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| ▲ | saghm 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Obviously 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... |
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| ▲ | supern0va 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My impression is that it's a lack of remixing. I don't think recreating the exact same joke with different people in the video is particularly novel. It seems less like meme/remix culture and more like how you find a slightly different version of the same item (or literally a repackaged item from the same factory) for sale on Amazon from fifty different "brands" that have random ass names. The meme could be good. The mixes could be good. But...is that what is actually happening? Or is someone hoping to create their own version that gets view in competition with the original so they can squeeze out some monetization from a trend and hoping the algorithm lotto smiles upon them? | |
| ▲ | inigyou 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | jatari 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can use youtube and never come across a "meme" like that. |
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| ▲ | oefrha 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I used TikTok and also never came across a meme like that. Or maybe I did once or twice, I just quickly swiped away (or if something I’m not interested in is shown repeatedly I click not interested and it’s gone at least for a long time). If you’re shown the same meme from 20 different people chances are you just kept watching them, maybe with disapproval, but your device can’t read your brainwaves yet so the service just thinks you’re super interested. And YouTube also had those stupid challenges with everyone doing the same stupid shit before TikTok even existed. | | |
| ▲ | nobody9999 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | >And YouTube also had those stupid challenges with everyone doing the same stupid shit before TikTok even existed. And before the transistor, we had flagpole sitters[0] and dance marathons[1] and dozens of other memes, just in the 20th century. This kind of thing is nothing new, and has been going on for as long we've been us. Now this is accessible to a larger and more varied audience, not just those who are nearby. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_sitting [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_marathon |
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| ▲ | kelipso 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’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. |
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| ▲ | wolvoleo 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Memes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking. |
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| ▲ | panick21 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Most 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. | |
| ▲ | amarant 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Weren't memes always just that? I think we're just old | |
| ▲ | girvo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Eh. 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. |
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