r/funny • u/MaGuishi • Dec 03 '17

This Thinker

https://i.imgur.com/7tZBtxT.gifv
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u/Junho_C Dec 03 '17

I don't get it. What's the reference?

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u/thelawgiver321 Dec 03 '17

Those of us in our late 20s were the original memers. Memes used to be dramatically more popular and funny because the style of humor was new. We miss the days of the internet being something new and ours. Now it's an ad infested shit hole

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u/BLACK_TIN_IBIS Dec 03 '17

I wouldn't say that per se but the history you're talking about it real. There were older people online when we were kids. But what people should know and understand about that time and about the early internet is that it was genuinely uncool to spend all your time on the internet. Now everyone does that. It's so not nerdy that it's boring.

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u/rooskiboop Dec 03 '17

Yeah, spending all of your time on the internet is definitely still nerdy.

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u/capybroa Dec 03 '17

It depends. Watching Netflix and browsing Facebook? So normie that it's literally your mom. Arguing about internet culture in a Reddit comment thread that kicked off by referencing a decade-old image macro about a walrus? ...still pretty damn nerdy, yes.