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:

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.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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

      • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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…