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The world has changed a lot over the past few decades. But when you start comparing what things used to be like several hundred or even thousand years ago to what they’re like now, you realize just how different life really is. Throw in a couple of doggos into the mix and you get the new Swole Doge vs. Cheems joke format.
They’re all the rage this month and have spread like wildfire across the internet. The premise is simple: people pick a country or a profession and poke fun at how much they’ve changed throughout history.
Swole Doge on the left represents what the country, job, or phenomenon was like a long time ago (the so-called ‘golden age’) while the cheeseburger-loving (well, actually, ‘cheemsburger’-loving) Cheems is on the right and shows what the situation’s like now. Bored Panda’s collected some of the best 'Then and Now' Doge vs. Cheems jokes for you, so scroll down, enjoy, and remember to upvote your faves. And be sure to read Bored Panda's interview with Seamus Hopkins, who created one of the very first jokes using this format.
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Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
USA 1776: : We must protest against the oppressive English for our rights and take offence at their control tactics............................................................. USA 2022: It's unamerican to protest just because you want " basic human rights" . Hmp lazy snowflakes, getting all offended about blackface.
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HempFairy 5 years ago
I love the shock on peoples face when i get a call on my Nokia 6030 2005.
ZemiraTheGreat 5 years ago
Just buy a Motorola. They last for HOURS. Like 6 hours if you charge them
Worry For The World 3 years ago
I literally have one that is years old and it works PERFECTLY. Motorola 4 life
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b l a n c 5 years ago
actually iphones are pretty durable, i have my moms old iphone 6s which she got basically right after they came out, and a little bit before the 7 did, so it's been used before and she never cracked it and neither have i after a few years of using it myself. the battery is pretty accurate tho, but idk if that's just cause my phones like 6 years old or
"I made my meme shortly after coming across one of the original Swole Doge vs. Cheemes meme," 17-year-old Seamus told Bored Panda. "I decided to give it a go and try putting my own spin on it. I went straight to my phone and opened PicCollage (a sort of photoshopping app) gave Swole Doge some armor and added text."
He said that the meme he created was similar to the first one he say, since they were both poking fun at modern teens in comparison to the B.C. era. "At the time, my biggest post was at 2,000 upvotes so of course I was surprised when I hit over 40,000!" Seamus shared how happy he was that his post got so much attention on Reddit.
"I guess people enjoy the Swole Doge meme because it’s one of those formats where it can be applied to a variety of topics. Although I don’t really know why mine specifically went viral, it’s probably just luck," Seamus mused. He added that he only started posting on Reddit about a week ago and up until now, none of the memes he's shared had gotten that much attention.
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Serafina Garrett 2 years ago
DOGE IS OFFENDED THAT THEY WERE IN THIS MEME AND HOPES TRUMP GETS ARRESTED THANK YOU VERY MUCH MEME MAKER PERSON
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
What's wrong America. Surprised saving the world requires following mandates and being considerate instead of guns and bombing cities. Don't worry, you'll be fine....
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Funny Daily 5 years ago
you can check out my channel for funny videos, thank you very much, you guys copied the link and pasted it again :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8zGD0DgjLlN7tHkDifL9TA?view_as=subscriber
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the artist, maurizio cattelan, made the banana taped to the wall to start a discussion about the meaning of art. a lot of people view it as the epitome of pretentious modern art which is exactly what cattelan wanted people to think about. what is art? how do we assign different values to things when used in different scenarios? he is on our side! he wants people to think and discuss modern art and what it all means.
Lady Sammy Shark 5 years ago
honestly tho, it's not always about the meaning. sometimes it's about the actual art itself.
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Meg23FunnyAnimalFan 2 years ago
That is not me... I do real art all the time, both on paper and digital.
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Artists: I'll never be as good as the masters, even with this inspiration.............................................. Other artists: this painted banana symbolises oppression...now pay me
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Vorknkx 5 years ago
I hate it when they beg for likes and subscribes at the end of a video (or even at the start). If I really enjoy a video, I absolutely would like it, and maybe subscribe, without being specifically told to.
Ian Koch 5 years ago
yeah but if they say something like "subscribe if you like what you see, or don't that's ok too."
