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by mherdeg 1022 days ago
Knowyourmeme is very late to the meme game. Entire civilizations of memes flourished and decayed on 4chan, fark, Slashdot, YTMND, and the bare metal internet long ago.

Bonsai Kitten is lost to the ravages of time.

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> Entire civilizations of memes flourished and decayed

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"

I was millimeters away from responding w/ the pure inanity of "So can I. Once, anyway." But, your citation of OG meme-master Shelley inspired me to do better (18th century, and already prognosticating the rise of "CATS" - legend).

I refrained. ;)

> Bonsai Kitten is lost to the ravages of time.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bonsai-kittens

I liked it better when the internet was made of cats. Now there are too many dogs and it's not as fun.
Some external links in that article were mildly disturbing to me, bonsai babies in particular, I do not recommend clicking randomly.
Ah, back when people believed things they saw on the Internet.
"Ah, you think dankness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dank; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the memes until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!" -Fark, probably
I suppose if by "lost" you mean "extremely well documented with 457 thousand views" then yes, Bonsai Kittens are lost forever?
What is the bare metal internet? Is it a series of tubes?
An information superhighway, if you will.
Is that what it was like before it was (re-)made of cats?

https://youtu.be/zi8VTeDHjcM?si=ZSQ7tFjidj0BlZhf

In the before times it was once sunny and warm; then the clouds came.