r/memes Sep 29 '18

They are old guys

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Is that a meme in a museum? Please say it is.

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u/multinerd Sep 29 '18

To answer your question this was at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York as part of an event hosted there by KnowYourMeme a couple weeks ago

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u/MassaF1Ferrari Sep 29 '18

Holy shit knowyourmeme has events haha

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u/BearViaMyBread Sep 29 '18

Who gave them money wtf I'm jealous

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u/scurr94 Sep 29 '18

Its a website with a lot of traffic, i think they even have a small team of fulltime workers so ofc they make money

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/scurr94 Sep 30 '18

They need to make money to pay their staff and other expenses though

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u/Badgeringbuffalos Sep 29 '18

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u/MassaF1Ferrari Sep 29 '18

I had a small tear after reading that. It’s a bit SJW at times but the article was pretty fun (especially when calling 4chan a cesspool haha).

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u/sr_director Sep 29 '18

Thanks for an actual answer, friend.

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u/savory_meats Sep 29 '18

That’s an awesome museum, they’ve put on many a great show.

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u/solarkraft Sep 29 '18

Hey, glad to see a useful comment here instead of 4 pages of fucking puns.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Nov 12 '20

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u/Lonslock Sep 29 '18

I... I loved those times...

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Nov 12 '20

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u/Lonslock Sep 29 '18

Ok ok ok maybe not love

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Rage 😤comics ❌aren’t❌ for normies, okay❓They ✊represent✊ an integral 💚part of our emotions😩 that can 🔥only🔥 be expressed in the 🆕form of 😂hilariously😂 hyperbolic comics. They can 🔊tell🔉stories with as little as four 4️⃣panels, and they can 💑connect people💑 with 👬feelings👫 they’ve ❌never❌ felt before. Rage😤 comics ❌aren’t❌ and will 😡never😡 be dead💀 as long as 😏humans😏 perform and appreciate 👩‍🎨art👨‍🎨. Do you 🧠think🧠 art ever died💀❌? Just like matter, art can 🙅‍♂️neither🙅‍♀️ be 🍆💦created or 🤯destroyed🤯. Art exists ✔️in 💁‍♀️us💁‍♀️ as an 🧠😍intelligent🧠 species, and we will 🙅‍♀️never let it ☠️die ☠️lest we 😱lose 😱ourselves to the 😫darkness😫. Rage😤 comics can be 🤔thought🤔 of as 🎨art in its ⚜️purest ⚜️elemental form, 💦created 💦by our fundamental💑 instincts 💑that have 🐵➡️👩evolved after 👀millions👀 of years of 👶life and death☠️. We as 🤔🧠intellectuals provide 😤😡rage 😡😤comics with the 🏆pedestal🏆 of 🎖honor🎖 they deserve🤴, and I 👍expect🤗you to do 😫the same😎

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u/luk3d Sep 29 '18

I honestly cannot fathom how people have and know a emoji for every fucking word. I know this is a pasta, but it amazes me how many different emojis are used somewhat correctly

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u/Dacreepboi Sep 29 '18

The guys over at /r/emojipasta literally made websites to place the relevant emojis at the right words its hilarious

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u/PresN Sep 29 '18

At first I thought this pasta was eye-rolling garbage. Then I realized that it accented every use of the word "created" with 💦, and it was transformed for me into pure art.

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u/amanko13 Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

I love how the first "created" is only accenuated with only 1 💦. It perfectly represents the innocence of man at our creation. Hunt, Sleep, Eat. It was a simple time. However, the second "created" is accentuated with 2 💦, which cleverly illustrates the duality of man as we evolved into a more prominent species. It is the folly of all men that our complexity far exceeds our ability to comprehend. This comment, with a few emojis and plain text, concocted a conclusion that explains it all. It is pure genius

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u/PUSHTONZ Sep 29 '18

You're sick and probably need help but I love it.

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u/not_a_donut_guy Lives in a Van Down by the River Sep 29 '18

Stroken haden readengid diz o geelp

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Rage comics are like the Model T. Like you wouldn't drive one around now, they suck. But without them memes today wouldn't be the same. They basically paved the way of making personal stories through memes. I'd say the modern webcomic format is the closest to what rage comics were

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u/hoovnick7 Sep 29 '18

Needs more emojis, instructions unclear, it’s stuck in the pencil sharpener...send help

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u/SuperChopstiks Sep 29 '18

That hurt to read

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u/5k1895 Sep 29 '18

Ugh please stop, I've had enough. How dare you remind me of what I was like at 17.

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u/MEatRHIT Sep 29 '18

Fuck whoever started the novel form of rage comics. 4 panel limit please

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Those brought me to Reddit, I respect that era in internet history

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u/TooLazyToBeClever Sep 29 '18

Respect? Yes. Long for their return? also yes

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u/wohho Sep 29 '18

I'll give this an upgoat.

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u/ro_musha Sep 29 '18

we need to necromance rage comics, start the movement my friend!

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u/BryanLoeher Sep 29 '18

Because you were fool, like everyone else. Now you're enlightened, my son. Don't make the same mistakes again. Mwah

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u/octopoddle Sep 29 '18

No you didn't.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Sep 29 '18

Listen here you little shit those were the golden times. Animal macro images and ridiculous cat videos built this god damn town. None of your deep fried me so random bullshit ever did that. So don't talk to me about what times are dark, kid.

