The 2010s: A Decade of Bad Memes

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  • @QuintonReviews
    @QuintonReviews  5 років тому +185

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  • @BlizzardWolfPK
    @BlizzardWolfPK 4 роки тому +971

    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.

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 4 роки тому +74

      Yeah, the original farquaard edit had him in his bed, and no deep-frying

    • @Flowtail
      @Flowtail 4 роки тому +22

      This is beautiful, thank you for sharing

    • @em9325
      @em9325 4 роки тому +28

      im glad it was a group effort, that gives me hope

  • @GothVampiress
    @GothVampiress 5 років тому +1906

    "baby yoda is going to evolve into our generation's minions"
    it's too late, quinton
    it already has

    • @ultimadum7785
      @ultimadum7785 4 роки тому +5

      Upvote this👍

    • @user-rj4pq7lm1n
      @user-rj4pq7lm1n 4 роки тому +30

      I am proud to have helped destroy baby Yoda memes

    • @smartstuf1026
      @smartstuf1026 4 роки тому +22

      Hopefully it just goes away and dies like every other meme and doesn’t come up again like how minions come to us nonstop.

    • @ssharkbait
      @ssharkbait 4 роки тому +7

      It’ll be back with the new season. I think that’s why minions prevailed. The movies just wouldn’t stop.

    • @chaliceohearts4658
      @chaliceohearts4658 4 роки тому +12

      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.*

  • @commissarcactus1513
    @commissarcactus1513 4 роки тому +1132

    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.

    • @SmugTomato
      @SmugTomato 4 роки тому +117

      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.

    • @chuckbatmangaming
      @chuckbatmangaming 4 роки тому +138

      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.

    • @spacecadet8843
      @spacecadet8843 4 роки тому +9

      @@chuckbatmangaming not necessarily always the case, they have been used on /hist/, /out/, /fit/, etc. And can be very intellectual

    • @tsrenis
      @tsrenis 4 роки тому +90

      The best part of that meme is how the Chad's face is the shape of the country of Chad

    • @SpongeSebastian
      @SpongeSebastian 4 роки тому +3

      Seems more 2020 meme

  • @tonyjoestar2632
    @tonyjoestar2632 5 років тому +1852

    2011: Arrow to the knee
    2019: All of Bethesda

    • @SparkpadArt
      @SparkpadArt 5 років тому +55

      A Bethesda account is required to play this title.
      Please connect to the internet to continue.

    • @jonathanhill6928
      @jonathanhill6928 5 років тому +8

      2019: vibe check

    • @ager126
      @ager126 5 років тому +10

      It just works

    • @ArendAlphaEagle
      @ArendAlphaEagle 5 років тому +10

      Fallout 76 is such a mess that the entirety of it is a big meme in itself

    • @pizzatime7433
      @pizzatime7433 5 років тому +1

      16 times the detail

  • @zeemod1556
    @zeemod1556 5 років тому +581

    Got a bit of mileage out of the "Is this a pigeon" meme
    surprisingly flexible

    • @setlerking
      @setlerking 5 років тому +48

      Zeemod155 leftist memes with that template were gold

    • @EmileeAria413
      @EmileeAria413 5 років тому +38

      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.

    • @Paralellex
      @Paralellex 5 років тому +2

      Is this comment a pigeon?

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому +2

      Mileage in 2011 - pigeon
      Mileage in 2020 - Audible commercial

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому

      Miles? Audible.

  • @grahamkristensen9301
    @grahamkristensen9301 4 роки тому +810

    If memes are art, then E is where it reached its dadaist form.

    • @Glassandcandy
      @Glassandcandy 4 роки тому +51

      No, that would be UA-cam Poops.
      Everyone forgets about poops

    • @HighlyRegardted
      @HighlyRegardted 3 роки тому +6

      Art is a meme. Technically.

    • @DussyBestroyer69
      @DussyBestroyer69 3 роки тому +23

      @@HighlyRegardted no no
      All meme is art
      But not all art is meme

    • @niko5008
      @niko5008 3 роки тому +11

      @@HighlyRegardted "leonardo davincci was a great memer"

    • @Jeyeyeyey
      @Jeyeyeyey 3 роки тому +7

      @@Glassandcandy youtube poops are actually funny and take effort to make

  • @boggo3848
    @boggo3848 5 років тому +1059

    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.

    • @dsnodgrass4843
      @dsnodgrass4843 4 роки тому +34

      Meme Man memes are the only thing that saves the art form from being 99% utter garbage.

    • @WiloPolis03
      @WiloPolis03 4 роки тому +9

      Metamemes are the best

    • @widing19
      @widing19 4 роки тому +7

      Lööps

    • @ToxicTerrance
      @ToxicTerrance 4 роки тому +4

      Good to know you're only a few years away from offing yourself in a awful nihilistic stoop.

    • @aspookyladmusic4954
      @aspookyladmusic4954 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah same.

  • @djaevlenselv
    @djaevlenselv 4 роки тому +2376

    Quinton, did you seriously just talk for 30 mins. about 2010s memes without saying the word 'Harambe' one single time?

  • @meursault7030
    @meursault7030 4 роки тому +176

    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.

    • @pweefypweef4089
      @pweefypweef4089 2 роки тому +6

      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
      @meursault7030 2 роки тому +16

      @@pweefypweef4089 I disagree.

    • @pweefypweef4089
      @pweefypweef4089 2 роки тому +1

      @@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?" :)

    • @meursault7030
      @meursault7030 2 роки тому +20

      @@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

    • @meursault7030
      @meursault7030 2 роки тому +5

      @@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.

