Do people under 30 recognize the demotivation posters that were really popular ~20y ago? I can’t pin down when they faded from the zeitgeist
You can still buy them
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Original motivational posters in this style still are hanging in the hallways of a federal government building near where I live, probably been there 25 years.
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Started my first full time job in 2005.
Was genuinely surprised to realize that the funny demotivational meme posters I'd laughed at for years were riffing on *actual* motivational posters found in real live offices!
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They had a long afterlife in the form of memes. But I think that has faded out too. This was always my favorite iteration of the meme:
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Coincidentally, I just moved one of mine yesterday to a more prominent position by my work area.
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31, I recognise them. They were still around in 2007-ish, but even by then they had been starting to get worn out. That was around the time “I can has cheezeburger?” cars started. You’d still see some demotivationals crop up in the Obama years but it was dated and meh by then
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oh yeah, they were still big when I was in high school
faded away a few years after I graduated
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