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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
You can think of it as advanced emoticons. Text doesn’t give context, tone, inflection, and of course the need for the occasional “/S” all get covered by a commonly understood reference to covey the poster’s point they’re looking to make.
I don’t think of them like that because they’re rarely used IN the conversation, they’re standalone “content”
And your example doesn’t apply to the majority of them. I don’t see how a shitty edit of a meme does a better job conveying “this thing is bad” than just saying “this thing is bad.”