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Andrew Yarke 5 years ago
This is so true, Youtube now is filled with money-hungry advertisers, over the top clickbait, and cringy gamers who scream all the time.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
welp at least we still got simply nailogical and safiya. not to mention the dodo
Kateryna 5 years ago
I really hate it when people stop the video and just go like "ooh this person just called me and said we need you to like this video, just press that button right there, yeah u can do it..." and so on. Makes the video look really cheap
TheHerplover 5 years ago
I always say "don't forget to like the video, I'll see you guys next time" and then have it say "when Bobby reached the end of the video, he clicked the subscribe button"
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Swole Doge vs. Cheems went viral in the middle of May 2020 and had its humble beginnings on Reddit. On May 16, redditor DiegoGamer25 posted a comparison pic comparing his dad at 17 years old to himself at that age and wanting to be a cute anime girl. The pic got a lot of attention and things started to snowball from there.
Three days later, on May 19, redditor Vulpanthrope posted an updated version of DiegoGamer25’s Doge vs. Cheems image that included grandpa-Doge when he was 17-years-old and had just come back from war. That same day, redditor Peke19 posted a pic comparing priests in the years 1450 and 2020—this made the joke format spread even further on Reddit and Facebook and sealed its popularity.
Meanwhile, Twitter user PrinceT0xic had a hand in spreading the joke format on that particular social media website when they retweeted 4 pics and they went viral. People are creating new Swole Doge vs. Cheems posts every day, so if you create something new, we’d love it if you shared it in the comments below, dear Pandas!
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DKS 001 5 years ago
exactly ... mumble rap. We don't know what they're saying. It all sounds gooba.
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elia 84631 5 years ago
Modern rappers seem stoned and drunk gangsters with anime hair and expensive outfit
Lazy Panda 5 years ago
Aw man don’t use a convicted sex offender/pedophile to represent the modern rap community
b l a n c 5 years ago
literally, all they talk about now is sex. although there are still many good rappers who don't, most of the big mainstream guys you hear on the radio nowadays have sexual lyrics and pretty crappy music too
dksldmlw dkel 4 years ago
Ur gay no one f*****g asked u to comment about rap go listen to Taylor swift
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Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
What do you mean? I thought was an actual photo of him.
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Andres Tejeda 5 years ago
Or OMG Kylie Jenner sneezed, Is she dying of Corona more about it later.
Ian Koch 5 years ago
even better, sneezing isn't even a symptom of COVID-19! LOL
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K. Margarete 5 years ago
Again, this seems like a result of selective focus. It's true that "news" sites churn out a lot of garbage these days, but investigative journalism still exists. Similarly I'm sure there were a lot of garbage articles back in the day, but those probably aren't the ones that get remembered decades later
PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
There were gossip rags then, and there are gossips rags now. It's an insult to actual hard-working journos, and they shouldn't be lumped in with the click bait writers (*coughbuzzfeed*).
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Celeste Grant 5 years ago
Women who fight for anything, especially equality and autonomy over their bodies, are routinely told to sit down and be quiet by others on the Internet. No one seems to like it when women campaign on issues important to them... yet when women don't do it, their hobbies are dismissed as vapid. There are many, many women of all ages making use of their technology to try to make a difference and yet people are blind to anything except celebrity culture and stupid crazes.
K. Margarete 5 years ago
Hm, some of these seem like a result of selective focus. There are a lot of teenage girls nowadays doing cool projects and fighting for human rights, just as I'm sure there were also lots of girls in the past who only cared about finding a husband and wearing nice clothes
@Daisychain 5 years ago
this is really annoying a insulting to all the good teen girls.... I personally hate this stereotype, and my daughter came home from school today crying because someone called her ugly for wearing a skirt below her knees... A lot of girls don't wear super revealing clothes
@Daisychain 5 years ago
not all teens are like this... My daughter is a wonderful teenager, and so are most of the teenagers I know. This stereotype that all teen girls are (well, ya know...) is so annoying
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
My dog goes into a frenzy if people blink outside the front of my house so I'm fairly sure he'll bark like a nutter if someone breaks in! He'd not be brave enough to confront the burglar but that's okay - I don't want him getting hurt.
