Badger, badger....

In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.
"I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup....those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more"
- Remember goatse? Wasn't that a cute rabbit?
  
  Sending your friend's email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
  
  No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
  
  My fav sfw
  
  Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.
- You mean people won't even remember who all the base are belong to?
  
  Or even who can have a cheeseburger
  
  Make your time.
- I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
- You forgot Tubgirl
  
  No I didn't.... You never forget

I don't get this. And I'm le tired.
I'll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
- Legend
  
  ... wait for it... dary!
- And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R

Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff's 1997 cover of Blue Swede's cover of BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling"
- I do remember. 2003.
  
  Close, 1998.
- Remember Mr T Ate My Balls? Remember Mahir “I Will Kiss You”?
  
  Do you remember "Papa Smurf, Can I Lick Your Ass?" None of my friends do. It was either weeble's stuff or ebaum's world, I don't even remember, it's all like rustling leaves in my brain.

- Domo arigato.
- Kilroy!

Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
- Legend.
  
  The original was better
- What you say..?
  
  MAIN SCREEN TURN ON

Kilroy was here
- Damn, an even more ancient meme

🐴 👀
🐴 🤩
- 👅🐴 ... There is not a raisin emoji.
  
  ✊️🐴
  🛩
  🐴
  ✊️🍆
  Or something like that
  
  🎼 Get on my horse….. 🎶

Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary's silly dance and lip sync to the "numa numa" song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don't miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days...
- There's been an HD version for a few years now
  https://youtu.be/viMEhOWcxd0
  
  That's beautiful. It's looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D
- Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect...
  
  Fun story: Someone said he was only popular because of the pretty girls in his videos, so he dropped this banger with only himself in it.
  
  Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here's awesome band Red Baraat covering it!
  https://youtu.be/fLlgTYZsc8o
- Don't check his Wikipedia page if you still want to enjoy that song.
  
  After all these years I still don't understand if what he did was amoral-- the "human trafficking" listed on the page was to smuggle people into the US, but that's as much information as I can find. If he put those people into nefarious circumstances that's one thing, but if he basically acted as a conduit to get people into the US who otherwise wouldn't have had the opportunity it's a different matter entirely.
  I'd love some clarification on the issue.

I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
- Terrible‽ The fuck you on about?
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asylum-seeker-sent-el-salvador-mega-jail-autism-awareness-tattoo-famil-rcna201720
  Remember the time you defended deportation for autism awareness tattoos?
  https://lemmy.world/post/27038154/15811746

I think that's cute they think those were the first memes.
- That badger animation is from 2003. "First memes," my ass!
  
  First ERA of memes is implied.
- this is the most Eternal September thing I've ever heard
- That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn't remember badger badger wasn't around for anything before that either.
- I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
  
  You're still thinking way too late in the game. It's not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it's bee hundreds of years. We just didn't call them that in wider speech.

"the first memes" yeah right
- The Hampster Dance meme happened 5 years before the Badger meme.
  
  Whoever made that gif should be punished.
  It's Hampster, because it's in honor of Hampton the Hampster.
  Also, did you know where the Hampster dance is from, as music? I was today years old when I learned this.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPwal8_HsQ
  
  Also fine, but I guess what I was trying to express is that memes have existed forever and any claim that this is the "first" one is just silly.
  Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg
- All your base are belong to us!
  
  https://xkcd.com/286/

I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
- Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.
  Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for "nerds".
  I remember when nornies didn't even know how to.
  And now we've gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.
  Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.
  
  My mom used to call the house from work at a random time between when my brother and I got home from school and when she left work. If she got a busy signal, she would wait about 15 minutes to half an hour and call back. If she got a busy signal a second time she would assume one of us was on the Internet and we would get in trouble when she got home.
  
  Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
  
  That's true enough, I guess we were formed & forged out of necessity. If you wanted to surf web well, you had to figure all kinds of shit out. If you wanted to pirate, same deal. Watch porn? Better delete that web history, but also make it look believable.
  It was baked into our brains at a young, impressionable age. And we absorbed it all.
  Now these kids don't seem to know how to do shit. Frustrating. They should be tech savvy.
  
