Imagine animating this frame in 1941 and having absolutely no knowledge that nearly 8 fucking decades later it causes...

Watching the short makes it really clear dude
It's an early short so in this one Elmer is pretty fucking fat. I think by the image of him alone you can sense the intention of the joke

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I actually think about this a lot.
We've entered an era of "information saturation", where jokes, references, etc constantly feed back on each other.

Looney Tunes constantly referenced the pop culture of it's own era, the way Family Guy and Rick & Morty do today. This was just one throw-away gag of Bugs mocking Elmer Fudd, who had a fatter design in this particular short.

I wonder what other single frames will catch fire and spread as the 21st century goes on.

This image effect is another interesting example.
Horror movie effects teams would have loved this in the 70s and 80s, but now datamoshing is something that can be done almost by accident.
I wonder if the programmers who came up with the video compression algorithms knew it would be used this way.

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Based Joel

>no one, not even the rest of Yas Forums knows this meme is from /lit/

...

Story behind pic related, does it really crash the Brain?

Wtf is a chungus? Its a penis isnt it?

Well...

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Berryman Logical Image Technique. Or BLIT. Sci Fi story by David Langford.

That image is some SCP shit. Please don't post it again... just in case.

Imagine doing the thing and it become boopwoopdaboopeedoo in 80 years.

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I'm pretty sure BLIT is what inspired memetic kill agents.

Things used to be memes because they were funny.
Now things are funny because they're memes.

>it's another millennials and boomers don't get it episode

>does it really crash the Brain?
No.

very well said

Imagine sending a scribble to Carl Laemmle at Universal and having no idea that 85 years later copies of it would be used to annoy people while they're trying to talk about cartoons

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I thought it was just supposed to be a corruption of "chunk," as in fat, but I don't actually know if that was the original intention or if that was way furries drawing weird fat fetish art retroactively adopted it to mean.

I don't even look for furries or weird fat fetish art but I've run into it a few times since this meme, so

Things used to be memes because they were funny.
Now things are funny because they're memes.

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>crashes the brain

Will I just start having seizures or something?

It's more than that, modern humor is bizarre as shit compared. Things like don't even need the viewer to be aware of the original context to find it funny or become a meme. It'd like to think this shit is unique and has never been done before in history, but who knows?

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no that's stupijjnn.ytuhu7u

bugs...

Big Hummus is here to save the day!

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What are the chances they reference this in Space Jam 2?

Who the fuck steals a tweet?

He stole a tweet?

I don't fucking understand why anyone would choose to be this derivative.

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It is, it's a short story from 1988 which basically imagines a world where memes can kill you

Explains the popularity of Marvel movies

LONG LIVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF DADA!

These "normalfag" memes are better than Yas Forums newfags spamming shitty stormfront slogans and calling them memes

I left /lit/ in 2012 when Yas Forums invaded it but even back then /lit/ was stealthily behind quite a few memes that would resurface years later in other contexts

I think you have it backwards, most of 4chans oldest memes had no humor value on their own at all

>does it really crash the Brain?
Yes.

One Unit, Absolute. An Absolute Unit.

He shtole A twheet!

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kek

I thought I saw that

Well, that's an extremely amusing thought.

I thought it was just an inherently funny sounding word that had no real meaning.

I always considered them two separate memes.

>Big Chungus originally came from /lit/

It's always like this isn't it? Memes often originate from a context that has nothing to do with its' original setting/original creator. I could've sworn BC came from Yas Forums but whaddyaknow.

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>We've entered an era of "information saturation", where jokes, references, etc constantly feed back on each other.

Reminds me of the Scary Movie Franchise and all those awful parody movies mainly because there are so many jokes that reference something that became completely irrelevant months after the films came out.

Oh so thats what that was
I thought it was an OC
I stopped keeping up with memes

>I wonder if the programmers who came up with the video compression algorithms knew it would be used this way.
Funny you mention that, because datamoshing was accidentally discover when creating a new video compression algorithm. It works by keeping previously rendered data, detecting momentum in the pixels ( or change ), and keeping new render data based on those changes. The idea was to stop the need for pixel data we already has, and thus, glitch art!

Duh.

...these fuckers.

>Who the fuck steals a tweet?
well...

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It's supposed to be like a pre-groyper meme, instead of a reaction or a format, he is more or less like an avatar of the person who posted looking smug or on normie website replying with this picture attached indicates that the person above it's a neckbeard