Born After The Memes Began

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[@Riddimensaur]

This whole topic just has me imagining Monsoon from Revengence breaking down because he just slowly realizes all the memes are different now.

[@joebin3106]

What about bullshit ? Is that a MEME ?

[@julioc.3158]

@@joebin3106 Oh Bullshit Blazing? Yeah I recognize that one Mr Jack The Ripper.

[@SPARR0E]

As a zoomer at the literal cutoff point for milennials, my first console was the Ps2. Being kinda poor at the time, we didn't have internet until like 2008, so really jumped in mid stream there. Big "I can has cheeze burger" and ragecomic energy.

[@Fire-jk8ye]

dude same ere but for me it was the gamecube. it's weird I went from gamecube, to wii, to xbox 360 and then in 2010 I got a PC and the following year skyrim and dark souls came out and the rest is history. born in 1996.

[@mrelba9176]

I'm as old as these two...My first console was an NES...

[@0bleach0]

Similarly, i had a Gameboy colour in the early 2000s and didn't get an n64 till the GameCube was halfway thru its lifecycle. Rage comics are such a trip to go back to, the only ones I still can enjoy are the troll science ones

[@onimaxblade8988]

My first consoles were the PS1 and it took me a while to get a PS2.

[@cullenmuir2707]

We're of a generation that is outcasts to both. We can't fully relate to either but somehow enough for both to call us the opposite of themselves.

[@SpookeyGael]

joining the internet for me felt like hearing all of these legends and stories about the golden age of memes and forums only to find out everything had already started to suck.

[@leithaziz2716]

To me, every year garners really funny memes, so I dont really know what would be considered the "golden age" of memes. (I'm a zoomer) Allthough nowadays, memes age so much quicker unless it's video games memes. Those stay eternal for the most part. Wether it's any line from GTA SA, or the goldmine of memes from MGR which are still funny to this day. Those are just the top of the iceberg that I use as an example.

[@1337w334b00]

​@@KZbinCommentor1 Google changed it all. The issue used to be that you couldn't find the good websites easily and now the issue is that the good websites are so easy to find that they're filled to burst with fucking garbage and rapidly turn to shit (ie: Every social media website after cheap smartphones became a thing).

[@fist-of-doom487]

@@1337w334b00 I think theirs a name for this “The Burden of Convenience” where things are so convenient it circles around to being inconvenient just by shear number of options

[@iller3]

what they're calling that golden age is when I was already 5 or 6 years in and I guarantee you things had ALREADY started to suck because 3 years prior, "America-Online" was just starting to bring in all these boomers, shriekers, and Twelvies

[@especiallyleavish]

See also, being born \\

[@Equirah]

I want to point out that this is, to this day, very region specific. NA had/has memes that they think everyone else will relate to and experienced it but they weren't that big, SA has its own meme culture, Europe and Japan as well. And it's not just memes, every region experienced the growth of the internet in their own different way and I think it's beautiful how we all ended up in this trash pile.

[@Suitswonderland]

Are you saying right now with the "to this day" ? Because it was totally not the case in the past, we all shared the same memes but this was like before people had smartphones and no one ever talked about memes in RL though I can see it being different with todays youth and like anyone younger than our age group (the 30's+) EDIT: Well actually people did talk about them in RL, but they were usually shoved into lockers, I was one of those assholes who shoved people into locks, I am not happy about my behavior in school.

[@azurewriter1858]

Ah yes. "Scorpion cebando mate" is my favorite SA meme.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

Simpsons references are a totally different animal in South America

[@Guciom]

I'm from Poland. Outside of my country does anybody understands what "Mięsny Jeż!" (Meat Hedgehog) is?

[@Thalanox]

North America invented the internet. Canada, in particular, had much higher broadband penetration than the US did, so participation in early internet stuff was itself region specific. It's kind of like the invention of electric light bulbs, automotive vehicles, trains, planes, electrical grids, indoor plumbing, the printing press, and so on. The people who invented it set the standards and directed the growth of it. Then other people moved in to what was already created.

