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minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·17 hours agowe had memes in the 90s? I thought we were just fucking around with emoticons back then.
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours agoA meme is a recurring pop-culture action, phrase, or image. Text-overlaid pictures are a category of meme format with sub-categories of meme topics. Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.
minus-squareBangelaQuirkel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·16 hours agoOff the top of my head: dancing baby and Marylin Manson having a rib removed to suck his own member. Memes itself are way older than that though. Think about Kilroy and the ‘S’ you drew in school.
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoWe had taglines and bbs signatures. Those were pretty similar.
we had memes in the 90s? I thought we were just fucking around with emoticons back then.
A meme is a recurring pop-culture action, phrase, or image. Text-overlaid pictures are a category of meme format with sub-categories of meme topics.
Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.
Off the top of my head: dancing baby and Marylin Manson having a rib removed to suck his own member.
Memes itself are way older than that though. Think about Kilroy and the ‘S’ you drew in school.
We had taglines and bbs signatures. Those were pretty similar.