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Pokedad
Jan 27, 2005
I am a creepy cunt.

I've barely logged in for years and I was worried I wouldn't get any of the cool new kid jokes. I should have realised the classics never go out of style.

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Pokedad
Jan 27, 2005
I am a creepy cunt.

Diorama posted:

(my memory is hazy, so anyone who remembers The Before Times please feel free to correct)

Shortly after I finally got an account (so maybe summer/autumn 2006? after gooncon anyway) Lowtax decided to try and engineer/force a meme. There were probably 75,000/80,000 goons or so back then, and I guess it was probably enough to try to artificially 'seed' a meme online (I suppose this was around the time that 'meme' was entering the general conversation and superseding 'image macro' as a term).
He selected 'Bart the General', which I just tried to type a description of, but is probably best left to speak for itself. It's a Simpsons parody, anyway.

Anyway, iirc early 4chan got wind of it being a "FORCED MEME!!!!" and vociferously campaigned against it.
This image is of Homer crying after he found Marge cheating on him with Toadfish (from Neighbours?!)

Marge, you're breaking my heart was a lowtax forced meme? I remember the meme really well but I had no idea about the SA/4chan connections.

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