[@Exarian]

It blows my mind that Madness Combat just kept on trucking tbh. I didn't know there was anything after the fourth one and then randomly like earlier this year I found out that Krinkles just kept making them, they kept getting better, and now there's about a full feature length movie's worth of that now, the most recent part was released like less than a year ago. I stopped watching at 4 because my dad saw A Tit on the screen on NG when he was combing over my browser history. Was damn near banned from using the computer. I was like 15. He was absolutely *mortified* that such "filth" was allowed to pass through his modem. Worth note, I actually avoided nudity because it freaked me out at the time so it's not like I was looking up porn or anything, I just happened to go to a site that one could find nudity on. He was fine with gratituous violence though because this was the archetypal "violence is wholesome, sex is depraved" american framework.

[@reaperfrost8]

They released a full game called madness project nexus apparently

[@MinersLoveGames]

My dad banned me from Stickpage when I was ten because of all the blood and gore. Which, granted, I probably shouldn't have been watching at ten years old.

[@titansloyalist4066]

Tetris is the only example of the "perfect videogame". You could hand that shit over to an extra dimensional being and it would know what the goal is. It's so good like that because it transcends humanity. It's shapes, mathematics.

[@locke2517]

Icanhazcheezburger was where I was first exposed to memes... Jesus where did the time go?

[@KilogramHours]

Remember fucking fail blog?

[@mr.bluesky4130]

Yooo, the classic

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

I think the lolwut pear was the first thing I ever right clicked and saved on /b/ 15 years ago.

[@locke2517]

Oh fuck, the member berries are for real right now

[@jedisquidward]

Jesus Christ I can't believe this comment made me hungry

[@Terramagu]

This must be especially hard considering they hold the opinion that if you're older than 20 you're basically a dust golem with no reaction time that refuses to return to its natural state.

[@Kakashifan727]

You mn the Gen Z? Yeah they have a fucked view on age imo. More of a society problem though and how it pushes youth

[@Kilborns]

People older than me grew up before the internet and then got to experience it that way. People my age grew up with the internet, it was constantly changing and still the wild west, when you had like homestarrunner and ebaumsworld. People younger than me grew up ON the internet, iPhone's and stuff, less change but always around.

[@xaviertrudeau-deschenes8054]

The real way to play FF6 for the first time is to rent it at the video store, hop in an existing game, have no idea what is going on and think Bulma and Anubis are the heroes of this story.

[@MinersLoveGames]

I was born in 1997, and growing up in the early 2000s was *weird.* Toonami had just become a thing and was becoming popular in the US, computers were starting to make the transition from cube monitors, PlayStation 2 and XBOX were everywhere. I remember being taught how to use a floppy disk when I was in 3rd grade. By the time I was in high school we had flash drives and high speed internet. I remember AddictingGames, CoolMathGames, ArmorGames, Madness Combat and Castle I, II, III, and Repercussions. I remember what the web was like before it got commercialized and was still this new strange thing. I grew along with the web, and have seen its impact, both positive and negative. Now the internet just sucks.

[@2deep5u]

Don't forget Kongregate and Miniclips!

[@danielgutierrez6276]

Being born mid 90's was definitely weird. I was given a Super Nintendo as my first console. And then got a an Xbox when I turned 6. I completely skipped a whole generation of consoles and never knew about it.

[@VelvetAura]

Yep, same birth year here. I think anywhere from the 96-98 range will have similar experiences to speak of. I miss the internet from back when I was a kid

[@EbonMaster]

Woolie's weird blind spots continue to amaze me. How the fuck did you use Newgrounds and dodge Madness? They have a damn Madness DAY event every year lol

[@JackOfen]

Same for me, I used Newgrounds a lot in my youth and never heard of Madness.

