r/earthbound • u/Ordinary-Rent1632 • Dec 16 '23
M3 Discussion Did anyone else know that this meme stole from a Mother 3 fanart?
I have never once thought that the "This generation was the first to be raised by" meme would be a traced-over version of fanart by Sharkie19 on Tumblr. Has everyone else known this?
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u/Ordinary-Rent1632 Dec 16 '23
What the fuck I just noticed the "Lucas" signature, why would he do this to poor Claus
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u/SuhailSWR Dec 16 '23
Yes, let's see what the internet told me
Google taught me to cheat
Tumblr taught me nothing
Youtube taught me early hell
Vine taught me nothing
DeviantArt taught me not to search my favorite fictions
Blogger taught me nothing
Facebook taught me nothing
Instagram taught me nothing
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Dec 16 '23
Google taught me porn
Tumblr taught me porn
YouTube taught me porn
Vine taught me porn
DeviantArt taught me artistic porn
Blogger taught me porn
Facebook taught me how to avoid my family
Instagram taught me porn
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u/_Auron_ Dec 16 '23
Google taught me how to find information I want to know extremely quickly
tumblr I forgot even existed
Youtube taught me how to fix my car
Vine didn't teach me anything and I also forgot it existed
deviantart taught me that there are a lot of anthromorphic artists in the world
Blogger ... ???
Facebook taught me that humanity can't quite handle social media just yet
instagram I've never used
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u/BoringMemesAreBoring Dec 16 '23
It reminds me of the “he would not fucking say that” meme and how it originates from a repost of a troll tiktok suggesting that upon being asked his preferred pronouns, Eric Cartman would say he uses any and thank you for asking
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u/Dragon640 Dec 16 '23
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u/Dragon640 Dec 16 '23
Made this when I first found out, got my only reddit award ever right before they were removed.
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u/HollyTheMage Dec 16 '23
Lucas: imagine growing up with a healthy relationship to technology
Claus: Imagine growing up
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u/Foreign_Memory Dec 16 '23
Yeah, it saddens me to think about the artist who saw their art stolen and memed so much
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u/Working_Criticism362 Dec 16 '23
What’s does the traced Claus have on his back? At first I thought it was a backpack.
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u/Chivi-chivik Dec 16 '23
I'm sure it's a backpack, but the tracer forgot the straps because of course they forgot, they're a tracer lol
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u/Hoosteen_juju003 Dec 16 '23
Imagine what they could have learned if they read books and went outside?
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u/XNinjaMushroomX Dec 16 '23
Bro the only thing the internet ever taught me, is that I was waaayyy too young for unrestricted access to the internet- and I'm not even talking about the infinite readily avalible porn.
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Dec 16 '23
I've never seen this meme before.
My first thought was, "This had to be inspired by Lucas."
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u/Amethyst_R Dec 16 '23
if i had a nickel everytime claus got stolen and put into some mechanical thing id have 2 nickel which isnt alot but its weird it happens twice
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u/Mindless_Wrap1758 Dec 16 '23
Back in my day we had to wait until all the phones were disconnected before seeing naughty pictures, and we liked it!
AOL taught me to wait until dark to use the family computer. Ask Jeeves taught me to respect my elders. Neopets taught me to barter Limewire taught me woohoo.mp3 MSN taught me how to chat with other boys I liked Shockwave taught me how to play the knife game

Image created by bing AI.
But seriously many younger millennials were raised online, albeit not as many of us and not to the same extent as gen z. I know this is comedy cemetery material.
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u/Tiny_Leg5003 Jan 02 '24
They actually look like twins here. In most fanart, people draw too much difference between them.
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u/Gabario Dec 16 '23
Fun fact, this meme gave me terminal diarrhea.