I remember a YouTube channel with some folks drop testing a bunch of phones using a drone - and some Motorola smartphone with a polymer display (IIRC) survived a much bigger drop than the 3310 did.
I think the 3310 got its reputation because it was ubiquitous and at the same time somewhat tough - but it's nowhere near as tough as say some Ericssons before it or some Siemens models after. Maybe this is also backed by the fact that phones got progressively more brittle after that.
Naturally people reach for the low hanging fruit to make a joke.
I heard it was in part a push from the pork industry. They were struggling to get grocery shoppers to keep buying bacon during the anti-fat fads of the 90s, so they spent millions lobbying fast food places and restaurants to make bacon a premium add-on 'bacon makes it better'; then the fast food marketing machine slowly brainwashed a generation into bacon obsession.
I think it was an overblown reaction about masculinity and being against vegetarianism and whatnot. Obviously it became less explicitly about that, but i do think it stems from those feelings originally.
This is the OG "haha yes" meme, predating the sickos one by... like... 1-2 years according to knowyourmeme (going not by time of creation but their widespread usage as memes)
I feel like most of them were already there to begin with. I'm not sure about his case but when you dig down into it so many of them claim that they've been hiding all their lives.
You know to escape the woke mob that doesn't like their racism or whatever.
It’s fascinating really. He went directly from a wanna-be to a has-been, directly bypassing the state of “being”. Scientific studies have been conducted on the phenomenon, but it is still a mystery as to how this happened.
I don't know what 'headline' or 'Coachella' means so that's a yes. Unless headline as in newspaper and Coachella as in a line of sex toys... which wouldn't change the answer to the question.
I agree, look at the sexual harassment alone. It's pretty sickening how full grown ass adults were treating him like some sexual object. He was what 14 or 15? So gross
He's the dude version of Brittney male sexual abuse just looks a little different and isn't recognized as readily or taken as seriously, which is saying something because abusing young female pop stars is super common and happens constantly and is also not taken super seriously.
As a web dev, I feel awkward reminiscing about the thin period of web history when IE was a solidly built, standards-compliant browser.
It was like the IE team saw their history was causing them to lose all market share, and committed to fixing misdeeds since they held an underdog position. But for most, it was too little too late.
For several years, I tested in IE, not Chrome, because it was most strictly standards-compliant, and I could be sure that if it worked there, it would work in other browsers. (Now, if you use Edge, it’s just a repaint of Chrome)
I didn't start dev until after the chrome hegemony but I assume ie was only compliant because MS was the one writing the standards. Much like how chrome is essentially the defacto standard now.
At this point in time, Chrome was jumping bounds ahead of the others with standards, and most websites were specifically written for webkit, even beginning to disregard Firefox. Worse, Chrome was often going back and forth on how a certain new standard should implement, leading to, for instance, CSS files declaring 7 or 8 different ways of doing a linear-gradient.
Your sentiment on Microsoft isn't unique, which is part of why the web consortium wasn't actually keen on listening to them most of the time. Them having monetary/OS influence didn't actually lead to a lot on the W3C - they went ahead of them for most ActiveX work.
It was really hard to use ie at the time. I worked at lockheed making a javascript repair sim, and it took 3 minutes to load in IE vs 10 secobds in chrome
To you. And to me. Not to my parents, and I doubt many others.
It's kind of wild how inevitable the cycle seems to be of every generation thinking, so confidently, that they have the unique recipe to all the best things and that all other generations had/have everything wrong.
Skibidi Toilet isn't really a comedy tho. It's just giant mech fights and apparently the creator of it, some racist Georgian🇬🇪 zoomer lost all the rights to it after being fucked over by some company he signed a contract with.
Yeah, wild lore both in the show itself and in the background. Got into it because my niece fucking loves it and just... no shit, it is a wild time.
Yeah. It goes from funny toilet head man thing into this weird war between the toilets and camera head people and soon just turns into giant ass mech fights. My niece herself said she thinks the series is an allegory for arms races and, tbh, I cannot fault her for it because the later episodes get really wild and pretty well animated.
