"I liked this BEFORE it was a meme!"

[MJN SEIFER]

Are there anythings that became memes, that you actually liked before people started posting them everywhere? Bonus points if you still like them for the same reasons you used to.

One of my favorite songs as a kid was "What is Love?" by Haddaway(sp? I know the song better than the singer) and it still is. I have my own visions of it, like I do with all my favorite songs. I loved it long before people started uploading viral videos of characters head-banging to it in a car (an image that never shows up in my mind when I listen to it). I also kind of liked "Never Gonna Give You Up" before it became the RickRoll, but not as much.

[ReloadPsi]

"Stu... what are you doing?"
"Making chocolate pudding."
"It's 4 o'clock in the morning. Why on earth are you making chocolate pudding?"
"Because I've lost control of my life."

I used to say that all the time as a kid because I found it hilarious. Seeing it become a YouTube poop meme was the most amazing thing. That and seeing anything from any AOSTH episode I used to have taped off the TV always brings a nostalgic smile to my face.

[Jinx]

Honestly, I don't understand why our culture is so obsessed about "liking things before everyone else like them."

Who cares?

[ReloadPsi]

I always embrace my favourite things becoming popular, although seeing how much crap is popular it does make me cynically question my own tastes.

But in all seriousness the only time I have a problem with it is when a lot of people give me crap for liking something only for them to all jump aboard that mantrain a couple of years later once someone else tells them it's now okay to like it. I feel it invalidates the effort I made sticking to my guns.

Also special sympathy for anyone who liked dubstep as early as 2000 or sooner (I am not one of those people) and has had to see it get run into the ground in the last three years. I've heard some danged creative dubstep in the past but most of what I hear now is really boring to the point that I'd forgotten I ever had the capacity to like it at all.

[MJN SEIFER]

Honestly, I don't understand why our culture is so obsessed about "liking things before everyone else like them."

Who cares? It's a hipster thing, and hipsters are popular now. I was a hipster before it was popular though.

[Shorty]

I was a hipster before you were a hipster.

(I can't think of anything)

[Jinx]

I was a hipster before hipsters even existed.

[Jiro]

The fact that memes have become popular is kind of hilarious imo. I want to say "I was from the internet before you jackasses" but then I'm still only new in the grand scheme of things. What was that term Roogle used? Eternal September?

[blackmage_nuke]

This is only vaguely related but I loved Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's work before zero punctuation, I still love his work and im glad he's so popular now but now he makes games so rarely and never point and click

[Mercen-X]

I never bothered keeping track of such things... since long before people started to lose their minds.