, passwords, whathaveyou xD
Stylized S.
I lost.
Yup, I lost the game too
Damn you
One thing I think is hilarious is I learned you say "you just lost the game" to people, but then circles of friends evolved and it came back like a decade later with a new group that would say "I just lost the game" and to be honest, I hated it that way... lol
That's... to little for me to connect xD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
Dammit...
I have lost the game.
I think I was up to a few months too!
Pretty sure it's this one.
Edit: no, damn, how could I forget:
To my great shame, I know none of them xD
The first one originates from this.
The second is from a French movie, but I have no idea if people find it funny in other languages than German.
I think it sounds rather funny in French, too, but they really slaughtered it in the English version.
Sheeeeet I laughed at Rebecca now xD
But I know German, as a second language, and I still don't get it D: does have to do something with the ending of "doch" and "oh" sounding somewhat similar?
Nah, it's more the way they say it. The guy on the left tells some news, the other guy won't believe him ("Nein!"), the first guy reaffirms ("Doch!"), and then the other is just at a loss for words and appalled ("Oooooh!").
The delivery is very memorable. We usually cite it sarcastically when the news is something people already knew or assumed or that was obvious but is presented as uncertain or totally new (e.g. clues that certain corrupt politicans are indeed corrupt).
So the headline might read "Has Trump been lying when he claimed xyz?" and we'll go "Nein!" "Doch!" "Ohhhh!"
XD
"Doch" and "Tja", the most German words of all.
Ahahaha! Nice! Thanks for explaining! 😁
I cannot really remember what is the oldest, but a lot of old Team Fortress 2 gm videos, live rent free in my head, and I quote them (especially just the weird noises) all the time. And I still follow the creators, that make new ones. It has evolved into a full genre over the years.
//Edit
I went and dug through my playlists. This is "only" 10 years old, but I think it summarizes well, both the absurdity of them, and how far from the actual game, the genre is.
That'll do (pig), that'll do (for now)
I use ASCII instead of memes most times ^.^
I did code up a drawing gag thing that draws in the terminal using braille dots. It's not ASCII, but feels close enough to share.
Shut up. Any "portfolio" you'd care to share? 😍 Are you as good as the "hacker" from densha otoko? 🤣
Honestly, just easier to search them online. If I had a library it would be on my PC, but most of my social media and texting (obviously) is on the phone.
The rofl copter is a classic though.
Using the image as I don’t want to try and properly clear the coding or superscript whatever it’s called.
SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI
LOLLER skates were great too
lollercoasters.
I don't think I ever used that one
A classic lol
𓀥 | 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 | 𓀣 𓁀
Am I cursed?
Only if you are trying to have kids.
Ouf
The 3D Dancing baby
Pepperidge Farms remembers Allie mcbeal
Meme bedrock, before memes were named.
No that would be that one image from a collegue news paper of 1891 or smth around that year
Link? 😃
No further questions. :)))))
Was hoping for an adult Link
https://prawnhub.com/
Many people never felt the awe…
Can you hear it?
Ugachaka!
Ugaugauga
My mother bought the screensaver. Grew up with that damn baby and flying toasters.
Anytime there’s a ridiculous argument come out with the “Now Kith”
I prefer, “Now ladies, you’re both pretty.” when it’s two guys.
LOL xD
It's over 8000!
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!
Mr T Ate My Balls, a member of the Ate My Balls Webring
kids today don't know what a webring even is
Honestly, a lot of the old memes stick around. They were actual memes that had a lifespan. Today's memes are here and gone in a week or two.
Any cultural analysis or thoughts on why that is?
survivorship bias. We don't remember the fleeting memes from 20 years ago.
Bias plus volume. Memes used to be hand-crafted. That takes time.
Now, there's a dozen websites to auto-generate them by the thousands. Plus AI.
I feel like part of it is also how optimized recommendation algorithms are nowadays. But I have no real data.
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.
There is so much that I would have saved if I had known what the world and the internet was going to become...
I could never choose courage over chaos.
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.
Even some that lasted quite a while, like rage faces, are no longer around, though wojack superceded them
Man, I miss rage comics. They had actual personality and were all unique. You couldn't confuse Darp Harp with Me Gusta, or FFUUUUUU with the NO. face.
Wojaks are just ugly and don't have the same uniquety or personality. It's just a bald guy.
the site/social structure. partly it's that there's so much more content now, but also everyone would see the same posts on the frontpages of /b/ or sa or ytmnd or r/all and they'd often stick around for a day or more with further edits in response. on an algorithmically driven platform, there aren't any posts that everyone who logs in on a given day will see. the more diluted their exposure, the less they're able to spread and maintain a second life outside of their primary point of exposure.
I definitely agree on the dilution of exposure!
Social media is a lot more popular, more memes made and attention spans are a lot lower with the algorithm cancer.
