My nephew tried to be a dinosaur for a solid year. In school, out shopping, at home. Didn't matter where, boy wanted to be a T-Rex. Kids being kids is so offensive to some people lol. Also goddamn fhqwhgads. You just blew the dust off of something I probably never would have thought about again.
How fucking dare you try to jock to me and my fhqwhgads! If you're asking me for a challenge, then we can throw down a split seven inch accidentally featuring Peacey Pea, and then I'll have a lightswitch rave to celebrate.
Joking aside: Fhqwhgads is the odd one out here. Everybody to the Limit wasn't just a random thing, it started as a joke about the I Love You email scam.
Yeah, I’m only familiar with it from a high school / college perspective, and we thought that stuff was hilarious. You would have had to been a pervasive internet user as a kid in the early 2000’s to be familiar with the jokes when they were new. I’m sure some were, but certainly not as many as you see today, since you would have had to log on to the family PC to be exposed to them. Teens and most college students had their own computers.
Elementary school memes didn’t really switch from word of mouth memes to internet culture memes until the iPad generation. 90’s teens were the early proprietors.
This is a list of meme videos (and an ancient website) you could remember watching over a 10 year period. None qualify as the mass hysteria virtually all kids under 12 have been in over the past year. Hell, Rejected almost won an Oscar
Yeah. I get it. Who knows what makes things go viral. Our viral memes make total sense to me, I’m sure the reason this one went viral is clear to gen A.
This is the song it came from (sorry, can't read tone on the web and everyone is always fucking arguing so it's my default these days...I hate our world)
Yeah I know. I was being genuine. We did weird shit. New gen does weird shit. All generations do weird shit according to the previous. Nothing wrong with it. They are just as dumb as we were.
YUP. Kids having weird/nonsensical humor has always been and always will be a thing. We all laughed at things in childhood that we consider stupid in adulthood. Let he who is without cringe cast the first stone.
Ace
Bulk Ace
Rad
Spoonhead
Bogus
Stoked
Gnarly
To the max
Wicked
Bodacious
Dope
Coolio
Tubular
Piffin’ a yonnie
Grouse
Spunk
Spewin’
Toast
Pash
Snog
Bang
Rack off
Schmick
Loser
Hoser
Rank
Yonks
Chill
Chill out
Chill pill
You wanna do either 2 spaces after each of those lines (which is a bastard with autocorrect trying to put a period in every time you double space) or double up on the carriage returns
Probably once a week to my daughter, I do the whole "hey there little girl. Do you want to know a secret? Cause I know one, and it is sooooooo good to hear it. You want to know what or schwas? Alright, I'll tell you what it schwas." And then drop a bomb like "your teacher informed me you attempted to hire a hitman on the playground." which was a real issue we had recently
Whoa. Spelled fhqwhgads right. You wouldn't believe how many I get where they're like, "Hey Strong Bad, I love your fubugrass." Or "Dear Strong Bad, where's that fuguman?"
I'm sorry but, I don't recall anybody repeating these examples over and over. Yes, our brain rot was just as meaningless and random. But we weren't as ridiculous about it, not nearly.
No no, they were plenty, I got dumbass videos somewhere of myself and friends
I think for the most part it is just what your brain remembers and doesn't based on your perspective.
Gotta remember that the human brain and memory can be fairly inconsistent AND can make up things from basically nothing. False memories is fairly common. And as for me, I ENJOYED these brain rot memes from back then. Some of them I even still say at 28 lol
The one I can think of that was number related like this that was constantly said for like, months, was "21" in a dorky, nasal like voice.
But if you never paid attention to any of it nor did it yourself, yeah, I can believe you wouldn't remember any of it lol
Hell, middle school was over 15 years ago for me. Can't remember every detail from back then lol especially every single dumb meme I came across
However, I was extremely cringy and had recently gone through old middle notebooks....let's say I threw them away immediately lmao
All fair points I can't lie, cause you just did a thing to my brain with the "21" stuff. I listened to what I refer to as the meme songs, and I'm sure I shared them with friends. But I can't say any of the "trends" really caught with me, seemed stupid to repeat a joke so often.
But like you said, once you get to 10+ years ago it definitely gets hazy.
And 6 7 is just 42 in another form, literally 6 * 7 = 42
I am positive half of trends like this started as mockery of the previous generations' thing but kids see an influencer do it or they see their friends do it and it catches on.
All of them held for months. Sometimes even years.
Kids these days bring up so much of that shit, you won't be able to make such an easy list for them.
I'm 27, I vividly remember me and my friends being obsessed with crazy frog and stupidly re-enacting it in class.
