Every group chat has one person who still answers everything with a meme from 2016, and I have made peace with being that person. Somebody announces a promotion and I send a cat. This is the daily dig through the classic memes, the ones that survived three phones and a cracked screen, and yesterday’s trip through the vault is up if you missed it. Here are the ones I keep sending.
Slow cooked, fast regretted.
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Dewey was never in trouble. Ever.
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Age of Empires players heard that in their bones.
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Smells like a bad decision in 1899.
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Honestly, I would join.
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Flawless reasoning.
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Every cousin had one of these discs.
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Pun earned.
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The commitment to the bit is admirable.
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Mom, please move the picture.
SaveThe Croc full of beans is the kind of old memes energy nobody can recreate on purpose, and believe me, I have looked at Crocs in the store with bad intentions. Half of these started as viral tweets from people who are probably accountants now, which makes me weirdly proud of them. The Pizza Hut one still gets me, because I spent one whole summer on Age of Empires instead of outside. Some of the best memes are basically vintage memes at this point, and so am I.
Another round of classics lands tomorrow afternoon, and the fresh stuff shows up at noon. If you want more before then, yesterday’s meme dump is full of newer nonsense, and this batch of throwback bangers from earlier this month holds up better than my knees do. If any of these took you back, pass it along with the share buttons below to the friend who sent it to you first.
Phil M covers memes, Crocs and the burned PS2 discs that raised a generation better than most babysitters.
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