Antique Memes Roadshow

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[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes and no. We definitely had brain rot content. Charlie the Unicorn also comes to mind, or Fingertips. But it was nowhere near as widespread, popular, or in such vast quantities as today. The internet is more accessible than ever with the advent of smartphones in everyone's pockets and social media is ever-expanding no matter how much people complain about it. And meme culture exploded because of that.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I had to explain Charlie the Unicorn to my SO, whose native language is French. That was very awkward.