How far has Yea Forums fallen in modern times?

Newfag here, has Yea Forums ever been good and not filled with seething over trannies and non-vidya shit? When do you think the board went downhill?

2012

Blame /pol/, they've been recruiting from reddit and shit for awhile now. The homogenization of OC is directly related to reddit coming here in droves, they're doing what they did with rage faces to wojack and pepe.

/pol/ scared them all off.
/pol/ is back to what it once was then before 2016.

this

it was something you could tolerate until like 2014, and since then and especially after the election the whole fucking website has been degrading rapidly. every year it's noticeably worse.

i know how it goes - "Yea Forums was never good" - but once upon a time? that shit was actually fun. it was fucking retarded bullshit all the time, but now it's like.. i mean, what the fuck is going on in there, even? is it just instagram normatives now? i don't understand how we went from jessi slaughter to fucking whatever you'd call the state of this place is now.

i've been fucking hiding on /sci/, lately. christ, lads, i want to go back.

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Feminist Frequency, Tropes vs Women, and the surrounding Anita Sarkissian shitposting started around that time, though.

Wow, it's no different from almost 10 years ago

and it was the beginning of the end. don't you see? the politicization of vidya brought sjws and bebbitors here in droves to genuinely argue about dumb fuckin bullshit we were just shitting on.

No, it's actually quite different. 2011 was a different flavor of shit in some ways, but the uniqueness that was slowly fading in that era is noticeably absent in anything here now.

both are terrible and have no place in Yea Forums

eheh, watch this, retard
*ahem*
YOU are terrible and have no place in Yea Forums
what now fucking dumbass owned gotem fucking blasted your dumb asshole into a permanent prolapse didnt i fucking idiot suck my cuck cock

>Complains about Pepe/Wojak
>Uses Shreddit meme format
Why do redditors hate pepe and wojak so much? Is it because they are Yea Forums’s mascot?

user, that was mean. please apologize.

Creating OC requires passion, and passion is cringe. Caring about anything enough to do more than post canned one word responses is cringe. Liking things is cringe.
All of this is compounded by this deep fear of appearing 'reddit' and since enjoying things or having fun is 'reddit' better have none of that here.

We don't
I'm just pouring gasoline on the fire

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pepe is twitch mascot
wojak is reddit 2nd mascot

shitposting as a concept is fine and has been with Yea Forums since time beyond time
however the current approach to shitposting is not fine. instead of thriving in originality, everything is reduced to the same two snowclone images(wojak and pepe) not unlike the endless "reddit" rage comics of the great meme depression. all insults are not insult to the thing you enjoy but on you for enjoying thing.
gone are the days of "XBAWKS HUEG" and "PS3 has nogaems", for now we are in the days of "sonions", "jizzmind", "cringe", "tranny", and all twenty six "-oomer" style clones, one for each letter of the alphabet

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Doubt the average Yea Forums user these days knows who moot even is. The issue is the anonymity allows underage edgy losers to ruin it for everyone. You don't know how old someone is or their intentions. You don't even know if you're talking to different people in a long thread. Could just be the same idiot annoying you because it's the only entertainment he has in life.

Nobody thinks pepe or feels guy are the mascots. Only tourists think that.

right is unironically more soulfull and expressive

>replaced by wojaks and pepe
As opposed to the 500 derivatives of the same EFG, spiderman, painfully unfunny boomer cats and trollface? Everyone who whines about muh wojak is a dumb redditor trying to fit in

I'd prefer the cats and EFG honestly.

addendum to but then again before this current phase, Yea Forums was Yea Forums lite in that it was about everything as long as nobody alerted the mods, so i dunno if i want to trade it in for what we have now.

one thing is for certain though: fuck phoneposting. it was a detriment on the overall quality of the site's posts even if(or maybe specifically because) it increased the traffic by more than half

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It is stunning to me how much some of you care about the quality of memes circulated on Yea Forums. I quite literally see more people bitching about wojaks daily than I do actual wojaks because mods just delete them when they feel like it. If seeing a wojak posted in your comfy switch thread makes your vagina scrunch up that hard then maybe you should find a new board to post on.

