• FunkyMonk@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    my boomer parents could do half the ‘spam spam spam and spam’ routine if anyone said spam.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, first memes were my boomer uncle emailing my boomer dad video attachments. I remember a parody of the Budweiser wassup thing with orthodox Jews delivering whitefish.

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        10 months ago

        Memes like Kilroy was here and that fancy S everyone drew in grade school were around before the internet.

        Meme theory is actually really interesting. The Internet just supercharged how fast new memes can propagate.