As for the creator, DaFuqBoom!, yeah he has made some weird stuff in the past includes jokes against George Floyd. Why would a Georgian, the country not the state, joke about that? I have no idea. And also he was fucked over by Invisible Narratives who took all the rights from the series, took all the adsense dollars he made, and also took all the money from the deals he made.
Like as shitty as a person as he is, I can't help but feel bad. I assumed he was rolling in it, but he's broke and has seen 0 return from the popularity of his series because of an unfair contract. Finding that out just felt weird. Like there's this much cloak and dagger about the funny toilet vs camera show? What a time to be alive.
2012 was peak rage comics. I remember scrolling f7u12 for hours on end. Then one day, it was like a switch flipped and they were all terrible. Almost like post-nut clarity. I don't know if I changed or if they changed. But they instantly became unfunny.
I agree; I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe the original creator of this image lived somewhere where what memes were popular there was lagging a few years behind everyone else, haha.
I remember seeing him pop up on youtube a couple years back. Checking again, the last post on the channel was 2 years ago and the original format petered out after "Muscles Glasses" and others left because Harley was being a douche.
It's amusing how each generation seems to independently come across the "empty chip bag" meme and the actual explanation - the bag is intentionally oversized and slightly inflated to give the chips a buffer against being crushed. I remember seeing it come up about once a decade, including pre-(consumer)internet.
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I remember a YouTube channel with some folks drop testing a bunch of phones using a drone - and some Motorola smartphone with a polymer display (IIRC) survived a much bigger drop than the 3310 did.
I think the 3310 got its reputation because it was ubiquitous and at the same time somewhat tough - but it's nowhere near as tough as say some Ericssons before it or some Siemens models after. Maybe this is also backed by the fact that phones got progressively more brittle after that.
Naturally people reach for the low hanging fruit to make a joke.
The bacon thing was... really weird.
I mean, I like bacon, but... not like enough to make a lifestyle out of it
I heard it was in part a push from the pork industry. They were struggling to get grocery shoppers to keep buying bacon during the anti-fat fads of the 90s, so they spent millions lobbying fast food places and restaurants to make bacon a premium add-on 'bacon makes it better'; then the fast food marketing machine slowly brainwashed a generation into bacon obsession.
Ugh. Nothing is even shocking anymore.
I think it was an overblown reaction about masculinity and being against vegetarianism and whatnot. Obviously it became less explicitly about that, but i do think it stems from those feelings originally.
I really really really like this image
i like it too
Im glad I could share something with you
Sometimes dreams can come true
Im happy that I could have a laugh with you
On the internet
That's a bad haiku.
That was an even worse haiku
That's a bad haiku.
That's an even worse haiku.
This is a haiku.
That's a good haiku
You just made it better.
I really like the pic you posted, wonder if I share it, would you mind? I know a couple people online who would like it, please reply.
You're right it is super funny
Thank you for stopping by.
Did you... is this sickos, but a hedgehog?
This is the OG "haha yes" meme, predating the sickos one by... like... 1-2 years according to knowyourmeme (going not by time of creation but their widespread usage as memes)
I went full-on bacon eating back in 2012 because who cared. A year later I'm fat and slow. Fuck those Mayans.
PREACH
IE zombie mode is technically still a thing.
Chuck Norris is also dead. He died March 19th of this year.
Those Nokias aren't dead, they were just abandoned by the infrastructure. Pop in a new battery and you'll be playing snake in no time.
Mine’s still charged.
I kid.
he became a looney right maga before he died, pretty much good riddance.
I feel like most of them were already there to begin with. I'm not sure about his case but when you dig down into it so many of them claim that they've been hiding all their lives.
You know to escape the woke mob that doesn't like their racism or whatever.
Fixed.
Damn it, you fixed it just before I could lol.
And Chuch Norris’ “political” views were always shit.
He was a MAGA piece of shit
Don't cower
Is Bieber a has been? Didn't he just headline at Coachella?
It’s fascinating really. He went directly from a wanna-be to a has-been, directly bypassing the state of “being”. Scientific studies have been conducted on the phenomenon, but it is still a mystery as to how this happened.
I don't know what 'headline' or 'Coachella' means so that's a yes. Unless headline as in newspaper and Coachella as in a line of sex toys... which wouldn't change the answer to the question.