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Sure you do, so where's the caturday and EFG threads if there's so much demand for them then?

do you are stupid?

yeah, imagine people wanting OC instead of forced rageface marketing memes and template threads.
Because posting the exact same shit over and over is why people came here in the first place!

even all the posters of /gif/ are less of a faggot than you are

im only here for the news on video games and ignore all the OH NO NO, shills, smash shit or shit in general like that

I would prefer death, but it doesn't come for me

I've been hiding on /tg/ but the taint of Yea Forums has been spreading that way.

the fuck is this dumbass talking about

the jannies and mods don't do anything
we can have everything be right in a day
just kill and permaban the groups mentioned in the thread

We're in such a rut that when I saw a rage comic that was made in 2019, it was a breath of fresh air. That's something I NEVER would have said years ago.

So make some OC then bitch, no one's stopping you but yourself. You just want to dictate whatever people make while having no creative drive to do anything.

>Rage comics
>reddit

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>make OC
>post it
>DUDE WTF IS THIS FORCED REDDIT MEME?
>20 wojak threads made and the thread instantly dies

>weebtard
like clockwork

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My exiled niggas, I've been lurking /g/ but I can't code past some basic css shit so I barely post there, and I barely post her because its so fucking tiresome, every thread is about women, niggers or trannies, and if they are not newfags will make try their hardest to make them, there was a thread earlier today about a tweeter screencap of some 40 something yo woman talking about feminism and abortion or some shit, they dont even hide it anymore, and god forbid you call them out on shitting up the board or then you'll be a discord tranny trying to make them gay and spread communism

>Yea Forums mascot

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Honestly people complaining and whining about non-existent trannies instead of just talking about videogames is when

Crazy how new people are here now

2/10

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>You don't know how old someone is
I'll bet my nuts the average age of Yea Forums is about 17 yo

>you now realise 90% of current Yea Forums users are newfags that came in the 2015 elections

Better than the coin wojack edits honestly, can you post a blank for edits?

Gotcha

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>shrek meme

yikers sikers golly gee yikesy doodle yikerooni yikerbiker yikesy wikesy

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coom wojack edits* fuck me

>[thing] is bad
>oh so you’re saying that [completely unrelated thing] is good??
fuck the retards who do this shit

It’s ok. 8ch is coming back and it’s Yea Forums is far better.

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Holy fuck OC

youtu.be/F4eEGeqC-8M

It's the natural order of things. Things hit their peak and then a downward spiral happens, which continues until the thing stops existing. Some upward bumps may happen along the way but they are few and far inbetween. Don't be sad because it's over, be happy because it happened, cherish the good threads and ignore the bad ones.

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just going to leave this here
>pepes/wojaks/eceleb image hashes'
pastefs.com/pid/158343
>text filters
pastebin.com/nqriuLwV

Yea Forums is composed of porn, blatant politics threads, (if you can call circlejerking about how much you hate trannies politics), offtopic threads about absolutely whatever ("what are some games where I can... post random webms of people fighting/talk about what pizza style you prefer/post a picture of your dick") and porn again and we are in this situation because mods let softcore porn threads and threads about Anons (non)experiences with girls get 400 replies before 404ing, they dont give as fuck about the board.

Oh, but anchovies are tasty?

any old memes i should include in my Yea Forums fighting game?

...

Gimme a second. I'm pretty sure I have a wojak for this.

>le badly photoshopped red eyes angry character
I prefer Wojaks to that shit

I'd laugh, but that level of delusion is just unsettling. Get help.

Accurate, report bad shitposters

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>jokes
>or one version of a "this is you" image repeated millions of times

I'd prefer all those at this point since it's something different. The lack of variation at the moment just sucks

what a ride. this, more than anything, is what inspired the hate toward reddit, i think. most of that shit was, in its day, funny as fuck. it's fucking revolting now, but back in the day? these weren't really templates. they were original. they were hand-drawn, 9001 hours in mspaint, and these are just the memorable ones that became "memes". they were accompanied by so fucking many other, forgotten OCs - as they all should have been.

we should've kept making shit like this. a moment of silence for the elder faggots.

All memes are shit but people are too afraid to admit it

I want that fucking frog to go, it was already beginning to be annoying in 2010 then it morphed into another fucking level of faggotry. Have we created two ultimate means of social expression to define decades to come? If so I want out of this fucking cancer world

do you happen to have a high place to fucking leap the fuck off of

>HE INSULTED MEMES HE DESERVES TO DIE
Suck my dick

remember when we had good "this is you" images?

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>seething about wojaks

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it has been this way for a decade

Memes are just inside jokes. It’s not the memes that are shit, it’s the “meme culture” that’s arisen around them.

I wish the biggest problem of Yea Forums was still reddit newfags...

