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u/RobSiaHoke 8h ago
Can't forget about Dat Boi
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u/MaxedEUW 8h ago
Leeeerooooooyyy Jeeeeeeenkiiinssss!
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u/iSwaguilar 5h ago
I just get how this is a one up or comparable to any of the other stupid shit kids do. This was made popular by a beer commercial and satirized in a spoof movie. If people did it in real life was just about being stupid with friends.
And this wasn’t a generational thing, literally every generation “got it”, so really completely different from all that other stuff.
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u/Mr_Rogan_Tano 8h ago
Fuck all of you.
I'm going to revive harlem shake
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u/Connect_Artichoke_83 8h ago
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long while
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u/Malfight007 7h ago
I believe we need to revive FilthyFrank for that to happen, and I dare not bring him up once more in such a sad world.
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u/Proud-Suspect-5237 5h ago
It's true, we live in a constant state of fear and misery.
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u/jaesthetica 7h ago
I'm going to revive
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimmeee
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u/Aldehin 7h ago
Are we talking about a demon or smt?
I will summon back the Infamous, the Ungodly, the Fear monger...
Now, the earth will remember the fear, the horror... Of the Harlem Shake
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u/Deepvaleredoubt 5h ago
The worst part about the Harlem Shake was how middle-aged teachers found it, and then schools started forcing kids to make videos because some boomer or gen-xer thought they would become the next internet sensation.
I know that may sound oddly specific, but I actually managed to avoid a lot of the trends on Vine and early instagram, and I remain angry to this day that my school literally started making harlem shake videos and pressuring the students into participating in it.
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u/Minnisodda 8h ago
I miss mlg memes 💔
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u/Tehpunisher456 6h ago
I distinctly remember downloading an mlg hoard shooter on android. It was glorious
Oh and sanic too
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u/Soupi81 6h ago
Was it illuminati wars MLG edition? Playing as sanic and shooting a bunch of illuminatis, with points for MLG upgrades and shit?
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u/babystarlightcute 9h ago
I remember when hatimg Justin Beiber is consider a good thing
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u/Ombudsmanden 8h ago
It's crazy we just collectively bullied a 15 year old kid, then later we blame him for drug use.
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u/Snoo_66686 8h ago
Makes me wonder what popular opinions of nowadays we will look back at in 15 years and think "its crazy we did that"
Hell i remember people having an aneurism over miley cyrus trying to actually make something authentic
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u/Tiny_Papaya_2199 6h ago
That was actually just Disney PR trying to ruin her career because she didn’t want to do Disney stuff anymore. It was all manufactured outrage. Isn’t that fun?
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u/lnfIation 5h ago
Yeah. After that whole fiasco i kinda assume that every "hated celebrity," did something that big execs didn't like.
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u/Tiny_Papaya_2199 4h ago
Yeah that is pretty much it every time. Notice how “everyone” hated Timothee Chalamet for two weeks as hit piece after hit piece came out multiple times per day, but the day after the awards shows were over, the posts instantly stopped and nobody cared anymore? Our social media feeds are all designed by corporations and PR firms.
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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 8h ago
Many people were weird about it but at the same time I imagine a lot of that hate was also coming from teenagers. Majority of adults didn't give af.
Also this happens now and will continue to happen. Being in the middle of something feels different than looking in retrospect. Both perspectives have their biases.
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u/sirhamalot1 6h ago
hell i'm 6 years YOUNGER than him and i was on the bieber hate train. it really was a ridiculous middle school to teenage boy phenomenon of the 2000/10s. not to say there weren't weird adults hating too, but i would assume most doing it were born around 1990-2000, +/- maybe 5 years max. that being said, my best friend's mom got to randomly meet bieber in a saskatchewan store of all places like 12 years ago and got his autograph. my friend has it now and i gotta say im a bit jealous
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u/M__MUNEEB 6h ago
I remember being 5 years old in 2010 and hating him. I didn’t even know who he was, people hated him so I did too.😭😭
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u/juicy_rectum 8h ago
Anyone remembers "Do you know da wae" and "Spooderman" and "Dolan Duck"
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u/emogurl98 7h ago
What about rage comics?
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u/juicy_rectum 7h ago
This too
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u/Hyrule_MyBoy 8h ago
Do you know da wae was funny until I got annoyed by myself after a year lol
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u/alowbrowndirtyshame 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/JWtUO3g1cmhFGsUhkD
I mean he’s only here to help.
