MayVaneDay Studios (Gopher Edition)

memes

published: 5-28-2018

I love memes. Love, not loved, because I still do, despite my recent disillusionment with the world of normies. I.. I just don't understand how "Despacito" or "Burger King foot lettuce" or "do you know da wey" became so funny. One's a shitty pop song, and the others are just... things, I guess, things with no vestige of humor to them.

My favorite meme, as those who know me in real life already know to death, is "understandable, have a great day". There's nothing particularly funny about the predictable exchange- it's the fact that it's so mundane that makes it funny. One expects autistic screeching at the fact that whatever the dude asked for in the drive-through wasn't available, but he just calmly drives away instead. It's something primal, something particular that tickles the unconscious.

I used to be known to my family and friends as the "underground dark web meme dealer". Now, I look at 99% of memes, and all I can muster is a shrug. Is this the Eternal September of memes? Are post-post-ironic memes the logical conclusion and we can go no further? Are "dank" memes so prolific now that the whole concept of memes have ceased to be dank?

It scares me to think that there are some people out there whose sole identity is memes. Chasing after a neverending flurry of pop culture references, parroting out catchphrases like we were all six again just off of a binge of Saturday morning cartoons. Like I were surrounded with millions of badly-trained AI programs, spitting out memes only tangentially related to whatever subject I'd been trying to discuss with them.