I'm getting old. Example...
I don't think I *get* most "memes", and I certainly don't understand 90% of all these abbreviations for things, like, I have to keep looking this shit up.
Is it just me?
@Averly New memes don't seem to follow the same pattern as old ones. They're just kind of weird and not funny?
@Averly *they went with that
@Averly Why is no one making rage comics about Trump? They would be hilarious.
@Averly Specific allegory? I suppose. There was a wide variety of stuff out there. Everything from silly cats with captions on them to Dolan comics.
@thor I remember that. Anything after, well, is just wayyy over my head. Or around. Maybe through. 🤷🏻
Obviously I'm pretty out of the loop, too, since I have no freakin' idea what the "Pepe the Frog" meme is.
People live in little bubbles that include other people with shared interests, especially online, so that even close friends sometimes don't have a clue what someone's posting about. Because of these bubbles things some people use what seems totally normal to them, like abbreviations we may not know. They forget it's not "common", but memes grow
@Averly The way I remember memes, they made some attempt at being clever. That aspect seems to have been lost. Now they seem to be almost more like glorified emojis, like that Pepe the Frog meme, which is always used for reactions. As far as I can tell, there's no actual humor there. It's as if there was a part of the Internet that never understood the humor of memes, but they liked the superficial remix culture aspect of it, so they with that.