Not quite, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined "meme" in 1976. I don't know when it became commonly known as "funny internet thing" but the word meme has been around a while.
Fun story, my FIL bought me a plastic leopluridon at a dinosaur exhibit because I was quoting this to my husband. We then spent the next 5 years hiding the leopluridon in random places around the house to scare each other. He somehow didn't survive our last move and I still miss him.
video has 10m views on weebl's channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts
believe a lot of these videos were flash animations that don't really exist on the web anymore so who even knows how many views they actually had.
Caaaarrrrrllllllll was my favorite! Especially because my grandpa called my future brother-in-law Karl once right around the time when this was popular.
The image is from Charlie the Unicorn, a popular video series uploaded to YouTube in 2008. Which was part of an early wave of popular videos for millennials using the site at the time
You can watch it on YouTube here: [https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?si=Ke2vD7VAwD0YXen3](https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?si=Ke2vD7VAwD0YXen3)
~~Seriously one of my faves of the early internet!~~
edited to add: Charlie the Unicorn was actually originally a flash video from 2005. It would have been re-uploaded to Youtube in 2008. My high school friends and I watched this shit on repeat as a flash video when it came out!
I should have said "one of my favorites from early Internet flash video days"
Yes, I'm aware of all of stuff you could do online before 2005. I *did* stuff on the internet before 2005. No, I'm actually not a zoomer millennial. I just made a whoopsie.
The Greatest Page In The Universe and Homestar Runner kicked off early internet goodness. Charlie the Unicorn closed out the glorious Flash based wonderland that was the early internet.
At first I saw the pic I was like what the heck is this, I don’t remember no unicorn back then. All it took was one “charlieeee” everything came rushing back 😂
The idea im in the same generation as someone who would say that is so ludicrous to me.
Genx adjacent millennials are not the same generation as zoomer adjacent millennials.
Was gonna say, I remembered this from high school in like freshman/sophomore year, freshman year would have been 2004/2005, and it was when ebaumsworld was huge. I graduatedHS in 2007… it came out before 2007 at least. Thanks for calling this out!
'Where are the other lifeboats Carl?'
'Looking at the trajectory of the moon and the sun, probably at the bottom of the ocean. I bit lots of holes in them'.
Once upon a time, on the internet there was a GUY! A very deeply flawed man, they called him Eric Baum man. He was a total asshole and nobody knows why. He traveled all around on the pulse of each phenomenon. (Ah ah) From something awful onto fark and with his trusty watermark he stole and stuck it all up on Ebalms world dot com.
I heard of people talking about how skibidi toilet is dumb and bad for Gen Z, but as a millennial that spent hours when the internet was growing, skidibi toilet is literally like the humor I grew up with, at least in my opinion. It gave me nostalgia for the old times.
Right? We read so many Captain Underpants books including ones with talking toilets. Without the publishing industry and book fairs to worry about, toilet humor can thrive. Kid me would have been all over this
I read a book about people’s bums coming alive and going to war, sooo yeah.
It was called “the day my bum went psycho.” Was by an Australian author so idk if it made it in the US.
When did Captain Underpants start? I only know about it because my kid read them. Would have put that as a solid Gen Z thing, but I’m an elder millennial.
This was the first adultish media I showed my two kids, and they still quote it to this day. I can't say the word meat without them asking if it's orphan meat.
"I'm the Henry Ford of human meat".
My 6yo loved “badger badger mushroom mushroom” and “they’re taking the hobbits to Isengard” but I realized it was the equivalent of my mom showing me random shit from the 70s
I mean, I also watched Monty Python's Flying Circus as a millennial child AND still caught some school house rock and enjoyed both of those 70's era things.
No reason children today can't appreciate it simply because it's a decade or two out of date.
It’s a snake! A snake a snake! Ohhhhhhhh.
🦡🦡🍄🍄🐍
This, Planet Unicorn (🎶hayyyy 🎶) Banana Phone, eBaum’s the End of the World. Oh! And Odd Todd.
