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What happened to internet culture?
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Normies invaded the internet like muzzies invaded Europe.

Both were ruined.
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>>73922888
Much like British cuisine there has never been much culture.
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>>73922888
social media became more prominent than forums and irc
autists started working in CS and IT
normies came in with social media
shift in sources of OC from niche flash sites
nothing of value was lost
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>>73922888
Fuck I hate ancient memes, even back then. Keyboard cat, trolololo guy, rage faces... all of them were fucking annoying
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It peaked with YTMND and has been all down hill since then
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>>73922888
normies happened
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>>73923091
I don't hate them, but memes were always fucking stupid. Internet elitists are deluded.
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>>73923091
THIS... IS...
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>>73923091
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>>73922888

The Internet always has been and always will be a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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if you know what this shit is, you are my brother and you will be safe on the day of the rope
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>>73923029
>Implying simple roast meat and Yorkshire puddings weren't greater contributions to the culinary world than all of France.
You know when you get a slab of meat and just cook it? That's British cuisine.
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>>73923085
This. The birth of social media caused a great change in Internet culture. Also, 'geek' culture in general started to become populated with norms. You could see it with world of Warcraft; the game used to be filled with edgy pol type autists then as 'nerd' stuff got more popular the whole culture of the game changed; more liberals and more women.
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>>73923319
>darude sandstorm
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>>73922888
Social media. Normies.
And remember that thirdworlders are going to use Internet soon.
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>>73923673
They already do. Go over to Nairaland.
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>>73923612
whats the redhead on the right?
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>>73923441
>implying those weren't the good ol' days
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>>73923441
C-C-C COMBO BREAKER
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>>73923234
Don't talk shit about my maymay
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>>73923744
The girl who never changes facial expressions.
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>>73923091
Every child draws a stickman and stacks a couple of LEGO bricks, but some grow up to make Rembrandts and the Sistine Chapel.

The earliest memes were our childhood desu~
Most of us only got as far as Ceiling Cat, but some of us have matured into the Greatness that is Kek, Aussie shitposting, Indian streetshitting, and the occasional fucking leaf trying to beat both of them.

That's the beauty of it. The memes will only get better. We'll have our Sistine Chapel.
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>>73922888
Saturated with normie users since the difficulty curve of accessing it leveled out.
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I think one of the reasons for the change in Internet culture (and in particular the rise of online SJWs) is the rapid increase in number of women on the Internet. Back when 4chan was first founded in 2003 the famous rule 'there are no girls on the Internet' was still true. Online chat rooms were filled with white male nerds, weirdos and perverts and not a lot else. Women eventually entered the Internet and were disturbed by the culture we had created. Hence the rise of the SJW; it's a female response to the culture of what was once a male space.
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>>73923091

Rage faces marked the decline of memes.
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>>73923633
Ugh, gross. Bet you also advocate boiling it. Better to turn it into a pate in my opinion.
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>modern meme
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Captain. Jean Luc Picard. Of the USS. Enterprise.
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>>73922888
Basically what everyone else here is saying, normies. The internet grew up, from 2007 onwards all the tools for normies to take advantage of were in place - facebook, twitter, tumblr, the first smart phones etc. Internet made eezy peezy and ready on the go.

Also meant the rapid spread of SJW cancer.

Also does anybody else cringe when they still see normies posting doge memes and laughing about it like it's the funniest thing ever?
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I'm not even sure.
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>>73923091
efg was the forced cancer to rule them all

2004-2007 really was insufferable
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>>73924078
Dat boi is one of the only memes that is actually funny nowadays. Everyone in this thread is so young they think that the Burger King and "It's a trap" are ancient memes.
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>>73923943
summer glau?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_fCqg92qks
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>>73923612
>Picard and the Tommygun, no kid?
>Nigger who stole a bike
>I Can Haz Cheezburgers Cat, AKA shit
>Admiral Trapbar
>What is love, starring Jim Carrey
>Lazytown

