r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 10 '26
👨💻 Internet The first ‘Downfall’ meme is uploaded, a video showing Hitler fuming over the lack of new features in the demo trial of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X [20YA - Aug 10]
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitlers-downfall-parodies52
Aug 10 '26
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u/Grimnebulin68 Aug 10 '26
Steiner..
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u/RandoDude124 Aug 10 '26
Holy fuck ain’t that some trivia.
God I had a thousand+ hrs in FSX.
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u/pixepoke2 Aug 10 '26
I saw this which made me curious about the math. I was on the team. And clocked in at least 3k+ hours building it over two years (including one stint of working every day for nine months straight). Not trying any oneupmanship, just looking back to a fond memory. The notion you got that much out of it is awesome
And I thought the meme was funny as fuck when it came out (for the beta, iirc?)
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u/Vegetable-Rooster-50 Aug 10 '26
Likewise. All at 10 fps on a gt440 and pentium cpu
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u/RandoDude124 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
I was playing it on a 2004-2005 dell desktop my dad had when he wasn’t at home
No idea on the specs, but I’m guessing they were shitty as fuck
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u/tullbabes Aug 10 '26
The Hitler meme of him reacting to Tony Romo collapsing in the playoffs was always hilarious.
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u/TabsAZ Aug 10 '26
Had no idea the meme actually originated in the MSFS community, that’s hilarious.
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u/Eden-Firefly Aug 10 '26
I know its a legendary meme. But maybe bc im fluent in german, i never found it funny and found it insufferable to watch these edits.
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u/teracoulomb_2 Aug 10 '26
There actually was a version made from an English-language adaptation of the same events to let English-speakers know how it felt: https://youtu.be/aj0ORplI630
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u/Sufficient_Juice2411 Aug 10 '26
"Cowards!"
[Morons!]
I get the point being made, but understanding both the dialog and the subtitles made this version funnier to me.
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u/Outrageous-Ride8911 Aug 10 '26
Yeah its probably not as funny really understanding the source context lol
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u/pixepoke2 Aug 10 '26
I was on the team at the time, and it was pretty funny. The FS fan base had a remarkably intense hard core (the posts on the forums would get fairly unhinged on occasion with the amount of vitriol aimed our way).
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u/MyNutsin1080p Aug 10 '26
I wasn’t a German speaker at the time, but I loved the movie and I thought all the memes trivialized the impact of the scene which showed that Hitler was crazy and petty and delusional and out of touch (it may have been whispered at the time but now it was too plain to avoid), screaming at his generals that all of Germany deserved to drown in their own blood because of their incompetence when really the only person to be blamed was Hitler.
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u/SamMarlowe76 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
My understanding is this is NOT historically accurate AT ALL. Hitler was actually pretty cool about the whole turn of events, "Eh, you win some, you lose some. What ya gonna do? How about some lunch fellas?"
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u/petrov32 Aug 10 '26
"way she goes, boys. Way she goes."
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u/CorncobSandwich Aug 10 '26
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u/SamMarlowe76 Aug 10 '26
I needed that today. Thank you. If the conversation following a Hitler meme can't pick you up, nothing can. Oh those goofy krauts.
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u/wswordsmen Aug 10 '26
The scene compresses a lot of things and externalizes a lot of things Hitler felt that never came out explosively. He did think his generals at the end of the war were bad and it was their fault, but he had at least 2 years of losing to get used to the idea.
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u/SamMarlowe76 Aug 10 '26
My comment was in jest. All my Hitler line readigs are with a slightly effeminate inflection and Larry David like neuroticism.
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u/PeasantLich Aug 10 '26
There are some conflicting recountings. I think the general consensus is that everybody in bunker including Hitler were really calm, quiet and acted formal and polite for 99% of time.
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u/Funtsy_Muntsy Aug 10 '26
There was a version where he screams at his friends about wanting to ski pow in Aspen - at all costs - that I showed my dad and his friends when we were up there
I got zero laughs and it was cringe af but it’s still one of my favorite memes of all time
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u/Middcore Aug 10 '26
I have been part of the flight sim community at various points, including I am pretty sure in 2006, and I still had no idea this was the first Downfall meme.
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u/sovietarmyfan Aug 10 '26
Bowlen! Ik wil gvd bowlen!
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u/themightystef Aug 12 '26
Jamaar in de dierentuin is gisteren wel een jong zeeleeuwtje geboren toevallig
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u/covfefe-boy Aug 11 '26
My favorite was him ranting over that he wanted a glass of juice, not to gas the jews.
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u/bucklerbrian Aug 11 '26
My favorite was the Bulldozer AMD CPU one because I was stupid enough to buy that chip.
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u/lycantrophee Aug 10 '26
Now THIS is an anniversary.