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Antique Memes Roadshow

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Submissions should be vintage memes or commentary about vintage memes. Commenters are advised to appraise the internet value and provenance meme antiquities.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

And the feed was full of rage comic garbage for what felt like an eternity. And there was jailbait.

Most people probably disagree but I think Reddit only became good after it accrued the current critical mass of people to spawn thriving niche communities for almost every subject.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I remember the "will it blend" viral craze. Good times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OmpnfL5PCw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good one! Personally, Will It Blend was one of those memes that I just consciously ignored. Until I saw it on some actual television show. (quick digging: Modern Marvels, apparently.)

I for one... is obviously an old Slashdot meme that Digg people reheated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I for one… is obviously an old Slashdot meme that Digg people reheated.

As 4chan once realized in the rules of the internet, every post on the internet is a copy of another post

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I was just rewatching a handful of them a week or two ago, funny timing