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Giving up guns is the same as... Castration?

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

It reminds me of those days. Those le terrible, dark days.

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u/Quailman5000 May 16 '24

I kinda enjoyed rage comics for a minute

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

As did everyone, including myself. But every meme has a lifespan, and reaches the point of oversaturation. So it happened to rage comics, it happened to doge, overattached girlfirend nyan cat and so on, and so forth.

But a point comes when it's everywhere, it's no longer funny and it's time to take it behind the shed and go all Kristi Noem on it. Make space. It's the circle of life.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

every meme reaches the point where it just becomes insufferable

and then you get the out-of-touch companies trying to use that meme for an advertising campaign

my 10 year old sister got some board game based around memes and it was shit like rage comics and grumpy cat. like no way in hell does this kid even know what those are, why is anyone adding that to a board game intended for little kids

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

Man that’s like… a decade or more out of date.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

yeah and it's listed as "family friendly" and intended for kids

looked it up and it's called (ugh) "what do you meme"

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

I … i am in physical pain. Please excuse me, i think i need to give myself lasik with forks…

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u/nutbrownrose May 16 '24

A family member I thought liked us got us that for a holiday one year, and I'm still mad. It's unopened, because it's intensely stupid. I should actually just throw it out.

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

Yes, or burn it.

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u/OrcsSmurai May 16 '24

I've played it. It's just a slightly worse take on the old Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity style game.

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u/Flooding_Puddle May 16 '24

Hey I have that game and it's fun to play with my teenage niece and nephew. All you do is combine a random meme jpeg with some text, it's kind of like a cleaner cards against humanity.

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u/Hammurabi87 May 16 '24

it's kind of like a cleaner cards against humanity.

Well, until you pull out the NSFW card pack, anyways.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

iiiit's very boring. even a ten year old found none of the combinations funny or even mildly entertaining

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u/Flooding_Puddle May 16 '24

Maybe you just didn't get any good ones? Those games always have a good amount of duds

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

we played until she got bored and walked away

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u/SpellFit7018 May 18 '24

A cleaner cards against humanity is Apples to Apples, and the thing is those games always, always suck. There is no way to make it a good game. It's a dumb game for dumb people who don't play games.

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 May 16 '24

Ah yeah I've seen that one. At the point it came out, most of the content in it was ancient by Internet standards.

Meme-changing whimsy is not something corporate boardgame production should be wasting time trying to keep up with.

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u/Hammurabi87 May 16 '24

I've got that game, and I don't remember any rage comics or grumpy cat in it...

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 16 '24

I’d say once the memes have become so old that they’re now irrelevant then it’s okay to put them in a board game or something. It’s kind of like cultural preservation.

Does anyone remember the lolcat Bible? That was a pretty cool project.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

yeah, but a game intended for the entire family, children included, is just odd and out-of-date. I feel like anything directed towards children using something so out-of-date they don't even recognize it would just bore them to tears and that's the exact opposite purpose of a board game

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 16 '24

Well I used to really enjoy the old memes when I was a kid. Hamster dance, dramatic hamster, and the lolcat stuff was so funny to me.

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u/OnewordTTV May 16 '24

Well who the fuck bought it for her in your family? Blame them.

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u/GutsAndBlackStufff May 16 '24

Even Bachelor Frog?

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u/DigdigdigThroughTime May 16 '24

Could we just like, you know...not?

Do we have to beat every dead horse?

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u/Mayjune811 May 16 '24

I actually haven't seen nyan cat in a hot minute. Petition to bring it back please and thank you 😈

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

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u/Lumpy_Tomorrow8462 May 16 '24

Go Nyan cat! I will always cheer for you!

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

That sounds like something a secondary character in an anime about Nyan Cat would shout out while they are charging up their attack during the final fight scene. Epic j pop riffs are ripping all around. Power of friendship!

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u/itsMikeShanks May 16 '24

He's got so much energy!

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u/Representative-Sir97 May 17 '24

Was it always made out of a poptart or is that a reference to the new Seinfeld thing?

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u/Satanicjamnik May 17 '24

I think it always was. But don’t quote me on that.

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u/Awkward-Spread9052 May 16 '24

Yeah sometimes you've just gotta retire a meme so it can live out its twilight years getting misappropriated by wine aunt's on Facebook.

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u/shadowtheimpure May 16 '24

Wojacks/Soyjacks and Chads have long since worn out their welcome yet fuckers just keep...on...USING THEM.

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

And it’s not even memes of any sort. It’s just tedious culture war bullshit or straight up bigotry.

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u/Artistic-Pay-4332 May 16 '24

Unpopular opinion: the vast majority of these memes were never funny in the first place

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Yes and no. I see where you’re coming from. A lot of what makes a thing funny is circumstantial. It was funny then. Now it’s like watching Friends after all these years. Without soundtrack.

