What’s the worst meme of the decade?

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Oh god, there are several memes that I absolutely despise with all my being.

• The "x says trans/gay rights" meme - It just failed at the most important part of a meme - actually being funny. You find me one person that isn't a hardcore progressive that actually found that meme funny, even once. It's also incredibly forced.
• Pretty much any meme that's posted "ironically" - It's usually just an excuse to post something incredibly unfunny, and then proceed to call anyone that didn't find what they posted to be the holy grail of comedy as being a lobotomite or whatever insult they prefer, because they clearly didn't understand that since it's done "ironically", it's now funny.
• Wholesome memes - Again, they're not even funny, they're just an excuse to post some bland, sappy, saccharine message with a generic cute picture and excessive filters to get online clout.

There are others I hate quite a bit too, but these three are the three I currently think are the worst.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Steamed hams was legendary what are you talking about

Some people like cauliflower...

 

[Un Platano]

"Nobody:" has got to be the worst thing I've seen in the past year if not the past decade. It's adding literally nothing to what you say. It's equivalent to a laugh track, it only exists to tell you that what you're reading is supposed to be a joke because it says so. And this shit is everywhere because it gives a more subtle way of asking for upvotes on your comments than the barbarian days of saying "like this comment if you agree."

 

[Floop]

"Nobody:" has got to be the worst thing I've seen in the past year if not the past decade. It's adding literally nothing to what you say. It's equivalent to a laugh track, it only exists to tell you that what you're reading is supposed to be a joke because it says so. And this shit is everywhere because it gives a more subtle way of asking for upvotes on your comments than the barbarian days of saying "like this comment if you agree."

Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Not a single soul:
Un Platano: “Nobody:" has got to be the worst thing I've seen in the past year if not the past decade. It's adding literally nothing to what you say. It's equivalent to a laugh track, it only exists to tell you that what you're reading is supposed to be a joke because it says so. And this shit is everywhere because it gives a more subtle way of asking for upvotes on your comments than the barbarian days of saying "like this comment if you agree."

HA HA GET NAE NAED BOOMER I’M SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Salt Bae was horribly unfunny, especially since it was used as a lame "gotcha" so much

 

[Atomic Wangler]

"Ok boomer" was a pretty late entrant in the decade, but it's also one of the shittier ones for several reasons.

I had never heard of this fucking meme before several news sites started publishing articles about it. Then every asshole on Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit uses it like it's going out of style. It was blatantly forced and astroturfed and idiots bought into it.

That would be enough, but then every jackass that uses it comes across as a self righteous prick. Like using this meme makes them some galaxy brain. Except almost every time I've seen it used, it's obvious the poster just has nothing to add to the conversation. They might as well have said "Fuck you, Dad!" It has the same connotation.

Then there's it political use, which I suspect is why it got pushed as hard as it did. In these cases, it's just used by political illiterates when they don't know enough about what's being discussed.

So, yeah. "Ok, boomer" was forced as fuck, was low effort, and is a little insidious, in the same vein as "freeze peach." May we leave this behind in the 10's where it belongs.

In before "Ok, boomer"

 

[Consenticles]

Anything Harambe.

The world collectively sperging out at the death of a gorilla was incredible. Of course this coinciding closely with many riots and police shootings of blacks.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

"Ok boomer" was a pretty late entrant in the decade, but it's also one of the shittier ones for several reasons.

I had never heard of this fucking meme before several news sites started publishing articles about it. Then every asshole on Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit uses it like it's going out of style. It was blatantly forced and astroturfed and idiots bought into it.

That would be enough, but then every jackass that uses it comes across as a self righteous prick. Like using this meme makes them some galaxy brain. Except almost every time I've seen it used, it's obvious the poster just has nothing to add to the conversation. They might as well have said "Fuck you, Dad!" It has the same connotation.

Then there's it political use, which I suspect is why it got pushed as hard as it did. In these cases, it's just used by political illiterates when they don't know enough about what's being discussed.

So, yeah. "Ok, boomer" was forced as fuck, was low effort, and is a little insidious, in the same vein as "freeze peach." May we leave this behind in the 10's where it belongs.

In before "Ok, boomer"

“Ok Zoomer” should be more popular instead

 

[melty]

Nobody: is pretty bad.
Bae is awful.
Many memes popular at anime conventions in the early-mid 2010s were terrible. Buttscratcher, Nyan Dance (might have been late 00s?) "Cosplay is not consent" and others.
The later advice animals at the end of this trend where they got co-opted with more and more different animals and ideas that didn't even make sense or were funny or interesting or anything. Like unpopular opinion puffin:

The sad looking bear is one that stopped making sense most of the time. I blame Reddit.
The practice of screencapping Tumblr reblog chains where every reblog was an escalating reaction and response to something, usually "problematic". Not funny, just angry people on tumblr. Dead with tumblr. Don't have an example. I don't even know what to call this.

Best memes: Virgin vs. Chad. Ok Boomer I like a lot because even if it's astroturfed, boomers actually legitimately get upset by it, so it's very useful. THOT is good. Costhot is a term that was needed. Thinking emoji. "My wife's boyfriend" gets me every time.