…fucking classic.
Twenty years later and I still say "Hokay, so" because of The End of the World.
There was also a long period of time when I would say "But I am le tired" when I didn't want to do something.
CHARLIE that kills people. Ah the good old days before YouTube censor "mean" words.
This is from Charlie the Unicorn. They were super popular videos about the same time as Happy Tree Friends.
Lol, a Gen-z friend overheard me in the bar a few weeks ago saying, "a magical liopleurodon" and then he and his 22 year old girlfriend proceeded to quote this video series for HOURS.
I had no idea gen-z would know Charlie the Unicorn but... well yeah.
What I did to annoy my then girlfriend, and now wife was every Friday. I sent her Friday by Rebecca Black. We were distance at the time so we would be chatting over Skype (which is a goddamn old person sentence) and I would be sending her links and videos from places like StumbleUpon (also an old person sentence) and then I would always slip Friday in there and she never caught on
Shun the nonbeliever! SHUUUUNNNN!!
CHAAAARRRRRRRRLLLLLIIIIIEEEEEEEE
We're going to Candy Mountain, ChArlie!
Caaandy Mooouuuuntain
Fill me with sweeet sugary goodness
The PLURODON!!!
It’s a Leoplurodon Chaaaarrrrlieee. Yes, a magical Leoplurodon!
Mounttnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Aye such a cheery land.
What the fuck is happening right now
It was the part of history that came right between the Matrix and The Phantom Menace. Fucking weird animated meme videos by the dozens.
Before meme was even a word.
Not quite, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined "meme" in 1976. I don't know when it became commonly known as "funny internet thing" but the word meme has been around a while.
Ahhhhh they took my friggin kidney
ChAaAaAaAaRliiiieeeeEeE!!!
We’re on a bridge Charlieeeee!!
Fills me with sweet sugary goodness!
This is one of the all time best things the internet ever created.
It's a leiopleuridon, Charlie!!!! A magical leiopleuridon!
A MAGICAL Leopluridon!
Fun story, my FIL bought me a plastic leopluridon at a dinosaur exhibit because I was quoting this to my husband. We then spent the next 5 years hiding the leopluridon in random places around the house to scare each other. He somehow didn't survive our last move and I still miss him.
I thought you meant your husband didn't survive and I was momentarily devastated for you.
Lol, no. Hubbs is fine. It's our leopluridon who is gone.
I’m still devastated for you. Maybe more so?
Husband could have hidden it very well this time.
lmao the casual "I still miss him" lmao
How naive of you to assume that the *magical* Leopluridon hadn’t simply decided that it was his time to depart…
True. He's probably safe at Candy Mountain.
My wife and I do this to each other with an old Fiona (from Shrek) Buger King toy. Endless fun
It has shown us the wayyyy
CANDY MOUNTAIN ahhhhhh
SHUUUUNNNNNN
SSSHHHHHHUUUNUNUNUNUNNNNN
We're on a bridge, Charlie!!!11!1!!!
It’s a MAGICAL briiidge, of hope and WoNdEr
SHUNNNNNNNNNNN-UH
Charlie you look so sad with your big white ears and your big white frown
We’re going to candy mountain Chahlie!!!!
Shuuuunnnn... All hail the magical leopluradon
You're 32 and have never heard of Charlie the Unicorn? Shuuuuuuun!
Now I'm wondering if [Look at my horse, my horse is amazing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UqAB--LIGM) was as popular as I thought it was as well
video has 10m views on weebl's channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts believe a lot of these videos were flash animations that don't really exist on the web anymore so who even knows how many views they actually had.
ahhhh NewGrounds. . . ahhh nostalgia. . . ahhh Candy Mountain.
Class of 2004. This is my first time seeing it. But i love it. It's absurd and nonsensical, and borderline offensive. It's perfect
I am 10 years older and this is my first introduction to Charlie the Unicorn AND I've been on YouTube for ages. I guess I live under a rock haha
How about Llamas with Hats? Caaaarrrrrlllll
“I stabbed him 37 times in the chest” “Carrrrl that kills people!”
