• @betterdeadthanreddit
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    61 year ago

    “Wagner loves the cock” has similar origins in military graffiti but I’m not sure a text-only meme merits its own post. Should definitely make a comeback given the events of recent years though.

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    31 year ago

    You say my earlier comment, didn’t you.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      That we know of, anyway. Do you think literacy is required to spread a meme? If not, who knows what the legionaries had going.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        There is graffiti in Pompeii that definitely suggests a memetic type of replication. Hell, one could argue that putting your handprint on a stone wall is a meme.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Which graffiti is that? Did they find more bread making references?

          Most of it was people’s names and crude comments IIRC. The more things change the more they stay the same

            • @[email protected]
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              IMO to be a meme it has to have learned symbolism. Kilroy was the guy always in front of you in the strange new lands you visited, Drake indicates which thing is preferable to the other. Neither are intrinsic. Maybe it has to be somewhat humorous or ironic too, because I don’t think a crucifix or the Latin letter “A” qualifies.

              The hand print example could work if it was actually a rude gesture in the original culture, the intent was to troll all future generations and they were added to gradually over time.

  • MooseGas
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    11 year ago

    I worked with a guy a long time ago who would write this on things around the office.