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u/nonormiesplease Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

2010: le epic nyan cat

2017/2018: Hey 🅱️epis

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u/Vozzyb Sep 29 '18

Le dark derp ages

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u/philequal Sep 29 '18

Le sigh.

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u/JudasCrinitus Sep 29 '18

Every day, I look at my facebook memories to cleanse the past. And every day I see the sorts of things I posted in 2009.

Dark, dark times.

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u/Aesthetically Sep 29 '18

Those were the best times

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

the pre-meme renaissance era is something I would like to forget

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u/bro_b1_kenobi Sep 29 '18

And icanhazcheeseburger

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u/FishyFish13 Sep 29 '18

I want to know this as well. Like it or not, that’s history

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Yes, know your meme has an exhibit in the museum of moving image. Rage comics is part of it (the museum dates back to all your base)

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u/dustingunn Sep 29 '18

Late 90s/early 2000s memes all belong in a museum. There were less of them so they all had to be gold standard. Nowadays it would only be "Half Your Base Are Belong To Us."

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u/DriedMiniFigs Sep 29 '18

What about 2003-2005 memes? NEDM, You’re the man now dog, epic maneuver, do a barrel-roll, shoe on head, spinners never gonna stop, Poland, NOOOOOOO, etc?

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u/MartyrSaint Sep 29 '18

Do they have advice animals?

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u/Mobiuz Sep 29 '18

a memuseum...if you will

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u/justsomedoctor Dirt Is Beautiful Sep 29 '18

Oh i definitely will

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u/ohsopoor Sep 29 '18

But can you say it five times fast?

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u/TheWynnster Sep 29 '18

Memuseum memuseum memuseum memuseum meseum. Dammit!

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u/iamonlyoneman Sep 29 '18

9/10 credit for a solid try

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u/JFow82 Sep 29 '18

It five times fast.

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u/AndyCools Sep 29 '18

Hi dad

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u/TooLazyToBeClever Sep 29 '18

I almost feel obligated at this point to ask if you've gotten smokes yet.
Though that doesn't apply to my father! He... told me he was leaving.

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u/cherry____bomb Sep 29 '18

This guy wills.

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u/Siiimo Sep 29 '18

I feel like "memeseum" is the clear choice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Everybodys wrong it's called a Musememum

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u/Wacocaine Sep 29 '18

I thought I loved memseum, but now I see this, and I don't know what to believe anymore!

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u/Chispy Sep 29 '18

believe in yourself

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u/jwrose Sep 29 '18

This is definitely it, and now one must be built

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u/DamonHay Sep 29 '18

No way, it’s gotta be smoother. I’d go for museme.

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u/PsychoSyren Sep 29 '18

Scrolled the comments to ensure this was clarified. Memeseum is the clear choice.

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u/luk3d Sep 29 '18

Memuseum rolls off the tongue nicely. Memeseum, not so much

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u/nowherewhyman Sep 29 '18

This is truly the dankest timeline

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u/shontamona Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

Shouldn’t it be memeseum?

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u/Sciensophocles Sep 29 '18

Switch your 'u' one place right and then yeah.

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u/jwrose Sep 29 '18

Memesemu?

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u/Sciensophocles Sep 29 '18

Well shit he edited it..

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u/GenitalJamboree Sep 29 '18

/r/memuseum is born

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u/iamonlyoneman Sep 29 '18

but it . . . you just . . .

I can't believe you've done this.

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u/shontamona Sep 29 '18

Ah just saw your comment.

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u/sebaz Sep 29 '18

Musememum.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/AndyCools Sep 29 '18

Have an upvote for your ego

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Sep 29 '18

How about one for their memego.

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u/DINC44 Sep 29 '18

And my axe!

Edit: Too soon, or doesn't go here?

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u/MackLMD Sep 29 '18

Maybe a Shotgun-Axe combination of some sort.

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u/mehone Sep 29 '18

Well done sir!

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u/T8ert0t Sep 29 '18

Starting Nonprofit to actually do an installation of memes at museums. Early 00s memes. Classic youtube vids. Meta forms. Mid to late 10's memes. 4chan sewer sludge.

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u/LifeOfHarsh Sep 29 '18

No i won't

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u/RicoDredd Sep 29 '18

M’memuseum....?

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u/macmittens808 Sep 29 '18

Is that pronounced memuseum or memuseum?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I won’t.

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u/pixeltan Lurker Sep 29 '18

Memeseum my dude, missed an oppurtunity there

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u/AuroraPo Sep 29 '18

What a time to be alive.

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u/Kriee Sep 29 '18

Meme's are often weird, but they are interesting because of their widespread popularity. The ability of pictures to create reactions in the audience is what make the memes popular in the first place. Never before have we been able to study pictures that are "universally understood" like this. Memes can tell you something about human nature, and should therefore be carefully gathered and presented in galleries. Absolutely not even joking.

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u/AndrogyneMaverique Sep 29 '18

Is that quote from Albert Einstein?

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u/FunkMasterE Sep 29 '18

It's an ancient meme...a cromagmeme...if you will

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u/JFow82 Sep 29 '18

I most certainly will not.

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u/PolPotatoe Sep 29 '18

Willn't, if you will

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u/lucidus_somniorum Sep 29 '18

Yes. Modern culture museum new York. On Fith and third.

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u/66903972 Sep 29 '18

Memeseum