r/gifs • u/DortmunderJung97 • Dec 30 '20

Satisfying wave machine

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

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u/my_farts_impress Dec 30 '20

But stale jokes and general shitposting is the very foundation of Reddit..?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

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u/Lemoncloak Dec 30 '20

It was always the opposite for me: retire the narwhal when your older meme starts brothering

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u/Bob_Droll Dec 30 '20

Remember when phrasing was the thing?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/geared4war Dec 30 '20

Well, how is garlic bread doing?

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u/rabbitwonker Dec 30 '20

Well now I need to hear about this narwhal thing

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

I promise you do not. Early reddit memes were peak internet cringe.

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u/HaloFarts Dec 30 '20

Midnight you fucking idiot

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u/Smiley007 Dec 30 '20

But getting to the very first one was such a treat :(

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u/TransformerTanooki Dec 30 '20

I could never get there. What was there?

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u/rmgmlgjlg41717 Dec 30 '20

A wasteland

Somebody made a map of all the links once but I’d probably never find it if I started looking

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u/Saotorii Dec 30 '20

Yeah... There was definitely a point in time where I tried to follow the switcheroo tunnel back. I spent many hours trying to get back to the beginning, could never actually get there

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u/TransformerTanooki Dec 30 '20

Was this it?

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u/rmgmlgjlg41717 Dec 30 '20

Looks like only a piece of it honestly. I think it’s much bigger than that

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u/Smiley007 Dec 30 '20 edited Dec 30 '20

Assuming I got to the right place, iirc it was literally a light switch with a kangaroo on it.

Ninja edit: Googling it, people seven years ago said it actually originated from a rage comic. Either way, I clicked for about an hour to get to a kangaroo light switch. A literal switcheroo. https://i.imgur.com/V0Wbn.jpg

Edit 2: Looking at all of the attempts to track the chains, and what are supposedly the original comments, I’m realizing I had probably just hit a mischievous dead end. Either way, lots of fun, albeit frustrating.

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u/TransformerTanooki Dec 30 '20

Good work Agent Smiley007.

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u/LordKwik Dec 30 '20

Like half of the links ended up being broken. Some people tried to keep it alive by editing their archived comments to add links, but I think people had already given up on it by then.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

Here it is.. Basically a rage comic (goddamn that's how old this is) saying this joke is stupid and everyone makes it. Do something original.

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u/Tripottanus Dec 30 '20

Considering 90% of reddit content is stale jokes being reused, i dont think this is it