this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2024
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Antique Memes Roadshow

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Giving you the backstory and appraisals of vintage memes!

Submissions should be vintage memes or commentary about vintage memes. Commenters are advised to appraise the internet value and provenance meme antiquities.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

hmm, not sure if that's how that works

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You can't win the game You can just lose the least

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The game?

Is this some early 2000s meme I'm too young to understand or am I not seeing something?

[–] Skullgrid 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

don't worry about it, some dead memes should stay dead

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently something like one in five people are aware of the game in some survey. Referenced in a podcast I can't remember well.

I lost the game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Great. Now I feel old.

[–] chronicledmonocle 16 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

NOOOO!

Fuck you, well played...

[–] RedditRefugee69 10 points 4 months ago

Hint, if you can’t see text your brightness is too low

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The game is cool and all, but have you ever played "Not Jackie Chan?"

Try naming 10 things that aren't Jackie Chan. I bet you can't.

[–] ivanafterall 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Easy.

A pineapple.

A baseball cap.

Jackie Cha...

SHIT. You sly devil, you got me.

[–] Etterra 8 points 4 months ago

This meme has got so much crust that I needed a chisel to chip it off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I won the game, as I knew what the game was, forgot it, saw this meme, still didn't remember, googled it and than was like: oh yeah I think I heard about this

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cool story bro. Sadly, there are no win conditions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's one for sure.

Not playing :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Rule 1. Everyone in the world is playing the game.

You could argue that it doesn't apply to you since you are deciding not to play the game as a free agent. However then you can also not win anymore because you are not playing the game.

Q.E.D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No, not playing means not wasting time and energy on it. That is a full win.

Anyone trying to pretend that participation in a thought experiment isn't voluntary would be wise to choose very carefully who they pull that with irl.

Q.E.V

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What game? They're not playing a game in the image?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] villainy 3 points 4 months ago

I think you mean lucky bastard. It was never funny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

God damn it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Remember one must announce they have lost. I'll be lenient your downvotes will be considered announcements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Nope, no bricks.

Interesting idea but an anticlimactic ending.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

#1 proud game loser

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

dammit i lost the game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

fuck i lost the game