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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watching

Etc, etc.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That is kids in the late 2000's/early 2010's, not the 1990's

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

"All your base are belong to us" is from the like '92

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us

From Know Your Meme:

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us" is a popular engrish catchphrase that grew popular across the internet as early as in 1998. An awkward translation of "all of your bases are now under our control", the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a 16-bit shoot'em up game released in 1989. Marked by poor grammar, the "All Your Base" phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on popular discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.

The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1992 port of the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing, released on the SEGA Mega Drive.

So, the saying DOES come from 1992, but the internet meme formation did not happen until 1998.

I was wrong of when that meme started, but I do remember the meme when I was playing ROBLOX in 2008. Also, memes use to last a lot longer then they do now as well. But thank you for correctly correcting me 👍

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Did not reach widespread knowledge until 2001

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm sitting here like "memes? Motherfucker most people didn't have internet in '94". The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn't even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.

I am not saying social media hasn't had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn't the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?

How about get the fuck off my lawn.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.

Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it's nothing but "standard" surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (9 children)

This generational hatred will never end.

Were millennials not brainrotted when we were younger? We watched The Annoying Orange and Charlie the Unicorn. The most subscribed YouTube channel was Fred.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the 'generation' would be 13 years old.

I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"back in my day we read books, not like those young whippersnappers nowadays"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That's what happened.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And specifically SGI UNIX, right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

>kid in a movie written by adults: "I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature"

>kid I made up in my own mind: "hurr durr I'm illiterate"

Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the "kids in the 2020s" is the problem

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant's whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don't.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that both kids' characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kids in the 2010s: We are standing up to demand an end to the pollution so that we can have a future

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, their Grandmas in the 2010s: Kids these days are too woke, they never play outside. I hate that Greasy Thunberg or whatever she calls herself, so preachy. No-one walks anywhere any more it's so sad. This Facebook user I love posts AI pictures of kittens and says immigrants are eating our pets and universities are run by Muslim terrorists. I saw some kids outside the other day and was terrified so we're getting the city to close the park and get rid of the bus shelters. All music sounds the same these days like it's made in a factory, not like the real music we had - kids these days don't even know what Motown is.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You put unlimited slop devices in front of everyone 2 years and older instead of books.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Plato in 300: kids today!!!!!!!!!! 😡

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

You getting old is what happened.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You grew old, thats what happened.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This is 100% accurate. Those gigglemug youth before the 2020s were too pigeon-livered to be dimber-damber.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wat. Kids in the 2020s would be reciting facts from watching hours of Wild Kratts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, nah. At least where I live, the 90s kid would be saying (in Portuguese) "Ô tio! Teu cu que vou pagar mico lendo aquela bagaça!". Or roughly "Hey boomer fr fr I'm not reading that skibidi, it's cringe shit".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Anon wants people off his lawn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I've seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I'm not in education.

Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.

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