This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren’t really “memes”, IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name “memes” (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: “lolcat”, “doge”, the “O RLY?” owl, etc.
Can someone point to “memes” that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
I like to drop in “as was the style at the time” in casual conversation to see who picks up on it.
I feel like we’d get along bc I’m constantly dropping random Simpson’s/other media references into conversations ^^;
I remember these were called Demotivational Posters before they were called memes.
Yeah I remember folks used to actually print and hang these.
YES! My graphic design class in highschool printed out a bunch of em for the art show.
So I badgerbadgerbadgerbadger which was the mushroom mushroom at the time.
snaaake!
The demotivational poster meme came before the advice animals meme.
That means you are old to other old people
Shoulda been Abe’s head in the middle. Go the extra 15 miles!
You can’t just tickle my nostalgia organ like that.
This was a “viral video”, but was it a “meme”?
This is the true beginning.
Ooga chukka ooga chukka
Ally McBeal
Single female lawyer
Working for her client
Wearing sexy miniskirts
And being self-reliant
W E L C O M E T O T H E N E X T L E V E LIs this a Chris Nolan reference? 🤯
I don’t think Christopher Nolan was around when this was made
The movie name is a reference to the Sator square, yes 🤘
I miss Demotivators. Especially the RPG Demotivators from RPG.Net
It’s strange how no matter when someone was born, the best period in world history is the one when they happened to be kids.
My place of work in the early '90s used to have those original motivational posters all over the place, so I hung some of this original demotivational series in my cubicle. I believe they are the ones that started it all, and I still personally think they are the best.
Nobody:
OP formatting his meme:
Meme format has progressed so much
/s
Oh wow I remember these, even made a couple myself
Needs more belt onions.
We used to be a proper fucking society, with class!
Pepperidge Farms remembers?
