One day I’d love to get really into it (because I’ve thought way too much about it) but the gist of my argument is: memes are the death of originality.
It’s low effort garbage that infiltrated every corner of the internet. Original internet comedy gets less traction than unoriginal memes so it took over. Of course, this doesn’t apply to all comedy.
But YOU aren’t funny for editing the text on a funny picture. It’s a guise of cleverness. It’s hard to find a thread without someone lifting another person’s joke nowadays, it feels like everything needs to be a reference.
And aside from the meme itself, meme culture is a cancer. The memes must be spread. It was on Instagram now it’s everywhere. Meme “communities” are just new buckets for people to dump the memes they downloaded in. And there’s 100,000 identical buckets already. It’s pre-AI slop
And don’t get me started on screenshot as memes. Everyone hates advertising unless they’re promoting someone else’s milquetoast social media profile, I guess.
One day I’d love to get really into it (because I’ve thought way too much about it) but the gist of my argument is: memes are the death of originality.
It’s low effort garbage that infiltrated every corner of the internet. Original internet comedy gets less traction than unoriginal memes so it took over. Of course, this doesn’t apply to all comedy.
But YOU aren’t funny for editing the text on a funny picture. It’s a guise of cleverness. It’s hard to find a thread without someone lifting another person’s joke nowadays, it feels like everything needs to be a reference.
And aside from the meme itself, meme culture is a cancer. The memes must be spread. It was on Instagram now it’s everywhere. Meme “communities” are just new buckets for people to dump the memes they downloaded in. And there’s 100,000 identical buckets already. It’s pre-AI slop
And don’t get me started on screenshot as memes. Everyone hates advertising unless they’re promoting someone else’s milquetoast social media profile, I guess.