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[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: it wasn't funny the first day it was posted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Delete your comment, you're telling on the zoomers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It maybe would be mildly funny if it was real (at least Bieber and Psy).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Counter point: the Internet has created a new definition of what funny means. This new kind of funny is like a kind of nostalgia mixed with groupthink. It's doesn't make anyone laugh, but it's "funny".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

memes have always been like this.

find me a meme that will be funny in 10 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yes, that's what I'm saying. Internet invested a new type of funny that isn't funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

are you saying jokes in the 80s (70s,60s,etc) were better?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't say anything about better or worse, but someone from the 80s would not find memes funny. You need to be a meme connoisseur to appreciate most memes. Even among my friends very few understand the shit posts you folks post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm from the 80s and I enjoy quite a lot of memes. We invented them (probably), us people from the 80s, you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude. You're not from the 80s. You're from today. I mean if you brought someone from the 80s to today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, like Back to the Future or Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

I think they'd still enjoy the memes, if you gave them a chance to see some of the reference material for the in-jokes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well that's the whole point I'm making

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

its not funny ha ha or funny weird.. its funny baaa. sheep reminiscing about when the grass was green and the wolves weren't visible.