  • @rudolph2937
    @rudolph2937 4 роки тому +404

    I said it once and I'll say it gain:
    "E" is the logical conclusion to memes

    • @tf8896
      @tf8896 4 роки тому +17

      E will become a meme in the far future but the humor will be completely genuine.

    • @ToxicTerrance
      @ToxicTerrance 4 роки тому +3

      I've literally scrolled past it so many times .. never once laughed... You guys are fucking nerds..
      Lol

    • @lextatertotsfromhell7673
      @lextatertotsfromhell7673 4 роки тому +5

      I laugh every fucking time

    • @toddhowardiswatchingyou6110
      @toddhowardiswatchingyou6110 4 роки тому +2

      You thought it was a pickle, but it was me, Dio!

    • @sawyernorthrop4078
      @sawyernorthrop4078 4 роки тому +5

      Every mathematical model has led to "E" being the end of memes

  • @Rexdrinksredbull
    @Rexdrinksredbull 5 років тому +1019

    "How will you explain Ugandan Knuckles to your grandchildren?"
    I won't

    • @GeorgeNoiseless
      @GeorgeNoiseless 5 років тому +65

      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.

    • @blockyoxwinkle5829
      @blockyoxwinkle5829 5 років тому +18

      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

    • @chaosvii
      @chaosvii 5 років тому +56

      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.

    • @pipianvideos
      @pipianvideos 5 років тому +45

      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

    • @eadlynjune
      @eadlynjune 5 років тому +19

      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.

  • @DS-xg7hk
    @DS-xg7hk 4 роки тому +513

    I'm surprised you didn't bring up "Loss" which I feel transcends even "E"

    • @gameygeemer4142
      @gameygeemer4142 4 роки тому +51

      Loss was 2008, so it's technically not a 2010 meme

    • @screenagerz
      @screenagerz 3 роки тому +8

      loss was also a great meme

    • @lolface_9363
      @lolface_9363 3 роки тому +24

      I II
      II I_

    • @929er13
      @929er13 3 роки тому +2

      @@gameygeemer4142 i could swear i saw loss memes on ig during 2016-17

    • @solastacey127
      @solastacey127 3 роки тому +8

      the video is called a decade of *bad* memes

  • @TheRealAmericanMan
    @TheRealAmericanMan 5 років тому +482

    I woke up my wife laughing at “E” for the five hundredth time in my life
    I don’t deserve love

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому +11

      There is no e in audible. Audible.

    • @dearmou8925
      @dearmou8925 4 роки тому +23

      I know your pain bruv. It's still funny. I am a broken human being.

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 4 роки тому +1

      It's still funny though

  • @ohlookanarrowarentthesegam6767
    @ohlookanarrowarentthesegam6767 5 років тому +125

    two linxes screaming at each other would make a pretty sick death grips sample

  • @ohbother3386
    @ohbother3386 3 роки тому +87

    I love how we entered 2020 expecting a lot of hindsight jokes but instead we got “can this year be over already.”

    • @eliasmg9144
      @eliasmg9144 5 місяців тому

      Hindsight was, indeed, not 2020

  • @jumpy_bunny686
    @jumpy_bunny686 5 років тому +767

    I like how the Trad girl uses the depressed character face to show an underlining sadness to her life

    • @MemeMarine
      @MemeMarine 5 років тому +187

      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

    • @nessesaryschoolthing
      @nessesaryschoolthing 5 років тому +139

      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.

    • @josh-oo
      @josh-oo 5 років тому +91

      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.

    • @JazukaiX
      @JazukaiX 5 років тому +12

      Sheesh talk about projection. Are all of you this mad you can't meme?

    • @iseeundeadpeople9
      @iseeundeadpeople9 5 років тому +49

      @Toxic Potato Haha! No, nazoid. It doesn't.

  • @sapphyreblayze
    @sapphyreblayze 5 років тому +576

    That Pepe the Frog montage set to 'Hurt' is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

    • @tylerw1578
      @tylerw1578 5 років тому +63

      I love that it’s the Kermit the Frog cover

    • @dantheman6441
      @dantheman6441 5 років тому +4

      late contender for thing that made me laugh the hardest this year.

    • @gwendolynstata3775
      @gwendolynstata3775 5 років тому +11

      @@tylerw1578 Fuck, I thought it was Jordan Peterson.

    • @nat9380
      @nat9380 5 років тому +4

      @@gwendolynstata3775 wdym? they're the same person 😎

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому

      Pepe The Audible seller.

  • @sirGuy1995
    @sirGuy1995 4 роки тому +631

    To me the worst meme of 2019 is NOBODY:
    So annoying, so unecessary.

    • @spellshellmobile2046
      @spellshellmobile2046 4 роки тому +105

      You know the first it was fun, but than I notice that that's meme like every comment now

    • @sirGuy1995
      @sirGuy1995 4 роки тому +111

      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.

    • @sirGuy1995
      @sirGuy1995 4 роки тому +19

      www.reddit.com/r/uselessnobody/comments/dxhgt1/he_doesnt_even_understand_the_meme_correctly/
      This one makes me irrationally angry.

    • @casual_ice_consumer4148
      @casual_ice_consumer4148 4 роки тому +40

      Nobody:
      Skipper 13k: To me the worst meme of 2019 is NOBODY:
      So annoying, so unecessary.

    • @-sanju-
      @-sanju- 4 роки тому

      For real for real

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 5 років тому +600

    "WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY"
    Quinton:"Like a woman being killed in a alley way"

    • @miisty2871
      @miisty2871 5 років тому +56

      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.

    • @Melphisto_
      @Melphisto_ 5 років тому +31

      Mïsty That’s an extremely cursed fun fact.

