I hate memes and meme culture.

[8byte]

For so many reasons. I'm already fully prepared for a Big thread backfire...but is there anyone else out there that feels the same?
Not only do they stifle creativity, but they're fueled by content thieves who are making a living off the work of others. Stealing funny tweets / jokes / images, and using them to gain a following on social media to sell sponsorships.

Outside of that, I think they genuinely stop people from sharing any original thoughts, shorten attention spans, and reduce nuanced ideas or topics to two sentences without any context or substance.

I just fucking detest it. Nothing stops me from disengaging with a person faster than "have you seen this meme?"

 

[BDS]

You're a big guy

 

[Surface of Me]

*dabs on OP*

Heh, nothing personnel kid

 

[nDesh]

 

[Deleted member 1086]

ok boomer

 

[Ryuelli]

That's fine, I love memes and meme culture.

 

[Elderly Parrot]

Tell us a joke funny man, like the old times. Gather around

 

[GalacticToast]

 

[Hey Please]

Honestly, for me, memes are the most accessible form of art that also doubles as the most efficient form communication conveying empathy/relatability.

I am not going disagree of its over usage or being utterly insensitive to certain issues when co-opted by hate groups or general assholes.

 

[RBH]

 

[julia crawford]

You mean like those Instagram meme accounts? Yeah those are super lame. But memes that come from community spaces like this forum I think are super great. Memes are community driven humour, when it's not a community they lose all soul.

 

[Ryuelli]

Tell us a joke funny man

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[DetectiveKenobi]

 

[Lucid]

 

[Riboflavin]

ok zoomer

 

[DinosaurusRex]

OP just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about Meme Culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in ResetEra where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in memes, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

OP, publicly apologize and delete this thread or you can kiss your business goodbye.

 

[Deleted member 4783]

You hate it so much, you made 2 threads.

 

[Komo]

op lookin at us rn

 

[Lunchbox-]

mad, this boomer is

 

[wossname]

Outside of that, I think they genuinely stop people from sharing any original thoughts, shorten attention spans, and reduce nuanced ideas or topics to two sentences without any context or substance.

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I like how everyone replying by posting memes is just proving your point.

 

[crimsonECHIDNA]

I HaTe MEmeS aND MeME CUltuRE

 

[Darryl M R]

Memes are great. Meme pages/accounts, excluding maybe two, are lame. I followed some Instagram account that rebranded itself into a meme page.. it's like middle school humor of drowning people in once funny jokes.

 

[RockmanBN]

i liek memez

 

[Cpt-GargameL]

So much that you made two threads

I feel you

Spoiler

I dont

 

[Bio]

Thank you for lettings us know.

We'll stop using memes immediately.

 

[Deleted member 6730]

It's too late to explore the world and too early to explore the universe.

 

[HelloItsPulse]

Have you seen this meme?

 

[Commedieu]

Lol classic edgy double thread meem. Rare but awesome that you pulled it off.

 

[Raiden]

Meme is just a terrible word associated with annoying people.

Besides that, i browse the IMGUR app frequently, and man some of that stuff really cracks me up.

 

[RockmanBN]

It's too late to explore the world and too early to explore the universe.

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[Akira86]

yeah memes can be fun but sometimes they can be too much too.

we used to be fine without short-form referential comedy.

 

[Deleted member 33533]

The duplicate thread closure got me good.

 

[Deleted member 51248]

Me: Gee OP why do you get 2 threads?
OP: Two hands!

 

[Gyro Zeppeli]

Ok mods. You did me wrong. I inflicted a sick meme burn at Hella, and now it will be forever lost in the locked thread sea.

 

[Prine]

Outside of the internet, I don't really encounter it. It's only a problem if all your conversations are through posts.

 

[Kyuuji]

Fly me to the meme

 

[Muppet of a Man]

I don't detest all memes, but they are for the most part the lazy/unfunny man's lowest common denominator form of humor, which is why they are so popular.

 

[srtrestre]

OP, you have no chance to survive make your time

 

[A Grizzly Bear]

The only thing that bothers me is how everything is a meme. Do jokes no longer exist?

 

[RedMercury]

 

[Cdammen]

You're overthinking this.

 

[Doober]

Nah, feel the same OP.

Made a similar thread a few weeks ago.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Is this a meme

 

[RBH]

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lmao

 

[ItIsOkBro]

sometimes i hate it too. it's like that key and peele sketch where that guy can't give his own opinions except replace that with a guy that memes.

 

[djinn]

I hate memes.
They're rough and coarse and they get everywhere.

 

[Alastor3]

I usually like the meme i create or obscure meme and hate everything else that everybody likes

Works also pretty much on every media

 

[Cdammen]

I love The Simpsons mashups.

 

[Baladium]

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Spoiler

 

[8byte]

The duplicate thread closure got me good.

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Haha, I don't know how it posted twice, but it was for sure a weird error (posted from mobile).
Funnily enough, I saw both on the front page and was like "oh fucking great my thread got meme'd in seconds"

For clarity though, I mostly mean stuff from Insta / Facebook / Twitter. Political memes, stolen joke accounts, or people who start conversations with memes, etc.

Like, some of it I admittedly do enjoy, like that old "Shot themselves in the foot" meme.