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I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Virgin vs. Chad meme. It's an odd one that started out as an apparently unironic post by incels that was picked up and turned into a whole thing with an extended cast of characters that still isn't dead.
With a lot of these memes, it feels like most started out dead serious (Bad Opinion Puffin, anything from 4chan, etc.) but became ironic jokes made for shits and giggles.
I think Virgin vs Chad is kind of just an earlier, more easily understandable prototype of the Nordic Gamer/Trad Girl memes he discusses at the end. Shit comics made unironically by incels that have been thoroughly mocked to the point of basically only existing as ironic shitposts making fun of said incels.
Simple: Racist caricature by proxy. More straightforward racist imagery became too socially toxic, so a proxy became a popular option for that sort of humour. Why that videogame character? Rap theme and dreads. It's dead simple.
Ya see kids, people found out that being openly racist tended to produce scorn rather than comforting approval. So they learned to be careful and indirect and prepare escape routes if necessary. But they were still stuck in their perpetual discomfort that the mythical promise of supremacy over others was perpetually being undermined. This self-imposed isolation that they kept maintaining through faithfulness to a social order that is dead but still twitching caused a mighty struggle but very little personal growth. To them, the universe is wrong for saying that the old ways are dead. Which is crazy. Under such immense pressure to maintain this craziness, they sought refuge in the aesthetic of aloof rebellion through irreverent styles of humor, always securing an escape route any time someone rejected the joke’s premise. This joke is a throwback to decades old minstrel shows that featured buffoonish caricatures of impoverished black people. They merely swapped the southern black accent for a generic African accent. The setup is old hat: Hay everyone remember black ppl?! And the punchline equally old: Wat a dum, as opposed to us who are not black ppl and therefore not a dum. The beauty of such a simplistic joke format is that it remains ambiguous to anyone that has no idea what minstrels shows were, nor that Knuckles can be coded as black due to his dreadlocks and the very cheesy rap songs about him. These freeform associations of a cartoon echidna with a buffoonish black man are so very stupid that pointing it out makes the speaker sound like a joyless bore. Sadly, racism is precisely that stupid, but was a taboo enough subject amongst white Americans back then that it was given undue gravitas. Such gravitas affords the racists the opportunity to express their racism in a way that appears too directionless to be damaging. Their message was “I’m not srs, being srs is uncool. ppl who think this is racist r real srs” to undermine the social convention that racism is an attitude worth changing. Which didn’t quite work. B/c the joke can be easily shown to be lame. And once revealed as lame, it can be discussed as a lame racist thing that tried to make racism hip and with it.
chaosvii To me I just never thought of it that deeply? I consider myself pretty left but Ugandan Knuckles never seemed that serious to me. First I never thought of Knuckles as black, hes an Echidna and I never imagined he had dreads really. He just kinda exists to me. I know you didn't say that but I felt it was worth mentioning. Also to me Ugandan Knuckles is so far out there with people doing an over the top accent while clicking asking people for "the way" that it doesn't seem to have intent. Honestly if it did it's failed. Nobody seems to think of Ugandan Knuckles in regard to race more than how fucking weird it was. It's like some stupid thing your friend does that you find really funny for some reason. I directly think of this kinda Brooklyn accent my friend likes to do that we all find funny just because we do. Like she says stuff but sometimes it's just absurd I guess. I mean racism has its hands in everything but like I was in sophomore year when it was a thing and everyone of every creed was going around asking for "the way" and clicking in unison. Racists really fucked up if they wanted to divide us or something. Honestly I'm not trying to be rude or ignorant though. I just personally have a critical lens and then there's how I see things actually work in the world. So far it hasn't done any damage unless like you were already racist and even then I didnt see anybody doing that.
And it also helped spawn more “baby” memes such as Baby Sonic and Baby Nut. I thought that they killed the baby trend in the 90’s. I wish that it’d stay *dead.*
I once came across a girl who won The Game. We were good friends as teenagers. She never understood the actual concept of The Game, but she understood that if she said the words "The Game", she would mildly annoy people and take gleeful pleasure in that fact. So she wasn't thinking about the actual Game, but was constantly making everyone around her lose it.
Thats not how the game works. The point of the game is that you can't win the game. The goal is to not think about the game. Otherwise you lose. If you ask someone if they're playing the game, the very instant they lock eyes with you they've already lost. Because their brain is already thinking about the question, and the subject of said question: the fucking game. You lost the game the moment you began playing it. So she was really wasting everyone's time. As well as yours. And apparently nobody apart of "everybody" as you mentioned, has ever heard of or played the actual game... -.-
@@meursault7030 ....Dude. Its not that complex. Here I'll demonstrate I'm about to ask you if you would like to play the game. If you answer me, you've already lost. If you don't reply, then you aren't playing the game in the first place. Therefore, you are not playing the game. Its not a *big bwain* strat to beat the game faster, you're just choosing to not participate in the game. Even if you wanted to disagree you'd be doing it out of spite, or to troll, not because it's legitimate to disagree. Now, with that all figured out (hopefully), lets try this again shall we: "Wanna play the game?" :)
@@pweefypweef4089 You've misunderstood my original comment, I think. She didn't refuse to play the game and think it was a smart play. She was just ignorant of the meaning of the words. So she'd be assuming you meant some other game, not THE game. When someone's talking about some other game, you don't lose The Game because you're thinking about the other game. The words have to make you think about the concept of The Game in order for you you lose. She was unaware of the concept of The Game and thus continues winning, likely to this very day for all I know
@@pweefypweef4089 It's always the idiots that are most condescending. I think it's because it's so hard for you people to articulate things that it gets frustrating. Bless your little cotton socks.
I actually remember the creation of "E". It was the end product of people taking some other Markiplier meme and just reducing it more and more until no context could be found in it anymore. It used to have some caption to it but all that is left....is E. Its like the equivalent to a french fry that shriveled from being in the fryer way too long. My point is that this meme was a group effort.
I think that falls under the "Advice Animals" Umbrella that Quinton used in this video. But I absolutely agree, "Is this a pigeon" was a fantastic meme in my opinion.
Well, the original idea of the meme was SPECIFICALLY in cases of somebody doing something unprompted. Like, Nobody: Disney: “Lets make another pirates of the Carribian movie!” Now people tack it on to anything thinking it makes it funny.
Fun fact: The Ylvis brothers mentioned that "What does the fox say" was supposed to be part of a different skit from their TV show, where the joke would be that they didn't understand why their trendy new song didn't take off.
Another fun fact, I once called 911 because I heard screaming in my back yard and I told the cops that I wasn’t sure if it was a lady being murdered or a fox but they should drive by to make sure. I’m pretty sure it turned out to be a fox.
