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CHILCHUCK TIMS SAYS WORKERS RIGHTS!!

Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike

(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)

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Ancient Meme History Lecture #2: “This is someone dying while having an MRI scan”/ “Tragically beautiful.”

u all (aggressively) demanded more ancient tumblr memes, and because i have been appointed a memeology scholar against my goddamn will i’m here to begrudgingly deliver.

for our second lecture, let’s talk about another fukcng copypasta that was added to EVERY FCKUGIN gifset and (ironically) would not FKUCKNG DIE for MONTHS on end. this particular copypasta launched not one but two common tumblr phrases, one of which is still used with some frequency today: “this is someone dying under an MRI scan” and “tragically beautiful.”

let’s get HISTORICAL y’all

sometime in january 2012, the gif above was posted to tumblr, probably with no original caption (but good luck finding the original, unedited version bc i couldn’t lmao.) some time later, another user added a caption that supposedly explained the gif’s origins:

“This is someone dying while having an MRI scan. Before you die, your brain releases tons and tons of endorphins that make you feel a range of emotions. Tragically beautiful.”

first of all, i have to acknowledge that the exact timeline of this meme is messy and difficult to pin down. according to Know Your Meme and the timestamp of the supposed original post that i cited above, the gif that launched this meme was posted on january 31, 2012. however, the first two instances of this meme that i could find on my blog were both posted before that date. i sorted thru so much fucking bbc sherlock in the Shame Vaults of my blog (aka my archive) trying to pin this meme down and i FAILED. but u kno what????? these are memes. everything’s made up and the timelines don’t matter i’m here to tell a STORY………

now at first i saw this gif and its caption spreading unironically with no critical commentary. it seemed that people were genuinely moved by what they believed to be a gif of someone literally dying on their dashboards. 

if u know anything about tumblr, tumblr memes, and the rapid spread of misinformation on this godforsaken armpit of a website, then u probably know where this fuckin story is going. of course, another user eventually pointed out that the gif was fake. not only was it fake, it was from an episode of The Walking Dead called “TS-19.” 

when the original gif was “”exposed”” as a fake (although it seems clear to me that the OP meant to post the gif for other fans of the walking dead), the melodramatic caption became a copypasta. unlike with the previous copy pasta we discussed, two lines of this particularly caption became memes within themselves–the first and the last. 

the entire caption was added to……basically every gif tbh. the first one that i could find in my archive was posted on january 15, 2012.

this example also demonstrates a popular variant of the meme. a well meaning user would come along and try to correct the op (much like in the original post) and the op (or another user) would respond “no it’s not it’s someone dying while having an MRI scan.”

the copypasta was also popularly added to a gif of a pizza baking in an oven

for some reason, the mri scan copypasta led to/contributed to hundreds of “meme trainwrecks”–people trying to add as many memes to one single post as they possibly can. it often overlapped with other copypastas popular at the time such as “say hello to mechanically processed chicken” and “this is a picture of my friend becky”

the most egregious, offensively long, goddamn SHAMEFUL example of this that i could dig up w/ my bare fuckng hands (i got my blood sweat and tears all OVER this meme and i did it all 4 YOU…..) could not even fit in a single screencap no matter how hard i tried to zoom out

part of me feels guilty 4 subjecting u all 2 that war flashback to 2012 tumblr BUT @ the same time i believe that u deserve to suffer with me. u have no choice but to experience the hell i have lived through. this is the price u must pay 4 ancient memes, children.

and to give this all an ironic bookend that demonstrates how fucking tragic my life is and how trapped i am in meme hell, look what Yours Truly added to that novel of a fucking post????

that’s right……

listen here cum-slut,

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thieves

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more pokemon netsuke

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pokemon netsuke

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the comforts of home

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3 seconds into dungeon meshi and they’re already living my dream. i love eating things I ought not in unfamiliar ecosystems

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Happy Birthday to the game that's changed my life and has a choke hold on my life every day. I wouldn't be me without you. Thank you for all the laughs and tears for all these years.

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whoever decided to turn daisy bell into a spooky dookie creepypasta song is fucking evil. that computer was brave enough to sing us a delightful little song and you do THIS to him? thats hatsune mikus grandpa dude. fuck you

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Source

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if you like these please credit the original artist! they have more stamps on their gallery, i just posted the ones that are my interests :) go have a look of their work!!!

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Over the Garden Wall (2014)

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Pre Order - Over the Garden Wall Crewnecks and Cardigans from Knock Thrice

The pre-order is unlimited, you can get as many as you want and we will not sell out! It will run until August 14th  and limited overstock will be sold in the next month or two after preorders have shipped (December/January).

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Pre Order - Over the Garden Wall Crewnecks and Cardigans from Knock Thrice

The pre-order is unlimited, you can get as many as you want and we will not sell out! It will run until August 14th  and limited overstock will be sold in the next month or two after preorders have shipped (December/January).

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…and again…