Courtney LeDroit 5 years ago
My lab was going crazy by the front windows, I looked out expecting a masked assassin... It was a plastic bag blowing in the wind. A block away.
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
anyone know that dog that is vicious when you are walking by their yard, but starts screaming in octaves hereto unknown to mankind if you start walking towards them? THAT is your alarm system.
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Jayce Martinez Lind 5 years ago
iPhone has 128 gigabytes but lasts only a minute after you bought it.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
It's all a question of cost. Labor vs. technology. When tech is phenomenally expensive, you expend massive amounts of labor squeezing every iota of capability out of the most minimal amount of tech. When tech is phenomenally cheap, you just keep firing capability at the problem until it's solved as fast as possible.
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BlackSheepNara 5 years ago (edited)
Yes. Also, you get the s**t stick if you’re an LGBT channel, while alt-right loonies can keep spreading their trash because they make YouTube a lot of money.
gilded panda 2 years ago
dude i knew a guy who got BANNED from posting videos on youtube because he said what the heck getting jumpscared
A Night At The Opera 8 months ago
YouTube Now: "Oh boy! This video about swearing is totally for kids!" *YouTube Kids*
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Ziya (Wenny) Liu 5 years ago (edited)
My name's Wenny. Everyone either calls me Wendy, Wedndy, Winni, Weeneee, or "Winnie? Like Winnie the Pooh?" when first meeting me.
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Go to the Somali coast and you'll find out some pirates are still ruthless.
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chxmkinwvffle 5 years ago (edited)
"You're mad I'm back, big mad He's mad, she's mad, big sad Haha, don't care, stay mad" (A part of the lyrics)
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Sofia Schutt 3 years ago
I sure do wish Juice WRLD was here to see how bad rappers are nowadays
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Mother Kitty 5 years ago
just realized the the melody of rap songs is repetitive and rappers are just saying words and making them rhyme while the beat is sync to what rappers are saying
Serafina Garrett 2 years ago
im imagining the cheems in the voice of an adult from charlie brown
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Tupac up in heaven be like: ...did these n****s just ruin rap..aw hell no
FLOOFY CAT MEME 5 years ago
gooba, wow can we think of somthing to describe that that doesnt sound stupid? (i know my spelling is horrible btw)
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Josh Tall 5 years ago
I take issue with this....I am a vet and hate the fact that irresponsible 18 yr olds can buy AR15s....the gun stores are full of wannabe soldiers...
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Fighting imaginary wars dreamt up by old folk with money and Panama Papers
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Hans 5 years ago
And the one on the left is far worse, unless you prefer toxic masculinity and toxic adolescence.
Ziya (Wenny) Liu 5 years ago
I guess they're trying to say that teens were a lot tougher than now.
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Weishaar Jamie 5 years ago
But now the one on the right are carrying and using assault rifles when called a simp
Xavier Freckelton 4 years ago
I like the one on the left, because he's big, strong, and tough. It symbolizes what I'm not.
Serafina Garrett 2 years ago
This is only true for male teens to be clear as a nonbinary teen I want no part in this
BlackSheepNara 5 years ago
Shut up, Karen. You’re such a gross, floppy d**k.
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Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
How about a dog foaming at the mouth with rabies?
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Kai Wendorf 5 years ago (edited)
ha lol this one cracked me up (I'm just a 14 y.o. so if this is offensive sorry)
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D Gangwere 5 years ago
Clint Eastwood did his own climbing in The Eiger Sanction. A camera crew was killed on that shoot.
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pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
I know this is supposed to be humorous, and I do love anime. Anime is not Japan. It's a part that they made. I would hate if foreigners saw America and judged us by our cartoons. XD
gilded panda 2 years ago (edited)
i hope they do, we have tv shows talking about the truckload of horrible crimes that happen. our cartooms have a sponge whos friends with a starfish
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BlackSheepNara 5 years ago
Why do men want so desperately to die young in a war? No thanks. I like being alive and not feeling pressure to marry some woman I’m not attracted to, just to spread my seed before I die.
Mohammed Koudy 5 years ago
is that charli da'amelio's boyfriends hair? the guy with black nails?
