Alda VigdísThis is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.
Wouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪@alda I didn’t know that. Time and again, you find out that celebrities are wrong.
Nazo@AccordingtoWouter @alda I'm surprised people didn't already know about him. He has been a hateful, horrible person for a very very long time.
I do sort of wish that it wasn't like 99% of celebrities that people like who ultimately turn out to be absolute crap though. What ever happened to celebrities at least *pretending* to be good even if they weren't? These days they're just completely open and proud to be horrible.
@nazokiyoubinbou @alda To be honest, I had to look him up (after seeing this thread) to find out who Chuck Norris was. Then I recognised his face. I must have seen him in a film or something. Other than that, he didn’t ring a bell.
@AccordingtoWouter @alda He was before my time — perhaps before the time of many here — but I'm surprised you hadn't run into him. Well, he was largely an American star in crappy beat-em-up shows and such, so you may have had less chance to run into him as directly. There are... a lot of Internet memes though. I'm surprised you haven't run into those. Or perhaps you have and just forgot? I guess it has been a while on most of them.
@nazokiyoubinbou @alda Don’t laugh, but internet memes? Where on earth would I come across them?
That sort of film isn’t really my cup of tea. That’s probably why it didn’t look familiar to me.
@AccordingtoWouter @alda "Don’t laugh, but internet memes? Where on earth would I come across them?"
You're... literally *on* the Internet as you write that and as you see my response. There are memes all over the Fediverse. That said, I will concede that Chuck Norris memes are old and I'm not surprised if you didn't see them on Mastodon.
Those shows and movies aren't my thing either. I've never seen a single thing Chuck Norris was in I'm happy to say. I lost nothing finding out he was bad
@nazokiyoubinbou @alda I decided to look up what internet memes are :). Pictures with text. But I don’t really come across them that often here on Mastodon. And certainly not with that Chuck.
In any case, it was another educational day today.
DHeadshot's Alt@AccordingtoWouter
Strictly speaking, an internet meme is *any* concept that goes viral on the internet, including pictures with text (grouped as "image macros") videos, animations, trends, ideas in general (the concept of Hamster Dance being most of these is a good example), etc.. Chuck Norris jokes were a popular Internet meme between about 2005-2008ish (when Chuck Norris himself killed them by trying to take them seriously).
@nazokiyoubinbou @alda
Strictly speaking, an internet meme is *any* concept that goes viral on the internet, including pictures with text (grouped as "image macros") videos, animations, trends, ideas in general (the concept of Hamster Dance being most of these is a good example), etc.. Chuck Norris jokes were a popular Internet meme between about 2005-2008ish (when Chuck Norris himself killed them by trying to take them seriously).
@nazokiyoubinbou @alda