[@14hourz82]

It is not even Madnes day,the name is Madness day but is in actuallity a Madness MONTH

[@EbonMaster]

@@14hourz82 I may be wrong but I was under the impression that it started off as a day? Either way yeah the point is that its a pretty big deal on the site. I remember it and fan projects about it popping up all the time in the top submission list when I would frequent the site. lol

[@EbonMaster]

@@JackOfen Thats absolutely crazy to me lol.

[@iller3]

someone find out if he atleast knew what clock day was FFS

[@Lonequacker]

Being a kid on early to mid 2000's internet was like the wild west. It's definitely formed me into the cold emotionless person I am today but it was worth it. It was like New York City before Disney came in and cleaned everything up.

[@MinersLoveGames]

Pretty much this.

[@Wanna_Be_Desu]

pure pottery

[@TheCatWatches]

Newgrounds, the birthplace of memes before they were called memes. All Your Base Are Belong to Us!, Theoden’s HAAAMMM, Sam tells Gollum about Potatoes- Boil’em Mash ‘em, Stick em in a stew & Legolas let us to know “They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard” via techno. Good times

[@Anonlyso]

That feel when you have vague recollections of YTMND and Something Awful doing screenshot Let's Plays and somehow age out even more

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Work it Make it Do it Makes us

[@stevenwilliams3094]

I almost forgot about taking the hobbits to isengard

[@trashman1605]

I'm a zoomer but I always loved diving into old forums and sites as a kid because i wanted to "start from the beginning" so now whenever i reference something that none of my friends get, i feel the taste of white monster in my mouth

[@jontrain8986]

"Demotivational Posters" was the first time I had heard internet jokes classified as "memes". Definitely still seems like a poorly thought out lingual term

[@justincase4063]

Being old enough to know that people are getting excited for remakes for games that already had remakes is perplexing. (Looking at you Resident Evil)

[@darkdemigod]

I literally had the same thought pat did thinking all the shops were real. memes really felt as big as the world at the time and now they have defined mainstream culture. it boggles the mind. if I went back and told myself that back then I don't know how I'd feel. we truly are sons of the stars.

[@Thalanox]

Photoshop, video editing software in general, and just the ability of an end user to actually create multimedia content other than writing a story or drawing in MS Paint with a mouse were absolutely mind-boggling concepts that were not commonly understood by the average person. Even more so when you're looking at the average 6th grader.

[@KaiTheLegend]

Wow this brings me back… those were truly the golden years of the internet. As soon as I saw the “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” guy in the thumbnail, I just knew this was gonna be good. 😂

[@CrazyAznKT]

Born 93 and on the internet younger than most people my age in like 2002. I don’t remember my first meme but I feel like I know many of the classics

[@lolbuster01]

Born in 94 and the same. I was mostly playing medal of honor allied assault but then I got super huge into flash games.

[@CrazyAznKT]

@@lolbuster01 For me it was geocities and playing stuff like Gaia, GunBound, MapleStory, ROSE Online, and Gunz haha. All the 2000’s Asian American stereotypes

[@Wanna_Be_Desu]

I've read a thread recently (like in 2019 probably lol) about first gaming experiences or smthng and one of the first most replied posts was something like "Man, I remember when I was in school playing far cry 3, now that was good game, first time I really got into gaming". That game came out like 2012. And Skyrim was a year prior. Meanwhile in my head Half-Life 2 water and physics in games was the hottest new thing. I felt like one of those mummies, crumbling into dust as soon as they are exposed to air.

[@LAAV69]

I was born in ‘96 and started playing games in 2004. 2000-2008 is what I consider to be my reference point. When I started going back to games from the 80s and especially 90s, I was shocked to see how concise and straightforward so many games are from those decades. They literally didn’t have the time on discs and cartridges to waste time or pad things out (barring spiking difficulties to extend playtime). It’s amazing that 2 years was considered a long development time. That and many watershed titles from the 90s feel lopsided and thrown together, like the leads were really flying by the seats of their pants. I entered high school in 2010 right as horse armor, season passes and GAAS was starting to take off. I feel like I fall into that last age group that played games just before all of those auxiliary purchases starting popping up. I’ve always been very critical about what gets slotted as DLC and micro-transactions because of that

[@DemPop]

As someone who started browsing various forums and 4chan somewhere around the late 00's, if not 2010, I can atest that I was a goober enough to actually go into old archives and find out what the flying fuck all these old memes are about. The time was not too far ahead and the memes haven't been evolving as fucking fast as they started to later on, so it was actually kinda possible to catch up lmao.

