Monday, May 27, 2013

In Memory of a Meme

In Memory of a Meme

It's memorial day. A day to celebrate the fallen troops before us. Or is it the one where we celebrate all those who served? I can't recall. Kind of ironic since, you know, it's memorial day and all. Anyway. It's also a solid 10 years since the meme was born. Yeah, that's right. What you take for granted on the internet seemed to have been spawned by these here G.I. Joe clips that have been redubbed. They're funny as fuck and well, take a look for yourself.













It was back in 2003 that Eric Fensler was a bored editor who put these together and let them loose on the internet where they spanwed a life on to themselves and the meme was sort of born. Sure, there was a lot more before then. But this is the point that many will mention that the meme was born.

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