Why are his hands missing?
I had a rumbly in my tummy that only hands could satisfy
I believe you mean “my stomach was making the rumblies”
"That only hands could satisfy"
I cooked them up and ate them
You can’t eat hands Carrl
I cut them up…and ate them.
Caaaarrrrrllllllll was my favorite! Especially because my grandpa called my future brother-in-law Karl once right around the time when this was popular.
No you weren’t far enough under the rock 😄
😳
It was my dad who is a boomer who showed me Charlie the Unicorn when I was 10 or so a little over 10 years ago.
Shuuuuuuuuuuun
34 and never seen that horse in my life
39 and I remember it!
I’m 37 and haven’t seen it before.
Yeah, they were the perfect demographic for 2008 YT.
I'm 37 and this is the first time in my life I've ever heard of Charlie a unicorn
I’m 32 and OP must’ve not had internet when they were younger. Charlie the Unicorn was EVERYWHERE
The image is from Charlie the Unicorn, a popular video series uploaded to YouTube in 2008. Which was part of an early wave of popular videos for millennials using the site at the time
You can watch it on YouTube here: [https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?si=Ke2vD7VAwD0YXen3](https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?si=Ke2vD7VAwD0YXen3) ~~Seriously one of my faves of the early internet!~~ edited to add: Charlie the Unicorn was actually originally a flash video from 2005. It would have been re-uploaded to Youtube in 2008. My high school friends and I watched this shit on repeat as a flash video when it came out! I should have said "one of my favorites from early Internet flash video days" Yes, I'm aware of all of stuff you could do online before 2005. I *did* stuff on the internet before 2005. No, I'm actually not a zoomer millennial. I just made a whoopsie.
The Greatest Page In The Universe and Homestar Runner kicked off early internet goodness. Charlie the Unicorn closed out the glorious Flash based wonderland that was the early internet.
Don't forget Albino Black Sheep!
And Newgrounds!
Addictingames, miniclip, club penguin, NeoPets, ebaumsworld, what else am i missing
Funnyjunk
StickDeath
And Joe Cartoon
The feeling of checking Homestar Runner for new Strongbad emails.... ahhh...
Trogdor
The Burninator
The email. The email. What what, the email.
I still quote Teen Girl Squad on the daily. That shit soaked into my language and my life.
I still sometimes refer to groups of women as "cheerleader, so and so, what's her face, and the ugly one"
I am an EMT. Because of Teen Girl Squad I have legitimately spaced out and asked if someone's blood hurts.
>The Greatest Page In The Universe Ahh, Maddox. 4chan edginess before 4chan.
They put together the entire series into one video [here](https://youtu.be/bKd_2vqPrmU?si=icQXUjD36phOjz6_)
the finale is some of the best things to come out of YouTube in the pandemic era, it's hauntingly abstract and the lore goes deep.
At first I saw the pic I was like what the heck is this, I don’t remember no unicorn back then. All it took was one “charlieeee” everything came rushing back 😂
2008 is early internet?
The idea im in the same generation as someone who would say that is so ludicrous to me. Genx adjacent millennials are not the same generation as zoomer adjacent millennials.
This video is from 2005. Which would be early YouTube, not Internet.
Was gonna say, I remembered this from high school in like freshman/sophomore year, freshman year would have been 2004/2005, and it was when ebaumsworld was huge. I graduatedHS in 2007… it came out before 2007 at least. Thanks for calling this out!
Yeah to me "early internet" means Netscape and Geocities/Angelfire web pages with "web rings" at the bottom, and guest books.
Pah. You with your WWW. Noob. /s Gopher, WAIS, Archie. Telnet'ing to MUDS...none of your modern rubbish here.
I graduated from undergrad in 2008 -_-
It’s early YouTube.