I kinda feel like "E" was where self-aware ironic memes reached their limit and sent us tumbling back into the pre-ironic territory. Nearly every meme from 2020 I've seen is just a new iteration of the Virgin Vs Chad meme. We've ironically returned to the age of Rage Comics except worse.
he's actually wrong about this because to tell another person about the game he had to of been told it before (unless quinton was friends with the creator of the game) and thus had already lost the game well before
I was so confused when he gave that motivating speech about the hope in the future and then I realized this poor, naive young soul recorded this in 2019 and it all made sense
For me, E is representative of a sort of snap in the sanity of online culture. It and other memes like it from the same time represent a point of intense stress giving way to something utterly absurd and essentially devoid of humor as a form humor in order to release a societal pressure valve. essentially, the psychic trauma of 2016 built and built and built until it came to a head in 2018, and E was the breaking point where that pressure was vented and we all became communists.
I was about to "recall" at how innocent rage comics were as if they were 00s memes, turns out... all the "rage" of rage comics started out in 2011... jeez... 2011 feels ancient by now!
@@wizzzer1337 yeah, and funny enough, that wasnt really the only thing that really made them popular. Hot Topic sold a lot of rage comic faces as shirts at one point and a pretty decent chunk of people on 4chan got pretty pissed about it. they started making racist rage comics as a result to try and get it associated with, well, racism so that Hot Topic would catch heat for it. There was a *bit* of heat, but Hot Topic caught wind of what was happening and they announced they were going to keep selling the shirts regardless. kind of a shame. i really miss the original rage comics when they were about, well, situations that lead to, well, rage. the newer generation of comics once they got popular were just nowhere near as good
Somehow, propaganda always seems to allow the underlying cruelty of the things being propagandized through, as if their subconscious is telling them that all of this is wrong
I think it illustrates how meaningless something becomes once it's adopted by the fascists. Pepe, Wojak, they became popular because they evoked an emotion, because they connected to people's sadness and their need to connect to others. Now they're so mutated they mean nothing. They're just empty symbols of an online community that lost it's soul.
Joker memes are definitely going to be the minion memes of my generation. Eventually the super hero fad will fade and then it will just be my generation holding on to this time when this particular form of media that caters to the hopes and wishes of my generation. I can see it now, when i'm 55 there will still be these Heath Ledger joker memes about how changes to society are crazy and we just can't take it, and everyone will be like "Okay Zoomer" (i'm solidly millenial but I also predict that Zoomer will be the name for anyone born between 1990 and 2010 just because time kills all nuance)
Not really, the joker memes I see nowadays are very blatantly ironic and meant to make fun of the type of person you'd find on 4chan who would unironically say those kinds of things
Alright, let me do a heresy for a moment. I'm gonna give a verbal defense of E. E may well be the meme that best sums up what's happened to the internet's collective sense of humor over the decade. It's absolutely impenetrable unless you have extensive knowledge of the culture surrounding it and its ten thousand layers of recursive irony, and if you DO know that much about meme culture, it stares you dead in the face and asks you who the hell you think you're fooling. It's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg with the face of Lord Faarkiplier with the contrast cranked into the sun with a giant E in front of it and by all means that should be the most unfunny thing ever created. And somehow that's the joke. And it's hilarious. It's so aggressively unfunny that it's hilarious. And I love it. Hate me for it but E may very well be my single favorite work of art on the internet. It's like… it's like dada in a way? E is to internet humor what Duchamp's "Fountain" was to art. and in a weird twisted way that's beautiful.
I remember when Ugandan Knuckles got popular, one of my friends tried to convince the rest of us that it was really funny and we all looked at him with such bewilderment that he never brought it up again.
It's wild how many memes are weird and countercultural on the surface, but end up smuggling deeply reactionary beliefs and enforcing the status quo. But I'm just a puffin
Rattus Sordidus I don’t really think so. Most memes are really vapid and hold no true opinions. Even the ones that do hold opinions are often just meant to create a reaction. Also, just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean it’s the “status quo.” The world is deeply divided, so either side can argue they are counter-cultural.
I especially feel sorry for the artist. He made Pepe to be a peaceful, loving person. His original meme was of random relatable things, either good things or sad things that happened to you. I can't imagine seeing something you made with love and affection morphed into something hideous and awful.
@@sowelichemlatu1789 The HK protests are a big mess, lots of different people with different ideologies and different motives, it's not necessarily a good thing.
@Questionable Object I'd take it over bowing to an authoritarian regime that routinely engages in censorship, homophobia, forced organ harvesting, ethnic cleansing and genocide any day.
the whole nordic gamer/trad gf thing is absolutely incredible, i still find it so hard to believe we went image macros of cute animals making boomer jokes to unironic Nazis drawing themselves girlfriends and making epic memes like drawing two feet facing downward like after someone hangs themselves and then making the socks the trans flag colors, i feel like we've honestly hit the logical limit of this shit
Also, I see a lot of people acting like this isn't a thing anymore. I'm Brazilian. Me and my friends talk about the circle game all the time. It is all over my Twitter.
I never played Skyrim and I assumed the meme is about a random line from the game, but if multiple NPCs say the same thing then I guess it's been manufactured to be a meme.
The sheer inventiveness and (relative) quality make it one of the best of the decade for sure. PS: if you want more of that type of stuff, look up "lemonposting", "sugarposting" and "the dud", Simpsons shitposting is a treasure trove.
"YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE A FRESH MEME IN 2019???????!!!!!! FIRST YOU TAKE AN OVER SATURATED IMAGE, FILL IT WITH SHADOW DEMONS AND ADD SOME TEXT LIKE 'me and the boys at 2 am looking for B E A N S'" - circletoons
The best part was when The Unholy Trinity ("What Does the Fox Say", "Gangnam Style", and "Harlem Shake") were played at the same time (from 14:06 to 14:17). That clip alone should be its own troll video.
2010-2015: The friendly simple internet 2016-2019: bat shit absurdist anti-comedy In conclusion, Harambe was the catalyst for the absurdist memes of today
This comment made me feel weird, and I just realized it’s because you probably either didn’t go on or are just a bit too young to remember the SA forums.
Recently I took my Grandparents to a theatre production of Beauty and the Beast because they love plays. However this production was clearly trying to aim at a younger audience but it missed the mark hard. They played what does the fox say in it's entirety while doing various fortnite dances and waving LGBTQ flags. If they had played any other song I would have been fine but instead it brought me back to my 10 year old self and cringey memories. I sweat profusely during this part of the play. I mentioned this as you played the cursed relic and brought me back to the hot sweat of witnessing the performance. Thanks. The rest of the video was good.
