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Dank Retro Memes
10 years ago
While sperging to a friend of mine about animation (a subject which he's pretty apathetic to because he never watched cartoons as a child and thus is an empty, soulless husk of a man) he pasted a link in our chat. I figured it was something related to the subject for once and it was... Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
Normally I'd say it isn't funny or it's a beating a horse that's not just dead, but decayed, buried, and a garden is flourishing on the spot where it dropped. But honestly it has been so long since I've heard hide or hair of the song I admit it got a chuckle out of me. For the first time in very many years I found the Rickroll funny again. I mean, not fall out of my seat laughing hilarious, but a sincere 'heh'.
It reminds me that the other day I saw someone talking about bringing the Caramelledansen back. That's something I haven't heard from since 2009? Those aren't even the only examples I can think of people recently digging up old internet jokes.
It makes me think about how the internet is speeding everything up. 6 years is far, FAR away from being 'retro' and yet the notion of reviving something that feels so dated seems quaint and even nostalgic. Maybe it's just because I was still a teenager when those things were popular, and so they hold a special significance?
When does something become retro? How old does something have to be before you can wax nostalgic about it? Is the digital age, with it's ruthless progression, speeding up this process? Trends explode over night and fade in just as little time. Something can be 'the hip meme' at midnight tonight and be on t-shirts sold in chain stores the next day.
Makes you think about the size and scope of your world and how being connected changes things. The world is strange.
I just know I love my dank memes.
Normally I'd say it isn't funny or it's a beating a horse that's not just dead, but decayed, buried, and a garden is flourishing on the spot where it dropped. But honestly it has been so long since I've heard hide or hair of the song I admit it got a chuckle out of me. For the first time in very many years I found the Rickroll funny again. I mean, not fall out of my seat laughing hilarious, but a sincere 'heh'.
It reminds me that the other day I saw someone talking about bringing the Caramelledansen back. That's something I haven't heard from since 2009? Those aren't even the only examples I can think of people recently digging up old internet jokes.
It makes me think about how the internet is speeding everything up. 6 years is far, FAR away from being 'retro' and yet the notion of reviving something that feels so dated seems quaint and even nostalgic. Maybe it's just because I was still a teenager when those things were popular, and so they hold a special significance?
When does something become retro? How old does something have to be before you can wax nostalgic about it? Is the digital age, with it's ruthless progression, speeding up this process? Trends explode over night and fade in just as little time. Something can be 'the hip meme' at midnight tonight and be on t-shirts sold in chain stores the next day.
Makes you think about the size and scope of your world and how being connected changes things. The world is strange.
I just know I love my dank memes.