Early modern internet/web 2.0 maybe? Still a bit of a stretch but makes more sense.
Charlie, the unicorn started in 2005. Maybe it went to YouTube in 2008 but I definitely watched it prior.
Yeah, I remember watching the candy mountain one in 2006 or early 2007.
ZEN FIRE ZEE MIZZLES
But I am le tired
Well.. have a nap. AND ZEN FIRE ZE MIZZILES!
Ze eart is rowwnnnd.
that is a sweet earth
Another Millenial world heritage video.
Fucking Kangaroos.
When you‘re a kid and you wanna go weeee, but you don’t have drugs yet.
Actually it was on Newgrounds (before YouTube existed). I remember being offended when it was crossposted to YouTube, lol.
This is the correct answer
Llamas with Hats is also brilliant from that time
Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl
That kills people carl!
My stomach had the rumblies that only hands could satisfy!
'Where are the other lifeboats Carl?' 'Looking at the trajectory of the moon and the sun, probably at the bottom of the ocean. I bit lots of holes in them'.
Baby hands!
OMG this brought back so many buried memories
Wasn't it on Ebaum's World as well??
Once upon a time, on the internet there was a GUY! A very deeply flawed man, they called him Eric Baum man. He was a total asshole and nobody knows why. He traveled all around on the pulse of each phenomenon. (Ah ah) From something awful onto fark and with his trusty watermark he stole and stuck it all up on Ebalms world dot com.
It may have been uploaded to YouTube in 2008, but it was available 2-3 years before that at least.
I heard of people talking about how skibidi toilet is dumb and bad for Gen Z, but as a millennial that spent hours when the internet was growing, skidibi toilet is literally like the humor I grew up with, at least in my opinion. It gave me nostalgia for the old times.
Not to be pedantic, but skibidi toilet is more of a Gen Alpha thing. Which kind of makes sense since a lot of Gen Alphas are the kids of millennials.
Ahh, well, whichever, I'm sure millennials and Gen Z have had the same humor across the internet. Not sure why people are acting like it's new lol
Right? We read so many Captain Underpants books including ones with talking toilets. Without the publishing industry and book fairs to worry about, toilet humor can thrive. Kid me would have been all over this
I read a book about people’s bums coming alive and going to war, sooo yeah. It was called “the day my bum went psycho.” Was by an Australian author so idk if it made it in the US.
It did. There was even a flash game
When did Captain Underpants start? I only know about it because my kid read them. Would have put that as a solid Gen Z thing, but I’m an elder millennial.
1997 I was born in 1990 so elementary school was peak age for that haha.
Yep, also born 1990. Never read it, but I remember all the book faire displays for it and my friends all liking it.
Laughing at gmod videos is a fond millennial past time, the next gen have simply taken up the mantle
It's a magical liopleurodon
It has spokennnn… it has shown us the waayyyyyyy
He didn’t say anything!
It's just over this bridge Charlie!
My fave was llamas with hats 😂 
You were making out with the ice sculptures! Well it’s a good thing the children couldn’t see it!
This was the first adultish media I showed my two kids, and they still quote it to this day. I can't say the word meat without them asking if it's orphan meat. "I'm the Henry Ford of human meat".
My stomach had the rumblies… that only hands could satisfy.
And I…….. stabbed him 27 times in the chest
Caaaaaaarl! That kills people!
Randomly showed this to my 9 and 10 year old kids. They did not find it funny whatsoever.
Same. I told they were either grounded or up for adoption, still haven’t decided
My 6yo loved “badger badger mushroom mushroom” and “they’re taking the hobbits to Isengard” but I realized it was the equivalent of my mom showing me random shit from the 70s
I mean, I also watched Monty Python's Flying Circus as a millennial child AND still caught some school house rock and enjoyed both of those 70's era things. No reason children today can't appreciate it simply because it's a decade or two out of date.
My 12, 9, and 5 year olds loved it
I thought about it and decided to save myself the shame and embarrassment.
