The internet is wild, people spend most of their time in small echo chambers and they think that is the whole internet.
I mean, back when this was a meme the whole internet was like a single echo chamber, especially in the early days of YouTube and even more so prior.
No. No it wasn’t. I’ve been here since YouTube started and have never seen this. People thinking they’re experience is everyone’s experience is wild.
Had a colleague that told me about some memes with a gay porn star. He couldn’t grasp that I neither know the guy nor the memes. Allegedly they were all over the internet for years. I’ve never seen any of them since.
This guy is a libertarian right wing incel, so I’m pretty sure our internet experiences are completely different.
I mean, there is a shared experience for people who were online when things started. I remember Newgrounds, eBaum’s World, Nyan Cat, Epic Rap Battles of History, StumbleUpon.com.
I imagine you also experienced some or most of that short list to some extent.
Eh, maybe. While I am familiar with those things, I don’t think I’d ever assume everyone my age and on the Internet would as well. Different strokes for different folks. Moreover, this didn’t even take into account age at all. So not only did it appear to strike out with many of the same age, it’ll likely strike out with most users who simply weren’t on the Internet for that relatively small period of time.
Deeply offended at the lack of Homestar Runner in your list.
Eh, my mom was on the internet at that time and would know absolutely zero of those things because she didn’t visit humor sites. I knew them because that is the stuff I looked for.
Kind of like how most people watched MASH when it was the most popular show ever, but not everyone did.
Epic rap battles and stumbleupon were my lemmy back then. Spent so much time stumbling and found some very weird stuff.
hmmm… I’m pretty sure I’ve been around since before YouTube started and don’t have any idea, so I still think is the case.
I think people tend to not understand how big internet is, even back then. This makes it difficult to know which memes really made it all the way to become THAT popular (and even those are not know by everyone, some people just don’t follow memes)
That would be me. The only thing I did back then was play video games. There was no web browsing unless it was for a game. I didn’t even know what a meme was until about ten years ago when I started using Reddit and branched out from gaming related themes.
I love how instead of “oh, I don’t get this joke, oh well” you’ve gone directly to “these other people don’t understand the internet as well as I do!!1”
😂The lesson was “your experience is not universal, other people have different experiences than you”. Your reading comprehension needs work, also you lack empathy, and project your own insecurities on to those around you.
Sure, whatever makes you feel better 😂
Also - “your experience is not universal, other people have different experiences than you” is exactly what this person should have told themselves and moved on instead of replying and making it all about their experience not being universal, that’s entirely my fucking point lmfao
No. Because they’re replying to someone claiming it was everyone’s experience. They are not the same to anyone who understands the English language.
Don’t you understand that you are in a discussion forum for discussing these things? “That’s entirely the fucking point lmfao.”
*Adds another layer of discussion
You need to take a step back from the Internet for a bit.
Except the fact that the joke relies on the concept everyone would understand it. So not getting the joke undermines the joke as that was it’s whole fucking point. It’s literally trying to say a generalized idea of the internet and is objectively incorrect. It tried to do it in a funny way and objectively failed when the premise is laughably untrue.
Weird take. He never said that at all.
I’ve been using Internet since late 90s and I have no idea what that is
Ahh, yes. The golden era of usenet flaming.
The people commenting with the context so others can understand it kind of highlights the absurdity of the original claim.
Yeah, but look at all the eNgAgEmEnT
The video is called “the grapefruit technique”.
I may be from the other side of the internet, I haven’t seen this.
SLURP SLURP
“Isn’t it crazy how people recognize viral videos on the internet?”
The sound… the sound haunts my dreams
slosh slosh slosh shluurp
I can hear this meme
I can taste this meme
I must be one of today’s ten thousand, because I haven’t the foggiest.
I do believe its an old youtube video
She explains how she can … put that onto her dudes penis and something something it feels good
Its a weird video
I was prepared to hate it as I guess I’m somewhat uptight but this had some thought put into it, which I appreciate. Definitely worth a watch.
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I must be the internet equivalent of the high school weirdos playing MTG during lunch period because I’ve never heard of this particular meme.
My old ass was definitely thinking “goatse”.
Goatse, those were the days…
Different hobbies are weird?
I guess you spent your time looking at goatse while I was getting grapefruited. To each their own.
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Everybody’s So Creative!
Okay I’ve just watched the video, very informative. I don’t have a man to grapefruit though, so-
…has anyone tried it?
Citrus + urethra = pain.
This may be a good or bad thing.
I recognize this meme, but that’s because I’m a fairly old Internet degenerate. I’m sure most people don’t recognize it.
It’s a legendary video though.
… no clue what you’re talking about, man.
I feel sorry for you.