  I was chronically online back then! Haha I mean, not chronically necessarily, but I got super into el interneto around 1995 and then waxing and waning every now and again. 2002 I was a journalist…yep chronically online for sure!
  Anyway, thanks for linking that. I realized that I just completely forgot about anything other than the “badger badger badger” line. It’s been so long and I’m old. :)
  
  a few years earlier
  7 years earlier, to be precise.
- https://youtu.be/pzagBTcYsYQ
- Same.

🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🍌📞
- Too too too doodledoo
  
  🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓

The first? Idk about that, im 27. And am well aware of memes prior to my existance. The oldest i can think of is the dancing baby meme.
https://youtu.be/eyR6O0eHz-o
Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance
https://youtu.be/6WpMlwVwydo
- Dancing Baby was the first normie meme. Its popularity spread through TV and print.
  All Your Base is more of an actual “first” internet meme.
  
  A/S/L?
  
  Damn totally forgot about "all your base are belong to us" what a trip. But i was going for viral normie memes since i mainly remember these memes taking popularity outside of the internet. People were singing the hamster song at parties when i was little so i think its influence as a meme was way more than even dancing baby. And then later 2003 or 4 the badger song. And after a while that duck song took off and my little sister wouldnt stop asking "got any grapes"?
- Memes are also not inherently digital. Going back to the definition set by Richard Dawkins (trans-hating bigot he is), a meme is anything that "conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." Perhaps that's a bit broad of a definition compared to what we conventionally think of as memes, but it's how we got to where we are.
  People in ancient Egypt building pyramids and obelisks because someone before them built pyramids and obelisks is a meme. Cathedrals being built in much the same way throughout Renaissance Europe is a meme.
  But those examples aside, there are still a few pre-internet examples that would still resonate more with the idea of memes as we know them today. Kilroy was Here is considered a meme and goes back to World War II. Or a bit before that, this "How you think you look" cartoon which I am not entirely sure was overly meme-like in its day but certainly feels relatable today.
  But even slogans or popular sayings could be considered memes; if we consider internet terms/phrases like "pog" or "Are ya winning, son?" or (dating myself) "I can haz cheezburger?" to be memes, what about pre-internet sayings like "Luke, I am your father," "It's just a flesh wound," or "Where's the beef?" Or going way, way back, what about saying "Break a leg" before a performance, or "All the world's a stage," or even "Carpe diem"? I think one could make a case for just about any repeated and widely understood concept, really.
  
  Knights fighting snails goes back even further.
- Memes don't need to be digital
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

Hey guys... remember Newgrounds? Heh... Remember Spoony? Hehe...
- How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven't kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.
  
  He was doing let's plays last i saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.

Allow me to help: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
- https://youtu.be/LZAFo4jXhW0
- Thanks. I was OOL simply cause I wasn't a huge YouTube kid but I saw the badgers and could only think Honey Badger don't give a shit.
  
  It was a Flash animation originally. Many of his animations looped, but some of them had the issue that the sound and imagery weren't exactly the same length, so would go out of sync as it repeated.
  edit: Here's the original hosted on the Internet Archive, running on the Ruffle emulator: https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
  
  Another classic!
- 2009? Definitely not the first meme.
  
  The YouTube video is a repost. Pretty sure the original was Flash from the early 2000s.

Weebl released a video on youtube marking the 20th anniversery of badger badger badger a while ago, he released one for the 15th too and the 10th
- I've seen Weebl videos. I've seen them with my eyes.
  
  They're often in disguise.
  
  Are you fond of Owls? Everyone is fond of Owls, except for mice, shrew and Simon Cowells
  
  I've seen things. They're often in disguise.
  
  The ones in your face?
  
  Your eyes are like two gelatinous orbs that see things!

I've fallen and I can't get up!
- You went back too far man! Pull back! Pull baaaack!
- Where's the beef?

I am too old to remember this
- Yeah, I came here to say that the first generation of memes is 10 years older than this new stuff from the 2000s
  Now get off my lawn
  
  I put on my robe and wizard hat.
  