>only now spotting the license plate
Heh, at least I remember the memes.
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>>73924078
Can someone please explain this meme to is it a normies or an inside joke because I keep fucking seeing it everywhere.
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>>73924371
>missing Brian Peppers

Poor guy lived a life of suffering and just wanted some ass
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It went to hell when women started to use internet.
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>>73924222
what do you consider an ancient meme?
>>73924401
its a new one that came along really fast. the first time I saw it was on facebook actually
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>>73923755

What good old days? Almost literally nothing changed at all. Star Wars is still popular and people on the Internet are still pieces of shit.
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>>73922888
Internet culture was, in part, the product of a still very wealthy post-9/11 society. We laughed at all that inane shit because we thought we were financially secure, and so the only thing we had to do in a place as anarchic as the Internet was have fun. The 2008 crash ended that prosperity and the OWS protests in 2011 only made that increasingly obvious. The memes are darker and edgier now, taking on more of a specific and aggressive political bent, because we live in a grubbier and less self-satisfied society than we used to, filled with tensions over dividing an increasingly shrinking financial pie.
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>>73922888
Nothing changed. Just look at your own fucking pic. "Internet culture" is still infantile cringeworthy uncreative pseudo-humor perpetuated by long-haired feminized manchildren.
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>>73923612
Where is Girugamesh
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>>73923612
Crippled spiderman was the best ytmnd
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>>73923091
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>>73924161
Yea, I cringe. But I hate it because in high school THIS WAS ALL I HAD. I was a late bloomer. Now I just play dumb when normie friends bring up memes, but my soul dies a little every time.
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>>73924222
What's an old meme to you?
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>>73924566
>>73924814
Goatse and dancing baby were pretty old. There was also a phase when photoshop was just released where people would do incredibly shitty shops and comment 'This looks shopped. I can tell by the pixels'.
Anything that required a better internet connection than a 56k dialup is newfag territory.
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>>73924078

holy shit this edit is based
my sides
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>>73924680
>The band became an internet meme after a 2009 Sakura-Con commercial, wherein several people discussing their love of Japan-related material are interrupted by a man who shouts "Girugamesh!"[19]
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girugamesh
>collage is from 2004
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I remember 2006 and when youtube was the big thing, videos like the singing chinks and choc. rain went viral and it was really enjoyable. But when people started vlogging everything started going to shit + facebook, etc.
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>>73924836
Dude. Dancing baby... I remember waiting 30 mins to watch old a few seconds of that.
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All I know is I miss my secret club
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>>73924878
2009 is when I got onto this site, can't even get called a newfag anymore.
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I was a king on YTMND.
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>>73922888
Is that Varg with the guy from Full House?
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>>73924836
>Goatse and dancing baby were pretty old.

EDbabby detected
Next thing you're going to rehearse how the ETERNAL SEPTEMBER happened
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>>73924836
And I've seen a few shoops in my time
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>>73923953
This, the culture of memes has evolved tremendously. On boards such as these they evolve and spread rapidly. Give me one meme that can even compete with Bane posting in terms of usage, parodies, and even real life anomalies.
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>>73924939
How about the sexy pictures that would take 5 minutes to load before you realize it was a troll picture that only loaded half way on purpose?
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>No way... too messy
http://thisisseriousbusiness.ytmnd.com/
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>>73925188
Best dubs
And the worst for me was waiting a half fucking day to download a song.
>I tried to convince my mom to get a T3 connection
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>>73922888
>>>/b/
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>>73925188
Or the flash videos that took longer to load than their length.
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>>73922888
>What happened to internet culture?
Reddit.

Reddit used our creativity as fuel for their egotistical circlejerks.

Reddit attracted feminism and normies to the internet.

Reddit is the Reason why the quality of content on the entire internet as a whole has gone down.

