VHS has made an unexpected comeback as a meme after a photograph revealed how a grandmother tapped over the Pope’s funeral with a Harry Potter film.
The image was shared on Twitter by the owner’s grandson Hamish Ridley-Steele and almost instantly went viral, racking up 150,000 likes in less than 24 hours.
Hamish’s photo shows the video cassette, owned by his grandmother Elisabeth, 89, with ‘Pope’s funeral’ scribbled out and replaced with the words ‘Harry Potter’.
The comic artist, from London, found the tape after his grandmother asked him and his husband to clear out her cabinet of cassettes and save ‘anything worth keeping’.
The image was shared on Twitter by the owner’s grandson Hamish Ridley-Steele and almost instantly went viral, racking up 150,000 likes in less than 24 hours
User @Flemishdog shared an image of his VHS cassette which had ‘Matthew’s 1st Birthday’ scribbled out and replaced with ‘Ghostbusters 2’
The photograph has proved a massive hit online and has even spawned dozens of memes, while other users shared their own embarrassing VHS re-recordings
‘I’m not even sure which Pope was on the tape,’ he said. ‘They really need to spice up the next Pope’s funeral.’
‘To be honest with my grandmother, it might not even be Harry Potter. I don’t think she even remembers recording it.’
The photograph has proved a massive hit online and has even spawned dozens of memes, while other users shared their own embarrassing VHS re-recordings.
User @Flemishdog shared an image of his VHS cassette which had ‘Matthew’s 1st Birthday’ scribbled out and replaced with ‘Ghostbusters 2’.
The image was shared on Twitter by the owner’s grandson Hamish Ridley-Steele and almost instantly went viral, prompting dozens of counter memes
Responding to claims the image was fake, Hamish tweeted: ‘I’m gonna tell my grandma and you’re gonna make an 90-year-old woman cry. Do you want that? Really?’
VHS tapes were the main method of home recording throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before the advent of DVD.
The now-primitive cassettes were launched by JVC and allowed mass audiences to record their favourite television shows and replay them for the first time.
But its clunky form and poor picture quality eventually saw it replaced by DVD, with most electrical suppliers dropping VHS products entirely by the turn of the century.
VHS tapes were the main method of home recording throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before the advent of DVD