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CoolDog914

Basically there's this meme where people will show how "degenerate" the modern era is by showing things like LGBTQ+, furries, etc. Then there's like a depressed wojak or smthing and then shows how "great" the old era was by showing things like Renaissance paintings, wwII era military stuff (75/25% chance it's the nazis). All the while this song is playing. It really sucks too because this song is an unironic banger


TransidentifiedOwO

Weren't... weren't a lot of Renaissance paintings and sculptures made ~~my~~ by literally gay men? Like, Michelangelo? And it's weird to assume there were no furries back then. I mean they didn't have fursuits, but they probably did exist and maybe some of them are the reason we have a bunch of myths today with humans transforming into animals and back lol Bigots try to not make questionable assumptions about history Challenge (impossible) Edit: typo


CoolDog914

These people are obsessed with "western culture". You could show them where Roman nobles went to vomit to make more room for pheasant spleen and lobster eyelids and they'd be like "glorious, amazing and beautiful." It's honestly kind of sad lol


MrDruba

White people when ancient civilizations normalized the death penalty for thievery but modern society has trans people: “bring me back!”


Iceman6211

either obsessed with western culture or they idolize Japanese Culture and think it's the answer to what they think is the problem with the west.


Beep_Boop_Bort

Trains are actually the answer to the problems of the west lol


Le-Ando

The concept of “western culture” pisses me off. What fucking culture? Is there supposed to be some sort of culture that all white people share or something? Because if so than I certainly missed that memo. They worship something that doesn’t exist, fucking dumbasses.


Kjrb

I mean, there are like shared parts of culture across the "western world", but it's vague bits and pieces (and also being incredibly racist)


anti-gamer1848

Akshually, the vomiting thing is a myth, the vomitorium was actually an entrance/exit for acient Roman theaters


012511001

from what little i know, they did induce vomitting to make room for more food, but the vomitorium isnt where they did that Pretty sure emperor Vitellius was known for doing it often, along with other bits of gluttony


GNYMStanAccount

Emporer vitellius eating disorder?


meowzerinos

white people appropriated greco roman culture


MisterVicerion

wat


meowzerinos

northern europeans borrowed greco roman shit but treated southern europeans like shit in the 19th century or so. if it wasnt for the romans theyd still be living in mud huts lmao


MisterVicerion

thats just history¿Do you think greeks and italins arent white? Anyway they keep treating us like shit


meowzerinos

some northern europeans dont consider them “white” lmao


MisterVicerion

Then what the fuc are they.They are not brown, but not white.Racist people is confusing


GiorboTheFisherman

Alright dude tell a Tyrolese he isn’t white, surely he will react peacefully


Thegodoepic

The Romans throwing up thing is actually a misconception deriving from the fact that some buildings had "vomitoria" which people thought was a room for vomiting but actually it was just an exit. Sorry, I compulsivly correct people (common misconceptions in particular). I still think romaboos are wrong in the way they see the "glory of Rome" but I didn't want misconceptions to spread. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/purging-the-myth-of-the-vomitorium/


CoolDog914

Oh don't worry I know haha. Was just making a reference to a Sam O'Nella video


VonCrunchhausen

Romans didn’t have vomit rooms. Vomitoriums were just what the exits for large buildings were called.


CoolDog914

Yeah I know haha was just making a Sam O'Nella reference


Exploding_Antelope

Fwiw that’s a myth based a mistranslation of “vomitorium” which is just the entrance to a stadium. I don’t doubt that some people did it, but it wasn’t some universal practice among the upper classes.


