this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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[–] Herbstzeitlose@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A time when memes were fun and goofy. Now it's all smug-looking wojaks. Can't we all agree to go back to those days?

[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

We already have

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

There's still goofy ones, you just gotta look harder

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, we had ragefaces before we shifted to those image captions. And we also had demotivational posters before the ragefaces

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Early rage faces could be good. The low barrier of entry allowed people who couldn't before to express some funny ideas. Then they ran out of ideas and continued to beat the dead horse.