[@amfram]

So as a 2004 zoomer, I joined the internet relatively early and accidentally got into all your base is belong to us and nyancat and the usual early 2010's memes and such because my sister let me use her iPod to watch KZbin circa 2012. So now I'm more knowledgeable than my peers ig, whoops Edit: Also other sister has been an avid tumblr user since I don't even know so I've been blasted with old internet stuff and 90s stuff through her Edit 2 (Can you tell I'm editing as I watch the video?): I also had a phase where I was really into old Newgrounds and all that, still use NG from time to time but that also supplied some culture.

[@miguelangelucsanchez183]

God i still remember when the first meme i saw was the Wryyy/Road roller da which is funny, because i already knew about jojo thanks to the capcom fighting game... God i still remember when jojo was so obscure that most of the fan translations were garbage... God it was a struggle to be a western Jojo fan pre anime also part of me still misses how wild youtube used to be back in the day, i still remember alot of the viral video fads from back in the day like Numa Numa.

[@blondie5835]

Pour one out for the Duwang translation.

[@miguelangelucsanchez183]

@@blondie5835 not even just duwang part 5 first translation was also bad but mostly because it was translated from the chinese version of the manga instead of the Japanese version and the second translation took a long time to be Finished hell it was done just a month before the part 5 anime debut.

[@HeyItsAyls]

For equal parts 'feeling old on the internet' and 'Final Fantasy', I was doing the Kefka Raid Fight in FFXIV and someone in the party went 'Oh cool, it's that guy from Dissidia'.

[@BroadBoulders]

Oh fuck that made ME feel old

[@MrKuemmelbrot]

My first meme was probably longcat or some other cat related meme in the mid 00s Anything that would be big enough to be featured in a newgrounds flash game at the time basically, as I didn't use any forums back then.

[@starwars90001]

With how easy the internet makes accessing information and finding stuff I have no idea what this is like. I literally watched Fist of the North Star, a lot of old underground cartoons, and old webcomics from KZbin. Addon reviewers and them deep diving into their favorite series and I was exposed to tons of stuff I didn't grow up with.

[@brockobama1123]

Howling at the kid logic of skipping FF 4, 5, and 6, what a perfect thing

[@ikeisley9467]

Peanut butter jelly time

[@boxxylegoplaymobil8906]

i remember in like 2002 (i was 3 or 4) my dad sat me down in front of the family computer and forced me to watch all your base and the pusher robot. i have no idea what possessed him to do so, but being a teenager all throughout the 2010s made sure that i saw memes as a constant source of media. first as entertainment, then as polling to see whats popular, and currently as a language that people older than me (such as pat and woolie even) cannot understand.

[@thelastchannelonyoutube]

I have a friend who just got really into madness combat (the series is having a bit of a comeback) so seeing Pat go into shock over seeing someone play a madness game in 2021 is very funny.

[@TheLegendaryZed]

its crazy how i was born ten years after you guys and yet my first meme experience was also seeing All Your Base Are Belong To Us on Newgrounds in elementary school. the road may be long with many entrances, exits, and winding paths, yet we all walk the same one.

[@Sonicfalcon16]

You're gonna like the way you look, I guarantee it

[@zerotakis]

Haha, look at these old men talking about old things. Good thing I will never get old.

[@adammostbeast]

Born in ‘96. First console was the Dreamcast, and with it connecting to the internet, I honestly thought of it as the peak of technology, it couldn’t get much more advanced.

