Thing is, I can't even really imagine a different outcome to this. I don't know as though I had either the options, or the ability to do differently.
here come dat boi was genuinely the peak of comedy and its all been downhill since
Off topic :galaxy-brain: moment:
Classic era : 8 years (2^3)
MLG era : 4 years (2^2)
Surreal era : 2 years (2^1)
Post irony : 1 year (2^0)
the acceleration of internet memes from the face value innocence of the classic era where there are distinctly "human" forms against a whitespace of possibility and wonder to the cynical self-aware post-ironic era where everything has melted together in an absurdist yet pessimistic glut, everywhere and nowhere at the same time, mirrors a post-modern liberal subject's coming of age
for that calculation i did 2019-2020 since after 2020 id argue that something new has arrived due to the coronavirus pandemic and we dont know yet because we're in it
but the divisions are arbitrary since i just wrote that as some semi-coherent pseudointellectual bullshit for teh memes
Do you think it has anything to do with bots coming to outnumber humans online?
maybe, that and the total commodification of the internet by capital
i think someone on youtube unironically made a sketch about that premise lol
So Terrence McKenna was a botanist and pop-philospher who dropped a lot of acid, so the "theory" is more a loose collection of ideas. Think :jesse-wtf: posting, but it's the 70's and the vibes are right.
So basically it posits history comes in cycles of novelty. New ideas, new memes, new structures and power dynamics, that will eventually stagnate out until the next cycle. But these cycles are getting shorter and shorter as time goes on, so time isn't a flat circle, it's an inward spiral.
The zero-point is when the spiral winds so tight there is no longer a distinction. The cultural singularity. A point of infinite novelty that goes nowhere at all.
He predicted it would hit in 2012.
Lol, he thought it would be a good thing.
:Spider-Jerusalem: Oh ye of faith... :agony-immense:
We have such sights to show now
tfw taking acid helped a guy predict neoliberal cultural stagnation and endless regurgitation of dead cultural artifacts
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thanks for the explanation :rat-salute:
Buddy, I used to work for a traveling carnival. I probably put that ride together.
I've been in the post-irony era since 2011, on the recesses of krautchan
No de-motivational posters? No owls? No impact font? What kind of vintage meme list is this
yeah that pic covers reddit from roughly 2010 to 2013. nary a singly Mudkip or lolcat
Well where the fuck do we go after post irony? Just back to sincerity, before cringe culture was a thing? Circle back to rage comics?
Neo-Dada. Post-ironic absurdist attack memes. I think the OkBuddy series is the prototype of where memes will come to have the agitprop value of 1920s-30s lithography as conditions get worse. Memes like peepoo and pigpoopballs are also nascent forms of attacking toxic structures by undermining their legitimacy and rejecting their messaging. Soyjacks might be recycling an older meme, but it's serving that attack role and the reducing something to an absurd caricature role.
it's sort of just my existence, i don't really think of it as time wasted even though i should. i'm like a fish in water
