US EditionChuck Norris' Death Is the End of a Very Particular Millennial Humor Internet Era
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Died on Friday at the age of 86, the American actor left his mark on the Internet.
The name of Chuck Norris, whose death was announced on Friday, will remain associated with a figure of action in cinema and television, but also with a myth of the internet. The "Chuck Norris Facts" transformed the actor into an absurd superhero, before he seized this meme to make it a communication tool.
“Chuck Norris has been dead for 20 years, but death does not dare to tell him.” The Chuck Norris Facts, authentic haikus of absurd humor, became very famous in the early years of the internet and even became embodied in several books, one of them written by Chuck Norris himself, who died this Friday at 86 years old.
Chuck Norris also made himself known by being part of, despite him, the global cultural phenomenon of "facts about Chuck Norris".
"Until Chuck Norris says it, I won't believe it... Chuck Norris is not dead, we are all dead." Comments from fans of the legend, who died on Friday, are multiplying on social media. People say goodbye in both ordinary and extraordinary ways - through jokes. They often agree that Chuck had to ask death for permission to be willing to die at all, or that he is not actually dead at all. He is just missing.
Chuck Norris' Death Is the End of a Very Particular Millennial Humor Internet Era
Death once had a near-Chuck experience. So goes one of the best Chuck Norris facts, an online repository of tall-tales about the bearded action star. Since 2005, Chuck Norris has been defined less by his ’80s action movies, his incredibly popular TV show Walker, Texas Ranger, or his conservative politics, and more bite-sized factoids that remain the best of 2000s “that’s so random” internet humor. With his death at the age of 86 comes an opportu…
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