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“We Didn’t Watch Brain Rot When I Was Your Age” Says Millennial Who Can Recite Every YTMND Meme From Memory

hard-drive.net “We Didn’t Watch Brain Rot When I Was Your Age” Says Millennial Who Can Recite Every YTMND Meme From Memory

MINNEAPOLIS, Min. — Brian Howard, 40, spent upwards of an hour fruitlessly explaining to his nephew that brain rot videos did not exist when he…

“We Didn’t Watch Brain Rot When I Was Your Age” Says Millennial Who Can Recite Every YTMND Meme From Memory

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I'm a millennial who was always into memes and I had to look up YTMND.
- I understand I was probably a bit ahead of the curve with this, but I gotta ask, when did the term meme as we now know it enter your vernacular?
  
  It was so long ago that I can't remember.
  
  When I read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  
  as we now know it
  
  I remember it coming into popularity right around when I started highschool; 2010ish.
  Smart phones, home computers, and laptops were slowly becoming more common, at least at my school at the time. It lead to this shift from texting constantly to being terminally online at home after school. I still remember having a difficult time keeping up with the most popular le meme at any given moment because they evolved so rapidly over the course of like a year or two.
- In my defense, I get pretty bored of repetitious memes/jokes very quickly. It's really just a pavlov response after a certain point.
- Same, except I didn't look it up because I don't care.
  
  Okay grandpa, it's past your bed time now
  
  And the nickels had bumblebees on em. 5 bees for a quarter they'd say!
  
  He says on a sub dedicated to people currently either buying a two seater sports car, or over investing in a new hobby.

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