Post old memes
>>499704
He was never a meme
>>499704
Let it go Milhouse.
>>499704
But milhouse is not a meme
Here's an ANCIENT meme
>>499699
I'm still kindof pissed that Asian fuck literally lifted 4chan memes and made tens of millions off it.
But then again, this is a public site and if you post stuff here, anyone can take it
The classic that started it all.
>>499716
Imitation instead of innovation
I also blame that damn frog
>>499710
no that's le windmill of peace and tolerance
>>499716
Please. The old memes are awful and reek of reddit. There's a reason these memes are dead.
longcat is long XDDD Epic 4tw
>>499720
>>499716
I think most of the earlier 4chan userbase was college age and didn't mind being cutesy at times. Then the constant waves of younger and younger people combined with with many memes going mainstream pushed the new users to be edgier and edgier.
>>499720
Like this retard here. Most of these memes existed long before Reddit was made or even 1/10th as popular as it was today.
>>499725
Kill yourself.
Old memes were reddit before reddit even existed.
Fucking lolcats, can't think of anything more reddit than that.
>>499728
low effort bait
fuck you
>>499728
>>499725
the first 4chan memes were mostly from SA.
>>499716
I, for one, can't wait until the cuck meme goes the way of I like mudkipz. Adding cuck to my filter improves browsing 4chan so much but shit still makes it through.
>>499725
Agreed. 4chan is inherently contrarian in nature. Once some of these things went mainstream, the kiddos started to pretend to hate them.
>>499699
N E D M
http://nedm.ytmnd.com/
>>499732
Such as?
>>499737
to be fair, longcat WAS pretty long
>>499716
>>499737
I said this in another thread, but I'll write it here too.
I think the real difference between old and new 4chan was the ability to not have to worry about what kinds of people where posting as much.
That wasn't just true of 4chan either, the whole internet was a little bit more homogeneous.
So if you're actually looking at "quality" or whatever today to try and compare, you won't see it because it was the atmosphere mostly that made it great even if the humor wasn't objectively the best or anything.
So for example, if I were to observe that everyone hates something and then post it ironically in a lighthearted way for a laugh, you'd be more likely to look at it as if someone similar to yourself made the post, and laugh about it, and less likely to try and view me as an outsider.
Today because 4chan is so well known Everyone's trying to decide if everyone else belongs here or if they don't before considering whether your post is interesting or funny.
>>499735
the first users of 4chans were goons from SA, mostly from ADTRW and FYAD. they brought most of the SA memes with them
>>499741
>Today because 4chan is so well known Everyone's trying to decide if everyone else belongs here or if they don't before considering whether your post is interesting or funny.
I never understood this. Even during the original great reddit panic, I didn't really give a shit what other sites someone browses. There's literally no way to know unless someone specifically says "I browse x, y, and z sites too." Even then they could be lying just to get a reaction.
Going full inquisition always seemed like a waste of time to me.
>>499744
>they brought most of the SA memes with them
Such as?
>>499737
that was how the internet was at the time bruv, sorry you're underage mate
>>499747
Maybe the sites you browsed were like that. I didn't notice this attitude until I came to 4chan.
>>499746
I think the hating furfags-meme is from SA originally.
GoT General
>GoT General
i also drew it
>>499746
Furry hate, a lot of anime memes in particular: Dragon Ball Z
a lot of other shit, I regged in 2009 on SA so I know little of the old times.
>>499740
Underrated post.
>>499752
All games and forums were like it. Sorry you missed out on pre 2010 internet.
>>499770
Not the forums I browsed. I'm not an american by the way.
>>499777
Why be proud of that anyway?
The atmosphere was great. I would take "lame humor" with the old atmosphere of the internet any day over the way it is today.
not a meme, but a goddess
>>499875
the true queen of the sky
>>499795
The humor isn't lame, the poster is for not getting it.
>>499795
I bet you love /s4s/, you fucking faggot.
Newfags can't 7
>>499886
good times from /f/
>>499886
and I bet you love showing all your friends how epic 4chan is.
Why do people care if the humor is objectively good or not? It's literally just highschoolers, and younger, who want to think 4chan is supposed to be "cool" or something.
Lighten up.
>>499927
But I didn't say that. If that's what they were arguing about then my bad, I might have jumped in the middle of another argument, but this was my first post >>499795
I was just talking about how the environment of the place wasn't as up tight about outsiders. Sure they still were, but not as bad as today, and that's what I think made it so good.
