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RustyNova
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Posted: · edited   Subject: Gangnam linux Quote

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FishFace
piefed.social
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Joined: 2025-10-16
#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking constantly in memes and I (as someone who had been talking in memes to my fellow terminally-online nerd friends forever) felt instantly at home - but I realised that the change had truly happened; internet memes and culture were no longer the niche preserve of nerds, but were well and truly mainstream.

So at the same time as I was enjoying having "my culture" something I could share with more people and be understood, there was a sad aspect that it was no longer special either.

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expatriado
lemmy.world
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Joined: 2023-06-18
#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

grandma style by now

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Broadfern
lemmy.world

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Joined: 2025-02-03
#4 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

grandma style by now

14 years ago 🥲

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humanamerican
lemmy.zip
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Joined: 2025-08-04
#5 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

open gangnam devs failed [arbitrary purity test]. I now only use the libre gangnam style fork

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RustyNova
lemmy.world

RustyNova@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-24
#6 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

open gangnam devs failed [arbitrary purity test]. I now only use the libre gangnam style fork

But they are struggling to catch on as "lib, lib lib, libre gangnam style" is too different for some people

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warm
kbin.earth
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Joined: 2024-03-03
#7 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking cons...

I had the same experience. This guy truly ruled the world for a brief moment. I don't think anything has come close to how this broke out, I guess because it all became so normal after that.

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Enkrod
feddit.org
Enkrod@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
#8 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I need to share this with someone: Minecraft Style hit me right when I was playing Feed The Beast Modded Minecraft with my Girlfriend years ago and I am still in awe.

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tempest
lemmy.ca
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Joined: 2023-06-30
#9 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

But they are struggling to catch on as "lib, lib lib, libre gangnam style" is too different for some people

How do you feel about the fork of libre Gangnam style, Gangnam Style NG

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muhyb
programming.dev
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Joined: 2023-07-05
#10 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

open gangnam devs failed [arbitrary purity test]. I now only use the libre gangnam style fork

Where my gangnam-rs bois?

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James
lemmy.ca
James@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-10
#11 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking cons...

It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends.

I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.

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FishFace
piefed.social
FishFace@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-16
#12 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends. I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.

Yeah I remember the 1B record. I wouldn't say it was the first viral internet trend, but it was the MOST viral at its time - everything viral up until then was dwarfed!

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zoltanshields
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Joined: 2026-09-18
#13 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends. I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.

There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.

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tacosanonymous
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined: 2026-07-31
#14 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

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tacosanonymous
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined: 2026-07-31
#15 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking cons...

It’s the two girls, one cup of your generation?

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RustyNova
lemmy.world

RustyNova@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-24
#16 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

Nah. This was a made with a :3

1000047773

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BlueberryWalnut
sopuli.xyz
BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-08-27
#17 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking cons...

Harlem Shake -> Gangnam Style -> ...Despacito maybe?

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ikidd
lemmy.dbzer0.com
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-23
#18 Posted:   Subject: Re: Gangnam linux Quote Reply

It’s the two girls, one cup of your generation?

Maybe a little millennial goatse.

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