  You are likely to be eaten by a grue?

I vaguely remember the Harry Potter one?
Potter, Potter, Potter Weasley, Weasley Snape! Snape!
- Snape, snape, severus snape- DUMBLEDORE
- One of the first viral vids I saw was the Harry Potter Puppet sing-along: https://youtu.be/Tx1XIm6q4r4

- What's-her-face!
  
  the ugly one!

EVERYONE LOVES
MAGICAL TREVOR
Edit: beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans yeah yeah
Edit2: hey guys did weebls stuff predict Lemmy memes?
- Yep. His website rathergood.com has heaps of stuff, but a lot of the older stuff no longer runs because it was Flash based.
  https://rathergood.com/

New grounds flash games

Why do you think the web was born? Porn porn porn!
- I've not thought about Avenue Q in a long time.
- And NOW I have that song stuck in my head. You people are terrible for my productivity … of reading random Lemmy posts.
  
  A song stuck in your head?
  Allow me.
  Reading about the Hampster Dance just now, I learned that it's actually sampled from this. I was today years when I learned why it had always seemed so familiar when first hearing it.

Thanks, now I have that freakin’ song stuck in my head.
And fuck I feel old now. Get off my lawn!!!
- I'm still stuck on CAT. Imma kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance, and I dance-dance-dance
  
  And I meow-meow-meow, and I meow-meow-meow-

Lets see how many oldies are here. No repeat users
DIE MONSTER!
- All your base
- It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out
  
  We're talking about Dr. Snuggles right?
- Myah hee Myah haaa!
- YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD
  
  It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.
- What is a mane.
- Carl and Phil are MONKEY NINJAS!!

And this looks like old Tumblr, where by around the 12th reply the original post would be completely indented out of sight.

Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.

I can hear this still

Hahaha! When Halo Reach first came out, me and three friends were playing the campaign and chanting "banshee banshee banshee banshee oooooooooo TANK TANK! OOOOOOO It's a tank!"

Oh how I miss those times sometimes.
- Take me back to candy mountain Charlie 🦄 😢
  
  Fuck, you took my kidney.

The picture is missing two badgers (sing the song in your head and count).
- Isn't it missing 6?
  
  Yeah 6

Weebls is still making stuff https://youtube.com/@weebl
- I fucking love Mr Weebl. The Grandpa of the Internet!

Where do I sign the petition to add Weebls Stuff to middle school curriculum

That's cool, but they're NOT the space robots. They are NOT here to protect us. They will not protect us from the terrible secret of space.
- Probably can't even fire a zig.
  
  For great justice

Oooh, that was when Mayahee, mayahoo was first on YT wasn’t it? That and all those twisted humour animations. Fun and disturbing times.
- Did you just call NumaNuma mayahee, mayahoo?
  
  Choc-O-late raaaaain
  
  Apologies, it’s been a while I forgot the name. I just knew it started like that.
- It predates youtube
  
  And “Kilroy was here” is a meme that predates computers

I just found out The Impossible Quiz is still online
https://poki.com/en/g/the-impossible-quiz#fullscreen

So much jpeg

Good God, this takes me back to middle school when we were obsessed with this song/chant/animation (what even was it?)

I have heard it said that space has a terrible secret.
- Do you have stairs in your house?
  
  Yes, and the people must go down them.

Tell me...Have you seen the marvelous bread fish? Swimming in the ocean water?

!badgers? anyone?

Punch the keys for god's sake!

the way things are going the "Nigger stole my bike" might even do a comeback
Edit: but in all honesty it is actually hard to imagine that it was a thing once
- Nah.
  
  Maybe on truth social?
- It never died, they just change the wording. Naga stole my bike is a common world of Warcraft guild name but it usually will get banned pretty quick.

"¡¡Pero que hermosa Hueva!!"

- Goatse? Or Meat Spin. Trying to figure out what gets you banhammered so fast.
  (funny to think those were the types of things we'd spray paint in TF2)
  
  God I loved meatspin. It fit so perfectly. The music, I mean.