Why should we care if the humor itself is good or not anyway? We aren't trying to win any awards here.
I guess here's the point I'm making. I'd rather just relax and talk about my hobbies with people online and if every once in a while I have to see unironic statements like "LOL epic win!" I would much rather see that than "fuck off back to so-and-so" followed by 20 pages of arguing and meta posting.
>>499753
>>499755
I always hated furfags and never used SA.
Next time you're going to tell me that breathing air is a meme that came from Ebaumsworld.
>>499933
I think the 'outsider' thing mattered less just because the amount of people using the internet in that way was so small back then, even 10 years ago, and the type of person different.
If an outsider came to 4chan, there was a good chance they were probably already the type of person who'd fit in after acclimatizing.
Now the internet is truly used by pretty much everyone, 'normies' are now well, the norm. And this sounds a bit hipsterish and it probably is. I don't think it's a bad thing, but it probably has been bad for 4chan's old users who saw the internet - and a cherished website of theirs - change in front of them.
4chan really did used to be basically a 'secret club' place because only geeks or other people different from the norm would come here. Now truly normal people come here daily. Which again, isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but it probably is a bad thing for the people who were here first.
If I compare what I see on 4chan on a daily basis to the rep 4chan had even 5 years ago, it's a joke. I see more vitriol and hate on reddit than I do on 4chan.
It seems there is a distinctive lack of old memes ITT.
>>499716
Highly likely that most of 4chan back then was underage.
>>500257
Pretty much all what I was trying to say too.
The way I try to look at it now is that it should actually be somewhat healthy for your average person to come here.
With the way western culture is today (at least American culture) with everything being so PC and the idea that everyone is a special butterfly being shoved down our throats it's good for a larger portion of people to be exposed to something a little different and to experiment with anonymity.
As long as I get to shitpost it'll still be fun. I just gotta worry about the mods getting in the way though.
>>500275
>Highly likely
What does this even mean? Some but not all were underage.
>>499741
>>499745
>Implying
Before Reddit there was Gaia online. There are major differences between Reddit and Gaia but the fear of their users meddling in our affairs was pretty much the same.
Back then there were fears that 4chan, as a japanese-centric board was attracting underage users from Gaia. In the early 2000's anime was beginning to exit from it's "nerd" status to eventually become the new pop media for children and teenagers, resulting what is known as the weeabo. SA and early 4chan already despised the trend and the idea was that Gaia would come over and sperg out over all the anime and cause all sorts of cultural damage, such as rampant use of trips, anime role playing and the pushing of shit you'd usually see on DA.
We were still pretty much afraid of the internet ruining our fun, it's just that no one imagined that our memes would eventually be exploited and monetized and that a new website emerging from the remains of the then despised Digg community would form a community so horrible it would haunt 4chan for years to come.
>>499733
Why? You don't like people judging you for letting Jamal ravage your wife on a weekly basis?
>>500283
For one, a lot of users actually believed they were anonymous. The internet was far less monitored than today but even back then moot had everything on his posters.
Yet many posters at the time believed it was a land of utter freedom, hence memes like the one you posted. Clearly those posters had to be underage or at least incredibly naive, especially considering that after /b/-day they tried escaping to "freedom chans " that were swiftly taken down by the feds for illegal activity.
>>499704
Dubs were not rolled in the thread to determine if Milhouse would be a meme.
Sorry.
>>499716
The main reason is that there was not another site where people would constantly repost 4chan memes. Oh wait, yes there was.
>>500261
got that image without the watermark?
>>499691
>no speedycat
Don't let me post emoduck if you fags can't
>>499737
To be fair, longcat is pretty long
Nevar Forget.
>>499699
Nice dubs.
The day I realised /b/ was truly shit was when they spent all their energy attacking Gaia online for using longcat as an avatar accessory and ignored that Asian fuck.
Also, some more dank memes...
ITTY BITTY BABY
ITTY BITTY BOAT
![squirrel[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7bRGwVe.jpg "squirrel[1].jpg")
>>500332
>>499716
Tell me about it. A lot of people subscribe to the meme that 4chan is supposed to hate memes or be super ironic about everything.
>>500634
That's because they came here when 4chan had the ingenious idea to prevent memes or board culture so reddit would stop coming.
>>500289
>Gaia would come over and sperg out over all the anime and cause all sorts of cultural damage, such as rampant use of trips, anime role playing and the pushing of shit you'd usually see on DA.