[@SeruraRenge11]

On the note of skipping numbers in games, Drakengard 3 was originally going to be called Drakengard 4 and the plot would be trying to find out what happened in 3 (which in this scenario was an unreleased game)

[@charleswisconsin9196]

that sounds too much like the joke about Spaceballs 3.

[@Vaishino]

Officially pumped for woolie ff6

[@ultraspinalki11]

What version will he play? The script has many differences depending if it's the SNES, Playstation or fan translation(s).

[@parker469a]

I liked Tetris DX on Sega Saturn. There's a little archeologist guy that you have to save from being crushed by a drill that drops one line every 20 seconds. That and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is my second favorite. Yeppie, yeppie, yeehaw!!!

[@charliec.-lite1466]

My introduction to memes was first Newgrounds flash animations/games, and then later, mid-late 2000's KZbin. So like KZbin Poops and those machinimas in modded emulated Mario 64 (you know, the ones with the colored subtitles). Some of those Mario ones got really creative now that I think about it, though I doubt too many of them really aged well.

[@SoaringLettuce]

The DNA of the soul?

[@ultragamer4465]

"AND IT WILL COME"

[@SoaringLettuce]

@@ultragamer4465 LIKE A FLOOD OF PAIN

[@ultragamer4465]

@@SoaringLettuce POURING DOWN ON ME

[@SoaringLettuce]

@@ultragamer4465 AND IT WILL NOT LET UP UNTIL THE END IS HERE

[@ricardomiles2957]

Funny enough one of the very first memes I've seen was about Jojo, more especially ZA WARUDO but back then I had no clue what was the origin and it all felt like a fever dream

[@qazimod]

12:58 - I never grew up with a SNES, and so I literally played through VI for the first time last year, and CT for the first time this year. Totally worth it

[@idnyftw]

my parents would never buy me those things but I had a PC and an internet connection and boy the scallywags sailed free during those days...

[@charleswisconsin9196]

@@idnyftw just say you used an emulator man.

[@ultraspinalki11]

I've also been going through several classic RPGs that I missed out on as a kid in recent times. FF6, CT and the Suikoden games to name a few. If you ever decide to try only one Suikoden game, definitely go for the 2nd game, the patched version from cd romance if you can.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

One time my high school gym teacher started showing us Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail on one of those "fuck it, the year's over we're not learning anything more" days. The ingrates in the rest of my class either didn't get it or ignored it entirely. This was around 2000.

[@mikefrolov4161]

what's it like joining the internet a mid-way through? it's like getting on a school bus, but you got on with the high school students, but you're barely into middle school. they don't find you cute anymore, but they don't respect you either. but you are desperate to look as cool as they are.

[@HoChiMints2007]

My first meme was the Dancing Baby, back in 97. Everybody was sending that stupid gif in their emails, it was crazy. Wasn't much into meme culture since there wasn't forums or social media for kids like me till the mid 2000s, thanks MySpace and Tagged!

[@cottonmouthaudio5041]

If things being old upsets you just have my mind set where the past is such a nebulous compressed mess that everything might as well of come out yesterday.

[@Thalanox]

Lads and gentlemen, I implore you to archive this video to your computer. This will be the kind of video that you watch again once in a while over the rest of your life and get blown away every time. Like a good, old, movie. It's a Time Capsule of time capsules.

[@LordQuadros]

"I know you played X, I seen it!" *Flashback to "THE RACE WAR STARTS NOOOOOOW!"* I am excited for an FF6 LP, though

[@pleaserespond3984]

I wonder if the universal desire to die when you're reminded how old you are is some kind of evolutionary development. Like, once upon a time when Grug saw Zoomzoom hunting with a stick with stone on end instead of just stick and went "Grug time to go", maybe that is how Grug realized he has to let Zoomzoom be his own person and build his own world. Perhaps the entirety of human civilization only exists because old people can feel in their bones that it's time to let the young ones take over. So this holiday season you can feel justified telling your old relatives who still harp on you for doing things "wrong" that they're unevolved troglodytes who hold back human progress.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

Watching numa-numa memes fir the first time back in 2006 changes a man, as does watching the gradual destruction and decline of internet culture and society as a whole. Zoomers just don't know.

