Steem memes to celebrate Hive Day

Meme Dump #1

When this blogchain thing started, we may have been a little optimistic:

Text Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook is dead! I'm making an account on Steemit

On the other hand, others already declared Steem dead three years before it turned into a zombie:

Text Altcoin Obituary: Steem was a revolutionary new way to write articles on the internet and lose money at the same time.

Traders kept trading anyway, and speculators kept speculating:

Text What sets the price of Steem? Kati's feet.

Welcome to the Memedump Project!

This is where I (Hive account@edb) will post selected memes from my extensive collection once a day. I've been talking about 'low effort, high value' content for years, and Hive Day seemed a good occasion to finally get started. The general idea is that a Python script will suggest a handful of random images (once I finish rewriting it), after which I'll choose 5 to 10 related memes for a theme that seems interesting.

However, today is a special day, so let's get started by looking back to the centralized blockchain we escaped from four years ago. I actually made half of these myself, including a couple of new ones, because the existing Steem memes I'd saved sucked. Feel free to post images in the comments if you think you have better memes.

Since it's mostly my own work, this post will accept rewards, but for regular meme dumps, rewards will be declined. I don't want to get into a debate about profiting from other people's work, although I think I do contribute a lot by curating, transcribing and hosting images. I just want to make Hive more fun and challenging to read, while promoting my own account.

I'll write a proper introduction post later, after you've been able to check out some examples first. OK, scroll on!

Do you remember when trash whales dominated the trending page?

Text When spammers were trending on Steem. Trash whale artwork: Skyscraper by STUDIOKCA.

Spam fighters were not perfect either and sometimes made mistakes:

Text

Hive account@cheetah flagging Lorem ipsum in a layout sample for possible plagiarism

Which could lead to every Steem (or Hive) blogger's nightmare:

Text that feel when a whale downvotes your post (screenshot from the Freechain movie)

Then we swiped left when Justin Sun matched with Steemit:

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Hive account@justinsunsteemit: Do you like Justin Sun or you just want to fuck him?

Hive account@themarkymark: Swiped Left.

His Excellency was disappointed:

Text When Justin Sun started powering down 29.5 million Steem

And finally, after we left Steem behind to build a better place on Hive, Hive account@ned had to face the worst horror he could imagine – having to live with himself for the rest of his life:

Text Ned Scott, Steemit CEO on Bloomberg TV: I play guitar on a beach, but I have no friends.

Disclaimer

These memes are being shared for the purpose of entertainment and cultural memory. This post is not meant to endorse any message they might contain, or even their suitability for being shared in a public forum. It's assumed that these images and stories were meant to be shared freely by their creators; no claim is made as to their originality or copyright status.

Posts may or may not be tagged NSFW for being more offensive than usual. NSFW status does not promise sexual excitement. Likewise, SFW status does not guarantee that looking at image macros will be part of your job description. This account may contain traces of bigotry, or lame jokes known to the state of California to cause cancer.

Unlike this post, rewards will be declined for regular memedumps. Please follow Hive account@memedump and Hive account@edb, and reblog this post if you like it!