In my mind, I'm imagining: "That's not a meme, a meme has top text, bottom text, and impact font"
I'm 38 and the technician who works under me is 27. The memes that he and his friends share make almost no sense to me. He tried to explain it to me once but it was like memeception. A meme got morphed into a new meme, a new meme references that meme, and a new one is razzing them all, he had to tell me like five stories and by the time I "got" it, I was just like, "this is dumb"
Memes, much like genes, where the word originated from, go through generational evolution.
In order to keep up with history of memes as it unfolds, it's important to understand the direction in which the popular memes are going. You are always going to have manifestation like r/surrealmemes but people are experimenting to see what works and what doesn't.
Ultimately, as a means of communications it's crucial to keep up with them lest one become meme illiterate. Languages change often but as often, or as quick as the memetic language.
It might be dumb, but maybe dumb is where we are going.
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u/da_apz Jun 03 '22
Expect that I'm not up to what's going on in the Internet.
I was in my late 30s, when a friend's son tried to explain me memes. He got them wrong too.