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Everyone is entitled to like what they like so keep on posting and laughing about your memes if you’re into them…but to me they are garbage and I wish the trend would die off.
I’m sure we all had that one annoying classmate growing up who incessantly quoted The Simpsons or SpongeBob…well…those quotes are the memes. That annoying kid is the “creator” of the memes. Can’t come up with an original joke so they parrot what funny people have said before in an attempt to get people to think they’re funny, too.
I won’t go as far as to say it’s joke theft but it’s pretty close. Its humor wholly hinges on original joke, the memer adds a modicum of context. You’ve seen the original joke repeated a hundred times already, is it really still funny to you?
Whenever an expansion/dlc/whatever drops for a new game I play a game of mental bingo of the exact memes that will get posted.
Something similar to how it was before? ItsTheSamePicture.png
A cute new animal/NPC? IfAnythingHappensToHim.png
An aspect of the game that didn’t get much love? DrowningSkeleton.png
Etc…just lazily slap an icon over the faces and get upvoted like crazy. It’s not a complicated joke and you know the punchline already… How are you still laughing about it?
Does anyone else feel that way? The prevalence of low effort memes makes me believe this is an unpopular opinion but I can’t be the only one who is tired of seeing the same jokes over and over and over
There’s no line in the sand, really. I don’t have any “hard rules” on the subject, I just don’t see the appeal.
How many times can you hear the same joke before you stop laughing?
Personally? Quite a few times, but I have an appreciation for meme culture specifically, and have spent a long time observing it and trying to understand. The answer to that question will mostly depend on how old the person you are asking is, I imagine.
It comes down to that old line that “there’s nothing new under the sun”. This is false, of course, but it communicates an important idea nonetheless.