[@willadkins1354]

Older Zoomers were on the Internet in 2006, just really young.

[@fist-of-doom487]

Man Numa-Numa memes and Carameldansen memes are classics

[@princescribbles684]

6 is the best damn game in the Final Fantasy series and I'm looking forward to the thirty minute montage of Woolie trying to find and obtain the optimal translation and format to play it in.

[@Charredasperity]

I don't want to think about the majority of the internet being born after All Your Base

[@disk3001]

This reminds me when people started saying that the Poison dance from Turk was the Fortnite dance... I died a little inside

[@FaalFeim]

I started going on Albinoblacksheep when I was in early grade school. I wonder how much different my personality would have ended up if I had stayed off the internet

[@crimsonharvest]

We're still doing photoshop threads over on SA, the crowd is mostly old now but somehow they dont stop

[@mattaardsma8245]

This reminds me that last month, 13 years after the original video, Charlie the Unicorn had its grand finale.

[@ultraspinalki11]

A shame filmcow doesn't seem to acknowledge one of his earlier works called "The last Unicorn". It predates Charlie and I think it's only found on his newgrounds account.

[@InugamiTheHound]

I have question for everyone, "how old was everyone when they first found internet porn?" of any kind (straight, gay, lesbian, hentai etc..)

[@MinersLoveGames]

13, Newgrounds. Thanks Zone.

[@PatchtheReaper99]

I'm willing to bet the closest thing to digging through the archives people like me did was stumble on Encyclopedia Dramatica and then spend weeks just reading through page after page

[@tomass234]

I still remember hearing my first rondom person on voice chat in a game. Scared the fuck outta me that a random old man was speaking to me and calling me dumb for not duplicating my sword in diablo original. Blew my fucking mind i didnt have to call my buddy on the the lan line to chat once i figured it out.

[@Abdega]

Monsoon: You _FOOLS!_ The memes have always been around!

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

28yr old, started with GB Color and Original Playstation. I remember buying the PS One at launch. I remember playing Backyard Baseball on a blue Hot Wheels Gateway.

[@way2creative]

I was born in 98, so I remember some of the older stuff like All Your Base and I Shall Give You Dis Pear but I think that's mostly cause I hung out with an older crowd. The meme that hit me the hardest at my young age was probably Charlie Bit Me which even as a kid I never found funny lol

[@A-Saxy-Bard]

I had AOL for a long time as a kid, which had age specific restrictions. My earliest memories of the internet are early days of KZbin and looking at GameTrailers videos

[@hobbitninja]

When we stopped putting DBZ SNES fighting game gifs in everything that's when things went downhill

[@JoseRS1186]

7:33 I see Thing moved into Pat's place. EDIT: God. Pat makes so many Teen Girl Squad references and I'm not sure he's aware.

[@penguinwafflemchubbly]

joining the internet midway was fucking euphoric. Like there were more memes and lore to find and dig up, and new shit being made at an exponential rate.

[@VTown1989]

"How familiar are you with the Meme Wars, EXACTLY?" "Uh, not at all." (starts rubbing hands) "Oh boy... I envy you..."

[@TheCatWatches]

FF6 has the best villain. The villain of FFXV is a reference to this character

[@dracomundo1498]

I grew up in the 2000s with a PS2, a buncha PS1 games, and a Sega Genesis and absolutely 0 internet until 2017. I didn't get a ps3 until 2018. Just wanted to share lol

[@trop3848]

Having missed all the fun early shit is actually something I'm a bit upset about. I got the tail end of a lot of that shit so I have some nostalgia for it. Also every once in a while someone I know references an older thing, or I reference an older thing and we have to fill each other in.