    • @flytrapYTP
      @flytrapYTP 5 років тому +8

      @@miisty2871 that's ironic

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia 5 років тому +2

      Anthony
      Yes, yes it is indeed

    • @bonesandhearts5683
      @bonesandhearts5683 5 років тому

      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.

  • @Anonsage3
    @Anonsage3 5 років тому +161

    To quote some random lady on twitter "Trad wife represents the best kind of traditions, the ones you invented 2 years ago"

  • @BestBoyPatrick
    @BestBoyPatrick 4 роки тому +92

    Literally just thinking about E makes me want to laugh. It’s the purest example of anti-humour and it’s genuinely hilarious somehow

  • @GenesisSDG
    @GenesisSDG 5 років тому +520

    Ngl, when "E" came up I started laughing and I couldn't stop

  • @chikari123
    @chikari123 5 років тому +142

    Editing in the “you know I had to do it to them” guy in random places always kills me

    • @marie-antoinette9185
      @marie-antoinette9185 5 років тому +10

      he just had to

    • @tkpantol
      @tkpantol 5 років тому +20

      Especially when you have to look for him, these kinds of images always fill me with dread

    • @chikari123
      @chikari123 4 роки тому +7

      tkpantol it’s like a where’s Waldo but terrifying

    • @animock3051
      @animock3051 4 роки тому +4

      He had to do it to em

  • @Yobydobie
    @Yobydobie 2 роки тому +61

    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

  • @jonathanhill6928
    @jonathanhill6928 5 років тому +289

    2011: arrow to the knee
    2019: vibe checked

    • @halloweenpun202
      @halloweenpun202 5 років тому +21

      Jonathan Hill “I used to be an adventurer like you, until I failed my vibe check.”

    • @kapsi
      @kapsi 4 роки тому +4

      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.

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому +1

      2011 Arrow to the knee
      2020 Audible commercial pinned to the comments

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому

      Audible.

  • @CocoHutzpah
    @CocoHutzpah 5 років тому +163

    The circle game is really old, actually. My grandpa said he played that when he was serving in the Korean War in the 1950s.

    • @abg5381
      @abg5381 4 роки тому +5

      When my grandpa first saw this image.... he cryed

    • @tellnate29
      @tellnate29 4 роки тому +2

      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.

  • @GANONdork123
    @GANONdork123 3 роки тому +161

    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.

    • @writershard5065
      @writershard5065 3 роки тому +24

      Rage comics except it got overtly sexist and racist. Though thankfully the worse side of it is usually buried in the incel-y communities.

  • @GDNachoo
    @GDNachoo 5 років тому +645

    The 2010s:
    bottom text

  • @jfarrar19
    @jfarrar19 5 років тому +353

    "The game's equivalent of a suicide bomber"
    Well then.

    • @totallynotjeff7748
      @totallynotjeff7748 5 років тому +18

      You just lost the game.

    • @paleposter
      @paleposter 5 років тому +11

      You could not achieve victory in the leisurely recreational activity.

    • @GeorgeNoiseless
      @GeorgeNoiseless 5 років тому +3

      The game is a lie.

    • @robertgaudet7407
      @robertgaudet7407 5 років тому +2

      @@totallynotjeff7748 Think I made it a few years this time.

    • @Arcin00
      @Arcin00 4 роки тому +1

      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

  • @disfordumboo4411
    @disfordumboo4411 4 роки тому +294

    remember when new years pessimists just told us that 2020 would be more of the same?

    • @DragonFellowship
      @DragonFellowship 4 роки тому +1

      Year ain't over yet

    • @sfdgdrgdvxff
      @sfdgdrgdvxff 4 роки тому +4

      It gets worse but that's life!

    • @jnyerere
      @jnyerere 4 роки тому +42

      seems like they weren't pessimistic enough.

    • @nevreiha
      @nevreiha 3 роки тому +2

      @@DragonFellowship is now

    • @929er13
      @929er13 3 роки тому +3

      they weren't even pessimistic enough to predict how terrible it woild truly be. lol.

  • @thegeekclub8810
    @thegeekclub8810 5 років тому +196

    The “putting your phone away” minion meme is taped to my aunt’s fridge. That goddamn picture haunts me every Easter.

  • @sentientblender
    @sentientblender 5 років тому +661

    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.

    • @yemmohater2796
      @yemmohater2796 5 років тому +12

      TheBlenderman Dada wasn't really ironic or irreverent though. Interesting take though.

    • @doubtful_seer
      @doubtful_seer 5 років тому +66

      I really feel memes have a place in art history tbh

    • @Crazelord91
      @Crazelord91 5 років тому +58

      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

    • @LiteralmenteFadul
      @LiteralmenteFadul 5 років тому +5

      Hard agree.

    • @The11devans
      @The11devans 5 років тому +2

      E

  • @CypressPunk34
    @CypressPunk34 4 роки тому +42

    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.

  • @Phos9
    @Phos9 5 років тому +64

    “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”.

  • @wizzzer1337
    @wizzzer1337 5 років тому +505

    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!

    • @athousandfeethigh
      @athousandfeethigh 5 років тому +32

      2008

    • @wizzzer1337
      @wizzzer1337 5 років тому +38

      ​@@athousandfeethigh yeah rage comics have earlier origins, but it was 9GAG in 2011 particular that put them at the forefront of the meme zeitgeist.

    • @darkzero226
      @darkzero226 5 років тому +8

      @@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

    • @NoOne-qn2hv
      @NoOne-qn2hv 5 років тому +15

      2011 was when rage memes stopped being funny

    • @Exigentable
      @Exigentable 5 років тому +12

      @@athousandfeethigh same with advice animals. They've been around since before 2010. 2008ish.

