This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren’t really “memes”, IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name “memes” (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: “lolcat”, “doge”, the “O RLY?” owl, etc.
Can someone point to “memes” that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren’t really “memes”, IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name “memes” (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: “lolcat”, “doge”, the “O RLY?” owl, etc.
Can someone point to “memes” that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
Question: Isn’t what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?
What is the definition of a meme?