Nice trips btw.
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>>73922993
True. Also being able to access the Internet through tablets and smartphones rather than computers and laptops changed things. I'm not quite sure how to articulate it, but accessing everything through an 'app' doesn't feel the same, gives you less freedom when browsing etc. A lot of the monetisation of the internet came in around that time. Has also made it a lot easier for normies to access the Internet.
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The unironic era was always shit
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oldschool 4chan "culture" is now for normies. you just don't see that shit here anymore. 4chan now has le frogs and merchants.
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It was great until 2008, then smarth phones arrived with normies, then geek culture got co-opted by idiots, old school forums message boards went missing and social media happened stronger than ever and we got fucked.
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>>73924998
>tfw
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>>73925507
Reddit is a symptom not the cause.
The downfall of the internet really got going with MySpace. Reddit wasn't around for another couple of years.
Now webcomics and furries were the true start of the downfall. Some of these webcomics have been churning out liberal propaganda since the 90's and the furries have been around since before the internet existed with their crazy Hirs and Xirs. You newfags only hear about this nowadays but back in my day it was already around and giving cancer to the internet.
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>>73925809
>oldschool 4chan "culture" is now for normies.
I dont see any normie referencing "post sinks"
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>>73925809
also, i think 4chan of about 5 to 8 years ago had far less autists and mentally ill people than today. most of them have moved on to other normie places like reddit and 9gag. we're left with people who are completely hopeless like the mummyposter.
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>>73925981
oldfag detected.

WHEN I WAS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYZRskNV3w

A true classic in Internet memeology
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>>73925700
More like the era of kek
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>>73923612
Man I had an account on ytmnd.
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>>73925681
The Internet is too easy. When it took some work to post something there was a little more substance. Not much. But a little
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>>73926183
Praise be to him
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we just got older, comrade
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>>73924209
>efg
god damn son
>tfw you realize you spent a decade shitposting
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This place is filthy! Let's clean it up. :)

This post brought to you by Dial Soap
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You have to remember that 4chan was a lot different back then. The memes themselves weren't that funny but threads were way more chaotic without the captcha.
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>>73926350
Right there with you merchant
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>>73924965
This shit still circulates facebook/modern myspace bro
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>>73926423
>t threads were way more chaotic without the captcha.
I think you mean better, the timeout spammer was fine and fixed things.
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>>73922888
kike racebaiting increased rapidly with israeli funding, censorship and distractionary efforts ...deny, decieve, distract and delete... same as gchq instructs on the intercepts leaked "how to ruin reputations and discredit dissenters"

its all a system of self hate...guilt and shame are misdirected and projected on shiksa goyim gentiles... there are thousands of ways to emotionally manipulate all people and hyperaggressive big nosed zionazi kikes are taught this early... the intercept has some great gchq documents showing exactly how many of the loaded language propaganda techniques work to gaslight and "game" almost any situation... you are dealing with brainwashed people and those not ignorant of the game keep marching in lock step out of fear JUST LIKE THE NAZIS because this is the "business plot" version 2.0... this is the hearts and minds edition... but dont think the bolsheviks ever came to anyones rescue before... Beara and his crow faced ethnocratic oligarchy kept the imperial gold bars in big schnoz hands and always will... all extremes are promoted kike owned extremes, and all manufactured options are controlled oppositions designed to cull the human herd for the traits of obedience and schnozpremacy
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>>73926423
>memes themselves weren't that funny
people asking for photoshop requests are always funny though
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we had some great memes and lulz before 4chan anyway. ytmnd , newgrounds , forums like sa, foh and ect. Those were the golden days.
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>>73925700
>Arrive in 2007
>OldFags fighting NewFags
>Oldfags slowly die off and the NewFags become the Old
>Even moot escaped to Mexico
>Normies now roam the internet like Prarie dogs on the pasture
>The Old are sought after and slaughtered for their meme's
>Even politicians are now trying to meme it up
The world has changed for the worst the very much worst
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>>73924078
>tumblr memes
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>>73926606
Which is why I miss my secret club
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>>73924078
>>73924222
>>73924401
>>73924841
>Actually liking government produced MKUltra memes
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>>73924883
The best
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>>73927124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak

is this even still on /f/?
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>>73927193
Wait forgot how things work
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>>73926649
This looks like a shop. I can tell by the pixels as I've seen many shops in my time.
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>>73924064
>roast meat
>I bet you boil it
Look what happens when you leave the empire, your educational system turns to shit.
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>>73924078
>not posting the supperior gif
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>>73924106
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS
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>>73924161
Shiiiiiet. I have a coworker who unironically uses "WOW SUCH" in real-life conversations. It gets me everytime.
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>>73924078
Another ephemeral social network fad that will be forgotten very soon.
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This is my favorite meme, and it will not die as long as I draw breath.
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>>73927283
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_beef

More on the subject of cooking meat.
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>>73927527
Back in my day people saying LOL off-line was considered the height of degeneracy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYhRqf757I
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>>73927575
Everything will be forgotten soon much asit always has I think at least
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>>73927591
>1991.
This meme is almost as old as I am and likely older than 95% of the people in this thread.
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>>73922888
Ahhh I miss the days where the height of memes were demotivators. The majority of the first few hundred images in my 4chan folder are demotivators.
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>>73924106
He just kept talking
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Meh. I remembera time when you could still use "XD" on /b/ and when meme threads and gore threads were basically all there was to it, apart from the CP.
It may be nostalgic, but it sure as hell wasn't better.
Although yeah, the experience was kind of, you know, almost magical.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSBSxZzRfyE
>/v/ used to be angry
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>>73922888
cancerfags invaded
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>>73926100
Nice dubs

Sheit, this vid is nostalgic as fuck
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>>73924792
This is just sad
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Remember when word meme was barely used unlike today?
Remember every sentence containing a nigger in it?
Remember people using "lulz" instead of "kek"?
Remember when autistic wasnt even used?

Memes of old are shit if you think about it, but were pretty funny back then
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>>73923612
I've been on the internet for too long, You really are here forever.
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>>73923091

same, i dont miss them one bit. i do miss rage comics a bit though
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>>73924064
>New Zealand Education
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>>73924222
orange transperent chainsaw bitch
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>>73928060
Remember EFG threads? Looking back that shit was fucking terrible but seemed so funny at the time.
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>>73926423
>The memes themselves weren't that funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAOymC6XKeQ

It's not much different. 4chan had a bit of a lull around 2011-2013, but it made a big imperialistic comeback.
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>>73922888
mirin

Also, girls and chads learned to type on a computer, plus smartphones.
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>>73922888
What ever happened to British culture? Oh right it never existed.
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>>73928236
>Remember when word meme was barely used unlike today?
This is what gets me the most, for a long time I fought it because the normies forcing it into everything but then we moved into the post-ironic era when we could use again.
I remember distinctly getting told that something wasn't a "meme" it was an "in-joke", "board joke" or "fad". Actual memes were rare as fuck
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>>73922888
Normies took it over.
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>>73922888
normies.
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>>73928314
It's a 4chan meme so it's deep into newfag territory.
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>>73925158
This board has made some horrible memes lately. Carl the cuck for instance was like some 2006 era shit; most of the funny memes from /pol/ are actually just taken from /int/ and the newfags just don't know it.
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>>73924064
>Bet you also advocate boiling it.
Doesn't know what stew is.
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>>73922888
Eternal September; Communities degrade over time.

Sometimes i feel like a frog trying to cross a river by jumping from leaf to leaf.

Nowadays i do a lot of lurking on:
http://www.giraffeboards.com

It's a spinoff forum after the forum of straightdope.com introduced some unpopular rules.

It has some really cool & intelligent people.