  • @tropezando
    @tropezando 4 роки тому +182

    is there any reason to go on after E? what else is left? perfection has been attained.

    • @autumn7809
      @autumn7809 3 роки тому +1

      The cycle begins anew

  • @willbird3493
    @willbird3493 5 років тому +87

    "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

  • @JeanneNey99
    @JeanneNey99 5 років тому +320

    I love Todd in the shadows, he’s a great reviewer, got me to start paying attention to pop music again

  • @BenRigney480
    @BenRigney480 2 роки тому +16

    Can't wait in 8 years for Quinton to try to explain Amogus to future generations

  • @frauleinfunf
    @frauleinfunf 5 років тому +277

    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

    • @aaronkordish7948
      @aaronkordish7948 4 роки тому +50

      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
      @SpookyDeerArt 4 роки тому +28

      no, you do make the rules. that's such a good take that you make them now. congrats!

    • @frauleinfunf
      @frauleinfunf 4 роки тому +24

      @@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

    • @SpookyDeerArt
      @SpookyDeerArt 4 роки тому +14

      @@frauleinfunf then no gods, no masters.

    • @rhodopisdenile8977
      @rhodopisdenile8977 4 роки тому +24

      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”

  • @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540
    @justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 5 років тому +62

    That first "genuine" "Yes" meme... I literally had to pause the video and take 30 seconds just swallowing that image.... Jesus christ.

  • @lockerpaint2955
    @lockerpaint2955 4 роки тому +50

    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.

  • @freakfoxvevo7915
    @freakfoxvevo7915 4 роки тому +315

    Favorite Meme of the decade:Steamed Hams
    Least favorite: A tie between Ugandan Knuckles and Pickle Rick

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake 4 роки тому +5

      You wrote the same thing three times. These are all the same thing.

    • @freakfoxvevo7915
      @freakfoxvevo7915 4 роки тому +13

      @@TheEvilCheesecake no, i didn't

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake 4 роки тому

      try again?

    • @freakfoxvevo7915
      @freakfoxvevo7915 4 роки тому +8

      @@TheEvilCheesecake why would I? Nothing's wrong

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake 4 роки тому +2

      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].

  • @somefuckingloser5260
    @somefuckingloser5260 5 років тому +251

    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.

    • @r.p.4756
      @r.p.4756 5 років тому +17

      God I feel so bad for you, is there some place I can donate?

    • @graphitetailgrace3870
      @graphitetailgrace3870 5 років тому +24

      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.

    • @whitechocolatte5863
      @whitechocolatte5863 5 років тому +1

      I can already tell that your grandparents really hated the lgbt pride bit.

    • @EmileeAria413
      @EmileeAria413 5 років тому +11

      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.

    • @Mscrestrs
      @Mscrestrs 5 років тому +29

      @@EmileeAria413 Beauty & the beast is public domain

  • @bionicsouthernbelle1539
    @bionicsouthernbelle1539 4 роки тому +218

    I hate that I wheezed at “E”. I don’t understand why I did.

  • @QuestionableObject
    @QuestionableObject 5 років тому +681

    Pour one out for Pepe, he didn't deserve what happened to him.

    • @IAsimov
      @IAsimov 5 років тому +105

      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
      @sowelichemlatu1789 5 років тому +53

      pepe is a hong kong protest symbol as well which is kinda funny

    • @QuestionableObject
      @QuestionableObject 5 років тому +17

      @@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.

    • @bishopspechulure9821
      @bishopspechulure9821 5 років тому +39

      @@QuestionableObject Spoken like a true shill

    • @sentrysapper45
      @sentrysapper45 5 років тому +61

      @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.

  • @RatGrimes
    @RatGrimes 5 років тому +399

    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

    • @EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany
      @EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany 5 років тому +46

      And like the stupid cringe TradWife/Nordic Gamer shit, just ends up being dumb DeviantArt fanfic cringe. We've gone full circle.

    • @aidenkinerk3141
      @aidenkinerk3141 5 років тому +54

      "BuT bRo, DoN't YoU kNoW fAsCiSm iS tHe NeW cOuNtErCuLtUrE???!!!one!!!" /s

    • @evs6327
      @evs6327 5 років тому +15

      @@aidenkinerk3141 I still remember that video of a tradthot saying that being a racist is the new punk rock.

    • @MILDMONSTER1234
      @MILDMONSTER1234 5 років тому

      @@evs6327 cringe

    • @vincelestrade3758
      @vincelestrade3758 5 років тому +10

      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.

  • @colingznetworkplus4618
    @colingznetworkplus4618 3 роки тому +45

    “In the future, humor will be randomly generated!”
    -Larry the Cucumber, 2003

  • @PlaguePartyPatrol
    @PlaguePartyPatrol 5 років тому +54

    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

    • @andrewdevine3920
      @andrewdevine3920 4 роки тому

      Bet you don't understand the lyrics of Gangnam Style, though, eh? So maybe shut up?

    • @pikksen7905
      @pikksen7905 4 роки тому +1

      Andrew Devine What, do _you_ know Korean or something?

  • @onedeadpixel10
    @onedeadpixel10 5 років тому +84

    Yall really just gonna let this man say "Ender Scrolls 5"

    • @HewaKiku
      @HewaKiku 4 роки тому

      Also "gandam style"

    • @mmca9323
      @mmca9323 4 роки тому

      😂🤣I caught that, I'll excuse him

    • @ElFreakinCid
      @ElFreakinCid 4 роки тому

      @@HewaKiku And "dahge".

  • @EloquentTroll
    @EloquentTroll 4 роки тому +32

    "The Circle Game" preceeded "The Game" by at least a decade based only on my exposure in middle school in the 90's.

