Modern Day Memes - and why they can be absolute garbage

whogoesthere said:
I think most memes are shit, and the rare few do get a chortle at best. But for some reason, those dumb wojack ones cause me to laugh out loud many times. The text almost doesnt matter, its how stupid they look, it always makes me laugh. I am laughing as I type this, and I love the one with his skull all caved in and dribble down his mouth.
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Again, I think the reason why Wojak has lasted as long as it has is because it's a very malleable and versatile meme that can be adapted to almost anything.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
This

Some of the truly old-school memes lasted years.

Hell, I remember seeing "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" still popping up as late as 2005 and that was from the tail end of the 90's/very start of the 2000's originally

Even today, you still see Loss edits pop up every now and then and the original is from 2008.

Most of the old-school memes were also more likely to organically evolve and live on in more forms. The only 2010's memes that I'd consider being on par with the old-school memes of the 2000's would be Steamed Hams and the related Simpsons shitposting memes in general, and to a lesser extent, the "X but it's played in an empty mall" videos and similar nostalgia-bait videos that ironically are more timeless because they feel like something out of 2007-era YouTube with the simple "still image + audio" combination
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I got a huge kick out of "Loss" and B^U, and it's interesting how "Loss" continues to exist in some form or another despite being over a decade old now. I've most recently seen it represented as simple straight lines imitating the characters in the original. I even see B^U surface from time to time.

So we can agree that a few memes still organically evolve and live on in this day and age. I wonder why "Loss" though? I guess it's just still funny/laughable that a miscarriage happened in what's supposed to be a light hearted web comic?
 
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Mr. Bung said:
I got a huge kick out of "Loss" and B^U, and it's interesting how "Loss" continues to exist in some form or another despite being over a decade old now. I've most recently seen it represented as simple straight lines imitating the characters in the original. I even see B^U surface from time to time.

So we can agree that a few memes still organically evolve and live on in this day and age. I wonder why "Loss" though? I guess it's just still funny/laughable that a miscarriage happened in what's supposed to be a light hearted web comic?
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I think with "Loss" being so long-lived even by meme standards, it's because part of it has to do with the fact that it's so out-of-place with a tragic miscarriage in in an otherwise goofy webcomic (supposedly Tim Buckley's girlfriend had a miscarriage at the time) but also because the very structure of the original comic itself lends very well to all sorts of meme edits and it becomes timeless because it's so damn malleable. Wojak is in a similar position, really.

On the other hand, the "dead mall edits" and similar spin-offs like "X but you're doing Y in Z" are timeless because they very much appeal to a primal sense of nostalgia, even if it's nostalgia for a time or place you've never been to. The weird "Early YouTube" vibe so many of those videos have is just the proverbial icing on the cake.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
"Early YouTube"
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One thing about the YTP ("YouTube Poop") craze I don't like is when they'd repeat the same short segment of a video over and over and over, followed by another seemingly endless repetition of another part, and so on. It gets really old really fast. Yet almost every YTP does it because they think it's LOL SO FUNNY.

But at least YTPs were before YT got full of attention whores seeking to be "Internet Famous"*, and ever rising censorship.

*(I've heard of kids saying they want to be "YouTubers" when they grow up. That's just disturbing to me.)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
One thing about the YTP ("YouTube Poop") craze I don't like is when they'd repeat the same short segment of a video over and over and over, followed by another seemingly endless repetition of another part, and so on. It gets really old really fast. Yet almost every YTP does it because they think it's LOL SO FUNNY.

But at least YTPs were before YT got full of attention whores seeking to be "Internet Famous"*, and ever rising censorship.

*(I've heard of kids saying they want to be "YouTubers" when they grow up. That's just disturbing to me.)
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Annoying, but not nearly as bad as poops with ear rape which is annoying/painful (especially with headphones)/brings the attention of the house on you. I'd like to find just one person that thinks ear rape is funny...
 
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Memes don't serve a purpose. They've been watered down to the point you only need to know of 3 TV shows to get them, and that means that people devoid of deep think and personality can pretend to have a second layer of depth in knowing what funny scene this giphy is from in Parks & Rec.

On another note; I've regrettably been browsing dating platforms and 9/10 times, when someone says "show me your best meme", everything about them points to the exact former point. And even if both parties involved are meme veterans, what the fuck would you share? Why would you want to share? Memes are primarily used to convey a mood, much like emojis, to accompany a text post. But the text post never gets there. You get a reaction or a feeling projected onto you by another person without any context.

That's what memes are generally used for, which only boggles my mind further when Reddit has entire subs dedicated to memes without the possibility of attaching text. Memes are yet another cheap buy-in for normies who have no personality. Just like how Tinder gained popularity among popular sorts because it's a cheap buy-in into dating culture without any actual effort. iPhones are popular because they're a no-think buy-in. Everything in life is about being able to buy into things with no effort, and that's where memes went once 9gag normalized them.
 
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It seems like a lot of memes now get used as coping mechanisms.
Its especially apparent in all the versions of [thing I like] vs [thing I don't like] types of memes, the current form wit the photoshopped buff Doge still gets posted everywhere and is just as unfunny and low effort as previous, samey memes that had the same "punchline".
Its literally just a worse Chad vs Virgin
 
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I honestly wanted to make this thread to discuss most memes, like those on Twitter or whatever. Thoughts? Personally, I think almost all of them suck and die in under a week. What do you think is the worst one?

Ones like "[X] is Trans" or that one meme where you take the girls from those "I'm not like other girls" images and make them lesbians.
 
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Problems really began when people started to take memes too seriously.
Kinda off topic but I shit you not I remember looking at an instagram meme page and one of the comments was somebody complaining about the user not using their platform to talk about blm and other social issues back in early july.
 
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doof said:
Problems really began when people started to take memes too seriously.
Kinda off topic but I shit you not I remember looking at an instagram meme page and one of the comments was somebody complaining about the user not using their platform to talk about blm and other social issues back in early july.
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What? Memes? Don't you know that the police are LITERALLY murdering black people?
 
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It’s because people can’t think something funny so they just spout out random nonsense and call it funny. Anyhoo get some fresh air, maybe take a break from the internet. Maybe watch an old movie from your childhood idk.
 
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As a mid-sized Telegram meme channel owner I can honestly say memes this year have been utter trash, I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point. The only good long-term meme we have right now is doge lore. Even the debate and Trump COVID memes weren't great and those were like notable events that usually would have generated some good stuff.
 
thedonald.win is still doing millipede and build the wall memes from 2016, which is kinda sad.
The best political meme of this election cycle is potato trump, which is a yang meme.
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I wish Pepe and Wojack were scrubbed from the internet.
 
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