Well said! There is only one algorithm that should be allowed: the march algorithm. I wish the dickheads @NHK hadn't claimed the video... :(
Pop culture references, lack of social application, lack of brainworms weirdness. Also, possibly meme oversaturation and meme culture fragmentation making a meme not universally known to all at the time of its popularity, people live in little isolated social bubbles.
https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
Boom Headshot
thatsthejoke.jpg
Whenever someone turns to look behind them, I turn them into a pillar of salt.
It's just this fun thing I do.
:-)I remember a time before emoticons and we'd say stuff like
*g*for grin. But I don't use those anymore. And I never adopted emojis. So that narrows down when my brain calcified.In Germany there is/was a meme that even predates the popular use of Internet or at least it already existed in the mid 90s. It's called Bielefeld conspiracy and it's simply about doubting or negating the existence of the german city.
I just found out there even is an english wikipedia entry about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy
Do you know anyone who's been to Bielefeld?
Echt geil xD
Why would they do this if the city really does exist? Sounds like another attempt from them to uphold the conspiracy. They even put this stone in the "city" so nobody will be able to see it anyways.
Funny, I hold a similar conspiracy about Montana
5/7
Perfect score
Your comment suggests your family has a background rich in biodiversity
How about with rice?
All your base are belong to us.
Whenever someone says "badger" I'm likely to say "mushroom mushroom"
And in what exact circumstance would ANYBODY say "badger"? xD
Well I'm an ecogist who surveys badgers...
Awww shit. I deeply apologize if I have offended you 🤣🦝
Haha, I'm hoping for some mushrooms so I can offer snakes (I survey snakes too, I'm all over this meme!)
I think I remember this but also... I don't? xD
-Be Deepa Dowpa
Do Want
kilroy
Kilroy was here
All your bases are belong to us
There was just... no way for me to avoid that:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUXbmV2ZXIgZ29ubmEgZ2l2ZSB5b3UgdXCgBwHSBwkJ_gsBhyohjO8%3D
milhouse is not a meme
but milhouse is not a meme is a meme
Is quoting Bill Wurtz a meme? I use the term 'weather update' for any time of update
The sun is a deadly laser
open the country
stop having it be closed
Holy crap. I didn't know how much I missed this video until you reminded me of his name.
I have to watch this in its entirety every time it's linked.
SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB
WE GET SIGNAL
SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB
You have no chance to survive, make your time.
Verbal memes count? I still say "I am Audi 5000" or "Peace in the Middle East ✌️" when I am leaving. The latter being pretty sad that it is still relevant today from the day I stated using it.
this one is like pre-livejournal.
Fuuuuck I laughed. On the bus xD
OK
It's literally an insider joke meme from the 1800's.
Understandable, have a nice day.
Oh shiet xD That's gonna stick with me. But fairly new though. :)
I could not find a cave art meme, so I will go with this one.
Regional to Uruguay and Argentina but old as fuck.
He says "If you don't have faith in me..." context goes a long way
I love that the fediverse has gifs and images.
https://youtu.be/KDRAhiBtOrQ
I quote old episodes of SpongeBob at least 3 times a day
the oldest for me is the lotr one about the gif: "the meme can not be destroyed by any power we have here". i still got this via cd, because Internet wasn't so much of a thing yet.
OK.
(Oll Korrekt)
If you want to go oldschool you gotta specify whether you’re speaking of memes or image macros. Also the best meme is that Millhouse is not a meme.
That's what I tried to do by writing "regardless of format". Also, that was insanely funny and interesting to read about: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/8476-milhouse-is-not-a-meme
Demotivational
Maybe she's just Canadian.
God we're old. One day this will be the meme someone's late grandpa once showed him.
"makin copies"
So, all I could find was some... Office stuff? xD
same as last time this was asked:
nihil nova sub sole
Sweet.
I unironically still say yolo all the time
The oldest meme I still quote is aggressively Brazilian (the link is a reupload, this is from like 2001)
The oldest international meme that still gets some space in my memory is probably either Over 9000 or This is Sparta.
I can NOT get this song out of my head now. The Brazillian one, that is. :D Is it a dub over a Japanese original or something?
It's a song from an old Japanese Tokusatsu called Jaspion (Brazilian Gen Xers LOVED their Tokusatsu, before the americanised Power Rangers arrived in our shores) that got misheard lyrics type "subtitles" in the early aughts.
Started a whole trend, even. See also
duckjob.wav
I both laughed so loudly that my bathroom vibrated and felt uneasy at the same time. Thanks xD
https://youtu.be/psMMKgvpGfg
Something has to trigger my memory, but there are things in my head that are easily pre-Internet. There might even be a couple that are from before my own existence passed down from my parents.
The question is then whether I let them escape my head and I'm not sure where the dividing line on "still use" is.
For example, and I don't know why this one in particular, "Nice one, Cyril" is older than I am, and exists in my head, but I don't post it anywhere online either in earnest or sarcastically because no-one would understand it. But my head uses it occasionally.
The cool 90s S is the one that comes to mind.
I love this. :D Keep these pre-birth ones coming, because they have a lot to teach us!!!
I don't use any memes.
(fnord)
Woaw... looking this one up took me PLACES...
XD