Anyone here remember seeing this meme in the late 1990s? I think I found it in "Internet Underground" magazine - Upgoat

Anyone here remember seeing this meme in the late 1990s? I think I found it in "Internet Underground" magazine
submitted by HughBriss to whatever 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 12:44:03 ago (+4/-0) (web.archive.org)
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202133702/http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~nkpatel/mr.t/

That magazine only lasted about a year, about 1996-1997, but it was extremely helpful finding useful sites before there were search engines (or at least, effective search engines). I'm pretty sure that's where I discovered this stupid ass cartoon. The "Ate My Balls" cartoon with Mr T was possibly one of the first truly viral memes. It sparked a million imitators.

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[ - ] StarylDrawberry 3 points 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 12:50:52 ago (+3/-0)

Back when there was a magazine about the internet. I miss those days. We should have stopped at 56K

[ - ] deleted 2 points 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 13:01:44 ago (+2/-0)

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[ - ] HughBriss [op] 2 points 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 13:06:23 ago (+2/-0)

My wife has no sense of humor, and when I showed her that cartoon she didn't say anything, just gave me a deep disapproving glance. I would irritate her for years by saying as a non sequitur "Mr T Ate My Balls!" It would make her mad as hell.

[ - ] RabbiKinderschtupper 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 15:53:45 ago (+1/-0)

Man, I had totally forgotten about that.

A few others I remember are the I LEIK BEER guy, and the old Geocities tier site that was a giant image of a kid with a mullet, and his audio recording about how he wanted a girlfriend.

[ - ] domains 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 14:04:31 ago (+1/-0)

internet archive has two copies. I think i have a few others from my subscription

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Internet+Underground%22

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[ - ] HughBriss [op] 0 points 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 14:23:19 ago (+0/-0)

Nice, thanks. I still have several issues I bought off the news stand back then, but I managed to miss those two.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 12:59:38 ago (+1/-0)*

Oh yeah, good times. And not too long later: SPODERMAN TURNED ME GAY!

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[ - ] HughBriss [op] 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 13:04:18 ago (+1/-0)

Was that a short video of a dancing Spider Man that was so compressed you could barely make it out?

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[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 13, 2022 13:08:18 ago (+1/-0)