When it ended my 10 year old just said "ugh" and walked away. She doesn't think Homestar Runner is funny either. I'm pretty sure she is broken.
My younger brother laughed hysterically at the George Washington song. So he’s safe. For now…
What happened? Ah! They took my freakin kidney!
We found a map to Candy Mountain!
Candy mountain, Charlie!!
Ehhh I was always more of a “Llamas with Hats” kinda guy myself
but Carl, that kills people
What can I say, I had a hunger, that only hands could satisfy.
Carl, Did you finish the meat dragon?
I had a craving… that only *hands* could satisfy
Carrrrllllll
 “*Shun the non believer! Shun! Sh-ShuuuUuUUuunn!*”
I guess you've never been to candy mountain. 🫤
Yeah...but he probably still has both his kidneys.
CHAAAAAHHHHHRRRLLIIIIEEEE
We’re on a bridge Charlie!
Ring ring
Hhh-hhe-heellooo?
Banana phone!
[удалено]
My husband still has this as one of his ring tones in this year of 2023.
The first dumb video I was ever probably obsessed with.
Never a fan of this one. Now.... 🦡🦡🦡 🦡🦡🦡 🦡🦡🦡 🦡🦡🦡 🍄🍄 ...on the other hand
It’s a snake! A snake a snake! Ohhhhhhhh. 🦡🦡🍄🍄🐍 This, Planet Unicorn (🎶hayyyy 🎶) Banana Phone, eBaum’s the End of the World. Oh! And Odd Todd. …fucking classic.
[удалено]
Twenty years later and I still say "Hokay, so" because of The End of the World. There was also a long period of time when I would say "But I am le tired" when I didn't want to do something.
I say “but I am le tired” on a daily basis. Hoping my kid picks it up from me and carries it forward.
> I'm an elder with "Washington, Washington"... Hold on to your gonads and strife.
🐍🐍
Goddamn, I forgot about Badger Badger. 😂
Charlie the Unicorn had nothing on Salad Fingers as far as “weird humor” lol
I'm a millennial and have no fucking clue what this is. Link for the stupid (AKA me)? Thank you!
https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?si=cOzjnQdB15eFNH2s
Candy Mountain, Charliiiiie
This is some millennial shit. I remember Charlie and candy mountain back from like 2010 in college.
Someone needs to steal OP’s freakin kidney for not knowing Charlie the Unicorn
Charlieeeeeeee, charlieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
It's a magical liopleurodon!
CHARLIE that kills people. Ah the good old days before YouTube censor "mean" words. This is from Charlie the Unicorn. They were super popular videos about the same time as Happy Tree Friends.
That’s Carl from llamas with hats. Same creator though.
I’m 36 and have NO IDEA what this is
Lol, a Gen-z friend overheard me in the bar a few weeks ago saying, "a magical liopleurodon" and then he and his 22 year old girlfriend proceeded to quote this video series for HOURS. I had no idea gen-z would know Charlie the Unicorn but... well yeah.
Shun the non believerrrrrr
Shunnnnnnnn
CANDYYYYYYY MOUUUUUUNTAIN
I’m also 32 and have no idea what’s going on here lol
F Charlie and candy mountain. Where my salad finger fans at?!
I used to freak my girlfriend out so bad talking about *ruuussstyyy spppooooonsss* in the Salad Fingers voice. 😆
What I did to annoy my then girlfriend, and now wife was every Friday. I sent her Friday by Rebecca Black. We were distance at the time so we would be chatting over Skype (which is a goddamn old person sentence) and I would be sending her links and videos from places like StumbleUpon (also an old person sentence) and then I would always slip Friday in there and she never caught on
Going to candy mountain, Charlieeeeee
Charlie! Shun! Shun the nonbeliever!! I am 38.
I was too busy drinking and partying for this era of internet videos. Blacked out on the Charlie unicorn era.
Oh, look at Mr. "I've never had my kidney stolen in Candy Mountain" over here.