Any other interesting small communities out there?
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>>73928445
This. Also the constant arguments on how meme was supposed to be pronounced because it still wasn't a widespread term yet.
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>>73928342
Everything was fucking hilarious. We've grown way too cynical.
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>>73928729
Simple fact is we were younger and, with hindsight, it's clear to see what a free period the internet was. I remember oldfags telling me that I missed the boat because I came here after 2007 but the truth is, compared to now, 2007-2011 was just as free. The internet will never ever be like that ever again. I was glad I was able to witness it at an age that everything was hilarious
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Normies, normies on social media.

Just be glad you experienced the golden age, it'll never happen again. It wasn't going to last forever.
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>mfw I just remembered the 2003 era of random pie jokes on newgrounds
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>>73923091
Denmark, I just don't think you under-
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>>73928445
Exactly. Its very hard to imagine how it was desu

For me memes were the demotivators only. Always believed that a "meme" was short for "memento" since having a picture surrounded by the black frame and a witty text was what captured the "moment" forever in time, thus the "meme" for short

I still pronounce meme like meme in memento
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>>73924078
Bring that heretical iconograph out of here you fucking apostate
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>>73925700
I feel like 2016 is the start of a new era. The era where presidents unironically used memes to get elected. The era of memetic engineering and memetic warfare. The era where it isn't even a hidden fact that politicians invest millions on memes just for propaganda.
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>>73929055
>-
Fucking newf
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>>73929055
That's not how you invoke Candlejack you fucking idiot, let me show you how it's d
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>>73929055
You know Candlejack doesn't have the hyph
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>>73929067
>mehmeh
Yea, I did that too.
Because I never actually discussed this bullshit with real live living people face to face.
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>>73928667
We're now focusing our memetic energy torwards Trump. All out good memes are Trump ones for now.

Also, i do agree that Carl the Cuck was shit
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>>73922888
>What happened?

1: gigantic wave after wave of newfagugees

2: baby boomers keep hiring poo in loos to write botnets for spamming our internet with boomer propaganda
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I miss the old days. I used to be so much happier and fun.

Good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuy197vILo
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>>73928883
> The internet will never ever be like that ever again. I was glad I was able to witness it at an age that everything was hilarious

The future isn't an extrapolation of the present.

"the web" as we know it in its current form might have reached it's peak. But that doesn't mean it won't be replaced by something better that gives people more control over their information, better business model, more privacy & anonymity etc.

Small communities of intelligent, creative, funny, (social) rule breaking people will always form & push the envelope in name of humanity.

Don't see the dilution that happens when something goes mainstream as a defeat; because it makes you sound like a lame hipster.

If you are truly worthy of being in good company & worthy of spending time with some of the smartest, funniest, most creative motherfuckers alive you will have to keep pushing the envelope yourself by searching for & creating & contributing to the next big thing.
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>tfw the normies started adapting
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>>73929055
This was actually never really fu
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>>73924883
This is the ultimate showdown
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>>73929055
>newfag bringing back ancient memes

Did you look up memes from the past in some effort to fit in, find Candlejack and just de
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>>73928729
The difference now is that meme's have been weaponized for political use.

I remember trying to watch superfly with flash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYE3riHLptI

Took almost an hour to download on 56k
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The feels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2LIPdCmz0
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>>73924106
>tfw there are people who unironically only know him as Professor X
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>>73922993
/thread

Used to be that the only ones on the internet were the smart, nerdy types who knew what they were doing and innovated. Now everyone and their grandmother is on and they barely know more than facebook, google and youtube.
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>>73924106
Make make make it so, make it so.
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>>73929677
I refuse to believe this is real
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>>73928236
autistic is the new retarded
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>>73929173
>>73929257
>>73929301
>>73929730
>>73929682
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>>73928883
Same, it was really only a one time thing, it can't be replicated.
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>>73929055
>having the time to write a hyp
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>>73924277

wow that video was super hot
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>you used to find shit like this funny

