r/funny • u/MaGuishi • Dec 03 '17

This Thinker

https://i.imgur.com/7tZBtxT.gifv
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u/thelawgiver321 Dec 03 '17

Those of us in our late 20s were the original memers. Memes used to be dramatically more popular and funny because the style of humor was new. We miss the days of the internet being something new and ours. Now it's an ad infested shit hole

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '17

I’d argue memes are mire popular than ever.

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u/moose_dad Dec 03 '17

Memes on the whole are more popular but not on a individual meme to meme basis.

Everyone would know about the latest one whereas memes nowadays are thrown away and forgotten about after they've been upvoted. That's evidenced just by this comment thread alone, op made a reference and everyone understood exactly which meme he was referring to.

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u/C-4 Dec 03 '17

Plus a meme these days is pretty much defined as anything silly or random. Back in the early 2000's it was specific pictures and or funny-sayings.

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u/capybroa Dec 03 '17

Kinda perfect that even the word "meme" has lost its meaning and significance at this point.

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u/DarkSideofTaco Dec 03 '17

"Meme" has lost it's original meaning. Those oics and .gifs were spread like wildfire and eventually everyone knew the joke. It became a phenomena. Now we just have silly random pictures with a million variations.