Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by smichel17 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:49AM (#26026354)

I've gotten enough upvotes here (4) that I feel I need to ~~ruin~~ explain the joke, lest HN get the idea that this is upvote-worthy in general.

This is low-effort humor. I took the comment above and replaced words with memes from anime, tech, and earlier in this conversation thread. There's no (intentionally) meaningful relation between rem and Rem, or the number 6, I was just pattern matching things that sounded similar. Basically the equivalent of an "I hardly know her" joke. Funny only for the meme value, and not what I come to HN for.

In this particular thread, ^^that^^ is the joke — that we mistake unrelated comments as meaningful replies.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by renewiltord on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:31PM (#26027603)

I personally found the metajoke amusing, whether it was intended or not. The comment, low effort as it is is no different from the comment chain it describes. Great stuff.

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