4/25/2023 0 Comments Walrus buckets“ I put on my robe and wizard hat,” writes SuddenlyTimeWarp. The Trololo Guy was Russian singer Eduard Khil, whose rendition of the song “I Am Happy Because I’m Finally Returning Home” became a meme in 2010. It holds up pretty well after nearly a decade, and this one copy of the video has 75 million YouTube views. “He-Man” refers to this video of an ’80s cartoon hero singing a campy disco cover of “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes. “ He-man and the Trolololo guy,” suggests someone with the excellent username ThereIsBearCum. That meme later turned into a widespread formula, “I’m in ur, in’ ur ,” that amused and plagued the internet for years. “‘ im in ur base killin ur d00dz‘ was a long standing favorite back when I played Starcraft,” writes vahishta. Maybe they’ll become retro and have a second life, or maybe we’ll find them years from now in a long-forgotten image folder and have a chuckle at what used to make us laugh out loud. So, let’s cue up the Sarah McLachlan and pour one out for all the classic memes we’ve lost. A lot of these may seem lame now, due to a combination of overexposure and changing tastes, but they were the Harambes of their day. On a recent Ask Reddit thread, redditors reminisced about the fallen memes that used to delight them. Reaching mainstream awareness and becoming uncool is just part of the life cycle of a meme, and it’s happened to hundreds of dank ones over the past decade. ![]() But consider how many beloved memes died before the Dot was founded back in 2011: too many for one news outlet to ever report on. The Daily Dot has frequently been accused of killing memes by reporting on them (and we’re guilty as charged, in some cases). And so it is with memes: the ones we have now are few compared to the ones we’ve lost. Conventional scientific wisdom says that most of the species that have ever dwelled on Earth are now extinct, that life on Earth now is just a small fraction of all the life in our planet’s long history.
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