Admit it.
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>>73923166

signed.
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>>73923953
I think Trumps taco bowl shitpost is a step towards the more refined memeing you speak of.
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>>73923647
This is the reason I quit wow - sudden chance in population mentality - cool people were rarer and rare to be found until they gave up and I gave up.
This happened around wotlk when blizz made wow normie friendly with welfare epics and advertising campaigns everywhere to balance the great loss of players ( lots of people quit when wotlk released - including myself because we thought it was horrible .. and it was ).
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>>73929765
I never asked for these feels
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this thread was a good throwback
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>>73924836
what aboot stileproject forums? that was my SHIT back in the days before 4chan for me
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>>73930386
up until the end anyway. That room would smell like speedstick and swamp ass.
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>>73923166
>>73930464
don't forget strongbad emails
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this is my fiavorite ye olde time meemee
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It's still the same fucking type of people and the same fucking jokes. The only thing that changed are the buzzwords.

troll->ruse->bait
tranny->trap->trans
retard->tard->autist
nigger->beta->cuck
Newfag->normalfag->normie
faggot->degenerate
lol->lul->lulz->lel->kek
desu->senpai

Probably a load more. But you could just "translate" an old post replacing those words with the newest version and it would look like it was posted today.

Fuck all you nostalgia fags.

The only thing that really changed is that the term "edgy" killed all violence posting. It used to be accepted to be a sadist and post gore shit. Kinda sad that part of 4chan has been removed simply by coining the term "edgy"
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>>73929055
Waste of dubs. I hope the Candlejack meme dies soo
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>>73930612
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eRkWNjPLLg

here's the exact moment when WoW started to go normie
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>>73923091
I don't know why I found these memes funny back in the mid 00s.

Looking back on my ancient /b/ folder brings on a terrible case of the cringes.
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>>73922888
you mean old memes? they become old.
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>>73922888

Smart Phones. Before smart phones, to be a part of internet culture you had to be among the people that came home from work or school and sat behind their computer. But then smart phones came along and opened up easy internet access to people who never would have been on it otherwise. Then they found the culture we created and the jokes we started and took them.
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>>73929654
>>73928359
>>73929765

literally cried

>tfw you will never go back to those good old days
>tfw you will never enjoy old memes again
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>>73928715
I still hate that word for what it truly is.
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>>73930819
>retard->tard->autist
>completely glossing over potato
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>>73930215
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>>73929677
Good god this really rustled my him mies
>mfw
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>>73922888
Chanology changed everything for the worse.
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>>73927789
'96, can confirm
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>>73929677
>it's taken this long
Wew.
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>>73926350
I didn't want these feels.
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>>73928236
I remember hearing the word "meme" in the early 1990s. It was a chapter of a book by Richard Dawkins called "The Selfish Gene".

This was before Dawkins went full fedora, I think.
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It has evolved and gotten way better than it was back then

you're just not 14 anymore

retards
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>>73929677
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10 years of 4chan has changed my life.
Still, If I could go back I wouldn't do it differently. Being here has been a fun ride.
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>>73930612
>be me
>go to play on Nostalrius for nostalgia reasons
>it gets doxxed
>move to kronos
>full of oldfags
>go to barens
>general chat feels like fucking /pol/ and not so edgy /b/

Feels good man.
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The same cock suckers who called us nerds in 2005 for using the internet ruined it. Not "normies" just retards who should not have internet access.

It became a political tool.

Social media

Reddit is a big reason also.
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just found this little gem in my old folder
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>>73923612
NEDM

Man oh man. I still listen tune once in awhile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQRnWYVmIT4
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>>73931365
Those are literally normies in the non-/r9k/ sense. I do find it annoying as fuck though how when one board creates something all the other boards hop on board and claim credit.
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>>73930612
>>73931352

I thought Romania was a poor gypsy nigger country. How could you people play WoW back in that time?

Doesn't the subscription cost you like 50% of your disposable income?

