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CruelBuffalo
04/30/21 1:31:15 AM
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us is pretty old right?

https://youtu.be/jQE66WA2s-A
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CruelBuffalo
04/30/21 1:34:08 AM
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Not really a meme but a popular video. Anyone remember the flash game where you could play as them?
https://youtu.be/O3sexvJM5Go
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bnui_ransder
04/30/21 1:35:47 AM
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Not early but I like this one, pretty old though

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CruelBuffalo
04/30/21 1:36:24 AM
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https://youtu.be/XUdaD1zUXDM
A popular sig in gif form back in the day
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Tom Clark
04/30/21 1:58:19 AM
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Badger Badger was the first one that sprang to mind for me.

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DocileOrangeCup
04/30/21 1:59:07 AM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Not really a meme but a popular video. Anyone remember the flash game where you could play as them?
https://youtu.be/O3sexvJM5Go
Oh God I loved the Xiao Xiao games they were so cool

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ArchNemo
04/30/21 1:59:29 AM
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your shirt are so ugly my penis falls off and runs out the door

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ArchNemo
04/30/21 2:00:24 AM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Not really a meme but a popular video. Anyone remember the flash game where you could play as them?
https://youtu.be/O3sexvJM5Go

You should check out one finger death punch.

Anyone remember stick death?

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haloiscoolisbak
04/30/21 2:44:07 AM
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Star Wars kid?

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Shotgunnova
04/30/21 2:52:14 AM
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Tom Clark posted...
Badger Badger was the first one that sprang to mind for me.
This.

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Solid_Seb
04/30/21 8:54:23 AM
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Oh gawd stick figure death. I cringe now, but loved that shit as a kid
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MedeaLysistrata
04/30/21 8:55:45 AM
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I guess the badger video

I dont consider that a meme necessarily but I guess I did see it when I was 10ish

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gunplagirl
04/30/21 8:56:12 AM
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Tom Clark posted...
Badger Badger was the first one that sprang to mind for me.
Hamster dance was out years beforehand, and the hamster dance wasn't even the first email spammed thing.

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Wii_Shaker
04/30/21 8:56:53 AM
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Papa Smurf.

Mario Twins.

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HighOnSolar
04/30/21 8:57:56 AM
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Wii_Shaker posted...
Papa Smurf

havent thought of this in years and I wish you didnt change that

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SpoiltTrouser
04/30/21 9:09:10 AM
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i heard you liek mudkips

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Squall28
04/30/21 9:10:36 AM
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Oh rly owls started the picture thing with text

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Fluttershy
04/30/21 9:12:57 AM
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Mario Twins.

oh my god, they look the same.

Oh rly owls started the picture thing with text

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ha-ha-guy

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CE_gonna_CE
04/30/21 9:15:09 AM
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Youre the man now dog
Youre the man now dog
Youre the man now dog
Youre the man now dog
Youre the man now dog

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KLouD_KoNNeCteD
04/30/21 9:19:28 AM
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lol internet
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Squall28
04/30/21 9:21:12 AM
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mattymad posted...
Didn't it come before with "advice dog" from the chan?

"Go to hospitals - Unplug machines"

As for earliest... There's a ton. What about the dancing baby to ooga chaka? That's like mid/late 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

I saw the owls first, but I'm not a chan user so I wouldn't know if dog came first.

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Relient_K
04/30/21 9:21:39 AM
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I can haz cheezburger

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YellowSUV
04/30/21 9:23:34 AM
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I would say All Your Base was probably the first modern meme since it led to many spin-offs and remixes with massive popularity. I guess the other option is Dancing Baby, but that was mostly confined to people just seeing the dancing baby and that's it.

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HighOnSolar
04/30/21 9:27:37 AM
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mattymad posted...
I mean, if we wanna be "serious", you need to go back to early internet days like bbs. The ascii command line driven message boards.

If anything, they created emoticons, like :-), which don't fit the modern definition of meme, but fit the actual definition of meme

good grief bro shut the fuck up


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Hayame Zero
04/30/21 9:29:47 AM
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Dancing baby or hamster dance. I had to google which came first, and the baby did, but I didn't know about it until Ally McBeal which was after hamster dance.

There's also flying toasters - which felt like a meme - but wasn't an internet meme per se.

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YellowSUV
04/30/21 9:32:35 AM
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While certainly not the first, I think the differences between rage faces and wojacks exemplifies the "standardization" of things on the Internet. In this picture I found notice how the rage faces are in general more varied, while all the wojacks follow the same basic template besides coomer.

https://i.imgur.com/dc2RJFx.jpg

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Squall28
04/30/21 9:42:32 AM
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YellowSUV posted...
While certainly not the first, I think the differences between rage faces and wojacks exemplifies the "standardization" of things on the Internet. In this picture I found notice how the rage faces are in general more varied, while all the wojacks follow the same basic template besides coomer.

https://i.imgur.com/dc2RJFx.jpg

Yeah old ones better

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Fluttershy
04/30/21 9:54:48 AM
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at some point, someone changed the colors on the advice dog, and nobody noticed.

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Trumpo
04/30/21 10:15:52 AM
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O rly owl
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Rapid99
04/30/21 10:20:31 AM
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Chuck Norris facts were spun off from Vin Diesel facts, a Something Awful meme from 2005.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chuck-norris-facts

YellowSUV posted...
https://i.imgur.com/dc2RJFx.jpg



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