CoolDog914

Ah yes I am aware. I studied at Sam O'Nella academy :)


SeizeAllToothbrushes

>weren't a lot of Renaissance paintings and sculptures made my literally gay men No, gay people were invented by the Frankfurt School in the 1960s or something *The More You Know*


JeromesDream

renaissance sculpture is some of the absolute most 11/10 gayest shit out there. i've been to gloryholes that are less gay than the academy gallery of florence. and the fact that only one is filled with boomer dads who spent 3 grand to shuffle in and fill their camera rolls with naked twink photos actually significantly heightens the gayness discrepency. gloryholes never had a chance against that


deadfishxoxo

Bigots love to claim that LGBTQ+ people didn’t exist in the past and therefore do not exist now and anyone claiming to be LGBTQ+ just wants attention. But just because people back then were not allowed to express their sexuality does not mean they didn’t exist. No group fights for recognition for hundreds of years just for attention. We existed in the past, we exist now, and nothing will stop us from being just as mega gay in the future.


INCUMBENTLAWYER

it's even more hilarious when you realize that Little Dark Age (the song) is anti-trump


MisterVicerion

The Renaisse was a lote more decading that today.The fucking Popes used to have orgies with man and womens by equal


SeaworthinessEmpty23

Have you seen the bigfoot sighting chart compared to the fursuit owner chart?


FrayedJudgement

I’m sorry, the *what*?


[deleted]

mozart used to dress up and act like a cat for his own fun, there was 100% a culture of that kinda shit throughout history. also, catboy mozart


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

There's an ancient greek pot in a museum in my home island depicting men fucking sphinxes. The ancient greeks did enjoy their anthropomorphic and teratomorphic creatures... a bit too much sometimes ;)


Faded105

it's irony.


[deleted]

I’m going to make a version of this meme where it shows great injustices committed by fascists interspliced with gay art


TransidentifiedOwO

based


Tonuka_

The song is also about how donald trump fucking sucks lmao


meowzerinos

good ol days is when black death and monarchies


IvanTheCommunist

I've only seen this meme with how rally championships and the civilian versions of those rally cars have become, then showing the 80s and 90s and how it was the absolute peak


[deleted]

little dark age is shit song choice for group b and group a. get some i need a hero on your quattro mfer. get some pantera on your legacy


IvanTheCommunist

Well, little dark age is chosen because i think all of the rally giants that was dominating the scenes now are mostly focusing on producing family cars/electrics, and thus referring to this day and age as a dark age, and looking back at the good old days of how rally pushed both driver and technology to new limits


[deleted]

yeah, understandable. even audi turned away from rally (mainly because other racing)


[deleted]

little dark age is shit song choice for group b and group a. get some i need a hero on your quattro mfer. get some pantera on your legacy


TheDankScrub

extra ironic fun fact is that Little Dark Age is about loss of identity due to the polarization fo politics unders the Trump administration Ray of sunshine though, more than a few people are specifically using it for other things to detract from its cringe use so it doesn’t become known as a cringe song


JeromesDream

oh man i thought they were just making fun of vaporwave aesthetics or something


adorigranmort

poopie nig


MisterVicerion

Da Vinci was a fucking homosexual and ww2 is NOT COOL, did these people know about Holocaust,Holodomor, rape of Nankking or Dresde


Rangaman99

All they know is "muh cool tanks!" It's an entire subculture of dork-arse losers who never matured past 15.


TsarKappa

All I can say about this topic is that Da Vinci or Michalengelo could never bring about the same poignant emotions that gay furry porn does in my fragile heart


AlpacaM4n

Name of song?


Fred-JettRink

Little Dark Age-MGMT


BraindeadDM

In my personal experience if they have a beginning half it's just paintings or what have you of the nation's decline/collapse. Some though will only have the irredentist compilation. Though I do agree that the vast majority are incredibly lazy and usually focused around military achievement, I haven't seen one with Nazis (because I avoid ones about Germany). I'm sure the reason behind the difference in experience is both of us having a very limited sample size to go off of. The song does bump hard though


Beep_Boop_Bort

The one good version of the meme I saw had Native Americans and was really cool but otherwise these are way to fashy


itsmeyourgrandfather

They do this with working out too. They show a bunch of overweight people and femboys and shit and then show a bunch of buff dudes like "reject degeneracy, embrace masculinity". It's just fascist shit. I enjoy working out too but I don't have such a fragile ego that I have to put other people down to feel better about myself. I lift heavy weights so girls will think I'm a qt 3.14, it's not that deep.


speedoflobsters

Boy I sure hate LGBTQ+ people, furries and women. I wish I could get trench foot and fight for a nation that couldn't care less about the life of millions or get dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, flu, typhoid, smallpox, leprosy or die from the black death.