As someone who's been browsing since 2006, Yea Forums truly stopped being good around 2012 or the Rise of Wojak.
Wojak and Pepe killed all unique posting, and now it's just 24/7 bait threads. /pol/ is mainly the cancer killing this board, you couldn't even discuss Modern Warfare without 200 posts saying, "HAHA TRANNY NIGGER WOMAN IN THE SEALS XD".

The last bastion of hope for Yea Forums is off topic threads, /an/ threads, and the occasional party van threads.

>haha yes why I am an oldfag get it do you remember the good old days?
Yea Forums was never good

do you know anything?
it wasn't even called a wojak, in my day, little one. for whatever reason, you people took to this one. it was one of many shitty little drawings, and you have, like the bebbitors before you, taken it as your own. molded it in your image.

and you look like a fucking faggot.

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Yes. I want people to stop spamming the same unfunny fucking garbage that they have for the better part of a fucking decade. Go cry some more about the tyranny of people not wanting to see you fail miserably at comedy for the thousandth fucking time in a row.

I got a folder full of those

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I think the thing I hate most about this site is that nobody can manage a proper discussion.

I enjoy the silly shit, and there's times when sites like this offer genuine criticisms of things the rest of the internet just heaps praise on, but every thread people talk about how "X is completely irredeemable and so is anyone who likes it or disagrees with me" instead of trying to offer anything substantial or reasonable, or just talking about things they like.

And they only do it for attention, that or just try to be as obnoxious as possible in some other way.

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Correction: memes are unfunny inside jokes. The level of humor on the internet, let alone this site, was low from the get-go.

the true fun to be had around here is in the threads where somebody posts a jackbox link or something like that. some communal free retarded game for us all to antagonize each other in.

other than that, some 90+% of the threads should be autohidden.

true, "memes" are jokes that reddit overused to the point where it's just beating a dead horse, I miss the days when calling anything a "meme" was an insult

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OC died years ago, around 2010 when redditors started to invade and force their shitty wojak and pepe edits. Now all new fags want to push their shitty wojak and pepe edits.

youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU
Relevant

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Something about Yea Forums predisposes participants to be confrontational and grumpy everywhere they go. I can disagree with an OP a lot of people agree with which in any normal social climate would incite people trying to figure out why I don't agree and exploring that side of the argument. Here, I just get dogpiled with people calling me a faggot. Amazing.

i'm on a new computer and

i've lost all my old images.

everything i have to contribute starts with 15, or i've ripped it from some fucking shitstain of a website for nostalgia and archival.

look at this one. i love him so much. what a great thread that was.

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Blame the faggots taking the" jaded internet veteran wise beyond his years" shit too seriously

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This shit is what ended it all, the "le me" memes created by reddit to meme better than Yea Forums.

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>complaining about the good ol days of Yea Forums

About as original as those wojack edits.

Look at how happy reaction images were before they became just pure "this is you and you are stupid"

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I guarantee you that there is at least one meme that you think is funny.

>trannies, fags and furfags now more open about their degeneracy outside their allowed boards to discuss about it

>Weeb instead of weeaboo
you get out too faggot.

I still have 10 year old memes. I can sell you some?

BUT HOW AM I GONNA SHOW MY E-CRED TO THE NEWFAGS ON Yea Forums?

Porn. It doesn't fix the problem but it beats shitposting.

see? look how great it is to be young. i can just post this and we can laugh at each other a little bit. maybe suck each others' dicks a little. haha.
fucking kill me let me go back MOOT WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU WHY DID YOU LEAVE

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Look at this, imagine posting a picture implying you are upset at something, you'll get a thousand cope-seethe-triggered replies

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guess how I can tell that you arrived here from reddit after 2016

I really don't. The only thing I can like about memes is that they make good shitposting material.

I like to think that moot still has a way to nuke Yea Forums from orbit and wipe all trace of it

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I would leave and never return if there was some place better to go. As of today, your options are basically Reddit, GAF, GameFAQs, or one of the other honeypot chans.

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>I prefer wojaks
>Wojaks is literally just photoshopping the same feelsguy crop over and over.

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Good job proving my point, cocksucker. I've been on this shit site for 10 years and the reason I am still here is because I want to see how low it will go.

imagine taking the few extra steps to ensure everyone that you are in fact getting a good kek from the subject at hand only to still get the same replies because you "bothered to pretend". Because apparently a human being only does anything if he's mad about it.

