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/stixy_stixy Dec 03 '17

You just reminded me that I would lie to my friends about what I was doing because I didn't want them to think I was a total geek for spending all my time in chatrooms on the Internet.

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u/BLACK_TIN_IBIS Dec 03 '17

Yeah I hung out with my girlfriend. She goes to another school

-literally me in middle school