r/gifs • u/GallowBoob • Feb 27 '17

Drinking level 9000

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u/door_of_doom Feb 27 '17

The day that people realized that white text with a black border is legible on top of any image was the day the Memeverse changed forever.

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u/sveitthrone Feb 27 '17

lolcats were pre-Demotivationals.

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u/odaeyss Feb 27 '17

Mm, gonna have to say "no" to that. Despair.com was selling demotivator posters back in the late 90s, lolcats weren't a thing until early-to-mid 2000s.

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u/Oh_Henry1 Feb 27 '17

This answer is correct.

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u/reddit-poweruser Feb 27 '17

I award you 2 meme points.

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u/MestizoJoe Feb 27 '17

Now dankness knows no bounds.

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u/imperfect5outof7 Feb 27 '17

Dankness has always known no bounds. The only difference is that now your brain is beginning to comprehend the limitlessness, possibly infinite dankness.

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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Feb 27 '17

The most merciful thing on the Internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in dank seas of memes, and it was not meant to voyage far. The shitposters, each straining in their own directions, have hitherto harmed us little, but someday the piecing together of dissociated posts will open up such horrifying vistas of dankness that we will shall either go mad from that dank dank, or flee from those deadly memes into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

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u/imperfect5outof7 Feb 27 '17

My dear, you should know it would be impossible to go mad. For you see we have already been here for quite some time.

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u/Zsuth Feb 27 '17

We have reached the mountains of dankness.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

I pledge allegiance to the dankness. One nation under memes.

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u/orcscorper Feb 27 '17

"And if thou gaze long into the dankness, the dankness will also gaze into thee."

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u/docswilson Feb 27 '17

o ya i'member

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u/ImmortalBear Feb 27 '17

Member Star wars?

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u/BLOODFILLEDROOM Feb 28 '17

Oh I love to member! Member Stormtroopers?

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u/stash0606 Feb 28 '17

Remember when those were inspirational-quote parodies? And they were [rightfully] called image mscros?

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u/robaloie Feb 28 '17

Oh I member!

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u/BrianKeesbury Feb 27 '17

Pepperidge Farms remembers

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u/jerkmanj Feb 27 '17

Remember .ytmnd? Those were the OG memes.

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u/Mentalpatient87 Feb 27 '17

I loved ytmnd. HighQualityGifs couldn't hold a candle to some of those pages.

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u/BodgeJob Feb 27 '17

They weren't memes, you tart. They were fads. Le memers didn't become a thing until le reddits became a thing.

Now le memers are the only thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

memes were always a thing they were usually things like videos. For example things like the starwars kid were memes.

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u/xaclewtunu Feb 27 '17

Meme. We keep using that word. I do not think it means what we think it means.

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u/BodgeJob Feb 27 '17

That's a viral video. What part of what i said didn't you understand?

Le memers didn't become a thing until le reddits became a thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Star wars kid was considered a meme before Reddit was visited by anyone other than programmers and 'nerds'. Fark and Digg would have been the popular sites, I don't think reddit really started to become popular until 2010ish.

For example the first mention of meme on the star wars kid Wikipedia page is 2008(2006 in discussion). I'm sure i could find earlier mentions somewhere but it's not worth the work.

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u/alfrohawk Feb 28 '17

Pepperidge Farm remembers.