AJu 5 years ago
That's a factual mistake: either it's 19th century (which is 1800s) or it's 1900s (being 20th century) sorry. From the looks of it (WW II gear) the latter is meant here
Paweł Szczepański 5 years ago
Isn't "mid 1900's" simply around 1950 → WW2?
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Adit Danhorn 4 years ago
In some cases, dogs used to be military dogs, and thunder can remind them of gun shots.
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
I need another coffee... why did that thought come to mind now?
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Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
well the British came and basically bankrupted India, made them into slaves and took over the country for YEARS, looted everything and now Britain is beautiful and India is apparently a third world country.
Андрій «Androniq» Горбунов 5 years ago
is this year 16000 a part of some Mahabharatta mythology?
Adventures N More 5 years ago
Bobs and vagene are not from Indians tho it's from Borat. This joke is getting old now
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Flame Phoenix 5 years ago
a kid telling you that alt+ f4 mutes everybody, then nobody allows you into the chat anymore
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
What about the ones when you're streaming a channel and you can't skip the bloody things! When it says 1 of 9 it's time for a cuppa and a biscuit!
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Nah - the point is that we supposedly don't want help 🙄 Should probably read something like - Go'way - we don't need you EU. Or some such rubbish. Sigh. 😢
Shelp 5 years ago
In the 1400s? While losing the hundred years war and being so torn apart by a civil war that a Welsh king came to the throne?
Grace Skerp 5 years ago
Thank you. In the 1400s, they were also getting their a*s kicked out of France and they weren't wearing Guard uniforms.
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Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Where does it say that bikes aren't manly enough? Aren't you over-thinking these a tad?
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Anna2010 4 years ago
Me too! I love the rooms where it’s like a house and you can sit on couches
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Laugh Fan 5 years ago
I can get my pupper to do all sorts of things for a treat - but rolling over? She clearly thinks 'sod off' when I try that.
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
My lovable floof dog, bless her heart, will not fetch. You throw it and her eyes don't even follow, she just looks at you with her doggy smile. My athletic, graceful German Shepherd, (rest in peace) could do back-flips, outrun pretty much anything, and find people in the snow. She ALSO did not fetch! Every trick in the book, but not that one. The most trainable dog we ever had was the pug, who was basically dormant unless food was involved. That wrinkly potato would learn string theory for food.
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Bill 5 years ago
The 2020 priest is still covering for child abuse. No the Catholic church hasn't changed and are still up to the same
Andres Tejeda 5 years ago
they have somewhat changed, They can't burn people at eh stake anymore for perceived slights or blasphemy.
Load More Replies... pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
I'm sure he burned the witches because he was also scared of them? Fear and hatred are not that different. I would say priests are far more opened minded than they used to be.
Catlady6000 5 years ago
Actually, when you think about it fear and hatred go hand in hand, you can't have real hatred without fear. Fear of harm, loss of wealth, loss of so called "racial purity," etc. Even when hatred is understandable it often stems from fear caused by abuse and trauma
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Dynein 5 years ago
Tbh I doubt that's really new. Just because people didn't talk about it some decades ago doesn't mean it never happened in the over a thousand years before that........
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Trick Question 5 years ago
They really are. They're afraid they'll "get their children" or "Make them confront latent feelings"
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Ziya (Wenny) Liu 5 years ago
Or, "This is a free country, I can park in a disabled space whenever I want!" according to some mean old ladies
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pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
There is nothing wrong with being a tough gay, or a sensitive gay, or anything in between. We had both kinds and we still do have both kinds. :) Not all countries "80 bc" saw gayness that way though, some of them just flat-out executed them. It depends.
PyroarRanger 5 years ago
In Ancient Roman times, men would be bisexual, and engaged in sexual activity with other men. When they had to get married, often times the woman would shave her head to make the transition easier. Also Netflix seems to think being gay is a personality trait
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Ziya (Wenny) Liu 5 years ago
Have you ever seen those rude teen girls who are so spoiled they force their parents to do whatever they want? I feel bad for the parents. :(
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
don't feel bad for the parents, they caused the spoiling :)
Load More Replies... Thais Rezende 5 years ago (edited)
The author seems to have a problem with teenage girls. "Lies", "can't cook"... Kind of misogynistic.