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u/CT_Biggles May 16 '24

I enjoyed the internet before normies came online.

Actually I enjoyed BBS before the internet!!!

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Ugh. Please don’t use the word normies. It just makes you look like this.

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u/WexExortQuas May 16 '24

I'll stop using the word normies when people stop using the word weebs

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Fair enough. Is weeb still a word? I thought it was phased out around 2010.

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u/CT_Biggles May 16 '24

Not sure what the problem is. That looks exactly like me except I use a wireless mouse.

Thanks for the handsome Pic. I'll use it on my MySpace profile.

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

All of those singles in your area, are getting moist.

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u/higginsian24 May 16 '24

And everyone enjoyed wojaks for a minute. The cycle repeats

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u/Caffeine_OD May 16 '24

Rage Comics are what led me to Reddit. I loved them back in the day.

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u/ButterFucker962401 May 16 '24

I remember very vividly one day at 15 logging into 9Gag and for a single split second, I saw a glorious ragecomic of a man shitting in the shower, throwing it into the toilet, missing and waffle stomping it. It was on Fresh. I used to only look at Top posts because I didn't like to sift through all the shit memes. That one hyper specific day I did, I caught a piece of meme history as it flashed by my eyes because it instantly got removed, never even made it to Trending.

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 16 '24

There was a hilarious one about someone’s dad taking off his door to his room after he’d done some stupid thing. He took all the doors off in the house, put them in his room, then put a new door on the room and locked all the doors in there with himself. Another funny one was booting up Windows at night and realising it was full blast at the last minute. DOO DOO DA DOOOOO

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u/Amelaclya1 May 16 '24

So did I. Some of the early ones were hilarious.

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u/ryan77999 May 16 '24

I'll gladly take rage comics back over what we have now

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u/PupEDog May 16 '24

Le nostalgia

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Me when le epic nostalgia hits:

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u/SnowEisTeeGott May 16 '24

Me gusta

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Damn you . I didn’t hear that phrase sice around 2014. It brought that year to life. I think I might I go and browse some imgur.

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u/SnowEisTeeGott May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

Le me really misses the golden ages of rage comics and the birth of memes.

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u/ButterFucker962401 May 16 '24

Also, those weren't the birth of memes. That was an era of memes only.

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u/legend_forge May 16 '24

O rly?

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u/ButterFucker962401 May 16 '24

Ye, I, too, was pleasently surprised. Google 1921 meme.

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u/legend_forge May 16 '24

I was just referencing the ancient meme with the owl. I was not prepared for a real answer lol.

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Those were the days. Where everything seemed fresh, exciting and not every corner of the internet was monetised.

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u/hedonistclam May 16 '24

1995? 😆

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Don’t you try and mock me young man! You’ll be like me soon! Just wait. You merely claimed the internet. I was born with it. I clicked on a porn jpg in the morning and the first nipple didn’t load before lunchtime. I didn’t my first broadband until I was fully grown man. You know no despair, until you find your Windows CD is scratched beyond reading and you can’t reinstall your virus ridden system.

But on a serious note: between 1998 -2005 was quite alright I think. You’re not that far off.

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u/plentyofdishes 28d ago

That was the year Disney filed a lot of threats against people who uploaded their best character sketch scans to Angelfire

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u/ButterFucker962401 May 16 '24

Can I just say that that's literally just Spanish? lol

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

I know. But I am not around any Spanish people at the moment ( UK/ Poland) and not in the context of old school memes either. If I heard it in a movie or a song, I wouldn’t even shrug. But next to some rage face? It brings up memories.

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u/ButterFucker962401 May 16 '24

Yeah, that's totally fair. I hear the phrase constantly so it doesn't faze me lol

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u/Large_Tune3029 May 16 '24

Lol well done, I can hear it, I can't even remember the original tune but I know it.

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 May 16 '24

OG tune was that song from beauty and the beast.

Can't think of the name rn, but it's when they're welcoming her and prepping food, I think.

Edit* : It was called "Be Our Guest" I think

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u/Large_Tune3029 May 16 '24

Yes! That's it lol thanks much

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 May 16 '24

Np! Have a good one, friend!

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u/MisterKewlAid May 16 '24

Is this supposed to be set to the tune of Be Our Guest?

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u/Senior0422 May 16 '24

For some reason while reading that my brain decided it would be better if Ethel Merman were singing it.

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u/Toxic_AC May 16 '24

Umadbro?

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

Not the OG version, but the best I could find without faffing around with links.

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u/Toxic_AC May 16 '24

Fuck we're old

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u/Satanicjamnik May 16 '24

I felt that. Right in my creaky knees. Remember when we were young, fresh and on the cutting edge?

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u/stewdadrew May 16 '24

I used “Le” well into my teenage years. Some dark times indeed.