this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Antique Memes Roadshow

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Giving you the backstory and appraisals of vintage memes!

Submissions should be vintage memes or commentary about vintage memes. Commenters are advised to appraise the internet value and provenance meme antiquities.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Lol what a tale! It's cool to hear the story behind the meme, thanks for sharing it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These goddamned memes still make me giggle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

D A N K E Y K A N G

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

This is still a meme in my household.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Wow this is some serious vintage memery. Nice work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish we had more CYOA books. Imagine if LotR was CYOA - that'd be sick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They started making them again in 2016!

https://www.cyoa.com/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Woah, they've even got a Tarot deck! Haha cool!

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

I keep thinking it would be funny to make a throwaway D&D Character, perhaps an NPC, named Emma Gerd who talks this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm so glad somebody else was compelled to post Hard & Phirm