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

Just turned 37 in October, man. 36 is heavy. 37 will knock you on your ass, Wooly. I'm already staring off in the distance at 38. I remember finding 4chan in 2004 in high school before I graduated. Was searching for anime (and hentai) on some old ass search engine on my school libraries computer. I always wonder if the librarian knew. I didn't have internet at home until years later and in 2007 someone from an old forum reminded me 4chan exists and I went back and never left. It's weird seeing old ass jokes, image macros and shitty mspaint comics shit out by 4chan, gobbled up by reddit and shit into facebook and twitters mouths years, a decade later.

[@normandy2501]

I'm only 27, but I remember waiting half the computer lab for videos to load on stick page, discovering deviant art, waking up to Home Movies and Harvey Birdman on adult swim, playing to beat my cousin's high score on the default pinball computer game, and when KZbin was just DBZ and Naruto AMVs.

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

@@normandy2501 I still have a VHS tape around here somewhere my brothers friend made where he recorded a ton of turbo old DBZ amv's from back then on it. I wore that thing out. I still associate Linkin Park with Vegeta.

[@IAmEveryoneIAmYou]

it's weird that wooly is doing ff6 now when the pixel remaster will probably be out in like a month. i wonder if he's gonna go for the original version with a translation patch or just straight original woolsey dialogue

[@TayoJD23]

5 is the best SNES/GBA Final Fantasy, you know it in your heart to be true

[@Drawersama]

NO! You are not gonna trick me into expending 2 hours wikidiving what was the first meme to exist. FF6 is my favorite of the series too.

[@GELTONZ]

Dancing Baby is a strong contender.

[@JackOfen]

Maybe as an Internet meme, but memes are as old as ancient greece at least.

[@fist-of-doom487]

Kilroy Was Here was a meme before the age of the Internet

[@charleswisconsin9196]

but FF5 tho.

[@geneirai]

no one tell woolie that tetris was made almost 40 years ago, not 30

[@geneirai]

god damnit chat

[@AfroMetalMizu]

YTMMD was the meme origin for me lmao. Great times as a kid in 4th and 5th grade

[@mikaela5938]

i remember watching a bunch of videos on the know your meme youtube channel awhile ago which is how i learned about the zero wing stuff and philosophorapter and a bunch of other ones

[@Flackon]

FF6 is definitely the best FF so far The whole SNES Holy Trinity (Chrono Trigger, FF6 and Earthbound) is worth playing though

[@idnyftw]

I was there at the very beginning, when people passed Two Cows jokes around through email and people argued in BBS's... thought it was just gonna be a weird college thing forever that would somehow have a technician subculture, like cars and gearheads but it got very fucking mainstream with everyone and their literal grandmother going around claiming they know everything... like with cars and gearheads these days too... ugh...

[@goticogordo]

thankfully i started with the internet back in the YTMD days, so i got to see all this forming to what it is now, i say its pretty cool

[@Anonlyso]

In the words of a Taiwanese Image Posting website: "[This place] was never good, it's just even worse now" - Whenever people bring up the good ol' days of forum posting

[@BazzBrother]

Im glad that, in this conversation about good movies, the gang decided to cosplay as Bees in reference to the film Bee movie.

[@hawks__]

As someone born in 89 I feel this

[@ArchArturo]

Millennial, but, born and raised in Mexico; my first memes were in the early 2000s, and while I didn’t own a ps2, the local arcade close to the school had one.

[@KEV.I.N24]

So me being born in 2000. Currently 21 years old. First console was the ps2. I remember the first Nintendo DS and it blew my tiny mind. We got a family laptop I want to say perhaps 2007. We also got WiFi in around the same time.

[@KEV.I.N24]

@Disposable Email I was too young and didn't appreciate it as much. However pokemon emerald will live with me forever.

[@14hourz82]

Are you me? i'm 22 but beside that this is me

[@onimaxblade8988]

My first console was... I think I played some SNES before it, and technically maybe an N64 at friend's places, but PS1 was the first I remember solidly owning. I think maybe something happened to the SNES that made it disappear but not the PS1. Born 1999 btw.

