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Decent idea but wrong description. Hyundai and Yugo has problems decades before “internet memes” were a thing.
by lostapathy 7y ago
Decent idea but wrong description. Hyundai and Yugo has problems decades before “internet memes” were a thing.
- tabtab 7y agoYes, but they were among the very first things meme-ified on the Internet. Pent up anger?
- mmanfrin 7y agoI've never seen a Hyundai meme.
- freehunter 7y agoMeme as in image macro with top and bottom text? I haven't either, but that's not what the word "meme" has meant until very recently. Meme as in "Hyundai/Yugo are terrible cars" repeated even by people who have never driven one? Very common back in the day before meme meant image macro. FORD = Found On Road Dead (or Fix Or Repair Daily) FIAT = Fix It Again Tony JEEP = Just Empty Every Pocket HYUNDAI = Hope You Understand Nothings Drivable And Inexpensive An article from 2001 saying this Hyundai joke is now outdated because they finally make good cars: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000326,00.html http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000326...
- tabtab 7y agoThey generally were jokes, some with images, some not. It seems every joke site at the time had at least one about Yugo's or Hyundai's. At least that's what I remember. This is roughly between 1995 and 2000. Some may have been on Compuserve instead of the Internet, I don't remember the details, but generally both copied each other.
- yellowapple 7y agoIn the same vein, my grandpa considered Toyotas to be "toys" ("they've even got 'toy' in the name) until he bought a Highlander and - eventually - a Prius.
- WalterBright 7y ago> FORD = Found On Road Dead (or Fix Or Repair Daily) Haha, just fixed my Ford in the driveway today! (Battery cable corroded to the point it wouldn't conduct anymore.) But the beast is 30 years old, so I forgive it.
- tdumitrescu 7y agoYugo = you go on foot
- tabtab 7y agoYou don't remember Rodney King "getaway car" jokes? Maybe that was regional.
- aidenn0 7y agoUSENET meme then?
- wffurr 7y agoThat's a really narrow conception of "meme". If you think of it as the brand's reputation, and widespread jokes, anecdotes, etc. then it's spot on.