Well I'm an ecogist who surveys badgers...

Yup, I lost the game too

Come onnn xD ngl, I used to use 1337 all the time for usernames, passwords, whathaveyou xD

Reaalllyyy....is that so?

Awww shit. I deeply apologize if I have offended you 🤣🦝

I'm surprised not to see ceiling cat here so..

Haha, I'm hoping for some mushrooms so I can offer snakes (I survey snakes too, I'm all over this meme!)

milhouse is not a meme

but milhouse is not a meme is a meme

Honestly surprised how long it took for someone to drop that, lol. Thanks.

Also literally my cat at times -_-

How about with rice?

One time I made my husband a valentine's card that said

"Roses are red, violets are blue, all my base are belong to you."

I had a boss who used it as both a verb and an adverb (while speaking Estonian, it sounds better as an adverb in Estonian than English), really opened my eyes to the versatility

Stylized S.

Ohhh is that because the Audi 5000, unlike the European version (Audi 100) had "unintended acceleration" as a feature? Which actually turned out to be that the pedals were closer to each other than some Americans were accustomed to, so in some super rare cases it would accelerate while the driver thought they were hitting the brakes? And then 60 minutes "demonstrated" it with a rigged car and it took decades for Americans to trust Audi again.

Oll Korreck

Wikipedia quoting Allen Walker Read: The abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 ... and used expressions like OFM, "our first men," NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." Many of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright."

How is babby formed. And pregnate, and all the other weird ass yahoo answer screen caps there were. It was wild

The rabbit hole on that thing is wild.

I imagine that's the moment he proposed, on the spot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

One thing I think is hilarious is I learned you say "you just lost the game" to people, but then circles of friends evolved and it came back like a decade later with a new group that would say "I just lost the game" and to be honest, I hated it that way... lol

Shoop da whoop

I had no idea that this was the actual origin of the terms but yes, I just looked it up, it was due to the unintended acceleration of the Audi 5000 is why its associated with leaving quickly, because that is what this vehicle did.

All your base?

My kid definitely uses it.

Actually the oldest I know of might be "23 skidoo" or maybe the word "O.K.", but not sure if those qualify as memes. Although if "6 7" qualifies, then they do too.

Those 90s tutorial videos are some of my favorite content on YouTube, deliciously unhinged ;)

Made me think of XKCD 550:

eight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.

aka 8008135

good luck. see ya next week.

https://youtu.be/psMMKgvpGfg

Ooh, I need to bring that one back into my rotation. I loved that one.

Something has to trigger my memory, but there are things in my head that are easily pre-Internet.

The cool 90s S is the one that comes to mind.

I still use babby daily. Mostly to myself in my head but occasionally in an email.

Should have stuck to being a Roofer.

The nostalgia. I used put these up on the class boards... before the term meme was even a thing

A classic lol

Why did they reverse the one with a leg out in the picture? Whyyyyyy?

I quote old episodes of SpongeBob at least 3 times a day

I can't for the life of me which game "a winner is you" is from. Is it a fighting game?

Not a meme, but this one reminded me of the YouTube channel, "cooking with dog."

Much like how viruses are not technically living, because they lack the internal depth to have their own metabolism and must parasitize other life to spread, '67' has no meaning, and must parasitize the cognitive abilities of its hosts to spread. It is not a meme. It is a memetic virus.

Those who catch it and refuse to cover their mouths and stop the spread need to be quarantined (ignored until they're ready to stop saying it)

Forsooth! This tapestry hath been altered. My knowledge doth derive from the stitching, as well as having observ'd many such forgeries in mine time.

The Bayeux Tapestry is probably one of the oldest memes (or at least the base for a set of memes) still in use in the digital age. So many earlier others based on wordplay or written text in general are probably incomprehensible now except to specific Tolkienesque ancient language nerds, since modern languages have mutated so much since medieval times, and are therefore lost.

Second place may belong to the Cool S.

:-)

I remember a time before emoticons and we'd say stuff like *g* for grin. But I don't use those anymore. And I never adopted emojis. So that narrows down when my brain calcified.

thatsthejoke.jpg

It's over 8000!

That's a common one in our house but we so all get the reference lol

I referenced this the other day and got stared at. And they were people my own age 😭

I think I first saw this on 4Chan circa like 2005? It lives rent free in my head.

Omg I forgot about this one! I love it!