the merriam-webster dictionary defines a meme as an idea behavior style or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture as such with video games being a prime source of culture for everyone besides boomers it's unsurprising that references to memes within the games we play are plentiful ranging from the absurd to the benign and to the downright ancient culture of the internet's earlier perhaps less expansive origins we're seeing memes crop up within spongebob games and even pokemon titles hell even in games you may least expect but we'll start with one of the more popular titles we're covering today one character who may actually have become a general meme in and of himself is that lovable yellow absorbent and porous spongebob squarepants in the spongebob battle for bikini bottom remake rehydrated the developers went above and beyond when it came to throwing in nods to the original show adding in tons of extra character idol animations to reference particular episodes these can most notably be seen in two animations which point towards moments from the show which have since become popular memes and is no doubt why the remakes developers purple lamp studios put in these animations one of spongebob's idol animations references the mocking spongebob meme which sees spongebob leaning over and making a bizarre bird-like face originating from the episode little yellow book the other can be seen with one of patrick's idol animations which references the surprised patrick meme portraying patrick with a mouth as large as his personality originally appearing in the NUMBER_TOKEN spongebob squarepants movie these weren't the only additions to point towards internet meme culture as the player is also able to come across a new drawing added to a cave area here the player can find an exact replica of the primitive sponge meme which became popular in NUMBER_TOKEN between the release of the original game and its remake it was often used to portray a sudden and intense instinctual response of shock or disgust to something unexpected but some memes are much older than these older than spongebob is a show itself in fact another thing that is even older than internet memes is the band kiss we're pretty sure they may actually be older than time itself the band actually had their own video game called kiss psycho circus the nightmare child the game which is a relatively uneventful and pretty uninspired first-person shooter doesn't have a meme within its gameplay thank god but this time it can be found in the game's files within the menu subfolder of the game is a file called URL_TOKEN by extracting the image data from this file it's possible to see alternative title screens which would have been used as placeholders during development likely just as a means for the developers to amuse themselves these can range from simple differences like changing the publishing company's name from gathering of developers to gathering of dumbasses or a photograph of band member ace shouting the game's title but for a reference to meme culture it's also possible to find a photo of two little people playing basketball an extremely early meme which circulated around message boards and so-called funny image websites around the year NUMBER_TOKEN remember those when the game released they have of course been edited to be talking about kiss as you would expect before we move on a quick word from this episode's sponsor URL_TOKEN manscape just launched a new lawnmower NUMBER_TOKEN waterproof cordless trimmer and now you can even get their new performance package NUMBER_TOKEN bundle this is an all-in-one kit that
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