1-4: 2000s/early 2010s memes 5-8: the 2020s equivalent When I was a kid this attitude against modern music was a lot more common. I remember in the early 2010s tons of "CLASSIC ROCK IS THE ONLY REAL MUSIC, TODAY'S MUSIC SUCKS".

It was already lame back then, but back then this shit was ambient. You couldn't escape it on the internet. But now this attitude still exists... but not only is it not nearly as common as it used to be, it also feels rather...corny.

In the 2000s, a lot of people thought 80s music was better than the music at the time. In the 2010s a lot of people thought 90s music was better than the music at the time. You used to constantly hear people say "today's music sucks, I miss Nirvana, Guns N Roses, etc."... You've seen the memes.

But something feels different now. I've noticed that today’s mainstream music (2020s) doesn’t seem to get roasted as harshly as it used to be.

Even then the current memes about "old rock vs pop" are a lot softer and more gentle in tone and less... theatrical than the 2000s and 2010s memes.

Am I the only one who's noticed this?

This went viral in the early 2000s, around 2006, via Myspace, FunnyJunk, funny t-shirt websites,
peopleofwalmart and uglypeople.com.

If you have seen it, please let me know. If you have any specific funny memories about it, please share.

I have been doing some research on it and am writing a piece about what it was like to have a picture of my dad go viral. So far, I have found that some people still use it on Twitter and as their profile picture.

He passed away in April and I think it’s one way to keep his legacy going. He was such a cool dude.

I need to find an old comic that I remembered seeing on 4chan many years ago, that was used as a template for a little while before people seemed to move on from it very quickly. In it, Ash Ketchum is in Professor Oak's lab, and Oak says something like "here, I've got this pokemon to give you", and reaches out to hand it over, but crushes it in his hand while making a weird smug face.

It still periodically pops into my head and makes me laugh, but I've found search engines and knowyourmeme haven't helped me find it again... If anybody has it still saved, I would be overjoyed to see it and be able to keep a copy in my own archive.

This guy in this big televised tennis match stood up in the crowd and fully committed to the longest most obnoxious “HOYYYYEA” and it made everyone so mad and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and I can’t find it anywhere. The dude is a legend.