It's pretty wild you know the brand of sex toys but don't know the most famous music festival in the world.
America != The world
I feel like Justin Bieber deserves better than this for what he had to go through
I agree, look at the sexual harassment alone. It's pretty sickening how full grown ass adults were treating him like some sexual object. He was what 14 or 15? So gross
What did he have to go through?
He's the dude version of Brittney male sexual abuse just looks a little different and isn't recognized as readily or taken as seriously, which is saying something because abusing young female pop stars is super common and happens constantly and is also not taken super seriously.
Puff daddy
2026:
I don't specifically remember lays bags being empty a big joke in 2012, but I wouldn't be surprised. I do remember the rest of these.
Lays bags having more air than chips is older than the internet.
I'm not saying they didn't have more air than chips then, I'm saying as a specific Internet meme it felt more like a 2017 thing.
I do remember it, on 9GAG
I haven't heard someone mention 9GAG in forever. Someone without context today might think it was a porn site.
I miss demotivational posters.
There's a comm for it. Just not a lot of content
So you remember Strong Bad?
I mostly remember Trogdor to be honest.
no, but i remember Strong Sad.
JB was bad and most guys hated him but most guys also ran around with the same haircut at the time.
JB copied them.
Ever wonder why we're here?
One of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here?
I mean, if we took their base, then we'd just have two bases in the middle of a box canyon..
Web 2.0.
"... Just to suffer?"
As a web dev, I feel awkward reminiscing about the thin period of web history when IE was a solidly built, standards-compliant browser.
It was like the IE team saw their history was causing them to lose all market share, and committed to fixing misdeeds since they held an underdog position. But for most, it was too little too late.
For several years, I tested in IE, not Chrome, because it was most strictly standards-compliant, and I could be sure that if it worked there, it would work in other browsers. (Now, if you use Edge, it’s just a repaint of Chrome)
I miss presto and the old opera browser
I loved Opera for a good couple of years. Came back to it around 2007 and I was shocked at what it became.
I rather enjoyed 2002-2003 opera. It had tabs and mouse gestures.
IE11 was good. I will die on this hill with you.
I didn't start dev until after the chrome hegemony but I assume ie was only compliant because MS was the one writing the standards. Much like how chrome is essentially the defacto standard now.
At this point in time, Chrome was jumping bounds ahead of the others with standards, and most websites were specifically written for webkit, even beginning to disregard Firefox. Worse, Chrome was often going back and forth on how a certain new standard should implement, leading to, for instance, CSS files declaring 7 or 8 different ways of doing a linear-gradient.
Your sentiment on Microsoft isn't unique, which is part of why the web consortium wasn't actually keen on listening to them most of the time. Them having monetary/OS influence didn't actually lead to a lot on the W3C - they went ahead of them for most ActiveX work.
It was really hard to use ie at the time. I worked at lockheed making a javascript repair sim, and it took 3 minutes to load in IE vs 10 secobds in chrome
IE also never woulda pioneered shit like WebUSB
Kristen stewart = expresionless
When epic meal time was the biggest YouTube channel.
Oh my god i completely forgot how much everyone loved epic meal time. Could never to content like that in this economy.
I was younger so it was somewhat enjoyable. Mostly for me it was seeing what crazy monstrosity they were going to make.
God I forgot about the whole bacon thing.
I remember it as the same time the narwhal bacon'ed. Never got the appeal of that meme.
And unfortunately I'm going to have to remind you how bad it got... https://www.baconaddicts.com/products/bacon-flavored-toothpaste-flavor-tooth-paste
I remember being really annoyed by the whole thing. People went from kale to bacon.
Still funnier than skibidi toilet
I can't judge anyone for finding Skibidi Toilet funny or amusing. I watched more than my fair share of YTMND, Badger Badger, and Salad Fingers.
Same.
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing!
Mushroom MUSHROOM
🍄🍄 🐍!
🐍
But those are still funny/weird though, skibidi is just "funny for 3 year olds" level stupid.
To you. And to me. Not to my parents, and I doubt many others.
It's kind of wild how inevitable the cycle seems to be of every generation thinking, so confidently, that they have the unique recipe to all the best things and that all other generations had/have everything wrong.
asdfmovie
I like trains
I like turtles.
