• topperharlie
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    15110 months ago

    The internet is wild, people spend most of their time in small echo chambers and they think that is the whole internet.

    • MrScottyTay
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      710 months ago

      I mean, back when this was a meme the whole internet was like a single echo chamber, especially in the early days of YouTube and even more so prior.

      • pjhenry1216
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        8610 months ago

        No. No it wasn’t. I’ve been here since YouTube started and have never seen this. People thinking they’re experience is everyone’s experience is wild.

        • @[email protected]
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          2010 months ago

          Had a colleague that told me about some memes with a gay porn star. He couldn’t grasp that I neither know the guy nor the memes. Allegedly they were all over the internet for years. I’ve never seen any of them since.

          This guy is a libertarian right wing incel, so I’m pretty sure our internet experiences are completely different.

        • @[email protected]
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          810 months ago

          I mean, there is a shared experience for people who were online when things started. I remember Newgrounds, eBaum’s World, Nyan Cat, Epic Rap Battles of History, StumbleUpon.com.

          I imagine you also experienced some or most of that short list to some extent.

          • pjhenry1216
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            1110 months ago

            Eh, maybe. While I am familiar with those things, I don’t think I’d ever assume everyone my age and on the Internet would as well. Different strokes for different folks. Moreover, this didn’t even take into account age at all. So not only did it appear to strike out with many of the same age, it’ll likely strike out with most users who simply weren’t on the Internet for that relatively small period of time.

          • snooggums
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            1110 months ago

            Eh, my mom was on the internet at that time and would know absolutely zero of those things because she didn’t visit humor sites. I knew them because that is the stuff I looked for.

            Kind of like how most people watched MASH when it was the most popular show ever, but not everyone did.

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Epic rap battles and stumbleupon were my lemmy back then. Spent so much time stumbling and found some very weird stuff.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 months ago

              StumbleUpon was the Golden Age of the Internet, and like all Golden Ages ultimately destroyed by hubris.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            All I did on the Internet at that time was flash games and homework, later also “homework”

        • Scrubbles
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          310 months ago

          We think of things like numa numa being everywhere, but can you believe there were people who didn’t see it at the time? Wild.

      • topperharlie
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        3510 months ago

        hmmm… I’m pretty sure I’ve been around since before YouTube started and don’t have any idea, so I still think is the case.

        I think people tend to not understand how big internet is, even back then. This makes it difficult to know which memes really made it all the way to become THAT popular (and even those are not know by everyone, some people just don’t follow memes)

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          That would be me. The only thing I did back then was play video games. There was no web browsing unless it was for a game. I didn’t even know what a meme was until about ten years ago when I started using Reddit and branched out from gaming related themes.

        • DessertStorms
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          -1610 months ago

          I love how instead of “oh, I don’t get this joke, oh well” you’ve gone directly to “these other people don’t understand the internet as well as I do!!1”
          😂

          • @[email protected]
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            2510 months ago

            The lesson was “your experience is not universal, other people have different experiences than you”. Your reading comprehension needs work, also you lack empathy, and project your own insecurities on to those around you.

            • DessertStorms
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              10 months ago

              Sure, whatever makes you feel better 😂

              Also - “your experience is not universal, other people have different experiences than you” is exactly what this person should have told themselves and moved on instead of replying and making it all about their experience not being universal, that’s entirely my fucking point lmfao

              • pjhenry1216
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                710 months ago

                No. Because they’re replying to someone claiming it was everyone’s experience. They are not the same to anyone who understands the English language.

              • @[email protected]
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                510 months ago

                Don’t you understand that you are in a discussion forum for discussing these things? “That’s entirely the fucking point lmfao.”

          • pjhenry1216
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            910 months ago

            Except the fact that the joke relies on the concept everyone would understand it. So not getting the joke undermines the joke as that was it’s whole fucking point. It’s literally trying to say a generalized idea of the internet and is objectively incorrect. It tried to do it in a funny way and objectively failed when the premise is laughably untrue.

  • pjhenry1216
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    5510 months ago

    The people commenting with the context so others can understand it kind of highlights the absurdity of the original claim.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          I just watched it for the first time, a few hours ago.

          It’s not going to scar you for life like 2girls 1cup, but you will definitely remember the soundtrack. It’s NSFW, but just because of a dildo- and the practice described- otherwise it’s rather safe, explicit but safe.

          If you have an aversion to slurping sounds, don’t watch it.

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      I do believe its an old youtube video

      She explains how she can … put that onto her dudes penis and something something it feels good

      Its a weird video

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I was prepared to hate it as I guess I’m somewhat uptight but this had some thought put into it, which I appreciate. Definitely worth a watch.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    10 months ago

    I must be the internet equivalent of the high school weirdos playing MTG during lunch period because I’ve never heard of this particular meme.

    My old ass was definitely thinking “goatse”.

  • @[email protected]
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    1210 months ago

    Okay I’ve just watched the video, very informative. I don’t have a man to grapefruit though, so-

    …has anyone tried it?

    • Dee
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      1110 months ago

      The citrus, it stings. Or so I’ve heard.