before the mannequin challenge, planking, or the Harlem Shake, the hot meme of 1959 involved teenagers cramming as many of themselves as possible into a phone booth
While phonebooth stuffing was arguably a pretty cool meme, it went out of style by the end of the year and was replaced by “hunkerin’”, which is as boring as it sounds and identical to the modern Slav Squat:
Everything old is new again – early Christian ascetics called Stylites pulled the same shit by climbing to the top of pillars and sitting up there for as long as possible. Not sure I’d call that a “meme”, as it was done for the purposes of becoming more holy through torturing yourself.
I’m sorry but is “to become more holy through torturing yourself” not the purpose of meming?
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