  • @majamystic256
    @majamystic256 5 років тому +53

    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

  • @emmittmorgans8076
    @emmittmorgans8076 5 років тому +144

    "Ender Scrolls"
    ...nailed it!

  • @theonlymexicanman4422
    @theonlymexicanman4422 4 роки тому +124

    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

    • @VeryFamousActor
      @VeryFamousActor 4 роки тому +14

      Nah MLG memes were

    • @Dogy0909
      @Dogy0909 4 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @JohnDoe-wb6vl
      @JohnDoe-wb6vl 4 роки тому +9

      @@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.

  • @m.j.8226
    @m.j.8226 5 років тому +234

    Quinton I love you but did you just pronounce “doge” like “dodge?”

    • @robertgaudet7407
      @robertgaudet7407 5 років тому +6

      Totally intentional I'm sure.

    • @severalowls
      @severalowls 5 років тому +55

      Pretty sure he was intentionally mispronouncing stuff throughout as a joke, like "Gundam Style" and "Ender Scrolls"

    • @m.j.8226
      @m.j.8226 5 років тому +5

      Cerebulon You’re right. Sorry, my brain is smooth

    • @itsnotaphasemom6679
      @itsnotaphasemom6679 5 років тому +4

      *dough gee

    • @andrewdevine3920
      @andrewdevine3920 4 роки тому

      This pretty much what it looks like.

  • @graphitetailgrace3870
    @graphitetailgrace3870 5 років тому +139

    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:".

    • @pan-semitistcommunist4181
      @pan-semitistcommunist4181 5 років тому +21

      But... They did surgery on a grape tho...

    • @woagnya
      @woagnya 5 років тому +15

      Nobody:
      Me: _They did surgery on a grape_

    • @shrub8644
      @shrub8644 5 років тому +8

      Surgery on a grape was funny for 30 seconds

    • @almost_friday9745
      @almost_friday9745 5 років тому +3

      @@shrub8644 same thing with nearly 80% of shit that has happened since 2010

    • @Norogoth
      @Norogoth 5 років тому +3

      Ugandan Knuckles was hysterical how dare you?

  • @LordMangudai
    @LordMangudai 4 роки тому +103

    "Ender Scrolls"
    "now I'm no gamer"
    yeah you just made that fairly clear XD

    • @cutecommie
      @cutecommie 4 роки тому +5

      To be fair, Endermen were relevant at the same time.

    • @ElFreakinCid
      @ElFreakinCid 4 роки тому +2

      I think he might've made it even clearer with his anti-GamerGate stance.

    • @jedisalsohere
      @jedisalsohere 3 роки тому +5

      @@ElFreakinCid what, and you think gamergate was a GOOD thing?

  • @courtney1329
    @courtney1329 5 років тому +69

    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

    • @anarchohannibalism
      @anarchohannibalism 5 років тому +5

      they did surgery on a grape?

    • @bryntendo
      @bryntendo 5 років тому +13

      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

    • @-sanju-
      @-sanju- 4 роки тому

      Luckily it was around for like a week only.

    • @wellshit9489
      @wellshit9489 4 роки тому +1

      @@-sanju- yeah because it was that bad

  • @kaydwessie296
    @kaydwessie296 5 років тому +136

    "There aren't really any bad memes of 2019"
    "Sksksk" and "And I oop" have entered the goddamned chat

    • @itsnotaphasemom6679
      @itsnotaphasemom6679 5 років тому +30

      Gays started it and the straights ruined it xd

    • @roundduck7005
      @roundduck7005 4 роки тому +7

      @@itsnotaphasemom6679 implying gays don't ruin everything

    • @wahmaster2788
      @wahmaster2788 4 роки тому +12

      Dont for get uh oh stinky

    • @kaydwessie296
      @kaydwessie296 4 роки тому +12

      @@wahmaster2788 I actually like Uh Oh Stinky, if only because I've heard so many grown-ass adults refer to things as that now

    • @Komodo772
      @Komodo772 4 роки тому +1

      Sir Michael Alexander honestly implying anyone ruins any meme is sad

  • @Alumx
    @Alumx 4 роки тому +46

    Can't believe you missed the unholy resurgence of mlp at the beginning of the decade

    • @aj7058
      @aj7058 4 роки тому +3

      Jenny Nicholson's Bronycon video covers it really well.

  • @travelkingable
    @travelkingable 4 роки тому +172

    Nordic Gamer in the anime like art looks suspiciously like Pewdiepie.

    • @maxlap7855
      @maxlap7855 4 роки тому +33

      That's the point

    • @cutecommie
      @cutecommie 4 роки тому +46

      Nazis love Pewdiepie

    • @KylosPylon
      @KylosPylon 4 роки тому +10

      @@cutecommie Also, non-nazis love pewdiepie. I feel like people forget that fact.

    • @cutecommie
      @cutecommie 4 роки тому +33

      @@KylosPylon You're not factually wrong but you don't fully get it

  • @sentrysapper45
    @sentrysapper45 5 років тому +160

    No Steamed Hams? To reference a pre-2010 meme, "Son, I am disappoint."

    • @Luke_Barz
      @Luke_Barz 5 років тому +24

      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.

    • @waltrz
      @waltrz 5 років тому +1

      @@Luke_Barz
      I prefer Liver & Onions Posting.

    • @rinsuu9848
      @rinsuu9848 5 років тому +15

      To be fair, the title says bad memes

    • @xtzyshuadog
      @xtzyshuadog 5 років тому

      *And at the end of the decade we're speedrunning American Dad, and making endless Bloody Stream JoJo references*

    • @mustard-grilledpatties2175
      @mustard-grilledpatties2175 4 роки тому +2

      Well, this is a video about the *_bad_* memes of the decade, ya see.

