Good God, this takes me back to middle school when we were obsessed with this song/chant/animation (what even was it?)
!badgers? anyone?
the way things are going the “Nigger stole my bike” might even do a comeback
Edit: but in all honesty it is actually hard to imagine that it was a thing once
It never died, they just change the wording. Naga stole my bike is a common world of Warcraft guild name but it usually will get banned pretty quick.
Nah.
Maybe on truth social?
I have heard it said that space has a terrible secret.
Do you have stairs in your house?
Domo arigato.
I think that’s cute they think those were the first memes.
this is the most Eternal September thing I’ve ever heard
That badger animation is from 2003. “First memes,” my ass!
First ERA of memes is implied.
2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.
But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.
Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.
Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!
Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”
That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.
I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.
And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.
I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.
And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.
Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!
Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.
And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
Legend.
The original was better
And more accessible to photosensitive epileptics!
What you say…?
MAIN SCREEN TURN ON
We got signal!
Hey guys… remember Newgrounds? Heh… Remember Spoony? Hehe…
How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven’t kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.
He was doing let’s plays last night saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.
I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.
Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for “nerds”.
I remember when nornies didn’t even know how to.
And now we’ve gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.
Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.
That’s true enough, I guess we were formed & forged out of necessity. If you wanted to surf web well, you had to figure all kinds of shit out. If you wanted to pirate, same deal. Watch porn? Better delete that web history, but also make it look believable.
It was baked into our brains at a young, impressionable age. And we absorbed it all.
Now these kids don’t seem to know how to do shit. Frustrating. They should be tech savvy.
I know parents who don’t own PCs. Just phones. A bunch of working class kids are without access to a PC. Of course they’re going to be worse at it than we were. How are they supposed to learn?
It’s not like we did it because we wanted to show off our useful skills on the job market, lol.
My mom used to call the house from work at a random time between when my brother and I got home from school and when she left work. If she got a busy signal, she would wait about 15 minutes to half an hour and call back. If she got a busy signal a second time she would assume one of us was on the Internet and we would get in trouble when she got home.
Oh that’s pretty smart of mom.
I’m getting nostalgic over thinking about the sound of the modem and the emotions that went with it.
If she knew a little more, she could be calling until crash the connection.
Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the word f*ggot was used constantly.
Like, constantly.
Eddie Murphy’s one earlier standup special (Raw?) drops it a bunch. I meannn even in the later oughts the one big joke in The Hangover was “paging Dr. Faggot!!!” Straight up trailer material to boot, if I’m not mistaken. More like 80s-early 2000s. Most people learned over time to change for the better socially, for a bit at least.
For me, I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I (thought I) didn’t know a single gay person personally. So many people were in the closet back then.
I didn’t really say fag much but for us kids, gay meant lame. “That’s gay” - I would hear or say it many times a day. It didn’t even mean homosexual, although once I got older I could see how it was harmful. Once people I knew came out and I knew gay adults I made the conscious decision to stop saying it.
Hardly unique to there though. It was a dark time.
a few years earlier
7 years earlier, to be precise.
Yeah, but back then the internet wasn’t as obiquitous as it is now, so something being online didn’t necessarily mean that you’d have seen it, whereas now if something is a hit you’ll see it in a matter of hours, really.
Like I probably did see the Hampster dance in the 90’s possibly, but like the computer in the library wasn’t one you could really use the speakers on, and I think it took until like 99-00 for dad to get a computer with an Internet connection. No it couldn’t have been that late I was looking up Zelda faqs when playing Ocarina of Time and that was a few years earlier, as N64 came out in 1996. OOT came out in 98 okay.
Same.
Kilroy was here
Damn, an even more ancient meme
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R
Thanks, now I have that freakin’ song stuck in my head.
And fuck I feel old now. Get off my lawn!!!
I’m still stuck on CAT. Imma kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance, and I dance-dance-dance
And I meow-meow-meow, and I meow-meow-meow-
“the first memes” yeah right
The Hampster Dance meme happened 5 years before the Badger meme.
Whoever made that gif should be punished.
It’s Hampster, because it’s in honor of Hampton the Hampster.
Also, did you know where the Hampster dance is from, as music? I was today years old when I learned this.
Also fine, but I guess what I was trying to express is that memes have existed forever and any claim that this is the “first” one is just silly.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg
All your base are belong to us!
🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🍌📞
Too too too doodledoo
🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
👤🤙🍕
👤🤙🐱
👤🤙⬜🏠, 💬🗨️
👤🤙🌎
👷🫱🇨🇳
🍌📞
🔔🔔🔔
deleted by creator
Why do you think the web was born? Porn porn porn!
I’ve not thought about Avenue Q in a long time.
And NOW I have that song stuck in my head. You people are terrible for my productivity … of reading random Lemmy posts.
A song stuck in your head?
Allow me.
Reading about the Hampster Dance just now, I learned that it’s actually sampled from this. I was today years when I learned why it had always seemed so familiar when first hearing it.
I hate each and every one of you know. This is basically psychological warfare.
(I really don’t hate anyone and I honestly kinda like the hamster dance song).
I hate each and every one of you know.
The syntax is sort of weird. Does it imply I have multiple personalities? Or that you hate every one of the personalities I know about?
Punctuation matters. It’s the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
No I was referring to the others that had suggested other ear-worms that I can’t get out of my head now. Sorry for the confusion.
And if I had an uncle Jack, I’d probably do both? Just kidding, he could likely get down on his own.
(Ok this was funny in my head… I’m weird)
Yeah I got that. But I woke up somewhat drunk and had some… musings.
(Ok this was funny in my head… I’m weird)
Me too man. Me too.
The hampster dance is your chance to do the Hamp. (Do the Hampster Hamp)
