Grandpa – Fusion Nepal

At any moment in time, whether you want it to happen or not, someone could take a photo of you, post it online, and turn it into a meme for the internet’s enjoyment. (This, I assume, is the price we pay for existing in 2018.)

And as one Reddit user recently learned, this applies to everyone — even grandpas. On Thursday, u/manic_unicorn revealed in a post that her grandfather was once the subject of a meme.

“My cousin was browsing Twitter and came across this picture of our grandpa at the mall with his friends that a stranger took and captioned ‘Squad Goals’,” she wrote in the Reddit post of the photo, and noting that the image “had been retweeted thousands of times.” Read more…

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If someone told you a grime music video made by two British grandfathers was going viral, you’d probably expect it to fall into the “so bad it’s good” category.

But the video above is just plain good.

The track was posted on YouTube about a week ago by Sindhu World — a London corner shop with an arm in music production which has previously been covered by the likes of Vice. On Thursday the music video — which features two men, Pete and Bas, rapping — reached the top page of Reddit’s r/videos sub.

The top comment — “This is way better than I was expecting” — pretty much sums it up. Read more…

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