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
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Whelp, time to rewatch!
"Original": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Used to love the chuck Norris memes till i found out hes a MAGA dirtbag
If those are the past, what I think of as classics must be fucking paleontology.
Remember when memes were “motivational posters” and were mainly kittens in fields
Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.
I did not come from Chuck Norris. I've been telling people he's a piece of shit for decades.
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.
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.
When you accidentally killed yourself in BF Bad Company 2 it said Epic Fail on your screen.
Absolutely wild times
"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.
Grumpy cat an Nyan cat are missing. Pretty sure forrest gump was a meme at one point.
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 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.
So where is the digital museum? There must be one right?
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of memes...
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Matt Damon aging actually. Tom Hanks died during the final battle scene.
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.
I distinctively remember when these were the new "cancer" memes like skibidi toilet is now :/


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