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Modern Day Memes - and why they can be absolute garbage
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Gotta agree, I don't really care for how most memes now are just variants on Wojack. Which in itself is very similar looking to Pepe the Frog, another done to death meme.
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Wojak memes have singlehandedly pulled off a feat I initially thought was impossible: Make me miss rage comics
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Memes suck nowadays because of normalfags. They bring PC crap and safe, bland shit. The Internet should Holocaust (for real this time) all normalfags and Make Memes Great Again.
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Overexposure is one of the many reasons why most memes have a three week self-life.
Like what @ToroidalBoat said most memes these day are extremely political, like to the point where you’ll have to have a certain mindset to enjoy it (I’m straight, I might not get this “I’M GAY” meme, or I’m gay, so I might be offended by this /pol/ tier joke).
Also,
The anime memes, however, are just terrible.
Like what @ToroidalBoat said most memes these day are extremely political, like to the point where you’ll have to have a certain mindset to enjoy it (I’m straight, I might not get this “I’M GAY” meme, or I’m gay, so I might be offended by this /pol/ tier joke).
Also,
The anime memes, however, are just terrible.
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There's basically no "entry barrier" for memes now. A /b/ meme is also a reddit meme as soon as it becomes popular, and sometimes as soon as the meme is conceived. Then it becomes an Instagram meme, iFunny meme, and, in the worst case, a facebook meme.
It's nothing new, either. It has been happening since like the mid 2000's with cat advice animal memes, which started as Caturday threads on 4chan. But in recent years the degradation became a lot faster as the culture and userbases from these sites started to blend. Like with the rise of r/4chan.
EmpLemon's Behind The Meme sperging vid made a pretty valid point: Memes stopped being referential for communication between people within certain communities and niches, and became entertainment by themselves
It's nothing new, either. It has been happening since like the mid 2000's with cat advice animal memes, which started as Caturday threads on 4chan. But in recent years the degradation became a lot faster as the culture and userbases from these sites started to blend. Like with the rise of r/4chan.
EmpLemon's Behind The Meme sperging vid made a pretty valid point: Memes stopped being referential for communication between people within certain communities and niches, and became entertainment by themselves
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4chan in the 2000s was just a very unique environment for quality meme creation, the sheer openness of it combined with anonymity combined with, and this is the most important part for comparison with today, the sheer number of users it once had.
The internet is a lot more fragmented now, you've got Reddit, Twitter, Discord etc, when 4chan was more of central hub for web culture that just about everyone and their grandmother contributed to at least a bit the quality of its content was much better, but a lot of people have simply drifted away now and the site suffered a lot of "brain drain"
4chan was a thing of magic in the time I saw it from 2006-2008, it was already starting to get a bit stale by 2009-2010 (/tv/ was one of my main haunts and fucking Avatar and Abatap really did a number on that board) and I would say 2011 was the last year that really felt like it was still mainly the old vibe of the site, once /pol/ was introduced, rather than being a containment board, truly marked the end of an era for the site and it gradually turned it into the mostly toxic cesspit it is today.
The internet is a lot more fragmented now, you've got Reddit, Twitter, Discord etc, when 4chan was more of central hub for web culture that just about everyone and their grandmother contributed to at least a bit the quality of its content was much better, but a lot of people have simply drifted away now and the site suffered a lot of "brain drain"
4chan was a thing of magic in the time I saw it from 2006-2008, it was already starting to get a bit stale by 2009-2010 (/tv/ was one of my main haunts and fucking Avatar and Abatap really did a number on that board) and I would say 2011 was the last year that really felt like it was still mainly the old vibe of the site, once /pol/ was introduced, rather than being a containment board, truly marked the end of an era for the site and it gradually turned it into the mostly toxic cesspit it is today.
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I'm probably growing old and senile, but even as an oldfag retired 4chan lurker, I have been around to know that yes, there are standard measures in place in such potentially vapid and whitewashed places like Facebook (not too sure about twitter and tumblr though). While Thanos Snap got popular, I could see the reason why it got so popular as it did outside of obvious "MCU money machine", plus it's pretty good black humor if you dwell upon it enough. Thankfully the popular consensus knew to drop Baby Yoda The Mass Marketing Ploy Gremlin ASAP.