  • @Nick-yq5uz
    @Nick-yq5uz 4 роки тому +49

    I can’t believe you didn’t mention twitter memes, dabbing squidward, harambe, tide pods, or damn Daniel.

  • @KeithBallardA
    @KeithBallardA 5 років тому +128

    Second Joke Still Pending.

    • @setlerking
      @setlerking 5 років тому +11

      Keith Ballard I just lost it at that point

    • @alexsmith2910
      @alexsmith2910 5 років тому +4

      I believe the second joke is Trans people are dolphins, etc. But that's literally it. The right can't meme.

    • @fartsneed9464
      @fartsneed9464 5 років тому +1

      The glum soulless look on his face really sold that punchline

    • @zibsidian5215
      @zibsidian5215 4 роки тому

      I always thought the second joke was "TRIGGERED".

  • @ErikNilsen1337
    @ErikNilsen1337 5 років тому +50

    The "tradwife" isn't a completely fictional fantasy. I spent the last four years going to college in the Midwest, and I met several young women who are considerably close to the caricature, minus the implicit racism.
    The fantasy part is that "Nordic gamer" types think they have any chance to convince any such woman to be their mate.

    • @MegaKaitouKID1412
      @MegaKaitouKID1412 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, I know I can't really speak for real "tradwifes", but like, aren't tradwifes literally looking for a guy who makes enough income on his own to support her and six children? Like, I'm just saying, a traditional marriage usually involves a guy who's working 60+ hours a week and has basically no time for his own hobbies while his wife cooks and cleans and raises kids.

    • @ErikNilsen1337
      @ErikNilsen1337 4 роки тому +2

      MegaKaitouKID1412
      Not necessarily. Most of the ones I met want to share the breadwinning workload, since it’s important that both parents are present for raising children.

    • @MegaKaitouKID1412
      @MegaKaitouKID1412 4 роки тому +7

      @@ErikNilsen1337 If a woman works outside the home, she's not a "traditional" wife lol. She's at least progressive enough that her traditionalism isn't older than the 70s.

    • @ErikNilsen1337
      @ErikNilsen1337 4 роки тому +2

      MegaKaitouKID1412
      In some cases, yes, but it’s a little different in a farming community, which is where I was. Rural America has pretty much always operated on the idea that both parents have to work to keep the household/family farm afloat, whether they live an agrarian lifestyle or not.
      Not necessarily full-time work for a mom with young kids, but the whole stay-at-home “homemaker” stereotype as we know it was really only solidified by the 50’s and mostly in the suburbs.
      But then again, I’m probably just overthinking what a “tradwife” might be to a lowlife NEET on 4chan.

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 4 роки тому +1

      You sound like a warrior cat

  • @jali4000
    @jali4000 4 роки тому +16

    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

  • @carlostaffanelly418
    @carlostaffanelly418 5 років тому +55

    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

    • @nekozombie
      @nekozombie 5 років тому

      NIN FOREVER

    • @TheMrMojoRisin67
      @TheMrMojoRisin67 5 років тому

      It's a cover by Sad Kermit. I think there are still videos from him still floating around on UA-cam

    • @vincelestrade3758
      @vincelestrade3758 5 років тому +3

      Cash’s version is better. It felt utterly painful, as you could see the depressed reflection in each line. It was an amazing cover.

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 5 років тому +1

      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

  • @ArivanAshstar
    @ArivanAshstar 4 роки тому +65

    You forgot Area 51 memes for 2019

  • @dstinnettmusic
    @dstinnettmusic 4 роки тому +63

    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)

    • @Matter-Dark
      @Matter-Dark 4 роки тому +1

      David Stinnett Joker memes have already been ruined.

    • @JohnDoe-wb6vl
      @JohnDoe-wb6vl 4 роки тому +5

      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

    • @Smile4theKillCam456
      @Smile4theKillCam456 3 роки тому

      @@JohnDoe-wb6vl have you ever been on 4Chan?

    • @JohnDoe-wb6vl
      @JohnDoe-wb6vl 3 роки тому

      @@Smile4theKillCam456 Don't get me wrong I love those people

  • @rubyy.7374
    @rubyy.7374 5 років тому +30

    The JUST DO IT and John Cena meme were probably my fave memes of 2015

  • @ThePhantomBeaver
    @ThePhantomBeaver 5 років тому +21

    I remember having a sleepover with my best friend in 2011, and we stayed up later than we should be on a school night, and we were farting around youtube, and we found Nyan Cat, and we just LOST it laughing and falling in love with it. I dont know why this is such a dear and still strong memory, but yeah

  • @azazellon
    @azazellon 4 роки тому +50

    "hindsight is 2020"
    Oh boy, you have no idea

  • @JamiJR
    @JamiJR 5 років тому +67

    Apparently "Arrow to the knee" was a euphemism for getting married.

    • @Bladius_
      @Bladius_ 4 роки тому +5

      That was proven fake, a bethesda employee tried to claim that to make it have more meaning. But it literally can't be found in any culture as having a previous meaning/use.

    • @JamiJR
      @JamiJR 4 роки тому +5

      @@Bladius_ Shoot. I should've checked Snopes. It keeps going around on Tumblr a lot and normally things like that are debunked by others right away. I guess no one on Tumblr got around to debunking it.

    • @DissedRedEngie
      @DissedRedEngie 4 роки тому

      @@JamiJR I call this the "internet reverse" effect. It's when some myth rises up, people start to believe it, someone proves it wrong, but there's enough people who are convinced that the myth is right that it's just passed on as truth.

