my grandad distinctly remembers walking uphill both ways. i just got done with a 48 hour youtube+wikipedia rabbit hole about routes children took to school in many different areas in that time period, one of which was the street he lived on. sure he was there and i wasn’t and sure youtube and wikipedia aren’t 100% guaranteed to be reliable sources but you have to see why i’m not quite as inclined to trust his firsthand account

Kinda like comparing my grandfathers journal from when he lived in the USSR to what hexbears say.

Apparently he wrote this journal as propaganda before hiding it away at the bottom of his trunk.

There are so many things on Know Your Meme that give me that feeling. Plenty of internet specific memes there that existed since the 90’s but are attributed to be from the 2010’s or later.