Real Millennial Humor (your experience my vary)

A deep dive of the meme part 2:

The Mr T meme is from 1996. It’s from one of the oldest internet meme trends. The trend was to use images and have various celebrities and fictional character mention balls or their love for balls or that they ate balls. There’s not much to get. The joke is basically “Ha, they said balls!”

In 1998 the hampster dance was created & was a mega huge viral sensation. Another popular animal animation was Badgers which is a flash cartoon that was created in 2003. Cute & mildly silly.

The star wars kid unfortunately was uploaded to the internet by bullies he went to school with in 2003 and spread via the file sharing site Kazaa. A game developer later edited in the light saber glow and sounds which made the video more popular. It was spread to FARK and new grounds before making its way over to YouTube. At the time, we didn’t know the back story. Some people watched it and laughed with ill intent like the classmates who uploaded the video and others of us just thought it was a silly video. The Star Wars kid has since been given $4,000 in donations and sent an iPod by fans as sorta a “thanks for the video, it was super funny and were sorry for the suffering you went through”… Years later, his parents sued the classmates who uploaded the video.

Numa Numa was one of the first YouTube videos I remember someone telling me “dude, you gotta see this, it’s hilarious! ”. Numa Numa was put on Newgrounds in 2004 and made its way to YouTube a few years later.

The first YouTube poop style of video was created in 2004 by SuperYoshi a few months before YouTube was created. It was an edit of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3. From the mid to late 2000s, YouTube poop was one of the most popular types of videos uploaded to YouTube. Hotel Mario, CDI Link, and the adventures of sonic the hedgehog were among some of the most popular sources used for creating memes. Stu making 4am pudding and Mr volcano & tyrannosaurus Alan were also ones I found very funny. Another recommendation from me is Yee which I considered adding but got rid of for lack of space (It’s sorta a newer ytp so…). Millennials and older gen z loved the crap (or should I say poop?) out of these early ytp videos wether they were watching them or making them themselves. It was a fun time.

I can has cheezburger? was created in 2007. It helped popularize lolspeak and using animals in memes into the mainstream. The cat pic originally came from the something aweful forums.

A deep dive of the meme part 3:

And lastly bad luck Brian who I won’t go into detail about. His luck is so bad that even though he gets featured in the meme, he gets excluded from a detailed mention. Tis the nature of Bad Luck Brian :P

If you think these memes and videos are sorta lame, it’s ok. Eventually everything gets played out and replaced by other things. At one point, knock knock jokes were probably the highest form of comedy. Lol. But my point is, as a millennial, yes we’re sorta thought of as the cynical I hate my life generation, but we’re so much more than that.

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A deep dive of the meme for those who are curious.

ASCII art (the cow-ch pic and rofl copter) was originally invented in the 1960s, but it was quite popular in the early 80s to mid 2000s. They flooded the comments sections from the early days of the Internet forums before migrating to YouTube comment sections, new grounds, social media sites, etc. Any where you could publicly comment, you were likely to see some ASCII art and they were a pretty common sight up to I guess 2010ish. This is something that many gen x, millennials, and older gen z likely remember seeing. And maybe some computer literate boomers too.

The flying toasters were a screen saver introduced in 1989 for Apple and 1991 for windows. Many boomers, gen x, and older millennials (using computers in the computer lab at school, the public library, or their parents’ computer) found it amusing.

The 3d dancing baby animation was one of the first internet viral sensations in 1996.

As early as 1998ish, “all your base are belong to us” was a popular badly translated phrase you could see parroted and s from site to site, but it especially went viral on forums in 2000. Like Reddit, we also enjoyed laughing at some engrish. It’s from a game called zero wing which was made in 1989.

Spongmonkey (the we like the moon pic) were from a series of videos in the early 2000s before being used to advertise Quiznos subs. They have one of the most annoying voices you will ever hear but it’s something people found funny and it looks like something that might be up gen z’s ally in terms of bizarre meme edits.

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^ Sorry for the mistake.