  • @michigo_xo
    @michigo_xo 4 роки тому +85

    Does anyone reminder when “gun” was a meme?? Just,,, straight up the word “gun”

    • @heartache5742
      @heartache5742 4 роки тому +9

      no

    • @BitchChill
      @BitchChill 4 роки тому +3

      I remember it being a Persona 5 meme

    • @emeraldeyeball2002
      @emeraldeyeball2002 3 роки тому +2

      Right now just making posts that say just “cum” on small subreddits is a meme

    • @issholland
      @issholland 3 роки тому +1

      What area was this a meme in? Seriously asking cause ive never heard of that

    • @maggiedk
      @maggiedk 3 роки тому +2

      @@issholland tumblr

  • @dipstick7489
    @dipstick7489 4 роки тому +33

    Imagine trying to talk about 2014-15 without talking about mlg memes.. oh wait

  • @chcknpie04
    @chcknpie04 5 років тому +32

    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

    • @tomkenning5482
      @tomkenning5482 5 років тому +6

      But then nazis became the excuse to punch people, so

    • @bryntendo
      @bryntendo 5 років тому +9

      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.

    • @fartsneed9464
      @fartsneed9464 5 років тому

      @Knock Out Which you have literally never done. Lmao

  • @Stjaernljus
    @Stjaernljus 4 роки тому +250

    You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism.

    • @SpookyDeerArt
      @SpookyDeerArt 4 роки тому +38

      saying that to anyone who unironically posts the minion memes will guarantee you getting an earful about how capitalism isn't bad, they swear!!

    • @BlueGangsta1958
      @BlueGangsta1958 4 роки тому +24

      cApItALisM iSn'T pErFeCt, bUt iT's tHe bEsT sYsTeM wE hAvE

    • @jessedupuy4124
      @jessedupuy4124 4 роки тому +5

      @@BlueGangsta1958 so you know the perfect system?

    • @deceseze
      @deceseze 4 роки тому +12

      @@jessedupuy4124 marxist writers have recently invented a new theoretical system called bofa

    • @cutecommie
      @cutecommie 4 роки тому +8

      @@deceseze Does it stand for "Bourgeoisie on fire ants"?

  • @locogamingrocker5014
    @locogamingrocker5014 4 роки тому +40

    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.

  • @horricule451
    @horricule451 5 років тому +126

    I've literally never even heard of Nordic Gamer before now. Guess I'm lucky

    • @freealter
      @freealter 5 років тому +2

      Horricule I see it on Twitter all the time now

    • @mrboerger1620
      @mrboerger1620 5 років тому +20

      Basically alt right and incel humour

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому +2

      Have you heard of Audible?

    • @horricule451
      @horricule451 4 роки тому

      @5törmwölf92 how dare you insult chad

  • @THEcamobackpack
    @THEcamobackpack 5 років тому +160

    Still love that video of richard Spencer getting punched every time

    • @setlerking
      @setlerking 5 років тому +11

      It’s the most beautiful thing of the 2010’s.

    • @SpencerCJ
      @SpencerCJ 5 років тому +35

      And then all the totally not nazis getting mad at a nazi getting punched

    • @eruption257
      @eruption257 5 років тому +10

      someBODY ONCE TOLD ME

    • @smjaiteh
      @smjaiteh 5 років тому +4

      One of my favorite memes of the 2010s.

    • @vincelestrade3758
      @vincelestrade3758 5 років тому

      THEcamobackpack Good for you bud

  • @SpookyDeerArt
    @SpookyDeerArt 4 роки тому +42

    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.

    • @chuckbatmangaming
      @chuckbatmangaming 4 роки тому +12

      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.

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 4 роки тому +4

      But is it really? Like the Ok sign was kind of an underused thing, but the circle game is still neutral.

    • @bird4816
      @bird4816 3 роки тому +1

      That being an alt-right nazi thing is a meme itself.

  • @mr.exposition
    @mr.exposition 5 років тому +66

    "lol you watch Quinton Reviews??"
    "YES"

  • @Faapu
    @Faapu 5 років тому +83

    My favorite meme of the decade is Virgin vs. Chad

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 5 років тому +4

      Greatest meme of all time IMO

    • @honkyjesuseternal
      @honkyjesuseternal 4 роки тому +1

      Virgin vs Audible vs Quinton equals big money sponsor!!!!

  • @MegaKaitouKID1412
    @MegaKaitouKID1412 4 роки тому +15

    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.")

  • @DuelaDent52
    @DuelaDent52 5 років тому +20

    Steamed Hams was utterly, bafflingly brilliant. X as told by Spongebob was pretty good, in my opinion, too.
    But I’m so, so tired of seeing how UA-cam comments have devolved into the exact same thing over and over and over across pretty much every video (Nobody, Thanos quotes, Imma bout to end this man’s whole career, etc.).

  • @floralspr1te
    @floralspr1te 5 років тому +90

    27:03- “Loves her family, race, and country in that order.”
    THIS CAN’T BE REAL

    • @batti591
      @batti591 5 років тому +54

      The thing about ethno-nationalists is that they are way, WAY worse at the crypto shit than they imagine themselves to be

    • @tomkenning5482
      @tomkenning5482 5 років тому +37

      I've seen that exact thing so many times but I keep thinking it's a parody of the original. It's always worse than I imagine it to be.
      Does anyone else notice too that the tradwife is fucking DEAD inside

    • @jkfecke
      @jkfecke 5 років тому +28

      @@tomkenning5482 A good tradwife has no internal life. If she did, she'd flee.