That's.... Like literally illegal. There's no way Disney would sign off on those changes, and almost every play has within the contract for the rights to the show that in order to produce the play, the script must be followed to the letter, no purposeful line changes can be made. That theater could be fined if they had been found out. Also why the hell did they think that was a good idea, fortnite and the LGBTQ+ community have NOTHING to do with that show. Where in the show even was that stunt? Where did they play "What Does The Fox Say?" I have to know.
witnessing my parents getting pissed over military cadets doing the circle thing being on the news as its being investigated for alt-right behavior was an experience that i didn't want to have. also attempting to explain to them that *yes* this is an alt-right thing now and *yes* it used to be okay was a battle i gave up on.
I would say while the alt-right tried to appropriate the circle thing they weren't fully able to, it's still very much a thing people do without being associated with them.
“Big Chungus” is weird because the word “Chungus” predates it by years. It comes from Jim Sterling’s run on Podtoid, and it seems all Jim was missing to make it popular was a weird image to paste it over. Ugandan Knuckles is also unfortunate because it overshadows the considerably better “Suicide is Painless & Knuckles”.
It seems that for every good meme, there were, like, three horrendously unfunny ones. Example: Steamed Hams, one of my personal favorites, introduced alongside "Ugandan Knuckles", "They Did Surgery on a Grape", and "Nobody:".
The baby yoda meme died on day 2, they're already the new minion meme. You might in fact say, they've always been the new minion meme. (Like honestly, even the memes you listed here, I remember being funny at least once. I saw my first Baby Yoda meme though and I immediately thought, "That's not funny. that's just a minion meme with a premium skin.")
In Latin America, our Boomers instead of using Minions for their memes, they use images of Tweety of the Looney Tunes but with a shit ton of sparkles. In case you are curious about it, you can search them as "Piolín memes". Ps. Piolín is the name they gave to Tweety in Latin America
E might be one of my favourite memes, actually. It's a joke at its own expense, and it's just so absurd and brain-melting that I can't help bursting into hysterics. Also Nyan Cat is so good and pure. ;w;
Yeah I was playing it in the 90s and my grandparents even knew what it was as far back as the 40s when they were kids, I think humanity has just really enjoyed finding excuses to punch each other for as long as we've been able to punch.
The funny thing about the circle game for me, being born in '86, is that the loser got socked. It was insane to watch people not only spin it as a racist hand gesture, but to watch people who had played it fucking fall for it.
Steamed Hams will forever be pure & good & funny. Also, foxes make an adorable hyena-like giggling sound when they’re happy or excited, so that cancels out the murder shrieks of love.
I feel the best memes were stuff like Steamed Hams and Garfielf where there were a ton of creative variations and spins on to the point where it was more of an art rather than a quick repetitive joke like a lot of memes are
Liberated Feminist and Tradgirl became girlfriends after Tradgirl divorced her husband and started work on undoing years of Nazi brainwashing from her parents and ex-husband sorry i don't make the rules
Reminds me of that Tru-Scum Comic of the two Trans Men. Basically the meme's entire point was to invalidate feminine Trans Men, but the internet then decided to make the two men (Damien: Who was supposed to be the "true" Trans Man, and Skye: The Feminine man who was implied to be "faking" because he wasn't confirming to masculinity) a cute couple.
@@SpookyDeerArt Thanks so much but I think it's better for everyone if I don't make the rules since my anxiety would make me procrastinate making them lol
And liberated feminist is a good step mom to trad girl’s kids and they have full custody of them since Nordic gamer refused to take care of them since that’s a “womans job”
I remember an older (2011) meta meme. Back then there was a lame website called CuantoCabron with the same concept as 9Gag, where one could post their own forced memes. One day some people decided to troll the community by posting a crude MSPaint comic where a character is doing X, then Y happens and the last panel is a closeup of the character saying with terrible spelling "Gee, I didn't expect that". Immediately the comic was trending and everyone was making their own versions, flooding the site with intentionally unfunny entries. Soon later, there were tons of people all over the Internet talking about how much they hated "memes nowadays".
Quinton: This is a testament to our cultures limits, the berry lines we shouldn't cross yet we insist on doing every single time... Me, giggling: hehe, _E_
You can definitely see the spread of meta memes and self-references throughout the 2010s, akin to celebritys that are famous for being famous. As a part of this memes cropped up that were about the meme making and consumption process itself (making it to the front page, coming up with or stealing ideas, reposting, codification of formats, etc.).
i know that it has no place in a video about bad memes but failing to acknowledge dat boi, a true turning point for memes into absurdism, feels so wrong to me. this frog king deserves the highest of praise
I’m surprised he didn’t talk about “they did surgery on a grape” which imo was one of the WORST MEMES EVER AND IRRITATED ME TO NO END. But it’s also such a nothing meme so I 100% understand it not being worth it to mention it
They did surgery on a grape bugged me too lmao. But you can't even refer to what it is without just basically making one of them yourself because just that one sentence is the whole fucking thing
Thank you for that beautiful rendition of Hurt by NiN, then covered by Johnny cash, and finally covered by Kermit the Frog. A great callback to your older videos, and musically immaculate
The absolute best version of Hurt I ever heard was when I saw NIN play at Reading Festival. He basically took Cash's cover arrangement, played it on piano instead of a guitar, and sung over it in the original way he sang it. It was nso much better than the cash version even. It made me cry. It was the last song on that night as NIN was headlining that day on the main stage. That show in general was insane, I've never seen such a good light show
I really like your conclusion here, that it's easy to remember the garbage parts of the past but that we can't forget the good parts. Many of us grew a lot since 2009 and while we may still not be happy, we made progress. Glad you're feeling better Q, hope you keep making progress. (also every time you shout out Todd I love you a little bit more.)
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Quinton, did you seriously just talk for 30 mins. about 2010s memes without saying the word 'Harambe' one single time?
djaevlenselv he was only talking about the bad memes
The video would fall apart instantly
Haram Bea! Know the difference!
@@ByteMe619 true
Bush did Harambe
2011: Arrow to the knee
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Fallout 76 is such a mess that the entirety of it is a big meme in itself
16 times the detail
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Virgin vs. Chad meme. It's an odd one that started out as an apparently unironic post by incels that was picked up and turned into a whole thing with an extended cast of characters that still isn't dead.
With a lot of these memes, it feels like most started out dead serious (Bad Opinion Puffin, anything from 4chan, etc.) but became ironic jokes made for shits and giggles.
I think Virgin vs Chad is kind of just an earlier, more easily understandable prototype of the Nordic Gamer/Trad Girl memes he discusses at the end. Shit comics made unironically by incels that have been thoroughly mocked to the point of basically only existing as ironic shitposts making fun of said incels.
@@chuckbatmangaming not necessarily always the case, they have been used on /hist/, /out/, /fit/, etc. And can be very intellectual
The best part of that meme is how the Chad's face is the shape of the country of Chad
Seems more 2020 meme
If memes are art, then E is where it reached its dadaist form.
No, that would be UA-cam Poops.
Everyone forgets about poops
Art is a meme. Technically.
@@HighlyRegardted no no
All meme is art
But not all art is meme
@@HighlyRegardted "leonardo davincci was a great memer"
@@Glassandcandy youtube poops are actually funny and take effort to make
"How will you explain Ugandan Knuckles to your grandchildren?"
I won't
Simple: Racist caricature by proxy.
More straightforward racist imagery became too socially toxic, so a proxy became a popular option for that sort of humour.
Why that videogame character? Rap theme and dreads. It's dead simple.
GeorgeNoiseless I'm gonna show my kids my Ugandan Knuckles vinyl figure and tell em some people really liked to find reasons things are racist
Ya see kids, people found out that being openly racist tended to produce scorn rather than comforting approval. So they learned to be careful and indirect and prepare escape routes if necessary.
But they were still stuck in their perpetual discomfort that the mythical promise of supremacy over others was perpetually being undermined.
This self-imposed isolation that they kept maintaining through faithfulness to a social order that is dead but still twitching caused a mighty struggle but very little personal growth. To them, the universe is wrong for saying that the old ways are dead. Which is crazy.
Under such immense pressure to maintain this craziness, they sought refuge in the aesthetic of aloof rebellion through irreverent styles of humor, always securing an escape route any time someone rejected the joke’s premise.
This joke is a throwback to decades old minstrel shows that featured buffoonish caricatures of impoverished black people. They merely swapped the southern black accent for a generic African accent.
The setup is old hat: Hay everyone remember black ppl?!
And the punchline equally old: Wat a dum, as opposed to us who are not black ppl and therefore not a dum.
The beauty of such a simplistic joke format is that it remains ambiguous to anyone that has no idea what minstrels shows were, nor that Knuckles can be coded as black due to his dreadlocks and the very cheesy rap songs about him. These freeform associations of a cartoon echidna with a buffoonish black man are so very stupid that pointing it out makes the speaker sound like a joyless bore. Sadly, racism is precisely that stupid, but was a taboo enough subject amongst white Americans back then that it was given undue gravitas.
Such gravitas affords the racists the opportunity to express their racism in a way that appears too directionless to be damaging. Their message was “I’m not srs, being srs is uncool. ppl who think this is racist r real srs” to undermine the social convention that racism is an attitude worth changing.
Which didn’t quite work. B/c the joke can be easily shown to be lame. And once revealed as lame, it can be discussed as a lame racist thing that tried to make racism hip and with it.
Blocky Oxwinkle its literally in the name idk how clicking noises and speaking in an african accent doesnt ring some sort of insensitive to you
chaosvii To me I just never thought of it that deeply? I consider myself pretty left but Ugandan Knuckles never seemed that serious to me.
First I never thought of Knuckles as black, hes an Echidna and I never imagined he had dreads really. He just kinda exists to me. I know you didn't say that but I felt it was worth mentioning.
Also to me Ugandan Knuckles is so far out there with people doing an over the top accent while clicking asking people for "the way" that it doesn't seem to have intent. Honestly if it did it's failed. Nobody seems to think of Ugandan Knuckles in regard to race more than how fucking weird it was. It's like some stupid thing your friend does that you find really funny for some reason. I directly think of this kinda Brooklyn accent my friend likes to do that we all find funny just because we do. Like she says stuff but sometimes it's just absurd I guess. I mean racism has its hands in everything but like I was in sophomore year when it was a thing and everyone of every creed was going around asking for "the way" and clicking in unison. Racists really fucked up if they wanted to divide us or something.
Honestly I'm not trying to be rude or ignorant though. I just personally have a critical lens and then there's how I see things actually work in the world. So far it hasn't done any damage unless like you were already racist and even then I didnt see anybody doing that.
"baby yoda is going to evolve into our generation's minions"
it's too late, quinton
it already has
Upvote this👍
I am proud to have helped destroy baby Yoda memes
Hopefully it just goes away and dies like every other meme and doesn’t come up again like how minions come to us nonstop.
It’ll be back with the new season. I think that’s why minions prevailed. The movies just wouldn’t stop.
And it also helped spawn more “baby” memes such as Baby Sonic and Baby Nut. I thought that they killed the baby trend in the 90’s. I wish that it’d stay *dead.*
I'm surprised you didn't bring up "Loss" which I feel transcends even "E"
Loss was 2008, so it's technically not a 2010 meme
loss was also a great meme
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@@gameygeemer4142 i could swear i saw loss memes on ig during 2016-17
the video is called a decade of *bad* memes
I once came across a girl who won The Game. We were good friends as teenagers.
She never understood the actual concept of The Game, but she understood that if she said the words "The Game", she would mildly annoy people and take gleeful pleasure in that fact.
So she wasn't thinking about the actual Game, but was constantly making everyone around her lose it.
Thats not how the game works. The point of the game is that you can't win the game. The goal is to not think about the game. Otherwise you lose. If you ask someone if they're playing the game, the very instant they lock eyes with you they've already lost. Because their brain is already thinking about the question, and the subject of said question: the fucking game. You lost the game the moment you began playing it. So she was really wasting everyone's time. As well as yours. And apparently nobody apart of "everybody" as you mentioned, has ever heard of or played the actual game... -.-
@@pweefypweef4089 I disagree.
@@meursault7030 ....Dude. Its not that complex. Here I'll demonstrate I'm about to ask you if you would like to play the game. If you answer me, you've already lost. If you don't reply, then you aren't playing the game in the first place. Therefore, you are not playing the game. Its not a *big bwain* strat to beat the game faster, you're just choosing to not participate in the game. Even if you wanted to disagree you'd be doing it out of spite, or to troll, not because it's legitimate to disagree. Now, with that all figured out (hopefully), lets try this again shall we:
"Wanna play the game?" :)
@@pweefypweef4089 You've misunderstood my original comment, I think. She didn't refuse to play the game and think it was a smart play. She was just ignorant of the meaning of the words. So she'd be assuming you meant some other game, not THE game. When someone's talking about some other game, you don't lose The Game because you're thinking about the other game. The words have to make you think about the concept of The Game in order for you you lose. She was unaware of the concept of The Game and thus continues winning, likely to this very day for all I know
@@pweefypweef4089 It's always the idiots that are most condescending. I think it's because it's so hard for you people to articulate things that it gets frustrating. Bless your little cotton socks.
I actually remember the creation of "E". It was the end product of people taking some other Markiplier meme and just reducing it more and more until no context could be found in it anymore. It used to have some caption to it but all that is left....is E. Its like the equivalent to a french fry that shriveled from being in the fryer way too long.
My point is that this meme was a group effort.
