• orgrinrt@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    This is actually one of the most mentally damaging parts of my youth, but before Facebook or 9gag or whatever meme-sharing places were prominent, back way when, there was a portal in similar vein but in our language and as such, not international, so the damage wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, in a sense, but I doubt it’d have been a meme if the entirety of the world’s memes were fighting for the same spots in the feeds or whatever.

    Anyway, took me a long time to identify this as a source of some quirks I had, but I’m fine with it nowadays so here you go:

    I went to a music college and was an aspiring musician. Before college, we had a local band that we were able to gig with and it was fun for a time. Then I left for college, which was 600km away, so that couldn’t continue.

    In search of a new band, I initially made the mistake of just posting an ad in a big musician forum (back when we had really busy forums as opposed to centralized social medias 🥴) looking for opportunities. I was, and still am, a metal singer, though back then I could only really growl and scream.

    Well, as it turns out, I had undiagnosed and thus unmedicated/unmanaged adhd, so I went a bit overboard and probably went too in length with it. Classic oversharing.

    I still, to this day, can’t really tell you what was so funny about it, but a screencap of that ad circulated in the meme site we had back then, garnering over 10k reactions (I think they were different kind of emoticons there, and this was before standardized emojis, but anyways, some sort of explicit input), being in the top10 of memes for a week or so I think…

    Luckily the image I attached was from stage and I had my long hair cover my face, so I didn’t really see it in my everyday life, but Jesus was that humiliating to the 16 or so year old me. And I was just getting into the college stuff like parties and all that.

    Later, years after, my roommate told me they did it, the fucking rat 😂

    Anyway, I guess the funny part was the growling teen acting as if they were already a professional in the ad and writing an essay for the ad. I wish I had it saved somewhere, or someone did, but no luck there. Haven’t seen it in over a decade, nearly two, so I bet I’d know what was wrong with it if I had the chance now, but alas, no such luck.

    But that did put me off from a few band interviews for lead singer position and postponed my progress in that regard a lot. We did go on to record albums later with several bands, but I always was very inhibited sort of, really scared to get myself out there, so I always pushed back on any ad campaigns or promo pushes or whatever and we never did break big with any of them.

    I’m fine now and worked through those problems in therapy as an adult, but, well, that’s my story.

    For a second, I was a local meme, luckily not recognizable from it for anyone other than those who knew me.

    I’m so glad we didn’t have social media back then, at least not in the same form as today 😬

    • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 days ago

      Not sure how to embed images from mobile

      Lemmy uses MarkDown and the syntax for images is:

      ![](link_to_image)

      Turns out like this:

  • Punkie@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 days ago

    A friend of mine started the anime meme “Is this a butterfly?” She’s actually employed as a translator for anime, so it made sense.

  • shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    There was a post on early Reddit something to the tune of “Post your favorite picture of yourself” and I was deemed to be hot, and they started making memes about the hottest girl in the same thread and myself getting together and having the first hot Redditor baby. She and I got to talking and discussed an in person visit for an update post but it never materialized.

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      1·
      2 days ago

      I missed that whole meme, but back then my fiancée was working at a firm that was representing someone trying to assert IP rights on the dance. It didn’t make much sense to me why an Australian firm would be involved.

      Reading up the history now to see how it started, I’m just more confused. I guess the Aussie channel that kicked off the meme wanted credit for making it big, even though they copied Filthy Frank?

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I had a friend use a meme maker to send me a meme about me.

    Some internet rando also catfished as me, which I think happened two separate times now that I think about it.

    • SoupBrick@pawb.social
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’d take that as a compliment, honestly. Out of the millions of people they could choose, they chose you. <3

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      Same! I’ve had my username memed/posted about on a community where I comment a lot. But no actual viral memes.

  • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 day ago

    Only by a friend. I took a silly photo with my face blown wayyy up and distorted with a caption and now its just a meme between us