Sawyer Chapman 5 years ago
Actually, the 'now' doge is a clever nod to a Tweet made by someone who bashed all women born after 1993.
Load More Replies... pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
also teen girls now... badass entrepreneurs/or geniuses/or athletes. Not all of them, obviously! just how not all teens were badass then either, however I am sure dying younger was an encouragement.
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PattonPawter 5 years ago
I only like LEGO games here’s why: In a normal video game, once you die you have to restart the level, and if you die a lot it’s game over. In a LEGO video game when u die you just lose a few studs (currency) and that’s it. Now super Mario oddesy does work the same as LEGO video games but I don’t have a switch yet.
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Edit: I got a switch but don’t have mario odyssey yet
Load More Replies... Vorknkx 5 years ago
Sad but true. Remember the good ol' Tomb Raider of the late 90's? This just can't happen nowadays, it will be accused of "militant feminism" before the trailer is even shown. This is true for movies as well - remember the sci-fi classic "Aliens"? No way this movie can happen today, I mean a woman being better at surviving aliens than an entire squad of men? I can already smell the review bombing...
Joseph O'Reilly 5 years ago
Yeah let's just forget the four tomb raider games that have come out in the last six years without any of that critisicm
Load More Replies... elia 84631 5 years ago (edited)
Modern gamers seem to overcomplicate the graphics, every technical aspect of the game why they don't hit over 30-45 fps and hd, 4k, 8k, why a random employee of the company behind their favourite game wear a different shirt etc
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kitty_player 03 5 years ago
A vegan diet is very harmful to dogs. People shouldn't be putting ANY pets on a vegan diet.
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
I agree about dogs but... what if it's a bunny rabbit?
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Vorknkx 5 years ago (edited)
And there BETTER not be any gluten in this! I don't even know what gluten is, but it's BAD, and I'll die on the spot if I eat it - some post on Facebook said so :P
Jasmine Lansdale-Alexander 5 years ago
Some people have Celiac Disease... Some have it so bad they have to be hospitalized when they eat wheat.
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Colin Allcars 5 years ago
"An apple a day keeps EVERYONE away, if you throw it hard enough"
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Sawyer Chapman 5 years ago
While Joaquin Phoenix's performance was amazing, the whole premise of the movie was basically "We live in a society." Not really up to my Joker standards.
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Hans 5 years ago
This series annoyed me. There are some really funny ones, but there are also many that clearly lack historical knowledge and propose times where war, no social nets, no environmental care, no rights for women, and strong yet unemotional men were the norm. All of these are values BP normally stands up against. Disguising such toxicity in "ye good ol' times" yokes is misleading at best.
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
I might be missing the point by a mile but aren't these just taking the p**s out of stereotypes? By comparing past and present stereotypes because they are ridiculous?
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Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
Made this for a Game of Thrones Facebook group. Was inspired by another meme someone else made that I can't post here 'cause of language. Jon-snow-5...25606e.jpg 
UniverseNerd 5 years ago
i have detected you using http, really unsecure protocol, thanks for putting youre users emails and passwords on the internet without encrypting them (https)
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
I feel like the author sot of has a personal vendetta against teenagers for some reason...
Hans 5 years ago
This series annoyed me. There are some really funny ones, but there are also many that clearly lack historical knowledge and propose times where war, no social nets, no environmental care, no rights for women, and strong yet unemotional men were the norm. All of these are values BP normally stands up against. Disguising such toxicity in "ye good ol' times" yokes is misleading at best.
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
I might be missing the point by a mile but aren't these just taking the p**s out of stereotypes? By comparing past and present stereotypes because they are ridiculous?
Load More Replies... Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
Made this for a Game of Thrones Facebook group. Was inspired by another meme someone else made that I can't post here 'cause of language. Jon-snow-5...25606e.jpg
UniverseNerd 5 years ago
i have detected you using http, really unsecure protocol, thanks for putting youre users emails and passwords on the internet without encrypting them (https)
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
I feel like the author sot of has a personal vendetta against teenagers for some reason...
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