Skibidi Toilet isn't really a comedy tho. It's just giant mech fights and apparently the creator of it, some racist Georgian🇬🇪 zoomer lost all the rights to it after being fucked over by some company he signed a contract with.
Yeah, wild lore both in the show itself and in the background. Got into it because my niece fucking loves it and just... no shit, it is a wild time.
What? Mech fights? I've only seen the head in the toilet. Fuck racists though.
Yeah. It goes from funny toilet head man thing into this weird war between the toilets and camera head people and soon just turns into giant ass mech fights. My niece herself said she thinks the series is an allegory for arms races and, tbh, I cannot fault her for it because the later episodes get really wild and pretty well animated.
As for the creator, DaFuqBoom!, yeah he has made some weird stuff in the past includes jokes against George Floyd. Why would a Georgian, the country not the state, joke about that? I have no idea. And also he was fucked over by Invisible Narratives who took all the rights from the series, took all the adsense dollars he made, and also took all the money from the deals he made.
Like as shitty as a person as he is, I can't help but feel bad. I assumed he was rolling in it, but he's broke and has seen 0 return from the popularity of his series because of an unfair contract. Finding that out just felt weird. Like there's this much cloak and dagger about the funny toilet vs camera show? What a time to be alive.
Peak humor
Some of that feels much more ~2008ish. But given the lifecycle of memes back then, they still weren't considered antiques in 2012...
2012 was peak rage comics. I remember scrolling f7u12 for hours on end. Then one day, it was like a switch flipped and they were all terrible. Almost like post-nut clarity. I don't know if I changed or if they changed. But they instantly became unfunny.
I think we as a species ran out of funny subject matter for rage comics. I still assert that they’re better than wojaks though
I agree; I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe the original creator of this image lived somewhere where what memes were popular there was lagging a few years behind everyone else, haha.
Bacon will forever remain epic, even if it is slowly killing me.
I think it’s a reference to epic meal time
Ohhh, right. Man, I’m a terrible Millennial.
The words Bacon and Epic can't be put side by side without mentioning EpicMealTime.
Man singlehandedly kept that fad alive way longer than it ever should have been. I wonder what they're up to nowadays?
I remember seeing him pop up on youtube a couple years back. Checking again, the last post on the channel was 2 years ago and the original format petered out after "Muscles Glasses" and others left because Harley was being a douche.
Dealing with heart disease maybe?
I forgot all about the “meat sweat” guys. That was fun back then. Oh, to be in simpler times again…
EpicMealTime paled in comparison to regular ordinary Swedish mealtime!
Time for a pre-dinner snack... It's good for you!
MAJONNÄS!
Jack Daniel's sauce (pronounced sawoose)... fucking (bleeped out with a bird screech) getting drunk on pancakes.
Cannot forget when Epic Meal Time teamed up with Freddie Wong for Epic VFX Time.
It was too fratty for me
Remember Kony 2012? Remember how everyone thought the world was gonna end? Well Will Wood remembers none of it.
I still don't know what that Kony thing was about.
He had a bunch of child soldiers and the idea was to raise awareness to get the into. Criminal court involved or something to stop him
Where's Spongebob caveman?
Everyone proved how indestructible the Nokias were by destroying them for views.
Also Strongbad
The system is down
The Cheat... Is grounded
Still better than all those degenerate wojak memes nowadays.
The bag of chips full of air was literally the first meme I ever saw
It's amusing how each generation seems to independently come across the "empty chip bag" meme and the actual explanation - the bag is intentionally oversized and slightly inflated to give the chips a buffer against being crushed. I remember seeing it come up about once a decade, including pre-(consumer)internet.
Yeah it's almost someone thinking that making a shrinkflation lost in 2026 is some kind of groundbreaking news
You must be way younger than me. First meme I saw was the hamster dance in 1995.
Doo do do do dooooooo
If others are curious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo
It was created in 1997 and blew up in 1999.
Not the dancing baby dancing to Hooked On A feelin'?
Truly the golden age
True, half true, false, Diddy'd, true, true
That's just a Thursday on Lemmy
Not enough beans.