• amio
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    7510 months ago

    “Gimme five lolcats for a demotivational,” we’d say…

    • @jaybone
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      2110 months ago

      I wore an o’rly owl on my geocities.

        • @theangryseal
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          910 months ago

          I’ll do you one better than the other guy.

          It was “because of teh war.”

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          610 months ago

          We couldn’t has cheeseburgers, because of the war war was beginning.

          FTFY

      • rustydomino
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        110 months ago

        Which was the fashion of the time…

  • @Etterra
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    10 months ago

    We used to call em “demotivationals.” You’d say “post your best demotivational” while posting yours, which we all did. Those were the good old days.

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      Now we called them demotivationals because they were made in reaction to motivationals, which were all the rage in Shelbyville. And one demotivational was worth ten motivationals. ‘Gimme one for the ten,’ you’d say, and you would post your motivationals so the wizards of memes could photoshop them, or you might say “shop.” Which was the style at the time.

      You could always tell a shop from some of the pixels, or from seeing quite a few shops in your time. Whichever was easier.

      (I put way more effort into this than it called for.)

  • @[email protected]
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    4410 months ago

    I tied a ROFLcopter to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to make a shitpost cost a cheeseburger, and in those days, cheeseburgers came with pictures of cats on 'em. “I can has cheezburger,” you’d say.

    • @Mr_Blott
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      1310 months ago

      Never could remember that cos I had so much trouble trying to hold all those pesky limes

      • @ExfilBravo
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        710 months ago

        So this is what the retirement home is going to be like for us? Just fondly remembering old memes while we drift into the void.

        • @flubba86
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          110 months ago

          Yes please. Sign me up.

  • Bonehead
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    2610 months ago

    That’s just a holdover from Demotivational posters.

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    1710 months ago

    A more civilised meme for a more civilised time. ;p

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    Reminds me of the “when you see it, you’ll shit bricks” pictures.