Yeah, the original farquaard edit had him in his bed, and no deep-frying
This is beautiful, thank you for sharing
im glad it was a group effort, that gives me hope
Got a bit of mileage out of the "Is this a pigeon" meme
surprisingly flexible
Zeemod155 leftist memes with that template were gold
I think that falls under the "Advice Animals" Umbrella that Quinton used in this video. But I absolutely agree, "Is this a pigeon" was a fantastic meme in my opinion.
Is this comment a pigeon?
Mileage in 2011 - pigeon
Mileage in 2020 - Audible commercial
Miles? Audible.
To me the worst meme of 2019 is NOBODY:
So annoying, so unecessary.
You know the first it was fun, but than I notice that that's meme like every comment now
Well, the original idea of the meme was SPECIFICALLY in cases of somebody doing something unprompted. Like, Nobody: Disney: “Lets make another pirates of the Carribian movie!”
Now people tack it on to anything thinking it makes it funny.
www.reddit.com/r/uselessnobody/comments/dxhgt1/he_doesnt_even_understand_the_meme_correctly/
This one makes me irrationally angry.
Nobody:
Skipper 13k: To me the worst meme of 2019 is NOBODY:
So annoying, so unecessary.
For real for real
I love how we entered 2020 expecting a lot of hindsight jokes but instead we got “can this year be over already.”
"WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY"
Quinton:"Like a woman being killed in a alley way"
Fun fact: The Ylvis brothers mentioned that "What does the fox say" was supposed to be part of a different skit from their TV show, where the joke would be that they didn't understand why their trendy new song didn't take off.
Mïsty That’s an extremely cursed fun fact.
@@miisty2871 that's ironic
Anthony
Yes, yes it is indeed
Another fun fact, I once called 911 because I heard screaming in my back yard and I told the cops that I wasn’t sure if it was a lady being murdered or a fox but they should drive by to make sure. I’m pretty sure it turned out to be a fox.
two linxes screaming at each other would make a pretty sick death grips sample
Based
I kinda feel like "E" was where self-aware ironic memes reached their limit and sent us tumbling back into the pre-ironic territory. Nearly every meme from 2020 I've seen is just a new iteration of the Virgin Vs Chad meme. We've ironically returned to the age of Rage Comics except worse.
Rage comics except it got overtly sexist and racist. Though thankfully the worse side of it is usually buried in the incel-y communities.
Literally just thinking about E makes me want to laugh. It’s the purest example of anti-humour and it’s genuinely hilarious somehow
"The game's equivalent of a suicide bomber"
Well then.
You just lost the game.
You could not achieve victory in the leisurely recreational activity.
The game is a lie.
@@totallynotjeff7748 Think I made it a few years this time.
he's actually wrong about this because to tell another person about the game he had to of been told it before (unless quinton was friends with the creator of the game) and thus had already lost the game well before
That Pepe the Frog montage set to 'Hurt' is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I love that it’s the Kermit the Frog cover
late contender for thing that made me laugh the hardest this year.
@@tylerw1578 Fuck, I thought it was Jordan Peterson.
@@gwendolynstata3775 wdym? they're the same person 😎
Pepe The Audible seller.
remember when new years pessimists just told us that 2020 would be more of the same?
Year ain't over yet
It gets worse but that's life!
seems like they weren't pessimistic enough.
@@DragonFellowship is now
they weren't even pessimistic enough to predict how terrible it woild truly be. lol.
is there any reason to go on after E? what else is left? perfection has been attained.
The cycle begins anew
I think that "E" meme really dictated the main meme style I consumed in 2019 - just surreal, meta post-memes like loops cat or meme man.
Meme Man memes are the only thing that saves the art form from being 99% utter garbage.
Metamemes are the best
Lööps
Good to know you're only a few years away from offing yourself in a awful nihilistic stoop.
Yeah same.
The 2010s:
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@Pixelhack normany no
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I was so confused when he gave that motivating speech about the hope in the future and then I realized this poor, naive young soul recorded this in 2019 and it all made sense
For me, E is representative of a sort of snap in the sanity of online culture. It and other memes like it from the same time represent a point of intense stress giving way to something utterly absurd and essentially devoid of humor as a form humor in order to release a societal pressure valve. essentially, the psychic trauma of 2016 built and built and built until it came to a head in 2018, and E was the breaking point where that pressure was vented and we all became communists.
I woke up my wife laughing at “E” for the five hundredth time in my life
I don’t deserve love
There is no e in audible. Audible.
I know your pain bruv. It's still funny. I am a broken human being.
It's still funny though
Ngl, when "E" came up I started laughing and I couldn't stop
Whyyyyyyy???
lmao same
The letter E is a brilliant absurdist anti-joke.
Can't wait in 8 years for Quinton to try to explain Amogus to future generations
Does anyone reminder when “gun” was a meme?? Just,,, straight up the word “gun”
no
I remember it being a Persona 5 meme
Right now just making posts that say just “cum” on small subreddits is a meme
What area was this a meme in? Seriously asking cause ive never heard of that
@@issholland tumblr
I was about to "recall" at how innocent rage comics were as if they were 00s memes, turns out... all the "rage" of rage comics started out in 2011... jeez... 2011 feels ancient by now!
2008
@@athousandfeethigh yeah rage comics have earlier origins, but it was 9GAG in 2011 particular that put them at the forefront of the meme zeitgeist.
@@wizzzer1337 yeah, and funny enough, that wasnt really the only thing that really made them popular. Hot Topic sold a lot of rage comic faces as shirts at one point and a pretty decent chunk of people on 4chan got pretty pissed about it. they started making racist rage comics as a result to try and get it associated with, well, racism so that Hot Topic would catch heat for it. There was a *bit* of heat, but Hot Topic caught wind of what was happening and they announced they were going to keep selling the shirts regardless.
kind of a shame. i really miss the original rage comics when they were about, well, situations that lead to, well, rage. the newer generation of comics once they got popular were just nowhere near as good
2011 was when rage memes stopped being funny
@@athousandfeethigh same with advice animals. They've been around since before 2010. 2008ish.
I like how the Trad girl uses the depressed character face to show an underlining sadness to her life
Somehow, propaganda always seems to allow the underlying cruelty of the things being propagandized through, as if their subconscious is telling them that all of this is wrong
I think it illustrates how meaningless something becomes once it's adopted by the fascists. Pepe, Wojak, they became popular because they evoked an emotion, because they connected to people's sadness and their need to connect to others. Now they're so mutated they mean nothing. They're just empty symbols of an online community that lost it's soul.
It's almost as if the right are the ones who can't meme. At least, not without making it obvious how bad they are.
Sheesh talk about projection. Are all of you this mad you can't meme?
@Toxic Potato Haha! No, nazoid. It doesn't.
