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[Imp the Dimp]

Been online and on forums since '99 or '00 and can confirm that gaming communities online have deteriorated in the past ~4 years due to memes. Memes all suck. Yes, no exceptions. If it's a meme it's shit and you would have been better off stating what you intended to state in plain English or whichever language you were communicating in.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Such mad, many butthurt wow.

U MAD BRO?!

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Such mad, many butthurt wow.

U MAD BRO?!

I'm pretty sure replying to anti-meme posts with memes qualifies as a meme at this point. Doesn't get more predictable than that.

 

[The Pope]

After 21 years on the internet, you never know what is going to come through that door.

 

[Ihyll]

Back in my day...

 

[brian577]

 

[nomis]

may-may's was a mistake

 

[Aiii]

Did somebody set up you the bomb, OP?

 

[Slowdive]

Memes were a mistake, they're nothing but trash.

 

[Beardz]

u jelly op

 

[Hoo-doo]

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[Maximo]

Which meme hurt you OP?

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Phew, I'm glad you got to the bottom of that.

 

[Violet_0]

 

[ThePeoplesBureau]

You cannot halt the zeitgeist.

 

[MCN]

*subs for all the dank memes to follow*

 

[Bananastand]

I feel like it's more the democratizing of the web. Everybody is online now. That's the difference.

 

[Clydefrog]

 

[Carl]

This thread is going about as expected

 

[kavanf1]

You can't miss a day on the internet. If you do you will lose touch with the current meme and nothing will make sense anymore. I took a break a few months ago and I'm still confused about Harambe.

 

[Corpekata]

Gaming communities used to be the best, but then they took a meme to the knee.

 

[MattKeil]

Memes are not some kind of recent phenomenon. OP's claimed halcyon days of the internet were plagued with All Your Base, Mr. T Ate My Balls, Hamsterdance, l33t speak, and all the other memes of its day. It's an inevitable result of mass media. In the TV era they were called "catchphrases."

 

[Captain Smoker]

 

[zulux21]

here is a video that will help you remember that it's not just memes

more on topic... really internet took a turn for the worse once people figured out others didn't know who was saying what.

when you remove any social limitations on what you say, people tend to turn into horrible monsters

 

[jabuseika]

OP just doesn't respect Harambe.

 

[Nightbird]

Eh, I'm not so uptight about it.

Some memes are awful sure, but I'm not letting my Internet experience being ruined by people who are doing jokes they think are fubby

 

[excelsiorlef]

I dunno I think the rampant proliferation of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and the rest of the mixed bag of bigotry ruined the Internet more than pictures with text on em.


But that's just me.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Memes were alive and kicking back in those days too.
Talk about rose tinted glasses.

 

[linkandzelda]

Memes were alive and kicking back in those days too.
Talk about rose tinted glasses.

Yep. Internet memes have been around at least since I started using the internet in 2004.

I agree that from my experience the internet has got more toxic over the years but I doubt that's because of memes.

 

[Bearthgar]

"Memes were a mistake. They're nothing but trash." - Imp the Dimp

 

[jb1234]

I agree they're tiring. People aren't nearly as funny as they seem to think they are (and neither are the memes).

 

[jediyoshi]

Memes were alive and kicking back in those days too.
Talk about rose tinted glasses.

This. If you were around at a point in which images were transferred and image editing existing, memes existed.

 

[Mailbox]

Memes exist everywhere in everytime.

The look might be different, but the effects are the same. All in an effort to laugh together, join together and feel like something a little bigger. We create meta-jokes that feel like inside jokes. Commonplace knowledge that feels so personal and yet so mutual.

A world without Memes is a barren world. Memes are eternal. To Meme is to be human.

So... you know... Cool Story Bro.

 

[kavanf1]

Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in the 70s, but that was just a name for a phenomenon that has existed as long as human culture has existed. It's not an internet thing.

 

[milkham]

do you think music is terrible these days too?

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Memes...the new word for in-crowd exclusionary jokes/humor.

I enjoy them once in a while, but I do agree with you that their incessant use is become increasingly obnoxious.

 

[213372bu]

OP is from the future and shot Harambe to prevent his status as a meme later in life.

Little did he know Harambe has become more of a meme through his death.

With no way of going back to the future, OP must live out the rest of his years looking at old memes all over again.

 

[MrCunningham]

Memes have been here since the beginning of the public internet. The only difference is that we didn't identify them as memes back then. I'm sure they also existed on Use Net as well.

I swear that's Rich Evans.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

 

[neoanarch]

What the fuck do you mean op? Like joke pictures or viral jokes?

You haven't been on gaming boards since 99 if you never saw pictures with text on them. We were posting that crap back then too.

 

[Joyful]

back in my day they were called image macros

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

 

[Neoriceisgood]

I blame Richard Dawkins.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I love memes. Sure, they always get overused and run into the ground, but they're good fun for a while.

 

[Sojgat]

 

[Eumi]

People are having fun, why do you care so much?

 

[Lautaro]

I'm pretty sure replying to anti-meme posts with memes qualifies as a meme at this point. Doesn't get more predictable than that.

ONE AND DONE!!

I don't even remember how it was the Internet before memes, I guess everyone was too busy downloading porn very slowly and playing shitty flash games.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

I do think that cultural artifacts like memes are being leveraged in pop culture to take our focus off of more important, longer-term stuff. Like how to displace the rich, old white guys running this show.

 

[Hektor]

My maymay may not the best of all maymays but other maymays arent mine the way my maymay may is.

 

[Knugen]