 

[Slamerella]

Anything involving "trans rights" or "Hatsune Miku making X" is not only horribly unfunny, but similar to another view I have on a phrase/term, I feel that whenever people say the former, ever, or the latter when someone big says an oopsie, it doesn't do a damn thing to help the trans communities or trans people.
Wojaks, and other edits such as coomers, small brains, etc., are genuinely some of the ugliest reaction images I've seen in my life.
Bing Bing Wahoo was a meme to look down upon Nintendo fans playing Nintendo games in public, but it always came off as Playstation players being mad that other people are playing the 3DS and Switch and not their over glorified paper weight, PS Vita.
Big Chungus, Ugandan Knuckles, The Hot Dog filter, pretty much any "mascot" type meme is just flavor of the week trash. (flavor of the month is only if you're really lucky)
For a more "contained" meme, I feel one that really overstayed its welcome in communities is "Goku is a bad dad" or any jokes about Piccolo being Gohan's real father in Dragon Ball, but only used seriously. In a joking manner, I'll admit I'm guilty of it. But people think Goku is bad because "he let's gohan get beat up and saves other people over his familY!!" when they've only looked at what he's done on a surface level.

 

[troon patrol]

Anything that normies comprehend ruins the concept of memes for me. I agree gangnam style/ harlem shake was annoying shit that seemed to being annoying as fuck before it began.

"crawling in my skin" was dumb

I'm kind of surprised nobody mentioned advice dog, there's always one guy that fucking hates it or what it became, OR they actually got the party van knock on the door from the original advice dog text.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

The “Hatsune Miku make x” meme is probably THE ABSOLUTE WORST meme ever! It puts actual lives at stake here. Also, while not an actual “meme” per say, transgender headcannons are also pretty stupid. I mean only 2 or 3 anime characters are actually trans.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The “Hatsune Miku make x” meme is probably THE ABSOLUTE WORST meme ever! It puts actual lives at stake here. Also, while not an actual “meme” per say, transgender headcannons are also pretty stupid. I mean only 2 or 3 anime characters are actually trans.

Agreed.

Troons are some of the worst crybullies out there and I honestly wish mainstream society would stop utterly bending over backwards for them.

 

[Floop]

The “Hatsune Miku make x” meme is probably THE ABSOLUTE WORST meme ever! It puts actual lives at stake here. Also, while not an actual “meme” per say, transgender headcannons are also pretty stupid. I mean only 2 or 3 anime characters are actually trans.

It was only funny the first time I heard it in this.

 

[snailslime]

wig snatched, attack helicopter, and npc

 

[Lamaze-P Stan]

Pickle Rick is the worst meme that spawned actual good memes.

 

[Xerxes IX]

Anything involving "trans rights" or "Hatsune Miku making X" is not only horribly unfunny, but similar to another view I have on a phrase/term, I feel that whenever people say the former, ever, or the latter when someone big says an oopsie, it doesn't do a damn thing to help the trans communities or trans people.
Wojaks, and other edits such as coomers, small brains, etc., are genuinely some of the ugliest reaction images I've seen in my life.
Bing Bing Wahoo was a meme to look down upon Nintendo fans playing Nintendo games in public, but it always came off as Playstation players being mad that other people are playing the 3DS and Switch and not their over glorified paper weight, PS Vita.
Big Chungus, Ugandan Knuckles, The Hot Dog filter, pretty much any "mascot" type meme is just flavor of the week trash. (flavor of the month is only if you're really lucky)
For a more "contained" meme, I feel one that really overstayed its welcome in communities is "Goku is a bad dad" or any jokes about Piccolo being Gohan's real father in Dragon Ball, but only used seriously. In a joking manner, I'll admit I'm guilty of it. But people think Goku is bad because "he let's gohan get beat up and saves other people over his familY!!" when they've only looked at what he's done on a surface level.

You make a good point about SAY TRANS RIGHTS. People were calling CallMeCarson/the other SMPLive guys transphobic for not saying trans rights on stream, but you don't get to call people transphobic for not saying "trans rights" when you're the ones who turned it into a meaningless meme phrase. Not that the people pushing this crap care if their favorite streamer actually supports trans rights, streaming sites are one gigantic Friend Simulator to them and they want the streamer they've formed a parasocial relationship with to validate them personally.

 

[Sunday School Dropout]

Any meme that originated from twitter, memes that heavily rely on pop culture spewing fuckery, astroturfed memes.

 

[Julias_Seizure]

Okay boomer and the usual response of okay tide pod/snowflake. Its unoriginal unfunny low effort garbage from both sides. Shit just boils down to "fuck you boomer, no fuck you snowflake" over and over again with both of them feeling proud of themselves for one-upping each other on being the bigger retard

 

[FuckedUp]

Now that I think of it, probably the whole "Endgame spoilers" thing. It was by far the most blatant marketing effort and was exploiting Stan Lee's death for monetary gain.