torn between different contrarian instincts; part of me wants to be like "pssh whatever I never liked memes in the first place", part of me wants to be all "fuck u for telling me what to do" but I should probably stick with "whew I got 2 more years left before this applies to me"
When I was a kid, we made memes out of sticks.
Unironically, who the f*k do you think created the Internet, copyrighted Photoshop, then created the Graphic Integrated Format. Someone under 40? don’t worry I’m totally impressed by your ability to use a meme generator.
i am BecoME mEME!!! yeah. pree much. imjustimlivingthememeamits there's living the dream and then there's living the meme and it's pretty much what's happeningyknow
I read that bastard liked to put A1 steak sauce on his cottage cheese -- that is a fucking food crime, and a crime against humanity. Peaches are a better combo with cottage cheese. Sue me. Fuck Richard Nixon.
The pineapple/cottage cheese is one piece and was turned on a lathe first and then carved with a Dremel after. The milk was also lathe turned, but that was more difficult due to having to creep up on a tight tolerance
Oh the canned pineapple ring with the blob of cottage cheese on it was *such* a staple of mid-20th-century America. The Great Depression and World War 2 destroyed two generations’ taste buds.
I am tired of this Boomer shit. Now is NOT the time, we all are in this together. Boomers are fighting for younger generations. And we NEED you to fight for us.
We are in the same fight, they are not like us! 💙
you can still enjoy memes but they have to be hobby related
some stock photo of an auto parts shop interior with impact font like "when they already got your car's info typed in before you even reached the counter" and there's no punchline
we can still enjoy memes but more in the way we enjoy hymns and folk songs, something to connect us to our traditions rather than to demonstrate how funny we are
I would argue 20. Plus if you use the word "haters" unironically after 20, you have to wear an L on your forehead, so everyone knows you are a loser of epic proportions. Similar to The Scarlet Letter.
I might not be 50 yet, but I’m closer to it than I am to 20, so let me just say…
You merely adopted memetic culture
We were born in it
Molded by it
I posted my first Advice Animal when you were merely a thought, and back then it’s brilliance was BLINDING
The over 50s I know are honestly so sad. They all say they don't want to ever stop working cause they don't know what else they'd be doing and when I suggest they find a hobby they look at me like they never heard of the word...
In my day memes were delivered by courier. We had to wait 6 weeks between them. We'd huddle in the town square waiting for the hoof beats to see the next cat. NOt like today
At the age of 50 one’s superpower is to make anything uncool simply by doing it or wearing it. Especially if you’re a woman. Tell me your hobbies, favorite brands, preferred alcohol, and go-to crippling/self soothing behaviors so I can make them uncool also.
By the time my generation is old enough to have moved beyond memes memes will be far far far older. I have hobbies and struggle with memes but like the memes will be the old thing no one cares about long before the people that like memes currently.
You can also enjoy the memes of your youth, but in an old people way. Getting commemorative plates with the slowpoke meme. Ordering the history of dance video on VHS off of an infomercial. A little hutch in the wall where a landline used to go, but instead of a picture of Jesus, it’s good guy Greg.
As long as you aren’t all “how do you do fellow kids,” there’s nothing wrong with enjoying whatever you want regardless of age. At this one techno club I often went to in my 20s, I would see this mid-60s guy dancing by himself—not hitting on any girls, just vibing. I would think, good for him.
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You either die an edgelord
Or
Live long enough not to use memes.
1) gweilo
2) gringo
3) cracker
Unironically, who the f*k do you think created the Internet, copyrighted Photoshop, then created the Graphic Integrated Format. Someone under 40? don’t worry I’m totally impressed by your ability to use a meme generator.
*checks replies*
Oh no.
I have no idea which one but definitely a museum
good work though
We are in the same fight, they are not like us! 💙
some stock photo of an auto parts shop interior with impact font like "when they already got your car's info typed in before you even reached the counter" and there's no punchline
It’s time to put social media down and start enjoying the good things in life like recreational drugs, C-SPAN, and yelling at Seventh Day Adventists
Doom Scrolling.
Does it make my ass look big?
if you are above the age of 50 and you REALLY enjoy “memes”. it’s time to discover “hobbies”
Back off little person. You don't know the half of it.
We survived, RayGun, Vietnam, Nikkkson, and all the rest of the shit the Wrong Wing has dumped on us for 70 years.
Run away--you can't take what WE can take.
I'm not 50 yet so I'm not too sure what either of those are.
can I enjoy some frigging *mimes* then????
Maybe I'd give literal children a pass, but they probably shouldn't be on social media anyway.
Harumph!!!!
"Just a few more years, guys..."
... also hobbies ... I haz dem!
an we wants MOAR !
The clock is ticking. 😢
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You merely adopted memetic culture
We were born in it
Molded by it
I posted my first Advice Animal when you were merely a thought, and back then it’s brilliance was BLINDING
Also
Now listen here sonny!
Cat-delivered mail with big enough feet to hear them coming. Were you around during the last ice age? Maybe Africa?