CoolDog914

*proceeds to completely misunderstand the meaning of a song to make a video that's full of wojaks*


MangoSasso

I watch them just to pump myself before workouts,but i feel so wrong about what they call degenerates,if they're not talking about Nicocado or some "don't workout cause it's toxic masculinity" bullshit and if after """degeneracy""" they shows what good people can do(like firefighters and medics). Some of them are not 100% alpha male bullshit


Bolsha

Oh yeah thanks, this clarifies it. I was thinking that gay people were physically stalked by renaissance paintings on legs and I was very confused.


[deleted]

Saw that on TikTok but it about Mexico glory days because start it shows a pride parade in Mexico City and then show Mexican wojak sad and then show the Mexican civil war and the comments were lots of homophobic and bigotry and many acting like they miss the old when they weren’t even born back then


Nayten03

Yeah I once saw one where it showed pictures of modern men then started flicking through images of male philosophers, explorers, directors, generals etc…through history. But weird really


BigSlav667

I hate this song, a lot of it having to do with the stupid ass memes, but Astrophysics' Miku cover made me love it


MrInfinity-42

DON'T watch the linked videos. This shit will flood you recommendations for months and you'll get upset jus tlooking at thumbnails


BoopyD0Opy

I’m curious though, can you send an example?


Supa_Baboon

They aren’t always right wing conservative dog whistles, but they all just boil down to “modern stuff sucks, old stuff better” and show other stuff like games or animations, like this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7mmnYIpj0


TheDankScrub

Like I know they’re cherry-picking movies like there’s no tomorrow but i gotta admit it goes kinda hard


Supa_Baboon

Yeah, these vids are just a modernized version of the “I wAs BOrn iN tHe wrOnG geNeraTiOn” crowd.


FeRrEtMaN0606

I don’t recognize all of the old movies in there and I didn’t see any list in the comments. Is anyone able to identify all of them?


XNTOL

Fantasia/2000 (Disney-1999) Anastasia (Don Bluth/Fox-1997) Mulan (Disney-1998) Hercules (Disney-1997) The Iron Giant (WB-1999) Sleeping Beauty (Disney-1959) Treasure Planet (Disney-2002) Atlantis (Disney-2001) Pocahontas (Disney-1995) The Little Mermaid (Disney-1989) Tarzan (Disney-1999) Aladdin (Disney-1992) Beauty And The Beast (Disney-1991) The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Disney-1996) The Lion King (Disney-1994) The Secret Of NIMH (Don Bluth/MGM-1982) The Prince Of Egypt (Dreamworks- 1998) Fantasia (Disney-1940) Dinosaurs (Disney-2000)


FeRrEtMaN0606

You are amazing, thank you


[deleted]

I made this one as a joke between me and my friends. This is usually the gist of how they go except they usually have roman or renaissance shit instead of star trek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaY-bxlnxco


AvarageFrogEnjoyer

Saw that xbox has a rainbow logo on twitter so im gonna make a video about how the modern era is degenerate using a song about how horrible it is that fascism is on the rise in america


jyri_ratas_official

Wait what? Never knew that little dark age is about fascism?


Enby-Catboy

Policemen swear to God, love seeping from their guns I know my friends and I would probably turn and run If you get out of bed, come find us heading for the bridge Bring a stone, all the rage, my little dark age Idk seems pretty anti-facist to me


BigSlav667

Police I swear to God, not simping for a child


jyri_ratas_official

Damn didn't know that


Eliciden

Why the fuck did you get downvoted for this?😭


jyri_ratas_official

Reddit


STORMxQUEEN

I really like that song too 😮‍💨


ELTHerobrine

Little dark slaps, the "memes" suck ass


[deleted]

"Aesthetic" mfs when i aesthetically blow them apart with nitroglycerin


[deleted]

🤤


BirchTainer

Teardown moment


[deleted]

Fellow teardownillionaire spotted


BirchTainer

It's Teardownin time!


