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"Remember when 'epic bacon' was the height of comedy?"
Um, no, actually? I don't? Because prior to seeing that article, I'd never even heard the phrase "epic bacon" before. Kind of glad I never did. I mean, sure, I've heard of rage comics and lolcats and advice animals and dogespeak and whatever (though I've never liked any of it, even when it was "popular"), but I've never once heard of all of that stuff being collectively referred to as "epic bacon." Nor have I ever once in my entire life, either online or not, encountered the extremely asinine phrase "the narwhal bacons at midnight," before seeing it in that article there. I would have regarded that as fucking shitty and stupid even way back in 2009 or whenever, and I definitely do now.
Honestly though, I have to say that by far the most offensive thing for me about this entire article is the author's repeated, unironic use of the word "cringe" to describe all that other stuff.
Also, "the last gasp of what humor on the internet looked like before it became impossible to keep up with it"? Sorry, but we already passed that point a long time ago.
And they always have been. Shaka, when the walls fell.
Um, no, actually? I don't? Because prior to seeing that article, I'd never even heard the phrase "epic bacon" before. Kind of glad I never did. I mean, sure, I've heard of rage comics and lolcats and advice animals and dogespeak and whatever (though I've never liked any of it, even when it was "popular"), but I've never once heard of all of that stuff being collectively referred to as "epic bacon." Nor have I ever once in my entire life, either online or not, encountered the extremely asinine phrase "the narwhal bacons at midnight," before seeing it in that article there. I would have regarded that as fucking shitty and stupid even way back in 2009 or whenever, and I definitely do now.
Honestly though, I have to say that by far the most offensive thing for me about this entire article is the author's repeated, unironic use of the word "cringe" to describe all that other stuff.
Also, "the last gasp of what humor on the internet looked like before it became impossible to keep up with it"? Sorry, but we already passed that point a long time ago.
And they always have been. Shaka, when the walls fell.
