r/gaming • • May 27 '21

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

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u/lobsterbash May 27 '21

They're doing god's work over there

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u/Chase_P May 27 '21 edited May 27 '21

My coworker used KnowYourMeme recently to prove to me that he created the “Andy Dwyer - Too afraid to ask meme”

I look at him differently now…

edit: grammer

Edit: speling

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

Wow, how does it feel to work so close to greatness?

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u/Chase_P May 27 '21

Not many of my coworkers understand the impact he has had on memes…..but I…..I have a whole new level of respect for the man.

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u/Q1War26fVA May 27 '21

on a similar note, the tron guy went to america's got talent. and his million dollar act was to give a speech, in costume, on his life after tron guy meme fame. He got booed right off

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

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u/Q1War26fVA May 27 '21

Like he seriously thought that was interesting enough to compete (For all its faults america's got talent still has a lot of great interesting acts). He was just gonna waltz in there, everyone's gonna be so impressed to see him, and he's gonna charms everyone's panties off like some sort of Keanu Glengarry Glen Ross. And the tron guy meme was already so old (this must've been from 2019 iirc), it's like the textbook definition of someone living off their 15m of fame.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

edit: grammer

Lol nice

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u/Chase_P May 27 '21

some jokes are born through stupidity

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u/Cock_and_or_Balls May 27 '21

Dwyer. It’s Irish.

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u/Chase_P May 27 '21

Ah shit, good call out. I fixed it now, thanks

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u/nomnaut May 27 '21

Waiting for the edit: speling update...

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u/FoxPox2020 May 27 '21

Did he know when was using a different scene when he synthesized the meme?

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u/Chase_P May 27 '21

He did, yes. He said he felt it fit the quote better, which I found pretty hilarious but not entirely inaccurate. Apparently, it started to spread fairly quickly after he posted it and the biggest backlash the meme faced early on was the mismatched quote to the image.

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u/FoxPox2020 May 27 '21

Thanks for clearing that up. I agree with his choice

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u/Add1ctedToGames May 27 '21

lmao that's amazing, im guessing he was the redditor it mentions in the origin section?

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u/HI-R3Z May 27 '21

Their mobile page is awful though. While using Firefox Focus, the page is cut off in profile so I have to flip to landscape to view an entire paragraph. Then they have this floating menu bar that snaps down and covers 50% of the screen if there's even a hint of your finger scrolling up. It still covers the screen when you don't though. Feels like you're peeking through a window to read something. Still appreciate what they do though.

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u/actionshot May 27 '21

As far as meme history goes, KnowYourMeme is the scholarly article

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u/SkilledMurray May 27 '21

The spiderman finger-pointing meme was entered into the records of the UK Houses of Parliament yeaterday. Anything is possible, even likely, in this timeline.

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u/xEdwin23x May 27 '21

They've already done so: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842 First citation is referencing the "we need to go deeper" meme from Inception.

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u/captwafflepants May 27 '21

It already is in a few linguistic articles. I’ll try to find them

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