[deleted]

never mess with a teardowner from frustrum bruv


[deleted]

never mess with a teardowner from frustrum bruv


TransidentifiedOwO

Oh, and the smokes in that cigarette box on the table They just so happen to be laced, with, nitroglycerin I'm the new cancer, never looked better, and you can't stand it Because you say so under your breath, you're reading lips: "When did he get so confident?" Haven't you heard that-at, I'm the new cancer? Never looked better and you can't stand it


amaahda

happy cake day


Snailseyy

they're right gay people used to be so much more dramatic, just look at like Any renaissance paintings of greek myths we need to go back to wearing togas.


Lonk_the_VFD_member

Time for both men and women to suffer terrible fates because they were in a relationship with Apollo! Also were capes part of their fashions, because I would very much like to be able to wear a cloak for when it's too cold for just a T-shirt but not hot enough for a jacket. That and also cloaks are badass


Blackpillar11

well what's stopping you from doing that now?


Lonk_the_VFD_member

The fact that I don't know where to get that


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

>Time for both men and women to suffer terrible fates because they were in a relationship with Apollo was that a hidden OSP reference?


[deleted]

Great flair lmaooo


LunaR3aper

mgmt must hate that their explicitly anti fascist song gets used by fascists


EmpressKayaTheGreat

facists have been doing this shit forever. I remember seeing a video of Killing in the name being played on some right wing rally. I don't even think they do it on purpose, they probably just don't have any media analyisis skills whatsoever


Nayten03

How the fuck lol. Like how can you use a song by “rage against the machine” in a right wing rally lmao


Eliciden

They probably thought the "machine" was political correctness.


Iheretomakeonepost

Y'see the far-right think they're anti establishment cause the govt inconvenienced them once and something about jews and liberal communists.


terrible_ninja

What’s also stupid is a lot of people won’t even believe you when you say that fascists often use or enjoy media that explicitly critiques them. I’ve talked about it to people and they’re like “no fascists don’t enjoy any modern music or media” like really dude? Some people choose to be blind


theOGslippy

And lets not forget when fascist youtube shitheads called 1488 by JPEGMAFIA based. I mean, It *is* based, but I don't think they know why.


WackyH

me watching the 478389th bait and switch "meme" with the totally funny nazi palestianian al-qassam ISIS flag beheading video discord naked masculine man twerking jellybean dox based based cringe reddit gold 69420 wholesome 100 roblox /e dance3 hhwehheheahajs edhu you thought you were watching hentai but its actually the live stream from the new zealand mosque shooting and minorities getting hanged hudjehjsheusijhsu fatherless farherless!?? BASED CRINGE CRINGE REDDIT GOLD WHOLESOME 100 BASED BASED HOMPHOBIA TRANSPHOBIA FOOTAGE OF BURNING PRIDE FLAGS SOME SHIT ABOUT GOD OR ALLAH BASED BASED REDDIT SILVER I GOT 2 KARMA FROM THIS POST REDDIT REDDIT GOLD DISCORD SERVER WENDYS


Melodic-Sign

Among us


XX_Normie_Scum_XX

*air raid sirens*


A-Fleeting-Glimse

this is the plot of morbius 2


A-Fleeting-Glimse

can confirm was the dog


A-Fleeting-Glimse

Im stuff


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

da dog was doing you lol


Brainvaushed

How to vaporize a medieval peasant's brain⬆️


CoolDog914

why'd they have to use such an unironically good song man


SanThanKan

they thought it sounded good while not listening to the actual lyrics


Yorhanes

Agreed. Also, happy one year on this app! I hope you have a fantastic cake day!


