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    Gangnam linux (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by RustyNova@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] FishFace@piefed.social 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, "FishFace, have you seen this video...". It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I'd never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking constantly in memes and I (as someone who had been talking in memes to my fellow terminally-online nerd friends forever) felt instantly at home - but I realised that the change had truly happened; internet memes and culture were no longer the niche preserve of nerds, but were well and truly mainstream.

    So at the same time as I was enjoying having "my culture" something I could share with more people and be understood, there was a sad aspect that it was no longer special either.

    [–] warm@kbin.earth 12 points 1 day ago

    I had the same experience. This guy truly ruled the world for a brief moment. I don't think anything has come close to how this broke out, I guess because it all became so normal after that.

    [–] James@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends.

    I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.

    [–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

    Yeah I remember the 1B record. I wouldn't say it was the first viral internet trend, but it was the MOST viral at its time - everything viral up until then was dwarfed!

    [–] zoltanshields@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.

    Harlem Shake -> Gangnam Style -> ...Despacito maybe?

    [–] tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    It’s the two girls, one cup of your generation?

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

    Maybe a little millennial goatse.

    [–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    open gangnam devs failed [arbitrary purity test]. I now only use the libre gangnam style fork

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    But they are struggling to catch on as "lib, lib lib, libre gangnam style" is too different for some people

    [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

    How do you feel about the fork of libre Gangnam style, Gangnam Style NG

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

    Where my gangnam-rs bois?

    [–] tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    Nah. This was a made with a :3

    1000047773

    [–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

    14 years ago πŸ₯²

    [–] Enkrod@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I need to share this with someone: Minecraft Style hit me right when I was playing Feed The Beast Modded Minecraft with my Girlfriend years ago and I am still in awe.