Have any of you been memed about/turned into memes?
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My reddit username was u/nemo_sum, I modded a few subreddits, someone apparently took umbrage with either something I said as a user or one of my modactions, and took to commenting in those subs as u/nemo_sum_is_gay.
I don't consider that an insult and they weren't breaking any rules, so I just left them alone until they got bored of it. Took about three months.
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A friend of mine started the anime meme "Is this a butterfly?" She's actually employed as a translator for anime, so it made sense.
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There was a post on early Reddit something to the tune of "Post your favorite picture of yourself" and I was deemed to be hot, and they started making memes about the hottest girl in the same thread and myself getting together and having the first hot Redditor baby. She and I got to talking and discussed an in person visit for an update post but it never materialized.
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There's got to be a bash archive right?
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I'd take that as a compliment, honestly. Out of the millions of people they could choose, they chose you.
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Haha nice
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Woah! Ok that's definitely the closest so far
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Happened to me on Orkut.
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Same! I've had my username memed/posted about on a community where I comment a lot. But no actual viral memes.
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Your response was cool
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I knew the kids who made the original Harlem shake video but that’s the closest thing I got
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I'm the creator of the "still waiting on OP" meme with Jack Nicholson in The Shining. My life peaked when I created that in 2010.
Not sure how to embed images from mobile, but it's this one: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/159/324/flash11752_Still-Waiting-on-OP.jpg
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Lol this is what a thought of as well. What bash are they referring to?
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Saw the archive, I am too young
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Man, still funny
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Not sure how to embed images from mobile
Lemmy uses MarkDown and the syntax for images is:
Turns out like this:
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This is actually one of the most mentally damaging parts of my youth, but before Facebook or 9gag or whatever meme-sharing places were prominent, back way when, there was a portal in similar vein but in our language and as such, not international, so the damage wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, in a sense, but I doubt it’d have been a meme if the entirety of the world’s memes were fighting for the same spots in the feeds or whatever.
Anyway, took me a long time to identify this as a source of some quirks I had, but I’m fine with it nowadays so here you go:
I went to a music college and was an aspiring musician. Before college, we had a local band that we were able to gig with and it was fun for a time. Then I left for college, which was 600km away, so that couldn’t continue.
In search of a new band, I initially made the mistake of just posting an ad in a big musician forum (back when we had really busy forums as opposed to centralized social medias 🥴) looking for opportunities. I was, and still am, a metal singer, though back then I could only really growl and scream.
Well, as it turns out, I had undiagnosed and thus unmedicated/unmanaged adhd, so I went a bit overboard and probably went too in length with it. Classic oversharing.
I still, to this day, can’t really tell you what was so funny about it, but a screencap of that ad circulated in the meme site we had back then, garnering over 10k reactions (I think they were different kind of emoticons there, and this was before standardized emojis, but anyways, some sort of explicit input), being in the top10 of memes for a week or so I think…
Luckily the image I attached was from stage and I had my long hair cover my face, so I didn’t really see it in my everyday life, but Jesus was that humiliating to the 16 or so year old me. And I was just getting into the college stuff like parties and all that.
Later, years after, my roommate told me they did it, the fucking rat
Anyway, I guess the funny part was the growling teen acting as if they were already a professional in the ad and writing an essay for the ad. I wish I had it saved somewhere, or someone did, but no luck there. Haven’t seen it in a decade, so I bet I’d know what was wrong with it if I had the chance now, but alas, no such luck.
But that did put me off from a few band interviews for lead singer position and postponed my progress in that regard a lot. We did go on to record albums later with several bands, but I always was very inhibited sort of, really scared to get myself out there, so I always pushed back on any ad campaigns or promo pushes or whatever and we never did break big with any of them.
I’m fine now and worked through those problems in therapy as an adult, but, well, that’s my story.
For a second, I was a local meme, luckily not recognizable from it for anyone other than those who knew me.
I’m so glad we didn’t have social media back then, at least not in the same form as today
