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.
listen, just let them enjoy things. My god. Yeah it's kinda cringe facebook level memes, but it's what they like
The vibe I've gotten from lemmy.ml is they're a lot of gen-x to late boomer nerdy programmer types who just wanna have a nice polite website. I find it charming honestly. They're sweet. A little lib sometimes but no one's perfect.
Whenever someone tells me to let people enjoy things I want to sink my teeth into their bare flesh like a wild animal
I'm convinced they have a bot that scrapes Reddit for the most dire memes of like 2017
there is a spammer who reposts memes (with same title) from top posts 3 years ago to farm karma.
Some lemmy users are 60 years old and that's OK
The three you posted are okay memes, not rancid (and that's like A LOT sadly) , but obviously not hilarious, nor surrealist nor avantgarde. Yet they are fine.
Some people just want to see cats in costumes. Not because of anything broken inside them, but just because they interact with the internet that way. And it's okay
I'm sorry, my zoomer brain doesn't appreciate anything that's not deep fried or said by a head coming out of toilet. Cats are reactionary and old people harsh my vibes by reminding me of death.
Get an image, delete any background you don't want (I usually use Pixlr which is free and online), save it as a transparent png and post it in c/emojis
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Those are normal memes. We just happen to have a culture of great posting passed down to us from weird Twitter.
Our great forefathers fought in the posting trenches of something awful and twitter in order for their descendants to reap the rewards (incomprehensible hyper-online brain poisoning).
We will honor the goons and dirtbags who came before by never logging off
It's a known fact that Redditors (and these Ledditor knockoffs) are criminally unfunny. There's a reason why the only parts of Reddit that are remotely funny are 95% Twitter screenshots. It's because Twitter, unlike the bottomless pit of unfunny that is Reddit, is actually funny.
they have no community and are desperately trying to fill their instance with any activity to keep the thing alive
they'll all be back on reddit by christmas
they're all fiending for stimulus and that is the best slop the participants can manage... once they get tired of the low grade methodone hit that is their liberal lemmy instance, they'll be back on reddit
What you fail to consider is that they are so desperate for slop they are already back on reddit and come to lemmy for that little extra bump even if it is 99% baby laxative.
I agree with the IPA one, it's annoying. I think on our community a complaint about IPA would be in the chat section or something, it's not funny enough to be a meme but it is true
These are cute, it's like a time machine to something I'd find funny 10 years ago maybe
So I've been out of the meme game for a while now but to me it felt like there were a steady stream of meme formats that would come out and then in the past, say 3 or 4 years, the overall volume of new meme formats took a huge nosedive for some reason.
Has any other (old) person noticed this or is it just me?
I think I know what you mean. It was all motivational posters or impact font macros for a while. Then there were those endless Epic Fail Guy or rage guy comics. Then I don't even know, it was wild for a while after around 2012.
Now a meme is one of three things: a picture with a white box and black text, a wojack, or edits of webcomics from 15 years ago
the original editor-in-chief of The Onion back in the 1980s, when they actually printed satirical newspapers, had a philosophy, that there are only 11 types of joke (each one of the examples below is an Onion headline from back in the day, forgive me for they are corny)
- Irony – Intended meaning is opposite of literal meaning
Alcoholic Father Disappointed In Pothead Son
- Character – Comedic character acting on personality traits
Mom Thinks You'd Enjoy Restaurant She Can't Remember Name Of Right Now
- Relatable – Common experiences that audiences can relate to
Day Chalked Up As Loss By 10:15 A.M. (this is most "normie memes")
- Shock – Surprising jokes typically involving sex, drugs, gross-out humor, swearing
Holy Shit, Man Walks On Fucking Moon
- Parody/Reference – Mimic a familiar character, trope or cliche in an unfamiliar way
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet
- Hyperbole – Exaggeration to absurd extremes
Magnanimous Boss, King Of Kings, Allows Employees To Watch World Cup In Office
- Wordplay – Puns, rhymes, double entendres, etc.
Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan
- Analogy – Comparing two disparate things
Man Approaches Unfamiliar Shower Knobs Like He's Breaking A Wild Stallion
- Madcap – Crazy, wacky, silly, nonsensical
Wheelchair Basketball Players Stunned By Thunderous Slam Dunk
- Meta-humor – Jokes about jokes, or about the idea of comedy
It Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives At Risk
- Misplaced Focus – Attention is focused on the wrong thing
Really Fun Toy Banned Because Of 3 Stupid Dead Kids
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.
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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.
I knew I was old but I never thought that I'd feel this old until I read your comment.
The new 'meme format' is reminiscent of the sheer incomprehensibility of memes from 2005, where you could still easily stumble on just the most random stuff, and there were like four or five different videos players and they were all terrible, but the videos were occasionally funny
But now it's like that through mainstream apps and on purpose. People are just throwing whatever they can think of at the algorithm and seeing what sticks
The biggest 'trends' I see are stuff from TikTok, but still, even that is alot of nonsense, some of it comprehensible, some of it not.
Not everyone's sense of humor is poisoned by being terminally online.
they'd get 20 times that. Is there a community?