[@ngmajora6986]

For me it's Safety Not Guaranteed

[@sharizadmdyusoff1927]

Back then we use natscape navigator and loading an image takes 10 minutes and print them for another 10 minutes chat using irc in the internet cafe. Haha what a time back then...

[@jollykami]

I did the exact same thing Woolie was talking about in college. I went back and watched every classic film I could, and then did the same with video games. Educate yourself.

[@Thalanox]

Worth it? I've got a few long works to get through that I've been slacking off of. I've already seen stuff like Casa Blanca and Citizen Kaine with a movie night on a small site I'm a part of.

[@zjc92]

3:33 Hello Elmo I love you

[@eduardojose2755]

On the older side of zoomers. First console was the n64 and ps1, my dad was a heavy gamer when i was growing up, especially loved tekken. I got on the when the very first AMVs where starting to pop up. I have a recollection of most of the early infancy of our current internet. For context, I'm Puerto Rican, our media is centered around regurgitating all the stupid jokes that the USA did but not memes. When its memes, we have such a disconnect with the rest of the hispanic/latin american comunity.

[@nikola5413]

for me first time i found out about memes was on 9gag but i was browsing before that i just haven't really heard that word before, and also i spent a lot of time with my relatives that were born when "the internet began" so their influence shaped my perception of internet and video games when i was much too young to use it myself. also i did have a big disadvantage of english not being my native language, but through internet and video games i learned, and also the technology was kind of behind in my country so for example when people were getting brand new ps2s overseas, here people would still be buying a ps1 and not really knowing about the new console. so all of that influences me, a person born in ´96 to really enjoy stuff that someone my age probably wouldn't, like snes games. but i do think that snes games can be enjoyed by any mature person at least the best ones. i have also followed machinima a lot back in the days of ye olde youtube, thats how i know about this channel and a lot of other channels from that time, that still hold on.

[@lolbuster01]

I felt like I had a ton of catching up to do! Luckily my first gaming implement was a original game boy pocket so I did kinda get the experience of going through the technology progression. My first console was the original Xbox, but I played the n64 and atari at my friend's house alot.

[@TariTariTariTariTari]

I don't know where I count in this almost approaching my thirties, but I remember being in middle school and my friend trying to explain to me what memes were using i liek mudkips as an example.

[@profeseurchemical]

been waiting for this vid since i heard it on the podcast. so, my household didnt get internet until the start of the 2010s. i did go back but only as far as the 2000s. for cartoons i go as far back as the 90s and for music i go as far as the 70s. had also inherited some cool books/ comics aswell. films dont really hold up in my experience, but also i managed to watch some old tvs shows and films before i was done maturing, so i was in a headspace similar to the backwardsness of the time/ could wasnt as badly affected by the cringe

[@Captain1nsaneo]

THE MEMES JACK

[@thatoneguy5969]

I had never heard of madness combat till the game came out and my gf got excited about it lol she's younger than me, but knows more about meme history than me (I grew up without internet till late high school). So, being in that situation I can say that yes, sometimes if an old thing resurfaces I might go back in time to try learn and figure out what all is going on if it's interesting enough.

[@NeoBoneGirl]

Pat saying FFV only came out in English recently fucked me up cuz I played that shit when I was like 8 on my GBA SP as my first ever RPG

[@timestopMachinist]

i started ffvi with a friend (netplay) because it has co-op that lets you assign party members between the two of you, and its been pretty fun. havent finished it yet, but very cool.

[@timestopMachinist]

also, been playing ffxv recently and man what the fuck happened

[@onimaxblade8988]

@@timestopMachinist Good pair of comments lol. What DID happen? FFXV is a huge ol' mess.

[@craigtrautmanjr9393]

With due respect regarding whether gen z gets the old website's joke, I've encountered many education websites provided as school resources that look like that up till 2011