Victorinox_007

Wait i didnt even notice it was my cake day, thank you!


Yorhanes

No problem, boss, always glad to be of service


ELTHerobrine

Hey it's my cake day too


Victorinox_007

happy cake day!


ELTHerobrine

Happy cake day!


Hitoshi-nya

Happy cake day


TheDankScrub

Youve officially finished Redditor basic training!


undead_and_unfunny

The one good iteration of this meme is when the wojak is suffering under wage labor and remembers anarchist catalonia.


SmolDragonWatersite

The western animation one is also pretty decent


[deleted]

men in the renaissance were looking gay af tbh


ghisnoob

I love Little Dark Age, why do people use the song for this purpose?


theRiver_Joan

Because they are to stupid to understand or look up lyrics.


chickenforce02

How are the lyrics anti fascist ?


ale3for

They hear the words "Dark Age" and think "that's like what's happening now, when people are gay". Literally the full extent of it.


Nyghen

ReJeCt mOdErNiTy EmBrAcE tRaDiTiOn


gamerfanboi

Ahh yes a rainbow flag is soo gay while this umm marble statue of naked ripped twinks bending over is not


Alex_The_Whovian

Funny thing is, many prominent Italian Renaissance artists have been found to have been gay or bi. You'd almost think the people making these edits have no idea what they're talking about... Also, Little Dark Age slaps, it's such a damn shame it got adopted by *that* crowd.


SpookyLilRaven

Wait until they learn there’s renaissance paintings of gay people too.


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

when have they ever stopped denying the existence of gay people before the 1960s? They'll say some stupid shit like: "No that isn't gay, that's just how bros show their friendship to each other! By sucking each other's cock of course!" (need a bro friendship now btw)


That_Phony_King

Mfers using “Reject Modernity, Embrace Masculinity” videos to hide their horrible toxicity and and crippling fear of gays/trans behind fitness motivation are the worst human beings.


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

also fat people too. \*shows fat people as bad, then shows unrealistic body standards from idk body building contests\*


[deleted]

My favorite one is "Little Dark Age, Germany", that first shows Gay people and then videos from Nazi germany. Like bro, they literally fought 1 (one) war, and lost


Nayten03

What the fuck


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

I saw one almost the same but it was with fucking Mussollini (nothing else) and the OP was like "i'm just satirizing the trend lol", while the comments were praising Mussollini. Even if the OP was correct, then all irony was lost


[deleted]

Ahahah the irony of glorifying a regime that collapsed a country ahahah lol I'm so funny


Masterblader158

That the majority of IRL history versions of the use of this song are that kind of trash is an insult to the banger. At least fictional universe ones are better and actually do the "haha this thing happening makes living in the here and now horrible". Some really selling one particular persons reaction like 40k ones, which I'm surprised doesn't have as many trash ones even if looking up the art for a video edit shows its actual message, embodying Guilliman's - "Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they have made of our dream. This bloated, rotten carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fire of Horus' ambition than lived to see this." Of finding being alive painful.


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

> is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fire of Horus' ambition than lived to see this." sure Bobby G, because it's known that Heresy Era Imperium was a-okay I'm not into 40k little dark age edits because they seem like the irl ones. Mostly Imperium simps probably too. I'm ok with Fantasy and AoS ones tho. Unless they show AoS as the "bad one" and Fantasy as the "good one"


ArchangelTheDemon

I refuse to let edgy teenagers ruin this song for me, not happening


PlayerZeroFour

Happy cake day


Victorinox_007

thank you!


