funny, I was thinking the other day why Lemmy very actively uses very old memes, especially Saddam Hussein and :.|:; then I remembered that this is mostly people who ran away from reddit after the nth overreach, looking fondly back to the pre-enshittification era. makes sense they’re bringing back and referencing old memes too.

Reject modernity they say. First gMod idiot box came out 15 years ago. Nyan cat is from 2011. Gmod shitposting has been around since the game released.

Now I want to see an animated series about nyan-cats turn others into other nyan-cats, then a great war between nyan-cats and advice animal characters breaks out.

How is a gmod shitpost anything but a return to tradition?

I’m kind of proud of kids using new tech to meme.

Flash era was still pretty tits tho.

What’s with the Half Life guy coming out of a urinal o.O

Tradition, you say?

https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=344516026421299&vanity=100083528588199

(Apologies for shitty FB link. This is so traditional that many YouTube links seem to be gone)

Please go stand by your stairs.

I wish that had an accurate view count, and upload date. But it’s another pre-YouTube classic, and I’d rather link the upload to the creator’s rather than the first re-upload somebody did.

Again, this is not the original, but I seem to recall seeing it in the late 90s.

And this was definitely 90s.

Skibidi.

Kids and their audiovisual memes. In my day [we had to rely on text](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet\)).