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He knows what a rick-roll is. Sus.
You’re right he’s old, he probably knows a Rick-roll as the new and improved Goatse.
The problem I had was “very-much-not-online” and knowing what a rick-roll is.
It’s been around 15 years and Astley did it as part of the Macy Day parade. It’s the furthest thing from obscure.
I guess it would depend on where one’s from then. I don’t, as a northern European, have any clue what the Macy Day parade is. One needs to be a chronically online person to know what a rick roll is in my country, and I would call that phenomenon massively widespread in our online culture (well, back in the day). Someone being “very much not online” and at the same time being aware of Rick rolling is an oxymoron to me.
That’s fair. It’s well known in America as it’s a big event for a big American holiday that’s primarily watched by older, less online people and bored kids at a family members house which is why I bought it up. Local news was talking about the whole phenomenon because if it. But out of that American context you’re right that it wouldn’t be as meaningful.
He’s not wrong tho
It’s a parent kind of fun to appropriate youth slang and use it wrong so that the kids find it cringy.
“Under the age of 30”, huh?
Alright, nerds, just so we’re clear, that was more than 15 years ago. Assuming this is current, which it probably isn’t, that “53yo” dad was in his late 30s at the time, could very much have been posting about it when it happened. Given the current average age for having kids, “bumblebeebats” was probably wearing diapers by the time the Internet got to the point of entirely abstracting it to shapes. There is a longer period of time between loss.jpg and now than between the first rickroll and loss.jpg.
If it makes you feel any better, all of this is hurting me just as bad as it’s hurting you.
It looks to be past-this-year-april-recent since the icon next to the username was a thing tumblr did for April Fools this year.
(Sorry old man)
It’s wild to me that ctl+alt+del is relevant today at all. I used to read webcomics in high school all the time, CAD included. Loss was definitely eye opening, it was a real moment of “wasn’t this comic about video games?” But then it was forgotten about for so long. It’s a marvel to me that random moment in such a dated comic got meme’d on this hard.
Aren’t all (or almost all) memes famous randomly though? No one expected a sort of doofy photo of a teen to be famous for years for having bad luck, for example.
