• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I’m guessing the faces many people make and put on the picture used for their social media videos looking like they just shit their pants or ate a lemon are going to continue to get more stupid until it’s just a pair of giant eyes and a sphincter

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    This does not really cover the question but the use of companies pushing stuff by using the term viral the way a high school student council poster would use popular. Its like they do something online and of course its practically impossible to have zero participation in stuff (especially if you pay “influencers” to shill for it) and then call it viral even though the majority of folks didn’t participate and don’t care.

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      Skibbidy reminds me so much of early YouTube though. It’s so fucking stupid and senseless.

      I mean, between peanut butter jelly time, the fucking badger song, or even as far back as the bizarre dancing baby, it’s all dumb and senseless.

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      Kids are fucking stupid, lol. My wife is a nanny and texted me to ask if I understood it one day. I csn only figure that its the appeal of toilet humor combined with it annoying the shit out of adults.

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    Stuff like the casting couch or piper memes. I feel like porn centered memes isn’t something a 60 year old will be eager to share with their children.

    “Oh honey, I don’t remember. The internet was weird back then” but it’s not something you actually forget. Not sure if it counts as meta. Shitposting will definitely be misunderstood and frowned upon.

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      I’m never gonna give up watching these types of videos. I’m not going to let down the content creators who make them. And, I’m never gonna run around and hurt these creators who put their heart and souls into the videos.

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      You said skimpy but man I was not expecting it to be that skimpy. Don’t scroll past, check that vid out before youtube takes it down

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      Your post made me realize that troll links in general are going to be mystifying. Case in point, Arctic gave me a thumbnail without needing to click.

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      Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this video. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one video. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW

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      Thats crazy Youtube lets stuff like that be uploaded

      Youd think for sure videos like that would violate their TOS

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      Never heard of such a thing, but there’s a lot of video trends I don’t understand already

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    Who knows what the kids are going to be doing in 30 years? I’m 37, been using the Internet my whole life and there’s plenty of memes out there today that baffle me.

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    Probably an unpopular opinion, but memes.

    Yes, I’m old, but I really want to believe that at some point the rest of the world is going to figure out that there’s nothing particularly fun or funny about weaponized propaganda formatting, and go back to sharing actual information.

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      I’m ok with memes. What bothers me is the low effort reuse of meme formats over and over and over again.

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      I think you’re right with some specific formats.

      Remember Bad Luck Brian, Scumbag Steve, and socially awkward penguin? If you don’t recognize those characters and know what they represent, the text around them won’t make nearly as much sense.

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      They’ll always exist in some form. You could say comics in the newspaper were a version of memes before memes.

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      meme’ing is older then color film, it will probably be a thing that last longer then you want. It communicates a subject that goes beyond language

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        MUCH older. Shakespeare made a ton of contemporary references, and was referenced in turn by others during his days. Those were memes.

        Medieval writers included strong biblical references, and we have some “entertainment” that is purportedly extremely funny and popular, that’s basically the medieval equivalent of Loss.