Posted on 04/16/2018 10:57:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Is this 1921 cartoon the first recorded meme?
When this comic was posted to Twitter, it caused excitement as people began to wonder if it was the first meme - a format-dependent joke, typically of a picture with a caption or subtitle - ever published.
But we've found a version of the joke using the same format printed at least a year earlier in either 1919 or 1920.
Both draw from the same template of the 'Expectations vs. Reality' joke, which contrasts two pictures side-by-side with an obvious discrepancy between them.
It was subsequently reposted with new captions such as "you/the guy she tells you not to worry about", referencing yet another contemporary template meme.
Some users created their own takes on the format using other memes such as 'If You Don't Love Me / Can't Handle Me'.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
We’re two different Red Badgers...........
LOL!.....................I’m the ORIGINAL!.............
You Talking to Me?
Or RED Badger?
He’s the cute one.
I think they’ve discovered some ancient memes from the excavations at Pompeii. Stuff like “Atticus sticks it to Tertius” or something along those lines.
The original “meme” was an invention of Richard Dawkins to explain crap he didn’t understand, kind of a “Darwin of the Gaps” sort of thing. It’s nice that we use it to describe snarky internet posts and nothing that anybody seriously thinks exists.
Yes, you are the original. And that’s why the moderator removed your home page, so you can’t be cloned.
HE-HE-He...........it’s there...................................................................scroll down............................
bump
Yes You Are !
Yeah, I know. Reminds me of someone here who put “User has been deleted” or something like that on his home page.
You actually got me at first. I was thinking, wait, how is this possible... then I realized what you did.
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