>>18518032
AI.

next question, bot.

>>18518037
my twitter just became black people doing black people stuff to each other so I stopped using it.
my reddit is just cat pictures and diet information which I could always use so I'm not dropping it.
my mastodon was just radical left wing politics and transgender porns so I stopped watching it.

post memes instead of textextext

>>18518032
If you are interested in the hisory of memes, you should first watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

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>>18518055
I don't know how to use GIMP to add captions but this is the meme template for one of the people memes.
> top text: doesn't mind that you broke up with them
> bottom text: is still going to keep gooning to you under your bed frame when you have a new significant other.

>>18518032
internet became too corporate-controlled and static for culture to keep evolving organically
4chan should've been an exception but instead jannies got too strict on the hobby boards (hence /pol/ of all places producing new memes) and also failed to crack down on pepes and basedjaks like they did motivational posters

>>18518032
>advice animals, those weird people memes with high impact font like over attached girl friend, rage comic, atheist memes
I grew up with all those shitty memes, never laughed at any of them when they were "in". only during the mid 2010s did I begin to enjoy the humor coming out of internet culture, starting with montage parodies, early MDE, and tendie greentexts from r9k. old internet humor seems very insipid in comparison, even "subversive" stuff was predictable, like excessive cursing/gore for the sake of it or shallow randomness. It's hard to articulate, but post-2013 humor tends to be infused with more vitriol and genuine irreverance

>>18518037
I'd say it was algorithms. Humans spread human memes, algo spreads algo memes.

But then again I'd divide it into - late 2000s to early 2010s (le epic meme era), late 2010s (algo era), 2020s forwards (algo to AI)


The one thing that would improve the internet experience is if people actually got to curate their own algorithms. It's totally nuts that people seem to be okay with some billion dollar jerkoff deciding what they watch.

>>18518135
we are the meme now :(

>>18518126
It's maybe hard to imagine how straight-laced and squared away the media environment was before the internet. Some of the humor was from using real foul language and showing really inappropriate things, beyond what an edgy comedy or edgy drama could ever do.

One early classic was 'rude Tintin' where it was just Tintin shots redubbed by a British guy who cursed constantly. It worked because it just wasn't done before, and computer tools allowed fairly high production values. It replicated the kind of energy you'd find in a friend group who would make fun of stuff on TV, and this normally wouldn't ever have made it onto regular media.

It was good for like 12 to 18 months, but we got 10 years of it because as more people would get online, they'd find it, share it, or add to it, or they'd have freakouts about it being allowed. And it worked as real art when it was combined with some higher IQ stuff in the mix, it's just that having the lowbrow stuff in there, even using it as the palette, meant the overall artform aged very poorly.

>>18518032
Pepe and wojak killed them. Consider how every meme is now a variation of wojak in some way.