10 Memes That Turn 10 Years Old In 2015

If you weren't trolling Club Penguin™, where were you in 2005?

To put this in perspective: today's 16-year-old Viners were still sitting in 1st Grade, learning how to read and count by 2's. Now they're fluent in hashtags. Twitter and Tumblr didn't even exist and your 13-year-old cousin couldn't add you on Facebook yet. It was a simpler time.

Also, a birthday shout out to Reddit, Youtube, and Honey Boo Boo on turning the big 1-0 this year!

Here's a list of memes and viral videos from A DECADE AGO, as if you weren't already feeling like a crochety old godparent of a Tumblr famous niece. Well, we can't be n00bs forever.

1. Crazy Mean Baby

Via knowyourmeme.com

If you haven't seen this baby with a Hitler-stache, idk where you've been. I'm gonna assume you probably still use Bing as a search engine because your computer came set up with it.

2. Back Dorm Boys

youtube.com

240p stands for 240 potatoes, which is all we had back then.

3. Chuck Norris Facts

SNL / Via s1255.photobucket.com

Hinged on American obsessions with ridiculous masculinity, Chuck Norris as a meme was an easy target. Thanks, Conan, for your efforts at ginger male supremacy.

Some others include:

"Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door."

"Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life."

"Chuck Norris doesn't flush the toilet; he scares the shit out of it."

"Chuck Norris can cut through a hot knife with butter."

So many Chuck Norris related domains, so little time:

www.chucknorrisfacts.com

www.chucknorrisfacts.net

www.chucknorrisjokes.net

4. Do Want / Do Not Want

Via searchenginelibrary.org.uk

A versatile phrase that has found life in other forms such as:

This pleases me.

This is relevant to my interests.

Via archive.4plebs.org

And its counterpart. #Swerve

5. Leeroy Jenkins

youtube.com

The fowl aftermath of a paladin's shortcomings.

6. Charlie the Unicorn

Sneakyynikki / Via getinsanelyhappy.blogspot.com

If people ever called you a non-believer and shunned you without any religious pretext, or have mentioned going to a certain "Candy Mountain," you can blame this flash animation. Consider yourselves lucky if you didn't have people reciting every line at you.

Folks at Newgrounds say, "If you saw it first on YouTube, you were late to the game – it was already a big hit on Newgrounds in 2005." But now that you're ten years late to the game, you can still watch it on YouTube.

7. Where the Hell Is Matt

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This is how locals see American tourists.

8. Boom Goes the Dynamite

youtube.com / Via knowyourmeme.com

A completely unprepared intern, Brian Collins, catches his big break as a sportscaster--or rather, 'sportscaster meme.' After 2 minutes of fumbling around his lines, he announces, mid-basketball game, "Later he gets the rebound. Passes to the man. He shoots. And boom goes the dynamite!" People loved to repeat his flustered catchphrase. No one uses it anymore (or they shouldn't.)

9. The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Via thenewboston.com

If you can't prove a Spaghetti Monster created the universe, join'em.

Can someone give a divine explanation as to why so many Pastafarians are also way too into Cthulhu and the Kraken.

10. Snakes on a Plane

The promotional material wrote itself for this movie. If it sounded like "snake", if it rhymed with plane--hell, even if it didn't, people still superimposed it over Samuel L. Jackson's face.

The mid 2000's were truly a ripe time for Samuel L. Jackson memes.

A decade sure does fly by.

It makes me shudder to think that someone (who is currently a baby) will be writing a list with an outdated weasel riding a woodpecker in no time. We feel so relevant in the moment, but then the image macros begin to feel like broken records. Well, we can't all be n00bs forever. We generate ourselves into viral multitudes and die in memetic obsolescence.

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