invader zim fanblog!

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Invader Zim being mythologised by its modern fans as this uniquely and unfathomably weird show when it was literally just early 2000s meme culture played perfectly straight kind of makes me wonder how today’s shows for meme-loving fucks will be perceived in twenty years when everybody has forgotten what early 2020s meme culture looked like.

…I kind of think you are making a post-hoc analysis of Invader Zim.

Nah, I was there when it happened – the whole “rawr, I’m so random! WAFFLES!!1” strand of online meme culture was already well established at least a couple of years before Invader Zim debuted. It’s certainly true that Invader Zim was likely a broader audience’s first exposure to it, because the Internet wasn’t nearly as prominent at the time, but the show’s creators were absolutely tapping into an existing zeitgeist, and they darn well knew it!

(Heck, GIR’s obsession with waffles was explicitly referencing a specific, then-current Internet meme. It’d be the equivalent of a show that debuted in 2020 having a character who’s obsessed with administering vibe checks.)

*GIR voice*: “VIBE CHECK!” *explodes*

I can hear it perfectly.

Its so funny now that we know that Zim is just a bastard old man picking fights with human kids

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