fellow Hexbear user ennemi just posted about Chuck Norris jokes, and it got me thinking about excavating the early Web 2.0 days. Remember in the mid 2000s, early 2010s, when mustaches and bacon were like the peak of online humor? I also seem to remember epic saxophone solos and Chuck Norris in the mix. Did that whole ethos go on to inform reddit culture? It'd be interesting to see an infographic showing what memes/jokes contributed to the discourses of online platforms today (though also very cringe, lol)

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    All of those memes aged like milk. Leak Spin is the only one that I can think of that properly aged because it showed up again in that cat vibing meme

    Also it was hell being vegan in middle and high school during the height of the epic bacon memes

    • UlyssesT
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      15 days ago

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      • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        So much casual le edgy cruelty tied to it, like those shirts that said “for every burger you don’t eat, I’m eating two” or le Ronald McDonald holding a chainsaw to a crying cow.

        And vegetarians were the close-minded ones?