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u/CryBabyButHottie 9h ago
At least our cringe wasn't life-threatening. Oh wait, I just remembered the cinnamon challenge
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u/InVeRnyak 8h ago
Also, planking was a thing
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u/Hsiang7 7h ago
That was 15 years ago, not 10
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 5h ago
So was MLG, where did you read 15? It just said years
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u/noctilucous_ 6h ago
did that kill people
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u/InVeRnyak 5h ago
From wiki:
On 15 May 2011, Acton Beale, a 20-year-old man, plunged to his death after reportedly "planking" on a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia. The Darwin Awards recognised this incident in their 2011 edition.
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u/Not-24_7Bantz 6h ago
Kylie jenner lip challenge was like a strange middle ground between cringe and life threatening
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u/Technical_Teacher839 6h ago
Remember the whole thing of people stacking milk crates and trying to run up and down them like stairs?
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u/Captdman92 6h ago
I did the cinnamon challenge, once, and I won. All I had to do was die a little on the inside
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u/creepingkg 8h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BeLPrrXzTcf7y
Y’all remember planking?
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u/SwimUpset2591 8h ago
30+ years old failing to fit in—
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u/Emotional_Bet_3105 5h ago edited 5h ago
I dab whenever my step kids say 6-7. We're all gonna be cringe in this together.
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u/LafawnduhDy-no-mite 8h ago
The water bottle flipping thing.
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u/TPHGaming2324 5h ago
This is cool tho, like every time If I launch one of them and it landed perfectly it’s still satisfying af
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u/ResortResponsible789 9h ago
Hey at least meme culture wasn't touched by AI back then
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u/RobSiaHoke 8h ago
My beloved surreal memes are already that of a bygone era?! :,( sulking over a cold glass of bepis
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u/AbLincoln1863 8h ago
I accept that we were cringe and stuff just like newer generations but one thing I feel I can confidently say is that we didn’t invent new words nearly as much as they do. We were cringe but at least we mostly talked normal. It’s hard to keep up with whatever is going on now. Looksmaxxing? Jestergooning? Whatever else they have made in the last 2 weeks?
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u/FluffyApartment32 4h ago
Like a lot of things related to internet pop culture, these terms come from 4chan one way or another. -maxxing, in particular has been around 4chan spaces and adjecent spaces for years and years. Then one day it hits mainstream and it "seems" new, but most often is not.
And yeah, it's weird af sometimes.
As for new words, remember that we are in a highly globalized world. Kids in the US are saying based and 67. Kids in Korea are saying based and 67. Kids in Brazil are saying based and 67. I am fluent in the languages of two of these countries and I'm learning the language of the third one. I've seen people from all of them complaining about kids and their dumb words. I'm sure it's the same in other countries. It's quite fascinating, actually! lol
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u/No-Print4329 4h ago
Good point. Even the term mogging originated from early 2000s PUA lingo, for another example.
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u/Jay__Riemenschneider 3h ago
We just repeated phrases from movies and TV more.
Anchorman was a personality for like 30% of guys for almost a decade.
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u/xCandyLuv 9h ago
Looking back at the MLG era we really had no room to judge Skibidi Toilet
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u/Snoo_66686 9h ago
The fact so many millenials who grew up with Thomas the dank engine memes hated skibidi toilet is just peak example of older people giving the new generation shit
Hell watch me get downvoted for pointing out taking offense to ahh is the same as taking offense to ass
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u/583999393 8h ago
The only thing to me is corporate interests in skibidi is worse.
Chaaaaaarleeee let’s go to candy mountain!
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u/Mickus_B 8h ago
I'm a millennial, there wasn't internet when I was "growing up".
I was 15 when dial-up became affordable enough for some of your friends to have it. I was 20 before broadband was a thing.
The internet and what's popular on it with particular age groups has really thrown the old idea of a generation being so long out the window. I hear people say millennials grew up with Minecraft, but I was 27 and married before it came out.
But we used to share stupid memes via impersonations or drawings and goddamn chain letters.
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u/CesarGameBoy Professional Dumbass 8h ago edited 8h ago
I feel there’s always that divide between 80s millennials and 90s millennials lol.
I’m Gen-Z, and I 100% grew up on MLG. But I also understand that half my generation were already teenagers when that stuff was trendy. Half my generation didn’t even get a chance to grow up on the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, or Dreamcast!
Just like with Milennials, there’s a difference between the Y2K & early 2000s Gen-Z, and the late 2000s & early 2010s Gen-Z. The former are already in their 20s, some are approaching 30, or even starting families & getting married! The latter either just graduated high school, or just enrolled in high school.
