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hex@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Remember on reddit when we used to upvote an image with a completely unrelated word because we thought it’d be funny if the image popped up in a google search?

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meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?

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- fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Boaty Mcboatface (2016) is slightly newer in the history of Reddit meming compared to “upvote this picture of foo so it shows up in google for bar”. Those go back as more than 11 years ago to when people were posting swasticas to make Office Depot look bad (2013) followed by the same meme being done to comcast 8 years ago also in 2016 which might be why you thought of boatface.
  
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- Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m so sad that the meme deteriorated. The original Hooty McOwlface was more complex, but the hivemind made it stupid. Boaty McBoatface should have been e. g. Horny McBoatface.
  
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- hex@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh yeah. Peak reddit years lol. Before the corporate enshittification.
  
  Lemmy is good fun though, I definitely appreciate it.
  
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