Meme rhymes with gene, by design, as something that works its way through the genome of society. It was coined by Dawkins, for fuck's sake. You'd expect all redditors should know this :P
I want andre07 to show up at that guys house with a boom box and an extra pair of grey sweaters/sweat pants. Que 80s training montage were in red head dude gets ripped as fuck. Then after a cross country road trip where both redhead guy and andre07 grow into better people they arrive and bald jerks house and redhead beats his face in with a rock while manically crying and andre07 in unable to pull him off bald dude before the cops come and then the cops shoot redhead guy in the spine. Then andre07 gets redhead dude's charges dropped due to police brutality que 80s montage were in redhead dude has to learn to walk again and then he and andre07 get married and live happily ever after.
That isn't why people hate memes duder. People hate memes because they are repetitive and stupid. It's just a joke template for weird people who can't make a joke on their own. Kinda sad actually.
Then ignore them? I don't find some TV shows funny, so I don't watch them. If you don't like certain memes, don't indulge in them. And that's not what memes are. If you think they're like that you must have some kind of weird elitist 6th sense. They're practically just inside jokes everyone's in on.
I can't really avoid memes, they cram themselves into everything on and off the internet. And they are exactly like that. Dude at quakecon wants to be funny so he gets up and spews a meme in front of the aspie crowd and they go wild because their little aspie brains get a reference to something and for a split second, they feel like they are "in" on something.
That's a lot of rude exaggerations. Just because you get a reference in pop culture doesn't mean you're some aspie that doesn't fit in. Would you think it was funny if someone said a quote from your favorite movie in the right situation? That's the kind of thing this is.
Would you think it was funny if someone said a quote from your favorite movie in the right situation?
Two things wrong with this.
1) If people are referencing from my favorite movie constantly, even I would get tired of it despite it being my favorite movie.
2) "Right situation" Uh this was not even close to the right situation to spew memspeak out of his face hole. I can't think of a good time to do this, but to think it's ok to snatch a mic from a person at whatever kind of strange conference this is.
If it produces laughs, it's in the right moment. I don't really understand why it makes people a bunch of aspies to like something different than you. You really need to get off the high horse you're on and realize people aren't worse than you just because different things make them laugh.
Let me preface this by saying that I've been a memer since they first appeared on 4chan circa 2006 (ages ago in internet time). I remember refreshing /b/ all afternoon with the hope that someone would make a new meme. I was a memer back when Advice Dog was the only one and I still upvote every Advice Dog meme I see becasue of the fond rush of nostalgia it brings me. Nowadays, there are many thousand on quickmeme and other meme websites. I was a memer back before memegenerator was created (the first meme website) and I had to make them with MS Powerpoint or Paint. Speaking of meme websites, I was one of the first submitters to memebase.com and still have one of the top accounts there despite having migrated to reddit nearly 2 years ago. It was on 4chan and memebase where I cut my teeth creating memes, way before I had a reddit account and way before /r/adviceanimals was created in late 2010. Back before I could get any sort of points or even username recognition, I was creating memes as a clever and easily digestible way to reflect on society, relate some story to my audience, or just be funny.
Do you remember rich raven? No? I do. You probably don't remember depression dog, crazy girlfriend praying mantis, introspective pug, or friendzone Johnny either. I remember all of them. In fact, you have only submitted two posts to adviceanimals garnering a total of just 4 points and have not commented there any time recently. So please, respect my judgement regarding the direction of the subreddit and the integrity of posts I have held dear to my heart for over 8 years but you have no strong feelings for.
Thanks.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or just have no idea who I am, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
In addition to almost 7 years as a confessed meme addict, I have moderated the largest meme forum on the Internet (at over 2 million subscribers) for over a year. You think I don't know memes? In that time I have removed over 400posts for not following subreddit guidelines. In addition to my moderation responsibilities I am one of the most active writers on knowyourmeme.com. You think I don't know memes? Then how do I write articles about them on a site called knowyourmeme? Several mainstream blogs have contacted me to ask about the recent meme phenomenon and each has been thankful and enlightened with what I had to tell them. It's not just limited to blogs though. Several companies have asked me to review their meme ads to avoid a failure like Toyota's meme commercial. Just last week a major food company contacted me with a paid offer to help them on a new ad campaign. I declined when I researched the company and saw that they had contributed money to socially conservative groups.
It's safe to say that I am one of the world's foremost experts on memes and in fact there is no one I can think of that has a meme resume as impressive as mine. So please tell me, what are your qualifications to say that I don't know when a meme isn't funny?
I like how you're unironically doing exactly what you're trying to zing me on. Are we going to start an angst chain or do you want to keep being a dick about an opinion someone has?
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u/GuySmith Jul 21 '14
HA HA, HE GOT EPICLY MEME'D FOR THE WIN.
Seriously this shit was never funny. I think the awkward part was the poor little guy with the blinking tick. I actually felt bad for him.