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Diorama: Apr 18, 2006; i remember when all this was fields

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Diorama: Apr 18, 2006; i remember when all this was fields

Grouchio posted:

Context?

(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?!)

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