WAAAZZZZUPPP?!
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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Some Millienals complain about "brain rot content", but likewise speaking of the badger as the "Meme of the year" tells enough
We did some nastys in the pastys.
Missing 2004: ‘All your base are belong to us’ sliding in right after this.
Was dancing baby the OG though?
Banana Phone https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU
Star Wars Kid https://youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
Badgers https://youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
I don't know about orly :(
Thanks! I think I saw that image somewhere but thought it was from a video. I liked this one from the link:
Mushroom... Mushroom....
Oh God...
Ohhhh its a snaaakeeee
Ohhhhh its a snake
Its a
Badger
Badger
Badger
... Still loving it and already showed it to my kids
My first memes were all in ascii art.
Mine were PETSCII using C-64 graphical codes from shifted letters. I had an animated signature line on one BBS of the Enterprise that would redraw it, making it warp out to the side of the screen. It works well because of the slow baud rate. :D
I still remember seeing those for the first time, right up there with hearing dr. sbaitso and the wav2pc speaker app.
In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire
These really go show how memes used to have a much longer shelf life most memes today. I remember seeing references to these exact memes up until about 2011.
i still reference the badger song any time i see a badger 😭 it was the first thing that popped into my head the moment i saw that badger game at the game awards
edit: wait sorry what i mean to say is rizzed up by 24 karat gold labubu with dubai chocolate we are charlie kirk nightcore version 😔
I remember seeing 3 of the 4 here in the past year.
O RLY?
I still use the ORLY expression sometimes. Some people get it still.
When we were in highschool, I convinced my mate to make a 10 minute loop of the badger badger badger song and to see how long he can play it at the school social before a teacher came to tell him to change it, we lasted about 7 minutes of it looping. The crowed loved it tho.
We need to go back
Orly is ~~2001~~ 2003
The earliest documented according to knowyourmeme is 2003.
Yeah, I misread it initially. The photo is from 2001, but the meme is reportedly 2003.
Peanut butter jelly is 2002 from what I can gather
O' Rly??
Quite rly
(I have no idea I just have to kthxbye)
*Ya rly!
Star wars kid!
...At least he got out early, but man that was tragic!
Never liked that one. Internet bullying
We bought it to help with your homework! And the household accounts...