    • @johper3779
      @johper3779 5 років тому +16

      @@batti591 I think an important part of "getting" this type of meme is to understand that these are the people who don't buy into the "crypto"-stuff. While sure, some of them might try to blend in with more mainstream right-wingers at times most of them have killed of their euphemisms. They will openly embrace Hitler for a "power move" in a debate, that is like the point of the meme. They do not have to pretend to not be racist anymore. These people have a different strategy, make people who disagree incredibly uncomfortable with these types of positions. "Yes, I find racism good, so what?" or "yes women who show skin are whores" It can be hard to "debate" these types of positions. Most people kind just accept that Hitler was bad and that the KKK was bad, having to argue these points with someone who will know very specific stats and don't care about human rights is sometimes difficult. "Throwing away" the moral argument, "like you are a racist" makes the argument on their court so to say.

    • @fartsneed9464
      @fartsneed9464 5 років тому

      @@jkfecke define "internal life"

  • @profightcompilations4764
    @profightcompilations4764 2 роки тому +4

    Fun fact: this video was posted a single day before COVID was first reported in China

    • @anth636
      @anth636 2 місяці тому

      This is the last remnant of the old world

  • @TindraSan
    @TindraSan 5 років тому +209

    learning you're a year younger than me feels unreal

    • @bartholen
      @bartholen 5 років тому +52

      Quinton was born 38 years old with a beard, and in 75 years he will still be 38 years old with a beard.

    • @tomkenning5482
      @tomkenning5482 5 років тому +1

      And only 4 years older than me what that makes no sense

    • @Exigentable
      @Exigentable 5 років тому

      @@tomkenning5482 why doesn't it make sense? Lots of people are slightly older and younger than you. How does that not make any sense?

    • @doubtful_seer
      @doubtful_seer 5 років тому

      I’m 28, imagine how ancient I feel.

    • @tomkenning5482
      @tomkenning5482 5 років тому +2

      @@Exigentable he looks way older than me (at least I think so lol)

  • @Paralellex
    @Paralellex 5 років тому +55

    "Three of the worst words to hear: Tomorrow is Monday."
    I dunno, I can think of quite a few worse 3 word combinations. "You have cancer", "I'm leaving you", "Is McDonald's okay?", ect.

  • @theaxe7562
    @theaxe7562 4 роки тому +11

    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

  • @BreakfastKing420
    @BreakfastKing420 5 років тому +18

    As soon as the clip ended I started laughing, but when you said the words “Big Chungus” I died

  • @jessbian3385
    @jessbian3385 5 років тому +353

    Wow, didn’t even mention the second joke. Conservatives have two jokes for trans people:
    1. ATTACK HELICOPTER
    2. dId YoU jUsT aSsUmE mY gEnDeR?
    I get these everyday, because they are so unoriginal. so, in summary: The Right Cannot Meme.

    • @IronspiderPL
      @IronspiderPL 5 років тому +26

      pretending that attack helicopter isn't funny, kek

    • @SomeBlokeOrWhatever
      @SomeBlokeOrWhatever 4 роки тому +94

      The same joke for ten years.
      Cuz hey, if it worked for boomer sitcoms...

    • @kneesnap1041
      @kneesnap1041 4 роки тому +14

      At least the assuming gender thing was based on something real, even if it was based on someone who was characterized to be actually representative of the left, which shocker they weren't.

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 4 роки тому +63

      @@IronspiderPL It was made to mock trans people. Everyone says it was made to mock otherkins but it's obvious what it actually was about

    • @blixer8384
      @blixer8384 4 роки тому +49

      @@IronspiderPL I'm not sure you're aware of this but the more you tell a joke the less funny it is. Because a joke ceases to be funny if it becomes predictable, this is especially true of humor that is derived solely from the fact that it's shocking and risque. And the attack helicopter meme wasn't even funny to begin with because the punch line is essentially "trans people and non-binary people aren't real human beings."

  • @cawmusic
    @cawmusic 4 роки тому +7

    I like how nordic gamer transformed into something very wholesome

  • @dearmou8925
    @dearmou8925 4 роки тому +55

    When E came up, I didn't stop laughing for a whole minute. I had to stop the video and recover. I'm sorry.

  • @Exigentable
    @Exigentable 5 років тому +26

    Rage comics were 2010 memes.
    Advice animals came around in the late 2000s. four eyes.

  • @llunathelynx
    @llunathelynx 3 роки тому +2

    as soon as you said there is an extension that lets you have nyan cat progress bar, i downloaded it. thank you.

  • @yeoldegeorgemac
    @yeoldegeorgemac 5 років тому +22

    I was working for a summer camp and there was this one kid (who was great, he was actually my favourite) that would just be constantly shouting, with no context, "BIG CHUNGUS". And then all the other kids, with a glee only someone who is repeating something without any context can, would start shouting it back at him. Then he would shout it back at them and it would just keep repeating. Eventually, it just got so distracting that we had to shut it down and I remember , vividly, saying exactly "Nope. No more. No more Big Chungus. Big Chungus is not allowed."

    • @batti591
      @batti591 5 років тому +2

      Sounds like he was a Man United fan.
      No, I will not explain

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 5 років тому +198

    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.

    • @henmister39
      @henmister39 5 років тому +22

      Those are all 2016, truly the best year minus the Pepe thing

    • @flytrapYTP
      @flytrapYTP 5 років тому

      @@henmister39 Pepe used to be good :(

    • @DrJonLubin
      @DrJonLubin 5 років тому +10

      So anything silvagunner

    • @blurblarted
      @blurblarted 5 років тому

      @@henmister39 including pepe

    • @bluesolace9052
      @bluesolace9052 5 років тому

      Pepe was good originally, but he’s controversial now from apparently becoming a hate simple

  • @shady8045
    @shady8045 3 роки тому +12

    honestly nyan cat is more so a symbol than a meme, and its a damn good one at that