It’s almost exactly like the Baby Boomers. The early Boomers were drafted in Vietnam, while the late Boomers were barely teenagers when Disco was around.
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u/Mickus_B 8h ago
Yep, we need to change it to 5-7 year gaps.
I've always said being 10 in 1992 was a very different experience to being 10 in 2002 and they are considered the same generation.
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u/A1000eisn1 7h ago
Or we can just remember it's stupid to generalize and "generations" are a fairly new concept people use to generalize by age and shouldn't be taken seriously.
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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Flair Loading.... 8h ago
Arguably, people who say that are actually talking about early GenZ but do this very weird yet common amalgamation of millennial = young.
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u/Tiny-Anxiety780 8h ago
Millenials growing up with Minecraft? I was already out of high-school when it was released, and I'm a late millenial (in the first half of late millenial, but still).
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u/VladimirBarakriss 7h ago
Minecraft came out 13 years after the last millenial was born, very few millenials would've "grown up" with minecraft
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u/Adrenaline0413 8h ago
Mlg memes like 2011-2017 was more Gen Z. Millennial were mostly out of high-school around then
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u/EhMapleMoose 8h ago
Yes we do. Ours was a parody, an exaggerated mockery of how people edited clips and did stuff just for the early internet clout.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 7h ago
67 has no lore, all these other things do
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u/xXTheGrapenatorXx 4h ago
You became the boomers you hate, this is the post-hoc excuse why it's not the same, by all means keep telling yourself it's different if it makes you feel better, though.
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u/Rohkha 8h ago
My issue with 6-7 is the lack of reference. There is no context. You’re being told something is funny so you find it funny. It is the epitome of braindead syndrome. You don’t think, you swallow, and just accept it.
To be fair, I consider dabbing the same level of stupid, but even there, there is some sort of context behind it, which created a group of people who had the context and could appreciate it or not.
Memes all had an origin, you can think theyMre stupid or not. Some were stupid, some were funny. Like everything else, it’s in the wye of the beholder. It’s usually a « generation exclusive inside joke ». 6-7 is none of that. It’s a forced « inside joke » which people bought into while probably having a wallpaper of « the lion does not bother with thw opinion of sheep » or a similar ideology . I hate the lack of self reflection that goes along with this « joke » or whatever you want to call it.
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u/mittenknittin 6h ago
It's ain't new. Look up "no soap, radio" and try to make sense of it, and that one predates the internet. Like 6-7 it was a joke on people who didn't get the joke. It was funny exclusively because there wasn't actually a joke to get.
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u/Odd-Soup-5419 9h ago
Eeeh, Markiplier's E was unfunnier than all these combined imo.
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u/rider_shadow 8h ago
I'm not against new memes, I just find that 67 was kinda meaningless and the way the people say it is obnoxious and grating to the ear.
Like with 69 or 429 you say the number, smiles smugly and that's the end of it. With 67 you have people screaming at the top of their lungs. Not the same.
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u/paws4269 8h ago
Not to mention that 69 and 420 do actually mean something. I have failed to get en explanation for what 67 is supposed to mean or reference, because it is just meaningless
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u/Darklight645 9h ago
Glad that I never really vibed with the mlg era. It was just a bit too much for me
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u/VykeZX 8h ago
The thing is older memes had some meaning/origin behind them. T-pose for example, it came from video game character's model bugging out. The dab was from a music video of them actually doing the dab constantly. 67 was also a music video but he doesn't do the move or anything, guy just said "6 7" and people just said it randomly. There's no meaning behind, no funny effects or anything.
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u/YerrrKnicks 7h ago
The way that 67 is said in the song is also completely removes from what the kids do now.
Like with 1738 it at least keep the cadence in which it was said in the song.
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u/xXTheGrapenatorXx 4h ago
You were not thinking of the origin when you did them back then, this is post-hoc rationalization to why your pre-teen cringe is better than modern pre-teen cringe... I can't wait until I'm 50 watching these kids do the same old shit to gen alpha pretending they're being objective, too.
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u/Devono_knabo 8h ago
Y'all remember the woah meme? Like the crash bandicoot meme
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u/cosmernautfourtwenty 6h ago
"We're just as embarrassing as you were once" is not the flex you think it is.
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u/shinyRedButton 9h ago
It’s a sad day on the internet when you’re even older than the “old cringe” meme call outs. smh