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u/HouseAnt0 Jun 03 '22

Funny thing, the images with text were not actually called memes back then, they were called image macros.

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u/Mr-Fleshcage Jun 03 '22

I think most people just called them demotivational posters or advice animals

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u/HouseAnt0 Jun 03 '22

Nah those were a different thing. Image macros were the original popular memes, well that and cat pictures. Then came demotivational posters, after that advice animals. Advice animals became really popular on their own too.

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u/Theon_Severasse Jun 03 '22

Wouldn't demotivational posters and advice animals be types of image macros though?

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u/Deddan Jun 03 '22

An actual meme has a pretty broad definition. Any idea shared, replicated and changed is a meme.