I don’t think I’ll ever understand the affinity for it. It’s the Internet equivalent of that annoying kid in middle school who couldn’t have a conversation without quoting The Simpsons or South Park lol
Have you ever heard of the phrase “a picture says a thousand word”?
Memes became a thing at a time when even emojis weren’t even a thing; though smilies were present, it was too cumbersome and not mainstream. At that same time “personalized content” was only a capitalist wet dream. Most people watched the same selected channels thus creating a “mono culture”.
Then phones with image sharing, widespread internet, and a bunch of other things became widespread enough that we needed way to quickly express complex emotions without both us and the other partner needing to know obscure name of that emotion/feeling. And that’s how memes became so popular.
Nowadays, we no longer have that same mono culture. So only memes we have today, are the ones became viral on the internet.
Memes are funny because its a reference to a thing we both know and thus an inside joke elevated by that fact.
Modern ones are either that, or kind of just “heres a funny picture with text thats kind of funny next to this picture”
How does the picture make it funnier here?
I don’t think I’ll ever understand the affinity for it. It’s the Internet equivalent of that annoying kid in middle school who couldn’t have a conversation without quoting The Simpsons or South Park lol
Have you ever heard of the phrase “a picture says a thousand word”?
Memes became a thing at a time when even emojis weren’t even a thing; though smilies were present, it was too cumbersome and not mainstream. At that same time “personalized content” was only a capitalist wet dream. Most people watched the same selected channels thus creating a “mono culture”.
Then phones with image sharing, widespread internet, and a bunch of other things became widespread enough that we needed way to quickly express complex emotions without both us and the other partner needing to know obscure name of that emotion/feeling. And that’s how memes became so popular.
Nowadays, we no longer have that same mono culture. So only memes we have today, are the ones became viral on the internet.
Sorry for the lecture…
The words aren’t even the same tone of the original. The image isn’t being used to convey an idea, it’s just…there.
Meh; a lot of those guys were my friends.