Hello Internet!
And welcome to behind the meme!
Today we have a look at connect four!
We all play or grew up playing table top and board games Because after all they’re fun
and entertaining!
And if you’re anything like me, they also teach you valuable lessons about life.
like how to financially ruin family members you really don’t like!
“Why you little”
or how to Racially profile innocent people, and we can’t forget that they also teach
you the life long habit of being a compulsive gambler.
Thanks Dad!
But of course I can’t talk about table top games without mentioning the classic two player
game that is so epic, so fierce, so intense and brutal that If you can count to four you
can play it.
I speak of none other than connect 4
“the name of the game is connect 4” “gotcha 4 across!”
“hmmm, one more game!” “object?
connect four of your checkers in a row while preventing your opponent from doing the same.
But look out, your opponent can sneak up on you and win the game.”
“I win!” “where I can’t-“
“here diagonally!” “pretty sneaky sis”
“Connect 4 the vertical checkers game from milton bradley”
Milton Bradley who was apparently a person who looked like this started a game company
that produces such classics as battleship AKA pearl harbor made fun, candyland AKA high
as hell on drugs and hallucinating, and lets not forget operation AKA setting you up to
fail your human anatomy class in high school.
I mean cmon, Where is this guys wiener?
Milton Bradley first sold the game under the connect four trademark in February of 1974.
Back when muhammad ali knocked out that one dude who makes foreman grills.
Who would have guessed that that grill maker was also was once a boxer?
Weird.
Today you may see a connect four game sitting on the shelf in the store with a lame and
boring box cover that looks something like this.
But luckily through the years there have been a handful of different box covers Probably
even more than I’m showing you on the screen right now.
But one specific box has seemed to be particularly interesting to the internet!
So interesting in fact that it has been the perfect canvas for a series of memes based
around photoshopped edits of the cover!
The edits have been around for a number of years but recently have had a whole new life
online, reaching a new level of popularity and spreading to the masses.
Here are some examples of my favorites put into a slideshow with some nice music for
your enjoyment.
That should give you a good taste of what this meme is all about.
Personally I really enjoy this meme because it clearly displays the internets ability
to take something old and forgotten and reuse it in new and interesting ways.
Kinda like how I use my grandpas urn as an ashtray.
You gotta love reusing old stuff in new ways.
Amiright?
So I guess to be an official review I have to give it a number or rating or something
like that.
Sooo…
I give it 4 out of five.
Get it?
Connect 4, i gave it a 4.
That’s funny huh?
Yeah, don’t worry I hate myself too.
So there you have it!
What started off as box art to a classic tabletop game your kid sister may play, has turned
into a popular meme that is being edited in limitless clever ways.
But hey!
That’s the internet for you and on the internet memes are king!
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