Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.
replyObviously meme formats from when I was younger (images and text) are fine, but meme formats that are newer (video and text) and brainrot. Or maybe it's just the same thing every generation does where they think the generations before them were hopelessly out of touch but the kids nowadays have no taste...
replyYou can use youtube and never come across a "meme" like that.
replyIt’s a culture thing I guess. Overlay videos of other videos and the memeing videos has been in TikTok since the beginning. Youtube would probably ban the former under a copyright strike or something.
replyMemes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking.
replyMost memes and most application of memes were not that funny. Scrolling reddit 10 years ago is not that different from TikTok just with pictures instead of videos.
replyWeren't memes always just that? I think we're just old
replyEh. They really weren't. "I'm firin' mah lazer" wasn't funny and yet for a while it was ubiquitous. I'd wager in fact that most memes weren't inherently funny: their purpose is in-group signalling for the most part.
reply>The problem I find with it is that it's such a monoculture. Everyone is copying everyone else.
replycongratulations on discovering mimesis
They've made it into an actual skit now? I remember when it was just a regular old meme.
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