This actually happened. anime roleplaying is rampant, with all the anime reaction pics and associated lewd bullshit. Just go to /a/ and see for yourself,
>x is cute, CUTE!
>>500728
I didn't say it didn't happen, sorry if I implied that. My only point was that fear of foreign influence predated reddit.
>>500612
http://youtu.be/yC1XNDyxE4c
>>499899
Nice No Doubt Dubs
>>500244
this post is right
most likely just furfags trying to do historic revision, literally all the internet could not stand you faggots
Will the internet become something simple again?
Return to times where humor was simple enough that a simple silly image would make you smile/laugh?
>>500827
I had never even heard of furries before I came to 4chan. Didn't know they existed.
>>500244
It's what brought the furry hate over to 4chan
>SHOOP DA WHOOP
>WTF- BOOOOM
i want to die
No one posted desu yet?
Let's have some desu.
Two in one desu.
This one comes from around 2007.
Pic related is the one that started it all.
>>502234
this is classic desu
Well hello there
>>502258
EFG is truly epic but was kinda forced
were there circle jerk threads in old 4chan?
>>502243
>>502246
Yeah, desu is still remembered. Rule 41.
The forgotten or rarer seen anymore memes are more interesting, like the fgsfds included in desu.
>>502264
It's still an important one. Many think that Guy Fawkes is the face of anons, but the truth is, he only represents these shitty script kiddies calling themselves Anonymous.
>>502267
4chan started as a circlejerk of moot. There were some notable namefags, but I don't recall circlejerks outside of moderation. 4chan was much more random back then, when /b/ was /b/ and we didn't need /r9k/ nor [s4s]
I accidentally 9001KB of memes.
What should I do? Is this dangerous?
Last one from me. Hope you enjoyed.
Have a nice day and remember to lurk moar.
>>499720
Le "old maymays are cancer XDXD". Back to YouTube, your obviously underage.
>>502282
>>502956
>>502271
>The forgotten or rarer seen anymore memes are more interesting, like the fgsfds included in desu.
I was always partial to the A. Wyatt Mann DESU edits.
>mfw I learned that desu doesn't have the u pronounced
des des des des
>>502964
lewd
>>502960
>>499718
>>502959
I didn't know about this one author, though I remember some of his pictures, much appreciated.
>>502960
But it is pronounced. It's voiceless, but it's a linguistic term and it doesn't mean it doesn't make a sound.
It's not pronounced like う, but it's not "des" at all. There's no corresponding sound in English, but the voiceless "u" is there.
>>502964
This meme is younger than most here. It's already from times when they lacked originality and were just one template image with some caption. But it's still better than the ones with two-colour radial background, an image and a caption.
>>502974
True anon.
>>502976
>a wallpaper
>shitty websites
>a typo
>>>/trash/
>>>/out/
>>>/r/eddit
>>502960
Suiseiseki pronounces it as Deisu,
When was the last time someone replied with NO U.jpg to one of your posts, anon?
>>502982
>>502982
in /b/ last month.
I replied to some user with the NO U.jpg and he replied that reply with the NO U.jpg turned 90° so it was pointing up (at my reply). lol
>>502982
I don't think I have even seen one posted for a year or more.
These days people would rather call others cucks, post frogs and other unfunny shit.
>>502988
I bet it was all ironic as fuck though right? Not the same.
>>502992
>call others cucks, post frogs and other unfunny shit.
Is it really so different? inb4 duckroll
>>502996
>Is it really so different?
Quality wise? No.
But did you ever see "fuck off dumb NO U poster" followed by 500+ replies of off topic metaposting?
>>502995
yeah it was a meta flamewar thread.
the last time someone "legitimately" replied with the NO U.jpg was a somewhat long time ago,
>>502998
>But did you ever see "fuck off dumb NO U poster" followed by 500+ replies of off topic metaposting?
Not exactly no, but I do remember some cockmongler threads on old /b/ after the meme was long stale that were similar to what you describe.
And then a little later there was the era of Boxxy and advice animals. Plenty of righteous but useless 500 post threads complaining about those things.
>>502996
I think yes, especially for "cuck". This words became common dictionary of many people who do not understand what it means and abuse it horribly, to the point it feels like a forced unfunny meme.
I have no problems with pepes, I actually quite like them, especially the positive ones. Or maybe liked. They feel somewhat overused now.
The problem are reactions of people, as >>502998 mentioned.
