Advice Animals are to memes what Shakespeare is to English literature: a guiding light, a foundational influence and a classic text. Legendary meme characters such as Confession Bear did it all before anybody else got to it, they spelled the script which every meme since then has read from and paved the path down which they travelled.

A lot has changed. Looking at Memes Then and Memes Now, the transformation is visible. So much has changed and yet so much has remained the same. On Reddit, the flames are kept burning and the tradition is kept alive. People continue to post advice animals to share the facts of life and offer guidance to other surfers on the wild waves of the web. It's time to reacquaint yourself with the classics: