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I remember these were called Demotivational Posters before they were called memes.
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Akhchually, they were called "memes" since 1976. It's just that the word didn't get popular with them damn kids.
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Yeah I remember folks used to actually print and hang these.
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YES! My graphic design class in highschool printed out a bunch of em for the art show.
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So I badgerbadgerbadgerbadger which was the mushroom mushroom at the time.
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snaaake!
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That's not a meme. It's a macro.
Kids these days i swear
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I miss Demotivators. Especially the RPG Demotivators from RPG.Net
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My place of work in the early '90s used to have those original motivational posters all over the place, so I hung some of this original demotivational series in my cubicle. I believe they are the ones that started it all, and I still personally think they are the best.
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Is this a Chris Nolan reference? 🤯
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The movie name is a reference to the Sator square, yes 🤘
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I don't think Christopher Nolan was around when this was made
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This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren't really "memes", IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name "memes" (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: "lolcat", "doge", the "O RLY?" owl, etc.
Can someone point to "memes" that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
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Nobody:
OP formatting his meme:
Meme format has progressed so much
/s
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You can't just tickle my nostalgia organ like that.
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I like to drop in "as was the style at the time" in casual conversation to see who picks up on it.
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I feel like we'd get along bc I'm constantly dropping random Simpson's/other media references into conversations ^^;
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Dude, I shit brix
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Pepperidge Farms remembers?
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We used to be a proper fucking society, with class!
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Needs more belt onions.
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Oh wow I remember these, even made a couple myself
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I miss pown.it - I never understood it but I thought it was great
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Is this loss?
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That font was definitely not the style at the time.
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The two fonts I remember were Comic Sans, used for putting words in the mouths of pets, or Impact for most other things.
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Most of the people on the entirety of lemmy and mastodon won't get this one
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I saw a poll for age a while back on Mastodon and most respondents were in their 30s or 40s
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Kills me inside when I see youtuber/celebrity communities
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I've felt like an odd one out here for a while. Took a bit to realize I'm probably thrice as old as any average user here.
I feel like maybe I should be nicer to the literal children who try to debate with me their asinine, juvenile takes, but also... I think getting slapped around a little in your safe-space is healthy at times.
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the literal children who try to debate with me their asinine, juvenile takes
This explains so much, as someone in the upper age brackets; youngsters baying for a learning opportunity while cutting themselves on their edge.
Maybe I should be more forgiving.
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one of my cats has a safe space he retreats to, sometimes I try to pet him when he's in there and he hisses at me
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I think the average user age here is probably 25 to 30, are you 75 to 90 years old?
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The demotivational poster meme came before the advice animals meme.
And there was a whole kerfuffle about the advice dog/animal format not being a meme, but an image macro!
That means you are old to other old people
I remember the blogs that's icanhascheeseburger ran that had feeds with posts of various meme formats. Demotivational was my favorite style
Shoulda been Abe's head in the middle. Go the extra 15 miles!