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The internet took a turn for the worse once memes surfaced
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hydrophilic attack
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This thread in a nutshell:
Guile Theme goes with everything (Maury)
Guile's Theme Goes With Landon Donovan!!!
Also the internet is a better place because of dat boi and caveman sponge bob
Guile's Theme Goes With Landon Donovan!!!
Also the internet is a better place because of dat boi and caveman sponge bob
Hypemaster
Member
Danis Saur
Member
Are you shitting me? Memes used to be mundane and boring.
Memes today make me giggle at least, excluding "dat boi", that shit was forced.
Memes today make me giggle at least, excluding "dat boi", that shit was forced.
hydrophilic attack
Member
hydrophilic attack just shot themself in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about NeoGAF.com culture (I'm an expert), but wittiness and originality are huge parts of it. It's not like it is on reddit where you can become successful by spamming the same unfunny memes a million times. If you post unfunny memes on NeoGAF.com, people will put you on their ignore lists, and the only way to get out of there is repentance.
What this means is the NeoGAF.com public, after seeing this, is not going to want to read hydrophilic attack's posts, nor will they quote any of hydrophilic attack's posts. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but hydrophilic attack has alienated an entire forum with this move.
hydrophilic attack, publicly apologize and make a couple of funny backfire threads or you can kiss your Q/P ratio goodbye.
Hampster Dance was around since 98 or so. Memes predate your user experience.
MrCunningham
Member
Back before youtube was ever a thing, there was a place that many of us would frequent to get caught up on the latest internet memes...
it's weird, I feel the opposite. most "memes" now aren't even memes, they're just... dumb
it felt like in the past they were memes for a reason. now anything can be a meme
they used to be funny, now they're mostly just obnoxious
unless I don't understand what a meme is anymore. I basically just see 'x person did this im going to copy them Lolololol' as opposed to an actual joke.
maybe i am the joke
where has my life gone
it felt like in the past they were memes for a reason. now anything can be a meme
they used to be funny, now they're mostly just obnoxious
unless I don't understand what a meme is anymore. I basically just see 'x person did this im going to copy them Lolololol' as opposed to an actual joke.
maybe i am the joke
where has my life gone
He didn't say there weren't memes before the last 4 years. He said "gaming communities online have deteriorated in the past ~4 years due to memes." Memes were not a large part of the forum experience in 98.
I was posting in 98. I don't know hamster dance. Probably because in 98, it took me 30 minutes to download a few pictures of Sable. Gifs were out of the question. Or videos. Whatever the hamster thing is.
OP is capable of having original thoughts and ideas. That's boring.
Someone posting a Pinnochio "Dead" picture - now he's the king of entertainment and comedy.
DXLelouch153
Banned
maybe your just an old man yelling at the clouds
pizzaparty
Member
Because the two are mutually exclusive. Sure. OK.
Clint Beastwood
Banned
Literally old man yells at clouds
Memes have been around forever. If you want to complain, complain how there's a new forced meme every week.
Memes have been around forever. If you want to complain, complain how there's a new forced meme every week.
I honestly wonder if you even know that you're talking in meme. Are you a meme?
Why not just head over to SA and pay them for a membership? I don't post or read it much anymore, but I still stand by that $10 as some of the best money I've ever spent. I love their Ask/Tell forums.
HyperCubed4
Member
I probably would. Heard it was hot shit back in the day. But if it's not anymore, I don't want to pay $10 for something subpar. Although I'm sure SA has their own memes, so it's probably a wash.
capitalCORN
Member
Most of you would be immediately eaten alive at SA, so...
Except for General Bullshit, it's the same as it ever was. You might be able to read it. Check out Games if you want games, Debate & Discussion and C-Spam if you want politics (political affiliation is exactly the same as here), TV-IV if you want to talk about shows, Ask/Tell if you want to learn stuff. Stay away from General Bullshit for now. I like it but it's more of an acquired taste. It jokes about everything and takes nothing serious. It's not for everyone.
Only thing I dislike is it's all megathreads except for A/T. It's all like the community forums here.
Yeah but the worst that could happen is you'd get probated for 6 hours unless you were really not even trying to fit in.
TsunamiOfSwagger
Member
It's one of those threads again.
oh shit, wat up?
GhostWriter24
Member
Memes are like a bad inside joke, and everyone's in on it.
blame space
Banned
memes eh? 🤔
Fenderputty
Banned
All your base are belong to GAF
capitalCORN
Member
I'm just saying it's not for everyone. Especially the gimmick forums. Games is a comparably safe place to post, yet you really need to subscribe to a style to make the most of it, and it's hard for someone new to read if an post (honest, troll, or otherwise) is just going to fall flat, or be an immediate death sentence. The smaller, focused interest forums are definitely welcoming, but walking into any of the main forums, thinking it's like GAF OT is just asking for a bad experience.
Smooth Operator
Member
Kojima tried to warn us in MGS2, but it's too late now.
Basileus777
Member
Since '99 or '00 isn't that long and memes were all over the place even then.
Already Torn
Banned
Aren't memes like 15 years old at this point? How can you tell the difference? Like peanut butter jelly man and that owl and shit.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Haven't memes always existed? In 99 and 2000 it was all about All Your Base and that fucking dancing baby and those hamsters. In 2004/2005 it was O'rly and YTMND and Numa Numa. I mean, this has been around since the internet was a thing.
God Dayumm
Banned
Memes are like, everything in history
I mean, why would our ancestors make these figures if not for the lulz?
I mean, why would our ancestors make these figures if not for the lulz?
I like how gaf manages memes tbh. Not all memes suck. Yes, there are exceptions.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Yeah? Well, that's just like your opinion man.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
They still weren't mainstream like they are now, you had to be online gaming or on a nerdy message board to come across memes. I think Rickrolling crossed memes into the mainstream.
SchrodingerC
Member
The Loss comic is truly the best meme when people get creative with its depiction.
lucebuce12
Member
As far as memes go, the Guile theme goes with everything meme is perhaps the best one since it doesn't get annoying.
texhnolyze
Banned
It was way worse back in the early 2000s. Everyone uses L33T words.
At least I can still understand memes.
At least I can still understand memes.
Rhomega Beta
Member
Not all memes are everywhere. I know All Your Base and l337 5p34k, but I don't know Mr. T Ate My Balls.
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