There is plenty that is wrong about meme culture, but was newfag summer 4chan and forced memes any better? 4Chan even deliberately dropped the ball on meme monopoly, with boards like /v/ and /a/ refusing to meme just "to get newfags to leave us alone." Plus if you think what everyone likes right now is bad, you should see some of the shit that never made the cut. Now that is where assdump mountain is.
Besides, if chungus is any indicator, just use old memes, no one gives a shit.
There is plenty that is wrong about meme culture, but was newfag summer 4chan and forced memes any better? 4Chan even deliberately dropped the ball on meme monopoly, with boards like /v/ and /a/ refusing to meme just "to get newfags to leave us alone." Plus if you think what everyone likes right now is bad, you should see some of the shit that never made the cut. Now that is where assdump mountain is.
Besides, if chungus is any indicator, just use old memes, no one gives a shit.
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I wish. It feels like everyone's using the same five big social media "platforms" everyday.
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I think its also worth noting the paradigm shift from 'Reaction Pictures' to 'Pictures to Get a Reaction'.
A large proportion of image macros were to emphasise your point. In the large platforms this has now prettymuch been replaced by emojis. While there are still plenty of reaction pictures, they are far less used, due in my opinion to the rise of the phone in internet communication (far more annoying to find that perfect reaction picture scrolling through all your pictures 3 at a time).
A large proportion of image macros were to emphasise your point. In the large platforms this has now prettymuch been replaced by emojis. While there are still plenty of reaction pictures, they are far less used, due in my opinion to the rise of the phone in internet communication (far more annoying to find that perfect reaction picture scrolling through all your pictures 3 at a time).
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There's this pic with analogies of the internet through the various stages. IIRC, the early internet is frontier pioneers. Then a cabin. Then a fairly pleasant small town. Then shitty slums. And finally in Current Year - depressing commieblocks.
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Memes suck now because rather than go through a purity spiral, they went through a garbage spiral where putting in effort has become a negative.
@William Tell Underpass is close, the cause is a conflation between the two. Instead of being funny by themselves, Twitter subhumans saying something inane followed up by surprised pikachu is effectively adding a laugh track to their post. It should make your eyes roll.
@William Tell Underpass is close, the cause is a conflation between the two. Instead of being funny by themselves, Twitter subhumans saying something inane followed up by surprised pikachu is effectively adding a laugh track to their post. It should make your eyes roll.
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Memes are shit because Milhouse never became a meme.
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Memes don’t have a lasting impact because information flows too fast for a meme to reach it’s full potential. It doesn’t help that the sites modern memes are made are creatively bankrupt.
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Milhouse was not a meme but Milhouse not being a meme was a meme.
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I still remember the "classic memes" of the '00s.
Meanwhile the only memes I can remember from Current Year is... Tide Pods and Ugandan Knuckles?
Meanwhile the only memes I can remember from Current Year is... Tide Pods and Ugandan Knuckles?
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Summed up in one word: post-irony.
Older memes spread by virtue of being genuine and novel alone. Sometime in the 10’s there started to be a shift in the attitudes behind shitposting when people started to be more self-aware, coupled that growing trend with the shift from Golden Age producers to current day Twitter and Reddit user content creation, and you have stale, day-long regurgitations or repackagings of the same object labeling formats.
Older memes spread by virtue of being genuine and novel alone. Sometime in the 10’s there started to be a shift in the attitudes behind shitposting when people started to be more self-aware, coupled that growing trend with the shift from Golden Age producers to current day Twitter and Reddit user content creation, and you have stale, day-long regurgitations or repackagings of the same object labeling formats.
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Part of why memes aren't as enjoyable now is because they don't last nearly as long as they used to. Back in the day memes used to last like 6 months to a year or more but now they often die a couple weeks to a month after they're born. There's hardly any time to enjoy them and share them with others. Or as is often my case I'll discover a funny meme only to realize soon after that it's already dead.
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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 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.