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You mean "image macros"
by heartbreak 13y ago
You mean "image macros"
- kmfrk 13y agoYou mean "demotivational posters". Words change. "LOL" means something different than it used to. Such is the fluidity of language and the web.
- mehrzad 13y agoBut they're not demotivationals.
- MostAwesomeDude 13y agoImage macros come from Japanese message boards; they are not really related to the faux motivational posters that are commonly known as "demotivationals".
- astrange 13y agoImage macros came from SomethingAwful, although even then it was only a brief period where they were actual "macros". Japanese sites don't even let you embed images. Everyone uses ASCII art (actually SJIS of course).
- pyre 13y agoThey were originally "image macros," but some image macros became memes unto themselves. Eventually people started referring to image macros as memes. Advice Animals started somewhere in the middle of all of this. Originally image macros didn't share a common picture, but a common phrase with a funny picture that was related or a specific image/phrase combination (e.g. "do not want", "no u", "get in the soup"[1]). [1] http://endlesspicdump.com/original/shut%20the%20hell%20up%20and%20get%20in%20the%20soup.gif http://endlesspicdump.com/original/shut%20the%20hell%20up%20...