>>503012
dumb frogposter
>>499875
>>502954
But it's true. The old memes are cancer. Just look at all the horrible and unfunny memes in this thread. Fucking lolcats, god damn.... that's only funny if you're a 45 year old woman.
>>503046
You, sir are and idiot ;)
>>503046
>I measure the value of a community by how cool it looks from an objective perspecitve so I can show all my friends how cool I am
Read the thread, people have already said several times why that's irrelevant.
you know that 4chan went to shit when people like
>>503046
post here
>>503056
Fuck off you cunt and stop putting words in my mouth.
Old memes are cancer.
>>503060
>>503059
Said by someone who posts an anime girl as a reaction image.
>>503060
Please refrain from using words the meaning of which you don't understand
>>503063
oh look, an antiweeb
100% pure cancer even as a 1/10 bait. kudos to you
>>503046
This faggot has been posting this bait numerous times to start a flamewar.
Fuck him
>>503060
But that's why you care about how good the memes are right? So you can show your friends?
If not, then would you mind please telling me why you give a damn about some objective measure of how good the humor used to be?
>>503063
As expected the cancer reveals itself.
This is the person you're arguing with ladies and gentlemen. What can one do against such newfaggotry?
>>503073
Look out guys, we got a meme expert here. I bet you have your PhD in memetics from The University of Knowyourmeme.
just
>>503073
fuck you.
get off 4chan
>>503073
>>502979
>True anon
Never stopped using these as profile pics.
>>503088
i always post this whenever some "faces of /b/" or simmilar shows up
>>503075
At least I didn't graduate from Gaiaonline University.
>>503089
lol
>>502979
Have you seen Kill la Kill? I saw both the sub and the dub. In the sub, they clearly pronounce an "u", almost like a soft "oo". In the dub they drop it completely to just say Sen-kets. Why is that?
I have no idea what voiceless "u" means though, but I definitely hear one for Senketsu in the sub.
>>503091
>>503094
It's like that because you shouldn't watch dubs.
Americans simply can't into Japanese.
Voicelessness is when you make sounds without your larynx vibrating. For example 'r' is voiced, you can feel your throat vibrating, while 's' is voiceless and you only use flow of air to make sound.
To pronounce す (su) in です (desu) you say only 's', but make 'u' shape with your lips, like when saying 'u' (unlike normal 's' where your lips are straight — and your teeth are often close together). It's called devoicing and happens in Japanese with 'i' and 'u' in some cases.
The easiest way to learn how to pronounce Japanese, is to learn how to shape your mouth while saying basic vowels (aiueo) and then shape mouth this way when pronouncing consonants of all other moras (i.e. "syllabes", kana symbols).
>>503067
The problem is not that it was an anime pic, it's that it was of an anime girl.
>>503144
Here's how I see it. There are good dubs, but there's no such thing as a better dub. Not even Ghost Stories, because that's not a real dub.
>>503144
>>503073
>And you should know that this trend with posting smug anime girls is very recent. Nobody did that 5 years ago.
Next you'll say Pepe is a recent trend too.
>>503159
Smug pepe is a recent trend.
>>503161
Fair enough. Although if I recall correctly, even his smug version and its variations were around for years before it exploded as a trend.
Finding old memes that aren't in KYM is increasingly difficult but not impossible
but of course only true old ones recognize them so they are worthless
>>503188
>>499737
Are you from 2011?
>all these 4chan is SUPER SRS posters
I think this is the most depressing trend
>>503336
nice meme
>>503162
>look at picture
>look down at floor, at my PC tower
>...
I'd have to hook that up, and get all those Child Abduction pictures. I want to. I don't know if I can.
>>502956
>pedos and their sinks killed rar concatenation
Fuck them so much
>>503149
that'd make sense ifv it was a smug anime girl. but it's not
Do you guys remember candlejack that was a pretty coo
>>500257
>and a cherished website of theirs - change in front of them.
I still can't believe how shit YouTube is now.
>>499720
They reek of Reddit because Reddit stole them.
>>503553
I miss pre-Youtuber Youtube
>>503562
>pre-Youtuber
>smosh
>>503599
>>499691
Is it finally old enough?
>>503609
RIP
Still too soon.
>>503188
This one isn't in KYM either
>>503599
If I see that fucking cat again...!
>>503599
I SWEAR IF I SEE THAT FUCKING CAT AGAIN
>>503599
Sir, when I posted that picture, it was a PNG. You've posted a JPEG. You are NOT posting old memes. You are posting a younger duplication.