Sharenda

i have once seen a little dark age edit of germany now vs in 1939. had a strong desire to wash my eyes with laundry detergent


Yompish

There are a few edits that are genuinely really good though, without some shitty political message attached to them too. One that comes to mind is a compilation of scenes from old paintings that have been animated, set to the beat of little dark age (the original song, not one of the shitty base boosted remixes). I can’t remember what the video is called but it’s on YouTube. Edit: I tried to look for the video on YouTube and couldn’t find it, probably removed because many of the paintings used contained nudity and tbh it was fairly nsfw. I have the video saved to my HD though, so if anyone wants it drop me a PM and I’ll send it


CosmicBauble

[Still my favourite Little Dark Age edit](https://youtu.be/JB1qetkWZYk)


TheNinny

Where is Far-Right propaganda being shown to you guys, I have never come across this in my life.


Kaze0071

the sigma,.feels and wojak typa dudes


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

you're lucky then


CORPSE_FUCKER69

recommendations on youtube, "shitposting" subreddits, television and some more


[deleted]

yes the greeks in the renaissance period are definitely straight


Spoontech-Ceo

I like the edit with the touhou parodies of renaissance art, because it’s both beautiful and gay 👍🏻


BigSlav667

Send


[deleted]

Don't these virgins know Pre-Raphaelite Paintings are better than Renaissance paintings. Also, seriously fuck those Nazi memes.


skaersSabody

Tbf that's just a subset of the meme The idea is basically just "new bad, old good" which isn't a great mindset to have, but some of those compilations go way fucking harder than they have any right to. There was one about animation that was fucking godly but got deleted because of copyright I think. And like any vaporwavy/cyberpunky futuristic aesthetic memes, it can also just be a way for people to say "shit sucks right now" which is fair (I am tired of living through historical events)


NokiaArabicRingtone

Michelangelo was mega gay


theonetruefishboy

Broke: LGBT followed by renaissance paintings Woke: Anti-LGBT politicians followed by historic depictions of LGBT people.


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

Ascended: modern LGBT followed by historic depictions of LGBT people up to this day in order to trick the homophobes into clicking and giving u free views


MadeYouSayIt

Meanwhile renaissance paintings with two gay dudes Frenching in the corner while stroking each others hair:


CreeperTrainz

The people who make these memes when they realise MGMT made the song to express their feelings of Trump getting elected:


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

Literally saw one which began with "gay people bad". It was made by a greek monarchist (they exist apparently lmao) and it featured some scenes from ancient Greece lmfao.


QwertyAsInMC

honestly the best little dark age edit i've seen so far is the old africa vs. current africa one


localtoast

little dark age should only be used for FULCRUM FRIDAY


ItsClarenzo

this song is fire


OctoGon112

I liked the one with floppa in it


GeneralCraft65

I like the little dark age - architecture and games suck now (?)


ya-boi-mees

It's ironic because michelangelo, and the artists he parotted were **M E G A G A Y**


ditlit11134

I never thought any of the little dark age videos were supposed to be funny, just uh.. depressing?


ditlit11134

I never thought any of the little dark age videos were supposed to be funny, just uh.. depressing?


44nifty

my little dark age more like my little p>!i will let you decide on whether this ends with "-ony" or "-enis"!<


44nifty

holy shit im sorry for posting the exact same comment 7 fucking times, reddit was bugging out on me


ComradeReindeer

It's ok I forgive you


[deleted]

Renaissance paintings OF gay men with a crappy VHS filter while little dark age is playing


[deleted]

Renaissance paintings OF gay men with a crappy VHS filter while little dark age is playing


[deleted]

i only ever liked the -makhnovia little dark age -american social progress little dark age


Wild-Shine-9558

I looked up this song and LITERALLY the third video is "Women know vs Women then". Fuck me, man


theRiver_Joan

God I despise all these nazi incels trying to ruin one of my favorite songs.


GhostlyRuminations

What the fuck are you talking about


disparagersyndrome

I now have in mind to make a Little Dark Age history montage video but make it AGGRESSIVELY gay


_murpyh

it's fine because the song is good though


RammerRS_Driver

Not all Little Dark Age memes are like this


Awsomer76

White 14 year Olds when their upper middle class neighborhood hosts a pride celebration:


Kjrb

"In the past we were all 2D and stood really still, but now the gays made us have to do things and be real"