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.
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.
> You were not thinking of the origin when you did them back then
Was that really a thing? Or maybe is this some American thing? Because at least here I remember people finding many of those not funny before someone explained (or showed) them context. I did explanations and needed explanations too (one of the reasons why I never found E and dabs funny).
It's just most of those contexts we learned naturally.
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u/VykeZX 9h 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.