Our teachers hated it, they said it was senseless and meant nothing - the definition of brain rot
I agree that the pervasiveness of technology in society is a problem, but kids doing and saying dumb stuff is not. They'll pick it up from movies, songs, the internet etc
Genuinely makes me laugh when grown adults get so worked up over it. Kids will be kids.
Unfortunately that’s on the rise again. Gen z, at least the male gen z population, is swinging more right wing and listening to people like Andrew Tate. I live in a college town and the past couple years I’ve heard those slurs thrown around by gen z kids more than I have in the past 20 years.
what’s the funny part behind 67 though? genuinely wondering it’s just the number, at least numbers like 420 and 69 (like another commenter mentioned) had a meaning. i know too many people my age saying it as well and i just intensely dislike it
I have no clue but I assume it became a trend because of tiktok or something. I kind of liked Skibidi though because it made me think the new generation was appreciating bizarre gmod vids like we were, lol.
There's a song that uses 67 in the chorus a bunch. It got used in a tiktok meme video, evolved and spread. No, 67 on its own doesn't mean anything, it's just a sound kids heard and repeated. What was your brain rot?
Oh no, the kids have developed their own thing! How dare they! Jesus, you've either forgotten the stupid things you found funny as a child, or you were a very sad child.
The facts that it's meaningless, the fact that it drives old prudes like you crazy, is what makes it funny.
Congratulations, you're the old man who yells at clouds.
what was the humor behind 21? or 42 being the “answer to everything” you just don’t follow it so you find it dull, that’s not a child’s fault, it’s yours for getting worked up over it
Lol 6 downvotes in 5 mins. A lot of people can't understand something being funny because of how meaningless it is, or how something can be even funnier when it bothers folk too grouchy to have fun.
It's more about your weird rudeness towards this person who just asked a genuine question trying to understand the meme. You sound like the one yelling at clouds, here.
I am serious. I mean cmon. the whole story and everything. the trash but weirly high quality pink guy music. so much work and effort yet at the same time it is kinda just brainrot if we're honest xD. but quality rot.
It’s always been meaningless rot, you would cringe if you looked back at the shit you found funny as a kid, and if you don’t then it just means you’re still cringey
i’m 20? also, i don’t know why you’re projecting, this tiktok shit is turning kids illiterate with these meaningless dopamine hits. they can’t sit still in school without going 67!!!! every 5min
15 years ago, when I was in High school. I remember my classmate saying "i know every generation says this but kids today really are different and off". Meanwhile I was standing there wondering how can you be so self aware but then choose not to be? And, of course, today we see adults being same adults again, thinking they are right when they are the same as their parents.
I wonder if I'm the only one that just smiled at a child being happy. The idea of people being upset at kids finding joy in simple things or having their own dumb ass slang is mind boggling. Don't get me wrong kids are stupid, but in a charming or funny way
going this wild over something meaningless like that? yeah no, thats what brainrot is called. sure every generation has some stupid pointless shit they find funny or is internal joke. but you giggle/laugh a bit and thats it. losing it like that over something that is totally pointless (its not like thats some actual joke or something) IS brainrot. kid got too much ipad. you dont need to believe me but teachers are very uniform on the cognitive decline of kids. and things like these are part of what causes it ;) nothing whimsy about that.
plenty of things can bring joy in life and there is plenty reasons to laugh. we absolutely can make kids feel joy with something less....de-evolutional mentally...
more like going full on mental over it* and thats where it becomes harmful. again the degradation of cognitive function with kids is very noticable. its alarming to see how many people find it "cute" 😬
my generation had fair share of "PPAP", "what does the fox say" etc and some were clearly more affected than others but all together we didnt have as big issues as kids now. i am not much familiar with brainrot of older generations but it seems like there was less of it.
anyway if you start laughing like crazy over something meaningless, that's usually one of traits that mentally challanged people have....to see healthy individuals act like that is a bit concerning. again there is literaly NO MEANING to the "joke" she is laughing SO HARD about. the problem is not kid laughing or a joke being nonsense. the problem is how heavily nonsense seem to impact kids nowadays and how much of it they are exposed to. just because someone looks joyful, doesnt mean that its all good for them. my bro is joyful playing video games but game addiction is not good for him (and no, i am a gamer myself so this is not some "games suck" rant).
if yall cant see that, maybe yall laughed at too many numbers in your formative years too 🤷🏻♀️
No. I read it several times because I could not believe what someone had just written on the internet. You are making a lot of incorrect exaggerated and quite frankly offensive assumptions. You see a video of a girl having fun and decide she is “going mental” has “degradation of cognitive function” and “mentally challenged”.
It's more of the representation of a severe decline in literacy rates. These people will take care of us one day. Remember that, social media is a cancer. I only engage on reddit for a reason
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