I hate that I wheezed at “E”. I don’t understand why I did.
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Joker memes are definitely going to be the minion memes of my generation. Eventually the super hero fad will fade and then it will just be my generation holding on to this time when this particular form of media that caters to the hopes and wishes of my generation.
I can see it now, when i'm 55 there will still be these Heath Ledger joker memes about how changes to society are crazy and we just can't take it, and everyone will be like "Okay Zoomer" (i'm solidly millenial but I also predict that Zoomer will be the name for anyone born between 1990 and 2010 just because time kills all nuance)
David Stinnett Joker memes have already been ruined.
Not really, the joker memes I see nowadays are very blatantly ironic and meant to make fun of the type of person you'd find on 4chan who would unironically say those kinds of things
@@JohnDoe-wb6vl have you ever been on 4Chan?
@@Smile4theKillCam456 Don't get me wrong I love those people
I said it once and I'll say it gain:
"E" is the logical conclusion to memes
E will become a meme in the far future but the humor will be completely genuine.
I've literally scrolled past it so many times .. never once laughed... You guys are fucking nerds..
Lol
I laugh every fucking time
You thought it was a pickle, but it was me, Dio!
Every mathematical model has led to "E" being the end of memes
Alright, let me do a heresy for a moment. I'm gonna give a verbal defense of E.
E may well be the meme that best sums up what's happened to the internet's collective sense of humor over the decade. It's absolutely impenetrable unless you have extensive knowledge of the culture surrounding it and its ten thousand layers of recursive irony, and if you DO know that much about meme culture, it stares you dead in the face and asks you who the hell you think you're fooling. It's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg with the face of Lord Faarkiplier with the contrast cranked into the sun with a giant E in front of it and by all means that should be the most unfunny thing ever created. And somehow that's the joke. And it's hilarious. It's so aggressively unfunny that it's hilarious. And I love it. Hate me for it but E may very well be my single favorite work of art on the internet.
It's like… it's like dada in a way? E is to internet humor what Duchamp's "Fountain" was to art. and in a weird twisted way that's beautiful.
TheBlenderman Dada wasn't really ironic or irreverent though. Interesting take though.
I really feel memes have a place in art history tbh
I didn't even realize all that was behind it. I just found it hilarious as an anti joke. Like B E A N S
Hard agree.
E
"Ender Scrolls"
"now I'm no gamer"
yeah you just made that fairly clear XD
To be fair, Endermen were relevant at the same time.
I think he might've made it even clearer with his anti-GamerGate stance.
@@ElFreakinCid what, and you think gamergate was a GOOD thing?
I remember when Ugandan Knuckles got popular, one of my friends tried to convince the rest of us that it was really funny and we all looked at him with such bewilderment that he never brought it up again.
It's wild how many memes are weird and countercultural on the surface, but end up smuggling deeply reactionary beliefs and enforcing the status quo. But I'm just a puffin
And like the stupid cringe TradWife/Nordic Gamer shit, just ends up being dumb DeviantArt fanfic cringe. We've gone full circle.
"BuT bRo, DoN't YoU kNoW fAsCiSm iS tHe NeW cOuNtErCuLtUrE???!!!one!!!" /s
@@aidenkinerk3141 I still remember that video of a tradthot saying that being a racist is the new punk rock.
@@evs6327 cringe
Rattus Sordidus I don’t really think so. Most memes are really vapid and hold no true opinions. Even the ones that do hold opinions are often just meant to create a reaction. Also, just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean it’s the “status quo.” The world is deeply divided, so either side can argue they are counter-cultural.
Editing in the “you know I had to do it to them” guy in random places always kills me
he just had to
Especially when you have to look for him, these kinds of images always fill me with dread
tkpantol it’s like a where’s Waldo but terrifying
He had to do it to em
Can't believe you missed the unholy resurgence of mlp at the beginning of the decade
Jenny Nicholson's Bronycon video covers it really well.
“In the future, humor will be randomly generated!”
-Larry the Cucumber, 2003
The “putting your phone away” minion meme is taped to my aunt’s fridge. That goddamn picture haunts me every Easter.
Who tf prints out a meme
@@tomkenning5482 Who uses tape on the fridge and not magnets?
Tom Kenning 70 year old Christian aunts, apparently.
Audible.
Pour one out for Pepe, he didn't deserve what happened to him.
I especially feel sorry for the artist. He made Pepe to be a peaceful, loving person. His original meme was of random relatable things, either good things or sad things that happened to you.
I can't imagine seeing something you made with love and affection morphed into something hideous and awful.
pepe is a hong kong protest symbol as well which is kinda funny
@@sowelichemlatu1789
The HK protests are a big mess, lots of different people with different ideologies and different motives, it's not necessarily a good thing.
@@QuestionableObject Spoken like a true shill
@Questionable Object
I'd take it over bowing to an authoritarian regime that routinely engages in censorship, homophobia, forced organ harvesting, ethnic cleansing and genocide any day.
the whole nordic gamer/trad gf thing is absolutely incredible, i still find it so hard to believe we went image macros of cute animals making boomer jokes to unironic Nazis drawing themselves girlfriends and making epic memes like drawing two feet facing downward like after someone hangs themselves and then making the socks the trans flag colors, i feel like we've honestly hit the logical limit of this shit
I can’t believe you didn’t mention twitter memes, dabbing squidward, harambe, tide pods, or damn Daniel.
The circle game is really old, actually. My grandpa said he played that when he was serving in the Korean War in the 1950s.
When my grandpa first saw this image.... he cryed
Also, I see a lot of people acting like this isn't a thing anymore.
I'm Brazilian.
Me and my friends talk about the circle game all the time.
It is all over my Twitter.
2011: arrow to the knee
2019: vibe checked
Jonathan Hill “I used to be an adventurer like you, until I failed my vibe check.”
I never played Skyrim and I assumed the meme is about a random line from the game, but if multiple NPCs say the same thing then I guess it's been manufactured to be a meme.
2011 Arrow to the knee
2020 Audible commercial pinned to the comments
Audible.
"The Circle Game" preceeded "The Game" by at least a decade based only on my exposure in middle school in the 90's.
"hindsight is 2020"
Oh boy, you have no idea
Yeahhh…
No Steamed Hams? To reference a pre-2010 meme, "Son, I am disappoint."
The sheer inventiveness and (relative) quality make it one of the best of the decade for sure.
PS: if you want more of that type of stuff, look up "lemonposting", "sugarposting" and "the dud", Simpsons shitposting is a treasure trove.
@@Luke_Barz
I prefer Liver & Onions Posting.
To be fair, the title says bad memes
*And at the end of the decade we're speedrunning American Dad, and making endless Bloody Stream JoJo references*
Well, this is a video about the *_bad_* memes of the decade, ya see.
"YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE A FRESH MEME IN 2019???????!!!!!! FIRST YOU TAKE AN OVER SATURATED IMAGE, FILL IT WITH SHADOW DEMONS AND ADD SOME TEXT LIKE 'me and the boys at 2 am looking for B E A N S'" - circletoons
It's true, I laughed
Don't forget selling Audible
The best part was when The Unholy Trinity ("What Does the Fox Say", "Gangnam Style", and "Harlem Shake") were played at the same time (from 14:06 to 14:17).
That clip alone should be its own troll video.
2010-2015: The friendly simple internet
2016-2019: bat shit absurdist anti-comedy
In conclusion, Harambe was the catalyst for the absurdist memes of today
Nah MLG memes were
This comment made me feel weird, and I just realized it’s because you probably either didn’t go on or are just a bit too young to remember the SA forums.
@@VeryFamousActor This guy gets it. Shrek was a big part of getting meme culture to where it is today and people dont acknowledge that enough.
To quote some random lady on twitter "Trad wife represents the best kind of traditions, the ones you invented 2 years ago"
Recently I took my Grandparents to a theatre production of Beauty and the Beast because they love plays. However this production was clearly trying to aim at a younger audience but it missed the mark hard. They played what does the fox say in it's entirety while doing various fortnite dances and waving LGBTQ flags. If they had played any other song I would have been fine but instead it brought me back to my 10 year old self and cringey memories. I sweat profusely during this part of the play. I mentioned this as you played the cursed relic and brought me back to the hot sweat of witnessing the performance. Thanks. The rest of the video was good.
God I feel so bad for you, is there some place I can donate?
Whoever did that to the play deserves to get crushed under the Battle Bus driven by gay foxes. See how funny it is to them after that.
I can already tell that your grandparents really hated the lgbt pride bit.
That's.... Like literally illegal. There's no way Disney would sign off on those changes, and almost every play has within the contract for the rights to the show that in order to produce the play, the script must be followed to the letter, no purposeful line changes can be made. That theater could be fined if they had been found out. Also why the hell did they think that was a good idea, fortnite and the LGBTQ+ community have NOTHING to do with that show. Where in the show even was that stunt? Where did they play "What Does The Fox Say?" I have to know.
@@MrLegendofLP Beauty & the beast is public domain
Imagine trying to talk about 2014-15 without talking about mlg memes.. oh wait
witnessing my parents getting pissed over military cadets doing the circle thing being on the news as its being investigated for alt-right behavior was an experience that i didn't want to have. also attempting to explain to them that *yes* this is an alt-right thing now and *yes* it used to be okay was a battle i gave up on.
I would say while the alt-right tried to appropriate the circle thing they weren't fully able to, it's still very much a thing people do without being associated with them.
But is it really? Like the Ok sign was kind of an underused thing, but the circle game is still neutral.
That being an alt-right nazi thing is a meme itself.
“Big Chungus” is weird because the word “Chungus” predates it by years. It comes from Jim Sterling’s run on Podtoid, and it seems all Jim was missing to make it popular was a weird image to paste it over.
Ugandan Knuckles is also unfortunate because it overshadows the considerably better “Suicide is Painless & Knuckles”.
It seems that for every good meme, there were, like, three horrendously unfunny ones.
Example: Steamed Hams, one of my personal favorites, introduced alongside "Ugandan Knuckles", "They Did Surgery on a Grape", and "Nobody:".
But... They did surgery on a grape tho...
Nobody:
Me: _They did surgery on a grape_
Surgery on a grape was funny for 30 seconds
@@shrub8644 same thing with nearly 80% of shit that has happened since 2010
Ugandan Knuckles was hysterical how dare you?
The baby yoda meme died on day 2, they're already the new minion meme. You might in fact say, they've always been the new minion meme.
(Like honestly, even the memes you listed here, I remember being funny at least once. I saw my first Baby Yoda meme though and I immediately thought, "That's not funny. that's just a minion meme with a premium skin.")
In Latin America, our Boomers instead of using Minions for their memes, they use images of Tweety of the Looney Tunes but with a shit ton of sparkles.
In case you are curious about it, you can search them as "Piolín memes".
Ps. Piolín is the name they gave to Tweety in Latin America
I love Todd in the shadows, he’s a great reviewer, got me to start paying attention to pop music again
My favorite.
Same
Audible.
Favorite Meme of the decade:Steamed Hams
Least favorite: A tie between Ugandan Knuckles and Pickle Rick
You wrote the same thing three times. These are all the same thing.
@@TheEvilCheesecake no, i didn't
try again?
@@TheEvilCheesecake why would I? Nothing's wrong
it's just weird to write that you loved [mediocre thing i see often] but that you hate [mediocre thing i see often] and [mediocre thing i see often].
honestly nyan cat is more so a symbol than a meme, and its a damn good one at that
The fact that you said rage comics for incels makes me unreasonably laugh
It’s so true 😆
That first "genuine" "Yes" meme... I literally had to pause the video and take 30 seconds just swallowing that image.... Jesus christ.
Still love that video of richard Spencer getting punched every time
It’s the most beautiful thing of the 2010’s.
And then all the totally not nazis getting mad at a nazi getting punched
someBODY ONCE TOLD ME
One of my favorite memes of the 2010s.
THEcamobackpack Good for you bud
Not finished with the video yet but thank you for showing that video of the lynxes screaming at each other.
E might be one of my favourite memes, actually. It's a joke at its own expense, and it's just so absurd and brain-melting that I can't help bursting into hysterics.
Also Nyan Cat is so good and pure. ;w;
"There aren't really any bad memes of 2019"
"Sksksk" and "And I oop" have entered the goddamned chat
Gays started it and the straights ruined it xd
@@itsnotaphasemom6679 implying gays don't ruin everything
Dont for get uh oh stinky
@@wahmaster2788 I actually like Uh Oh Stinky, if only because I've heard so many grown-ass adults refer to things as that now
Sir Michael Alexander honestly implying anyone ruins any meme is sad
Bro we were playing the circle game with the punching back in 2002
BEFORE Nazis coopted it, the game was just an excuse to punch each other
But then nazis became the excuse to punch people, so
Yeah I was playing it in the 90s and my grandparents even knew what it was as far back as the 40s when they were kids, I think humanity has just really enjoyed finding excuses to punch each other for as long as we've been able to punch.
@Knock Out Which you have literally never done. Lmao
The Nordic gamer is an actually interesting example of mainstream culture appropriating a meme from the alt-right, instead of the opposite
The funny thing about the circle game for me, being born in '86, is that the loser got socked.
It was insane to watch people not only spin it as a racist hand gesture, but to watch people who had played it fucking fall for it.
"HERE COMES DAT BOI" is peak humor.
