Monty Python bits were funny!
They are still funny, but they were then too.
In with the Hedberg, too. Noice.
But they made their bread with nonsense, though! It was absurdism at it’s finest.
The author probably isn’t personally familiar with pre-2010 internet jokes so he skipped from 5-year intervals, all the way back 30 years to Monty Python.
In the 2005-2010 era I was seeing a lot of quotes from Arrested Development, Anchorman, Talladega Nights. But the one that really made the jump from TV to internet text comments was the South Park underpants gnome meme, where step 1 was whatever people were doing (in the episode, stealing underpants), step 2 was ???, and step 3 was Profit!. Meanwhile, some pure internet nonsense around then was stuff like O RLY?, Cheezburger and other lolcat stuff.
In 2000-2005 or so, there were plenty of Simpsons quotes to go around. Internet memes looked like demotivational posters (a take on the motivational posters common in corporate office settings back then). This was the heyday of surreal flash animation, as the Internet didn’t really have the infrastructure to have high-bandwidth videos go viral. Stuff like Strongbad, Group X, All Your Base, etc. Text references to bash.org quotes (I put on my robe and wizard hat, hunter2) came from around this era, from what I remember.
Pre-2000, I’m less familiar with. Real Ultimate Power was the first website that made me laugh out loud. But there was less for user posting on the internet: fewer web-based forums before phpbb and vbulletin came along. You needed your own geocities or angelfire page if you wanted to post something that persisted on the web. Usenet and IRC were around, but I don’t know the culture.
Pre 2000…. Dancing baby Hamster dance Hot grits First post and a petrified Star Wars actress
A lot of “memes” were inside jokes local to your BBS, news group, or IRC channel.
As an old fart, I like saying some of the brainrot to Gen Alphas that I know so that it makes them cringe hard. Sometimes in context, sometimes out of context depending on my mood.
Semi related, but my mum likes to pretend she doesn’t know what ‘Netflix and chill’ means. She keeps saying it to people. One time I said mum please google that phrase. She said she’s well aware of the meaning and just likes to see people’s reactions.
Real life trolling is much more fun!
You can turn an entire party against you by insisting jaws is a documentary.
Oh no. I feel that. Back when ipods were a thing, I liked to call it my husband’s “tiny radio.” Particularly on planes, with lots of captive listeners.
But I was mainly torturing him.
It’s OK - he does similar shit to me. 30 years and counting…
This is a Rosetta stone for meme culture
But the translation is missing so it’s useless
People who “make” a lot of memes are the internet equivalent of that really obnoxious kid in middle school in the 90s who couldn’t go a full five minutes without quoting the Simpsons/South Park/SpongeBob.
On a side note, what’s the show(s) that obnoxious middle schoolers quote nowadays? Can’t imagine it’s still those 3
Probably Rick and morty, skibidi toilet and bluey
Haha, I’m Pickle Rick! Please laugh
Punctuation. Use it.
That parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It is an ex-parrot!
He’s probably pinin’ for the fjords
I love that they keep coming up with dumb slang cause there’s only so much mileage you can get out of the dumb slang you had growing up.
I understood all of that. ❤️
Oh shit waddup!?
Dat Boi is unironically my fave meme.
Unfortunately, Dat Boi was part of the capitol riot on January 6th. smh my head rip in peace.
Bro what. No… No…
It’s just memes broken out by who was under 30 when they became popular.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Also, are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Incessantly referencing Laurel And Hardy and other prominent comedians before that.
How dare you not close your trololo’s
My friends and I still quote Monty Python to each other. Embrace tradition.
