This is the opposite of culture. This shrinks your brain instead of stimulating it. They are just so bland. They are just so old. Spiciness and humour are completely unknown to them. Here are the current top 4:
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https://lemmy.ml/post/4142470
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https://lemmy.ml/post/4160748
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https://lemmy.ml/post/4168053
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https://lemmy.ml/post/4168053
How come liberals are so bad at meming? I'm sure I've seen half of these already, years ago. It's like someone dredged the bottom of ifunny.co for the most milquetoast, blandest things possible.
Yep. That's exactly it.
There was a period, at least a few years and probably more like 5 or so, where there was a short meme cycle to the point where sometimes a meme format would be stale within a month or two and there was a huge churn of new meme formats that would be constantly emerging.
Then it's like someone just turned the tap off and the culture died (I wonder if something shifted in 4chan maybe?) and now we're just stuck with wojacks.
Speaking of which...
There genuinely was a change in 4chan and I've often wondered if this had a profound effect on the rest of internet culture. It sounds silly, but I can't deny that something's really changed.
moot (previous 4chan admin) retired from the site in January of 2015. After he left there was a scramble for mod positions and a honest to goodness white supremacist plot to control the site. That's definitely when things started to feel weird. I don't really know how or why the wider internet was impacted, it was probably multiple things at once, but 2015 seems like a weird shift of a year
I have thought of this a few times myself, and how much of the english speaking side of the internet's culture has been shaped by 4chan in some form or another. I have never been able to find an answer for why it seems like it is so influential, despite being relatively small compared to something like twitter or instagram.