You want to know why I love dat boi? Dat boi is a completely self-made meme. So many other memes are based in nostalgic childrens shows, funny faces, relatable situations, or references. Not dat boi. Dat boi is completely absurd. It's a low-res frog on a unicycle, and an arbitrary method for greeting him. The first person to ever upvote dat boi did not do so out of recognition. The first person to ever upvote dat boi did not do so because a pre-existing meme format. The first person to ever upvote dat boi upvoted a meme literally pulled from the ether by sheer human creativity and willpower. Dat boi is evidence that humans can stare into the meaningless void of eternity and force their own meaning onto to it. I will always upvote dat boi, o shit waddup!
That is also why I loved Rage Comics. When I first left Dial-Up for high-speed internet in 2010, I saw them for the first time. I didn't recognize the Me Gusta face, nor the Troll face, or the FUUUUUUU---- face. I loved them because they were legitimately funny. Sure they were funny faces, but the stories told with them made me laugh.
Of course they became the icons for unfunny memes because people were making them for the sake of saying they made a Rage Comic...not to tell a story. They became unfunny. Still, early on, they were probably the most pure form of memes around
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u/Scyxurz Nov 18 '20
This meme is probably one of the dumbest out there, but for some reason i still find it to be one of the funniest.