These kinds of combos are a lost art
Can we all agree that jimmie rustling is officially dead?
>>503866
It was never alive. Fuck /v/ mods that rather sticky their personal forced memes than delete the fucking shitposting.
old /ck/
>>503562
009 Sound System
pre-4chan meme coming through
>>503916
>pre-4chan meme
U wot m8? 4chan INVENTED memes
>>503925
Shut the fuck up kid
>>503925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano
>>503925
this better be bait
>>503930
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4
>>503946
>pown.it
Damn this still exists.
And my first shitty loop has over 40k views on it. I never knew.
>>502985
>>503965
Cry moar faggots.
>>500255
darn i just lost the dubs
that one with the wolve and he looks angry
>>503562
back when youtube was good
>>499716
>silly, stupid, but light hearted and meant to be fun. lots of OC and edits; often image based
lol 4chan was known for other things beside memes.
>tubgirl, goatse, 2girls1cup and other shock sites
>racist humor
>cyber bullying
>girls don't exist in internet
>bad advice that got people into hospitals and jail-time
>scriptkiddies and mass DDOS
>spoiling things like harry potter and movies
Memes are cute and all, but without the hate it won't be considered old 4chan either. My two cents.
>>504040
Well spoken, Anon
>>504040
The thing is modern 4chan doesn't really have much of the flip side of that coin and is a lot of people trying to outdo each other in edginess/layers of irony as much as possible. I think cute anime stuff being common is probably the only thing that balances out all the tryhard edginess/baiting and of course like half of /qa/ is trying as hard as they can to stamp out anyone who wants to post cute/smug pics because that isn't hardcoar and edgi enough for them and/or they take these matters deadly seriously while pretending on the surface they don't.
Which reminds me, that bullshit irony aspect is probably the real difference as it wasn't nearly so common a thing back then - by always pretending to be above everyone by being on whatever layer of irony it takes to imply that, it's a pussy tactic to cover your ass for any heat coming your way or excusing faux pas you make. Instead of going "trolled hard" they go "pffft I was just being ironic kid". Modern 4chan has a lot of meme hipsters now. Or maybe they're actual hipster dipshits who wouldn't be here if they didn't hear about it on reddit or the news as the counter-culture hub of the web.
>>504055
Fuck off. You're reading into shit that's not even there.
>>504042
I miss those LED signs. Those were fun as fuck to post to.
>>504092
agreed.
you guys remember that "Heaven" fag from /b/?
>>504096
Of course I do, he seemed to stalk me everywhere!
>>504096
god what a faggot that guy is
>>504125
>>504126
>>504127
>>504128
>>503905
Have you got the one with all the organs in the bloody bathtub? From that old and lost thread where some guy butchered a roadkilled deer in his apartment.
>>504129
>>504137
>>504141
>>504142
>>504144
>>504146
>>504151
>>504157
I miss Image Macros.
>>504161
>>504165
In got ya covered, brosef
>>504169
Hahaha, thank you.
You're reminding me, back in the early days, people would post random pictures on /b/ and be all like "this image needs a caption" and the only jpeg reply they'd get was a beautifully made image macro, but the text only read "this image needs a caption." Those were a blast.
>>504170
And then those sites appeared which let you turn anything into an image macro without photoshop and it was all over.
>>504173
>>504174
remember Candlejack? there were entire threads full of posts cut mid sen
>>504243
Still reasonably well known on /b/ for some rea
>>503599
Post that god damned feline again and I'll hurt you.
>>503967
Covercat > Blockatiel > Rockblock >>> Other forms of obstruction
>>503609
>>504245
You have to say Candlejack in your post for it to count you newf
>>503925
o rly?
>>503883
Jimmie status: Rustled
mite dump moar later
>>504439
>mfw all images starting with >>504428 return 404
>>504521
Stop!
>>504295
TOO SOON
>>504175
a cat is fine, too
>>504096
hahah, Heaven. Spamming gore in YLYL threads for so long, until one day he decided spamming granny porn in YLYL threads would be better, consistently causing butthurt on /b/ for ages - never, ever ceasing. And all of this while the "I really really really like this image" anon was still a newfag baby.
>>504597
>>504888
Nice auspicious trips, (you).
>>504890
>>504891
>>504905
>>504915
>>504917
> inb4b&
totally worth it.
REMEMBUH ME?
>>502996
>tfw you can't duckroll anymore because link preview
It was a simpler time
