I have never seen the meme.
Really? Man I love that meme, reminds me of my wife; she did the same for our kids.
Me neither so I looked into it…they’re really calling anything a meme now, huh? It didn’t become a joke template or anything, a couple of people drew/painted versions of it. The OP is still active on reddit. And just posted a GoFundMe to recreate the photo…
You’re confusing memes and image macros
memes are basically anything spread around. doesn’t need to be a joke or even funny really.
Do you know what a meme actually is? This definitely qualifies.
A one-off reddit thread
A meme is any idea that spreads and reproduces itself through a population. It has nothing to do with jokes or templates, except that the internet has caused image templates to be propagated and used in the symbolic communication of ideas.
Some image templates are examples of memes. They are not the defining trait of memes, or even the dominant form of them.
But it kind of didn’t?
Lots of things that happened before you were born, kiddo
Good chance I’m older than you, crypokiddo
It had a little bit of popularity back when it was first posted. I definitely remember several meme posts with it. I think it lost popularity because the guy helping his brother with the computer meme took over the same category of memes.
Love it. This was one of my fav games of my childhood. I only finally beat it after I came back to it as an adult so I can relate to the scene in this photo.
I still know so many of the hidden lives and power ups.
I was hoping to see something more than a link to their instagram where they sell shirts, but oh well. Love the picture regardless.
was the only one who could beat a particularly hard level in Super Mario Land
There were only like four levels lol
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Now a YouTuber has discovered that the family hails from Prince Albert, Sask., about 130 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.
“[It was] just an innocent, ‘here’s my mom and a cute photo,’ and it blew up, like millions of views in a matter of weeks, and we just didn’t expect that,” said Wolford.
That changed this week when American YouTuber Sakura Stardust posted the story behind the photo.
"Mom in general loved spending lots of time with her kids and Nintendo happened to be one of those things.
Stardust revealed that the ‘Game Boy Mom’ was Debra Tooley, a mother of four who loves horses, designs cakes and was the only one who could beat a particularly hard level in Super Mario Land for Wolford, his sister Jenna, and his cousins Dean and Dustin Millis.
“They were watching to see how I did it so they could recreate that.… There were lots of times that day where they’d bring it to me to get past it, but eventually they figured it out.”
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