Also why are 50% of the prostitutes in amsterdam romanian?
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>>73926051
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>>73930876
I'ma chargin muh lazor!
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>>73923091
>ancient memes
>keyboard cat
>trololo guy
>rage faces
>lego robot comic characters
>ancient memes
>back then
>ancient
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>>73931423
I miss papers like these getting posted
That one art project where some guy was drawing famous people like Steve Jobs and calling them faggots
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Why is everyone on 4chan so self-loathing these days? People on /v/ or /a/ or whatever don't even like their board's topic or each other.
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4CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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>>73931509
>romanian prostitutes
Swamp nigger, those are gypsies and most probably infested with STDs. -10/10 would not touch if i were you.

And at least i could afford wow back then, i was something of an upper middle class back then. I got the copy Dec 2. 2004 and played it until 2008. Started again in 2012, it was not that expensive, it was like ... let me think ... 1/12th of a salary.
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>>73922888
it died in 2009.
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>>73931621
>trololo guy is considered old
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>>73928359
>2012 newfag
>still know at least half of those memes

Who would have guessed the world we were running into?
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>>73925700

this picture is cancer
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>>73932004
fuck you buddy
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>>73928359
Did it really? 2011-2013 was a huge normalfag phase for me so i missed a lot of memes from that period
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>>73931648
Nihilism is the predominant philosophy on 4chan now. It used to be anarchy.

Doesn't mean it isn't still the funniest place on the internet though.
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I miss the old memes but I only miss them because they are gone while they where around nobody cared.
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>>73932142
That's why it died down, around that time I only stayed on /sp/ but the rest of 4chan died a death because the 2007-2010 generation had better stuff to do.
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>>73925700
Are old fags even a thing anymore. I can't imagine that people from the beginnings of 4chan are still here, this place has changed so much.
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How do you people still have your old folders?
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>>73929677

no. no....

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>73931813
trololo guy is dead irl
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>>73932190
>Nihilism is the predominant philosophy on 4chan now

What gay boards are you visiting? /pol/ has been nothing but optimism since Trump
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>>73932190
I guess we learned that anarchy leads to nihilism.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pSLirNrsU
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Mr T ate my balls was my first meme. Ymntd faggots are not superior than me.
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>>73932351
Trump is a glimmer of hope in a sea of depression.
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only oldfags remember this
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>>73932251
I know one of my old m8s posts on dead chans like 99chan now trying to bring back the glory days.

there was just something magical about before 2010 on the internet that will never be replicated.
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>>73932497
>topkek
>old
>implying
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>>73926350

I know that feel schlomo
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>>73923029
>>73923633

Behold true cuisine, plebs.
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>>73932004
fucking christ it's been at least 5 years since i lost.

i started playing that shit with my circle of friends in college after b planted it in my mind in like 05 or something
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>>73932251
I've been here since around May of 2006, does that count?

holy fuck that's 10 years
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Mr T ate my balls is the oldest meme. I am fucking better than anyone.
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>>73932582
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>>73922993
Why don't we just create a new internet?
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>>73922888
>internet
>culture
Choose one
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>>73932462
DOGARS
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>>73932720
>mfw I'm reddit but I've literally never been to reddit

I want to erase this feel
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>>73923612

>YTMND
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Hi it's Vince with SlapChop™
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>>73932720
I just chose 2010 because I feel like that was the year of the normie starting to use it popularly. I guess this pic confirms it.
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>>73932251
2007 here. The first 3 or 4 years I didn't leave page 0 of /b/.
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>>73924277
Wow, all this time I was sure this song was called "Follow me", not "Call on me". I feel like an idiot.
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>>73927789
The game came out in 1991, the meme is early 2000s i think
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>>73931509
Considering your lack of demographic basic understanding and much more mental faculties you miss entirely - I'd say you live in a shithole if your education system is so retarded it pukes retards.
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>>73932720
2006 been here 10 years, brb gonna an hero
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WHAT
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>>73922888
Niggers and normies got access to it
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>>73932720
>ive been on this shithole for about 11 years now

kill me
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>>73932251
A lot of us are still around, 2007 here.
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>>73932922
>>73932889
pic related, I came here then.
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