All Your Memes Are Belong to Straight Dope

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Has the Internet been around so long that I can get nostalgic for old memes? Apparently so.

With Youtube’s April Fool’s Day joke of shutting down to judge the best video of the last 8 years, I got around to thinking about old popular videos and memes from before Youtube. All Your Base Are Belong To Us immediately sprang to mind. This was one of the first eye-opening internet cultural memes for me.

What memes are your favorites? Overused and outdated memes are welcome in this thread. If you need to get started, there’s a partial list on Wikipediahere.

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I miss dancing baby gifs on Geocities…
ETA: And dancing badgers of course.

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That wiki list was a fun read, some good ones I forgot about are:
Michelle Jenneke the beautiful dancing hurdler
Goatse recreations done in Ascii art (not linking in case of redirects)
Auto-tuned versions of the girl who can’t sing
Downfall parodies including the clever one where the actor who played Hitler is interviewed and the interview gradually becomes a parody

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I have at least three - and possibly more - shirts that reference Zero Wing in some form or fashion, and I still wear most of them. I even got repped once on Slickdeals just for working in a Zero Wing reference.

Lately, my son and I have traded working off references to “over 9000” from Dragonball Z, even though we both absolutely detest that show.

… and Chuck Norris (this one’s a two-fer, as it also references Zero Wing!) shows up in conversation at least once each day.

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dancing badgers? I’m sure you meant dancing hamsters

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I still like the “All Your Base…” video because of the music. I used to enjoy it more when I didn’t know a thing about Photoshop and thought these folks were wizards. :slight_smile:

Another oldie favorite is Leeee-roy Jenkins!!.

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Jennicam of course. Better than Dancing Hamsters, because there was always the chance we’d see her naked.

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I KISS YOU!!!

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One of the first I recall was Mahir and his website where he wrote “I kiss you!”

Googling, I see that he’s got his own website “i kissyou.org” with links to a book, a TV show and a movie. Sigh.

Anyway, here’s the original.

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The Cuppycake song: The Cuppycake Song - Amy Castle age 3 (Original video) - YouTube

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You have reached the end of the Internet. Please turn around and go back.

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I totally missed that before, so thank you.

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Hatten är din

absurd.org

Lobster Magnet

Don Hertzfeld’s Rejected is something my friends and I still quote from.

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Your first link sucked ass, but your second redeemed you.
(the first link redirected me the first time, a second, impartial click of my pasted link here, brout me the badgers.)

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What I don’t get about those are, why would someone record that and then say “Hmmm, ya know what I should do with that, put it on youtube”.

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For an exhaustingly thorough list of memes (even really obscure ones), nothing beats Encyclopedia Dramatica.

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The bizarre “Weeeee! (Gonads and Strife)” flash video:
(spoilered since it’s somewhat NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0p-U1LBbQ

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I still, frequently, have recourse to “I’m in ur noun, verbing ur noun” on occasion. Only with people who can be trusted to get it, of course. Thank God for geeky spouses :wink:

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A few more:

The dramatic prairie dog *still *cracks me up!
Tron Guy
South Park actually got its start as one of the first internet viral videos, before it was ever turned into a TV series.
The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs Santa) - spoilered because NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSQczYEeB2w

(there’s also “Jesus vs Frosty” which was made even earlier)

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That certainly reminds me of rathergood with

[We Like the Moon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZNEXrElw"We Like the Moon)

Gay Bar

Punk Kittens

Viking Kitten