Modern Day Memes - and why they can be absolute garbage

[Absolute Brainlet]

therapist: [object] cannot hurt you, it's not real
[object]: [image of object]

I see this shit all the damn time on reddit

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

"YouTube comment sections are the worst cesspools on the internet lmao"

bitch ever go on Twitter?

 

[Un Platano]

"YouTube comment sections are the worst cesspools on the internet lmao"

bitch ever hear of Twitter?

Maybe it's because I don't use twitter enough but I think youtube is still worse for this shit because to this day you can still find "top 10 saddest anime moments" being commented on every single fucking video in the world, and those comments are still getting hundreds of likes.

 

[PL 001]

Facebook comment sections beat them all I think. YouTube has its autists and edgy 12 year olds, Twatter has its political spergs, Facebook commenters just seem legitimately stupid and willfully ignorant. I'd rather deal with the YouTube autists

 

[Kiwi On The Go]

''Bruh Moment" memes.
Because using something ironically makes it sooooo much funnier.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

bashing Michael Bay (I personally have no opinion on the man)

 

[javeyravey]

Smug anime faces and anime profile pictures or anything really to do with anime today.

The people that have the pictures or post the images are usually so obnoxious that It's vomit inducing and I just want it to stop.

"Oh. tee hee, discord discord forced new 4chan meme anime zoomer boomer I'm freinds with hacker 4chan anime traps are not gay discord discord traps tee hee"

I just want to drag everyone with an anime profile picture out back and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. No offense. Oh no a lot of offense actually. You guys are so goddamn obnoxious. Truly the bane of everyone's collective existence. Stop that shit.

 

[PT 522]

bashing Michael Bay (I personally have no opinion on the man)

On the opposite end of the spectrum,
Remember all that hullabaloo about Chuck Norris? Awful.

 

[Kotaro]

"[insert character here] says Trans Rights" is BEYOND cringy.

I swear, the troglodytes who un-ironically post that all deserve the bullet.

Don't even get me started on how they singlehandedly destroyed Zombie Land Saga with their almost pedophilic obsession over Lily, that's basically a whole thread in and of itself.

 

[BiggNiggaQwerty]

Ricardo is forced a meme

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

therapist: [object] cannot hurt you, it's not real
[object]: [image of object]

I see this shit all the damn time on reddit

More generally
(Thing): (says or does thing)
(Other thing): (says or does another thing)
Is everywhere on YouTube.
Take this video I picked from trending. See how many variants of this format are in the comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jwUXV4QaTw

 

[Grog]

The word "weeb". Just by itself, I don't care if it's used by people who hate them, people who call themselves it, or any other use. I hate that word.

 

[FuckedUp]

Let's take a break from talking about all the more serious issues with Current Year and reflect on a more overlooked aspect: memes in general.

Up to and including the MLG era, most memes were like a concept that were referenced occasionally for a few years until they finally got stale. Nowadays 99% of memes are put in circulation alongside a couple others for a month at most before they completely die off. Shoop da Whoop was "in" through 2006-2010 or so, and Shrek's "time" was roughly 2013-2016. By contrast, Big Chungus can be pinpointed to December 2018-January 2019, and Surprised Pikachu to July-August 2019. Even individual impact font templates lasted years before getting stale.

Memes used to be something mainly referenced within other contexts. Nowadays memes have to exist within their own context, Virgin vs Chad and Wojak edits being among the rare exceptions. Like while you'd mention taking an arrow in the knee when talking about something else, you have to formally establish a conversation about Thanos Car and nothing else. Probably one of the main reasons memes literally age several dozen times faster nowadays.

Finally, as @Pissmaster mentioned a while back, corporate memes are way too common now. Like while most media-based memes used to be something obscure or forgotten, like a poorly-translated 90's game or 80's song, most current ones are about the latest superhero film or something. What's worse is when they're blatantly propaganda, like the whole "endgame spoilers" thing where the whole "punchline" was to unironically refrain from spoiling capeshit film #189759875873258901275; directly contrast this with "Snape kills Dumbledore", where the point was to ruin one of the most hyped books for as many people as possible. Last of Us 2 just managed to be bad enough to spawn old-school anti-corporate memes against it.

 

[{o}P II]

Mainstream memes are just zoomer nostalgia bait

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Then use these instead:




Problem solved

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

The fact that I immediately knew exactly where your avatar was from is upsetting to me

 

[The Lawgiver]

Big Chungus wasn't even actually 2018. The fucking fat bugs bunny shitposts had been around for god knows how long before that year, and it felt so fucking artificial when it showed up again out of nowhere being treated like a hot new thing, albeit with all creativity removed and replaced with just pointing at the fat bugs and going "BIG CHUNGUS!" like how people on facebook point at fucking cats and go "CHONKER!" Chungus was already a fucking corpse dug up from the dead, and the worst part is he's not the only one like that from recent years. There's quite a few that you now have people commenting on the old videos of resurgent memes unironically going "WOW YOU WERE AHEAD OF YOUR TIME! ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELLER? A PROPHET? A GENIUS?" Thing is these aren't kids doing this, these are people that have actually lived through the older meme days, which makes it all the more surreal that they seem genuinely oblivious of meme necromancy.
The issue with memes in current year feeling empty shitty and soulless probably has something to do with the fact that quite a few if not all the ones that hit mainstream lately only do so due to the fucking upvote hungry mindset and willingness to shill at the promise of imaginary digital credits infesting current times.
People just need to make stupid shit to make stupid shit again, and some still do. It's fucking buried under the bullshit though, you gotta dig a little.

 

[Lemmingwise]

It's because Edwin told girls about memes. And they told the boomers at a picknick. We'll just have to move on to something new.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Memes suck because people can't stop focusing on politics 24-7.

 

[emo goff]

Well I know I'm really tired of the wojak memes. and it's variants.