Sometimes, people in real life look just as ridiculous as the custom characters created in today's role-playing video games.

The phrase was the title of many an "edgy" teens Myspace and Tumblr, and now has become a point of mockery online.

What started as a "fun side project," 9GAG has grown into a meme-sharing monster, with millions of avid followers and hordes of detractors.

Six years ago today, this photograph of a man rowing through a flooded basement in a laundry basket was uploaded on Facebook, subsequently spawning one of the year's biggest advice animal memes on Reddit.