>muh twenny sixteen

About as original as the wojack edits and complaining about Yea Forums.

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I don’t believe you. Memes exist outside of Yea Forums, and there must be at least one that you like. I mean they’ve existed for as long as human culture has existed. It seems silly to me that you’re trying to pretend that you’re above the entire concept of memes. Maybe you’re just an unfunny faggot?

>now, photoshopping red eyes on a face while pasting some angery, misspelled quote on the bottom is the pinnacle of fine art and humor

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Couldn’t disagree more. Yea Forums is more enjoyable then ever

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i sure hope so.
can't believe dubs was the worst of our worries.

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nah

>Yea Forums more enjoyable than ever
>cant communicate with other people because they only communicate in buzzwords and wojak edits

Don't try to pull the "irl jokes are memes" tactic, you cocksucker. I have laughed at genuine jokes and I don't laugh at some low effort, mass-produced picture made by some neckbeard with the humor of a 12-year old.

Cant be too original if its just what happened

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Buzzwords and Wojak is superior to other communication. Old Yea Forums was stuck up its ass and elitist

why do you deny the truth

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>Actual discussion is elitist

shitposting allows ResetEra to come right in
shitposting allows Barney to come back
do you want that?
something tells me you want that like a little bitch

>saying EPIC FOR THE WIN and ZE GOGGLES DO NOTHING is actual discussion

what about pissposting
maybe a little bit of piss? mm? want a little drip of piss? little spice for your coffee? mm?

Todd Howard's Pure Exaggeration is the last time I was genuinely impressed by Yea Forums and that was made before Fallout 4 even released.

>elitist
Yeah now every other 12yo mexican kid can just quote your post and add a wojak and be done with it, I love this new and more inclusive Yea Forums

Well yeah, rage comics came from the heart.
Feels guy is soulful too, they perverted him, they change him.

Yea Forums never understood what it means to be a hobbyist capable of proper criticism.
What it should be:
>Experience allows one to understand the bad and appreciate the good aspects in medium, and gives the ability to properly voice the arguments for both. As a downside, increased amount of experience may make appreciating mediocrity harder than it is for people less versed in the subject, but the appreciation for good never dies.
What Yea Forums thinks it is:
>if I hate everything, it means I must have a good taste because people who have good taste are critical, hence I must hate everything

I miss when the internet would actually hate you based on quality of your posts, not something that someone dug up from 15 years ago

I'm just saying the quality of this place has gone down long before the election. So maybe that isn't the issue. Maybe newfags are just a perpetual problem.

here, friend, a little something to soothe the pain

You're right, the old memes had too many words and full phrases were just too much work. Better just break it down to a single word with a similarly simplified meme face. This place quite literally lost it's soul, like a cartoon that streamlines it's art and fires the talented writers.

ME LIKE OLD THING
ME DISLIKE NEW THING
OLD SOUL
NEW SOULLESS

The only thing feelguy did was turning ironic lonerism into unironic incelism, fuck zoomers

Cane here from pigchan. This place is all reddit and shitposting. Lamo what a faggot board

yeah, see, posts like this is what i'm talking about

Yeah, remember those 3 days when Yea Forums tried to come up with Le Original OC Memes to overthrow Wojak and Pepe?
Trick question, no one does

They are, but the problem is that the last two times we had a huge influx before 2016 were 2014 with the GG nonsense and 2012 - which was guess what, another fucking election. All three times, the /pol/ of that time went onto reddit, GAF, and other shitholes and openly advertised people should swarm this place and drown it in "le dankest rarest memes". There aren't many instances on the internet where a boogeyman is real, but in this case it is real and its effects plainly visible.

>modern times
The eternal summer of 2007 never ended.

leans more to the opposite now, casuals prancing around like art-critics, bragging about how much shit they can eat

Yea Forums has been shit since about the time Moot sold advertising rights to game publishers and sold ad space to outside companies, so since about 2008. This boards been shit most of its existence. The only way it'll NOT be shit is if we get some rich fuck to buy it, who doesn't need ad revenue, who will tell both political shills and corporate shills to go fuck off, and will get the government/Israeli porn shills out of Yea Forums (which WAS THE FUCKING HEART OF Yea Forums NO MATTER WHAT ANY OF YOU NEWFAGS SAY) so things can get back to normal.

This place has sucked for many years now BECAUSE Yea Forums has sucked now for many years, and don't give me that "it was never good" shit, it was OUR shithole and it belonged to US.

You wanna fix Yea Forums and Yea Forums as a whole? Turn /pol/ back into /news/, get rid of /s/, /gif/, /lgbt/, /cm/ and /mlp/ so gamers and faggots don't have a place to lurk. Block israel, block states with government facilities, put a post timer on the entire website where you cant post until your IP has been recognized for a week in the system.

t.been here since 2004. Fuck shills and anyone that defends how this garbage website operates nowadays. inb4 ban/raid for telling the truth.

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oh, then yeah. yeah, it's

it's just that that and the fuckin cancer storm of anita and brianna wu and that quinn bitch and all the rest of em and fucking gone home and ALL that dumb shit - that all stirred up some shit with Yea Forums specifically, and the election just made it a thousand times worse.

it was getting worse on its own before all that. i think part of it is just this general decline in originality on the internet. across the board, we're using fewer websites and looking at more homogenized content designed to tap into our fucking lizard brains and get views and stats and shit. back in 2008, it just wasn't quite there yet. in 2012, it was getting there, but the internet still had some of the vestiges of the past that made things enjoyable and novel.

2016 reduced the quality of discussion everywhere. the true tragedy of the election wasn't the political outcome but the social ramifications of giving a voice and credence to a bunch of bumbling retards.

see
What I posted could easily fit with old Yea Forums. "Oldfags" are literally SOUL/SOULLESSfags in denial.

Wojack and Pepe should had been retired long long ago. I fuckin see pepe god damn fuckin everywhere. When something becomes popular somewhere else it should be retired on Yea Forums. Ide rather of shit like old school trollface then another fuckin wojack.

Kill yourself, shit-eating faggot.

This
Welcome to the post-ironic state, where everything you do and feel has to be through six layers of abstraction. Genuine appreciation or disapproval of something are no longer expressed in straightforward form, they're hidden behind shitty recycled memes like Gigachad (Use for things I like) and Basedjak (Use for things I dislike). That's also why smaller slower threads tend to get
>Longer posts
>Genuine discussion
>Occasional fresh OC and
>About 100 replies until deletion
While easy bait shit like twitterscreenshots will be filled with 600 replies in 30 minutes, half of which are two word replies coupled to ebinfrogpic.jpg

The second something becomes formative and routine it becomes non-Yea Forums
Don’t you fools see
Memes aren’t the solution
Memes are the ENEMY

you don't even get to be called a newfag
you don't even get to be called cancer
you're some other horrible machination of evil, and i weep that you and your ilk are among us

how is anyone supposed to know what you mean when you post a different face
do you think I'm physic?

>What I posted could easily fit with old Yea Forums
not really. if archives were working you wouldn't find any post similar in structure to that dating anywhere before 2011

>wojak and pepe of 2009
>This stupid face is me
>wojak and pepe of 2019
>This stupid face is you, now excuse me while I scour reddit for hot buzzwords to make my meme extra dank and spicy and le awesomesauce

>spurdo and gondola
>this stupid face is stupid haha look at this shit
Spurdo and Gondola > wojak and pepe

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Nice

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What?

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>dubs are removed
>site goes to shit
merely a coincidence
m-mods are g-g-gods, right?

Name your 5 favorite games.

You just proved my point by just lazily quoting someone talking in caveman speak and calling it a day.

>2015

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Look at all this soul

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don't give redditors ideas

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I am an extremely logical person that has no delusions about what I like and why I post here.
I don't care about your labels and your buzzwords. I just am.
And this scares the shit out of you.

Now you are just coping, sir. Old memes are literally structured that way.

>trying to pin Yea Forums's decline on fucking doom paul images
>blaming GG on /pol/
pray they make a pill against stupid, that is one serious case you've got there

You should read the rest of my post because It fits neatly with my point. Stop projecting.

Don't.
Spurdo and gondola are too pure.

I honestly don't see how you can pervert spurdo and gondola memes. They're not there to insult yourself or someone else in particular, they're just jokes. And wojak and pepe stopped being funny because they aren't jokes, they're just pathetic attempts by losers to strawman other losers.

Don't forget the threads that are basically just people posting fetish images to get off to.

>buh buh buh i am so logical and buh buh buh you are scared clearly buh buh buh
ok faggot

People post wojak and pepe specifically because it pisses you off and makes you post threads like this

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>le cope lol
go back
>old memes are structured this way
old posts do not talk in caveman you fuckmunch. they also don't follow the "i pretend to be you so you can see how you sound like" formula

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