It was a nadir for me
no
Truly a top tier meme
A true connoiseur
Selling AUDIBLE...
"Ender Scrolls"
...nailed it!
Can't forget Gundam Style
You forgot to mention Audible.
Ender’s Scroll
You all gonna pretend he didn't just say Doge as "Dahge" ?
Pepe was totally "murdered" , and it's absolutely not the case that "feels good man" is as old as Rick rolling and has been equally overused.
Here are some of my favorite memes if the decade: We are number one , The Nut shack , Bee Movie , and You reposted in the wrong neighborhood.
Those are all 2016, truly the best year minus the Pepe thing
@@henmister39 Pepe used to be good :(
So anything silvagunner
@@henmister39 including pepe
Pepe was good originally, but he’s controversial now from apparently becoming a hate simple
Quinton I love you but did you just pronounce “doge” like “dodge?”
Totally intentional I'm sure.
Pretty sure he was intentionally mispronouncing stuff throughout as a joke, like "Gundam Style" and "Ender Scrolls"
Cerebulon You’re right. Sorry, my brain is smooth
*dough gee
This pretty much what it looks like.
”arrow to the knee” is a joke about marriage. The joke was that the fuards used to go adventure, until theu got married
Steamed Hams will forever be pure & good & funny.
Also, foxes make an adorable hyena-like giggling sound when they’re happy or excited, so that cancels out the murder shrieks of love.
Yall really just gonna let this man say "Ender Scrolls 5"
Also "gandam style"
😂🤣I caught that, I'll excuse him
@@HewaKiku And "dahge".
I feel the best memes were stuff like Steamed Hams and Garfielf where there were a ton of creative variations and spins on to the point where it was more of an art rather than a quick repetitive joke like a lot of memes are
Garfielf aged like fine wine
Why do you look like you're wearing that generic disguise "glasses, nose and mustache" that you can buy from any store lmao
Holy hell, he does
He has to wear ridiculous glasses because of the sponsorshit
He's actually 3 kids in a coat pretending to be human
"2020 a better year then 2019" yeah, about that lol. All those 20/20 vison jokes are much more funny in hindsight
the unholy trinity played all at once made me feel like i was going to have a heart attack, aneurysm and stroke all at once
Bet you don't understand the lyrics of Gangnam Style, though, eh? So maybe shut up?
Andrew Devine What, do _you_ know Korean or something?
Liberated Feminist and Tradgirl became girlfriends after Tradgirl divorced her husband and started work on undoing years of Nazi brainwashing from her parents and ex-husband sorry i don't make the rules
Reminds me of that Tru-Scum Comic of the two Trans Men. Basically the meme's entire point was to invalidate feminine Trans Men, but the internet then decided to make the two men (Damien: Who was supposed to be the "true" Trans Man, and Skye: The Feminine man who was implied to be "faking" because he wasn't confirming to masculinity) a cute couple.
no, you do make the rules. that's such a good take that you make them now. congrats!
@@SpookyDeerArt Thanks so much but I think it's better for everyone if I don't make the rules since my anxiety would make me procrastinate making them lol
@@frauleinfunf then no gods, no masters.
And liberated feminist is a good step mom to trad girl’s kids and they have full custody of them since Nordic gamer refused to take care of them since that’s a “womans job”
I remember an older (2011) meta meme. Back then there was a lame website called CuantoCabron with the same concept as 9Gag, where one could post their own forced memes. One day some people decided to troll the community by posting a crude MSPaint comic where a character is doing X, then Y happens and the last panel is a closeup of the character saying with terrible spelling "Gee, I didn't expect that". Immediately the comic was trending and everyone was making their own versions, flooding the site with intentionally unfunny entries. Soon later, there were tons of people all over the Internet talking about how much they hated "memes nowadays".
Quinton: This is a testament to our cultures limits, the berry lines we shouldn't cross yet we insist on doing every single time...
Me, giggling: hehe, _E_
learning you're a year younger than me feels unreal
Quinton was born 38 years old with a beard, and in 75 years he will still be 38 years old with a beard.
And only 4 years older than me what that makes no sense
@@tomkenning5482 why doesn't it make sense? Lots of people are slightly older and younger than you. How does that not make any sense?
I’m 28, imagine how ancient I feel.
@@Exigentable he looks way older than me (at least I think so lol)
Nordic Gamer in the anime like art looks suspiciously like Pewdiepie.
That's the point
Nazis love Pewdiepie
@@cutecommie Also, non-nazis love pewdiepie. I feel like people forget that fact.
@@KylosPylon You're not factually wrong but you don't fully get it
You can definitely see the spread of meta memes and self-references throughout the 2010s, akin to celebritys that are famous for being famous. As a part of this memes cropped up that were about the meme making and consumption process itself (making it to the front page, coming up with or stealing ideas, reposting, codification of formats, etc.).
i know that it has no place in a video about bad memes but failing to acknowledge dat boi, a true turning point for memes into absurdism, feels so wrong to me. this frog king deserves the highest of praise
also, no spongebob meme?? my trash
I’m surprised he didn’t talk about “they did surgery on a grape” which imo was one of the WORST MEMES EVER AND IRRITATED ME TO NO END. But it’s also such a nothing meme so I 100% understand it not being worth it to mention it
they did surgery on a grape?
They did surgery on a grape bugged me too lmao. But you can't even refer to what it is without just basically making one of them yourself because just that one sentence is the whole fucking thing
Luckily it was around for like a week only.
@@-sanju- yeah because it was that bad
Thank you for that beautiful rendition of Hurt by NiN, then covered by Johnny cash, and finally covered by Kermit the Frog. A great callback to your older videos, and musically immaculate
NIN FOREVER
It's a cover by Sad Kermit. I think there are still videos from him still floating around on UA-cam
Cash’s version is better. It felt utterly painful, as you could see the depressed reflection in each line. It was an amazing cover.
The absolute best version of Hurt I ever heard was when I saw NIN play at Reading Festival. He basically took Cash's cover arrangement, played it on piano instead of a guitar, and sung over it in the original way he sang it. It was nso much better than the cash version even. It made me cry. It was the last song on that night as NIN was headlining that day on the main stage. That show in general was insane, I've never seen such a good light show
I really like your conclusion here, that it's easy to remember the garbage parts of the past but that we can't forget the good parts. Many of us grew a lot since 2009 and while we may still not be happy, we made progress. Glad you're feeling better Q, hope you keep making progress. (also every time you shout out Todd I love you a little bit more.)
A good ol’ pre- 2020 video.
You forgot Area 51 memes for 2019
I think you're the only person who didnt
golf clap
@@wellshit9489 LOL
"lol you watch Quinton Reviews??"
"YES"
The response is AUDIBLE.
The fact that Quinton was able to say "Big Chungus" without laughing is a feat.