Golden Age of Memes Character Pack

The Golden Age of Memes Character Pack is a set of Sims made for The Sims 4, modeled after meme and viral video characters popular online between the years of 2006 and 2011, with special emphasis on 2007 and 2008. Its creation was inspired by success with the Cast of Sharknado Character Pack earlier in 2014. While cut short, the pack's page on Dozerfleet Labs' DzMD space includes links to characters uploaded by other users.

Tay Zonday
Need a little chocolate rain in your Sims' neighborhood?

Overly Manly Man
The Guinness Record book? You mean, his partial biography? Overly Manly Man is here to make your male Sims feel inadequate, though some of the women might be offended by his hyper-macho arrogant musings.

The Tray files contain an approximation of Mike Conely, particularly in regards to his appearance in Animeme. No custom content required whatsoever, though custom hair tattoo overlays are highly recommended. Otherwise, he's not that manly now, is he?

Overly Attached Girlfriend
Have you ever surfed the web, came across this meme, and were a little creeped out? Now, she can stalk your Sims! Happy dating!

Disaster Girl
Ah, Zoe Roth, the Disaster Girl. Ready to burn down a house near you - and laugh. Clean what room?

Characters included in the pack

 * Tay Zonday.zip (70.1 KB)
 * Mike Connely.zip (73.3 KB)
 * Overly Attached Girlfriend.zip (76.9 KB)
 * Disaster Girl.zip (56.4 KB on Windows, 69 KB on the Gallery)

Chad Vader
Chad is really easy to make. Just use a height slider to make a short male Sim, and dress in the Darth Vader costume provided in-game. Have him working at a supermarket, or singing into a mic.

King Leonidas
Leonidas was not included in the pack, largely due to an already modest version of him existing at Nexus Mods. Instead, the poster for 300 is included in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff - also as part of the Blood Over Water theme, which was absorbed into that pack. The standalone Blood Over Water pack still exists for The Sims 3, but doesn't include any references to 300.

Gallery mentions
These characters can be found on the Gallery, but are neither linked to nor included in the pack.


 * Trololo Man (Eduard Khil)
 * Rick Astley
 * Rivers Cuomo (from Weezer, who performed "Pork and Beans")
 * Boxxy (Catie Wayne)
 * Doge (Kabosu Sato)

Requirements
Every character included in this pack directly and managed by Dozerfleet Labs is base game-compatible, with the exception of Zoe Roth. She requires the Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Seasons, and Eco Lifestyle expansion packs.

Zoe also requires the Outdoor Retreat, Dine Out, and Parenthood game packs. Moreover, she requires the Vintage Glamor and Bowling Night stuff packs. If these packs were to be purchased only for her, she'd cost players an extra $280, whereas the rest would only cost the price of the base game. Disaster Girl indeed!

Development
Laina Walker's "Overly Attached Girlfriend" as a Sim was one of the first experiments in making memes as Sims 4 Sims to come across the desk of Dozerfleet Labs. Given the success on Mod the Sims of the StretchSkeleton Cheat Accessories Kit and SCP-811, it seemed only fitting that her popular macro be attempted. Success from there led to Moke Conely's Overly Manly Man meme being attempted next, with similar success. Due to this, there was some research done on adapting Slender Man, but to no effect. Tay Zonday was attempted later in December of 2014, but was rejected from Mod the Sims. It seemed wrong that the Chocolate Rain guy would be rejected from this themed pack, and Zoe Roth was added in 2020 to complete the DzMD packaged set.

MODM: Reckoning
Inspired by this, Dozerfleet Comics produced a mockup poster and pitch for a Camelorum Adventures and Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers tie-in adventure centered around memes and corporate mascots, dubbed MODM: Reckoning. It was uploaded on September 1st of 2018. The mockup poster featured MODM having to save his girlfriend, Wendy-Chan, from the Ultimate Meme Destroyer (an evil clone of Rick Astley.) UMD had taken control of the Jollibee, and was using Jollibee to in-turn take control of Lucky the Leprechaun.

With Jolli and Lucky under UMD's control, they quickly amassed an army to imprison any memes or mascots that put up any sort of resistance. MODM finds himself locked up in the same camp as Doctor Robotnik (AoSTH version), Leonidas, Tide Pod Chan, Eduard Khil, Mike Conely, Dat Boi, and Tay Zonday. They escape with the help of Ugandan Knuckles, and have to get past Lucky's minions. These include Insanity Wolf, Dr. Octogonapus, and more.

The poster was designed as a parody of the poster for Thor: Ragnarok, but with the background realm auras replaced with a giant Tide Pod. While Leonidas and MODM take turns playing the roles of Thor and Korg, Overly Manly Man functions as a stand-in for the Hulk, and Dat Boi for Miek. Insanity Wolf functions as a diminutive Fenris, with Tide Pod Chan taking Valkyrie's place.

Alas, out of the dozens of memes referenced, only a few of them went very far - let alone got mention or inclusion in this final pack. Eduard Khil appears in the end credits for Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers, along with Donald Trump dressed up as Jonathan Goldsmith, but was omitted from this final character pack release.

Distribution
Laina Walker, the "Overly Attached Girlfriend, was uploaded to Mod the Sims on December 4th of 2014. The Overly Manly Man, Mike Conely, joined her 2 days later on December 6th.  Tay Zonday was first proposed on December 9th, but was rejected.  One June 9th of 2020, DzMD began its page for this collection.  Zoe Roth was added in order to make it feel more complete.  There was some consideration to reinstate the Dramatic Prairie Dog wall picture that had been previously made for The Sims 2, but it was ultimately left out.  Leonidas was almost made, but a better version of him was linked to instead.  Eduard Khil didn't make the final cut, in spite appearing in Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers.  Boxxy was left out, due to a better version being found elsewhere.

Reception
In a seven-year time span, Overly Attached Girlfriend has been downloaded from Mod the Sims about 977 times, and once on DzMD. Overly Manly Man likewise has only one noted download on DzMD. He's been downloaded from Mod the Sims in that same time stretch 991 times. The others have no statistics to show.