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- 2008-2011: the meme renaissance
- 2012-2013: meme shaming, memeing not condoned by the public and is considered unforgivable
- 2014: the second meme renaissance, memeing is once again in style , the world is at peace
- 2015: putin bans memes, memeing intensifies
They crave that mineral compilation post
Okay, but what’s most interesting about this meme (at least from what I’ve seen) is that so far it hasn’t been replicated as much as the normal meme, but instead is doing some sort of reverse meme, in which people are using They Crave That mineral in replications of past memes. It’s like a reverse meme or something.
so what the fuck happened like all of a sudden this was a thing and i’m really confused
“history of the entire world, i guess” things that are definitely going to become meme culture
- “howw did this haappen?“
- “weather update”
- “the sun is a deadly lazer"
- “coming soon to a dank river valley near you"
- “you could make a religion out of this”
- “wow, that’s,… big”
- “chiiiina is whole again… then it brooooke again”
- “helll yea now we’ve got buusiness”
- “whoops, half of europe just died”
- “hey christians, do you sin?”
- “that’s bullshit. this whole thing is bullshit. that’s a scam.”
- “we gotta start pillaging some stuff”
- “let’s overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!”
- “you could make a reli-” “no, don’t"
- “that’s just where he lives”
- “they never got ethiopia”
- “well, blame something on them and go to war"
- “wow, that worked?”
- “wanna print a brain?”
- “by the way, where the hell are we?”
- literally the whole video
Rick Astley is definitely the magician card. Nothing encapsulates the duality of falsehood and truth like rickrolling. You are tricked into watching the video, but at the same time it’s a constant possibility and is often anticipated. It’s additionally one of the memes we think of most when asked what a meme is. It is the awareness of meme culture, the doorway to memeolatry.
this post had 6 notes for 9 months and today it suddenly became cool what happened
ok from what i can tell there have only been like 4 moderately widespread memes on this site in the past month or so (1. pokemon go meme 2. taylor swift copyright meme 3. “you gotta” 4. halsey lyrics on spongebob caps) which others have noted is a remarkably reduced rate of meme production for this trash site.
while i think the fact that the majority of tumblr’s user base has gone back to school definitely contributes to The Great Meme Depression of 2015 (TGMD 2k15), it cannot be the only explanation. if it was we would see the same Meme Stagnation every year around the same time, which has not been the case. september 2014 gave us unavoidable site-wide phenomena such as madden gifferator, “what’s better than this? guys being dudes,” the rebirth of loss.jpg, steal her look, what are we?, etc.
i propose that the rapid rate of meme production we grew accustomed to in 2014 and early 2015 deflated the staying power of individual memes. our hyper-awareness of memes and the fact that our metatextual analysis of said memes became a meme within itself (”memeology”) conditioned us into constant vigilance in our search for “the next meme.” i mean, for fuck’s sake, the first meme of 2014 was “what’s going to be the first meme of 2014?” and the last meme of 2014 was “is this the last meme of 2014?” with garbage pseudo-intellectual meta we sowed the seeds of our own destruction.
deflation of individual meme value led to an even more dramatic increase in meme production (for evidence, just look at how many memes the blog memedocumentation has explained. and of course, those are only 2015 memes. the fact that memedocumentation does not document pre-2015 memes is another fucking 2015 meme) this lead to an even heavier reliance on what could be referred to as Meme Credit–we were borrowing and resurrecting old memes like pepe and the aforementioned loss.jpg to satisfy the Meme Demand in the absence of concrete, original memes. we were destined to crash when that credit ran out and the vaults of the Meme Banks were emptied.
even now as i reflect on how meme hyper-vigilance and overproduction has destroyed the meme economy, i cannot help but wonder “but what will be the next meme?”
only some kind of……….new deal………a New Meme Deal, if u will, can save us from this Great Meme Depression. in its absence we shall continue to suffer.
by far the best “meme” is british lads over reacting to something normal like “IANS BLOODY GOT A WHOLE LOAF OF BREAD IN HIS FREEZER, WHAT AN ABSOLUTE MAD MAN!!!”. Gotta love Ian.
IAN THE NUT CASE BLOODY PICKED UP A BROOM AND STARTED SWEEPING AT THE CLUB! CERTIFIED LEDGE!!!