The hot new meme has been found and it’s about two of the internet’s very favorite things: nostalgia and The Simpsons. By combining memories of the heady days of pre-BitTorrent file sharing and classic scenes from the cartoon series, mad image tinkerers have brewed up a potent mix designed to take the online world by storm. Here, for your consideration, are Simpsons screen shots edited to be about mid-2000s piracy software, Limewire.
Each version of this joke is a variation on the following: Limewire download results—and specifically Limewire download results found by enterprising teenagers in search of the latest nü-metal tracks—were basically always entire herds of virus-packing Trojan horses. Blend this with Simpsons scenes and you get bizarre, wonderful results.
For example:
All of these follow pretty much the same formula, knowing that straying too far from the ingredients list might change the hyper-effective meme outcome. Many, for instance, reference Limewire file names where supposed MP3s were obviously computer-busting program executables with the .exe extension left on them by brazen, asshole uploaders.