this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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This post makes me feel like we've come full circle. All the way around and back to the 2010 9GAG era of memes. Don't get me wrong, though. This makes me nostalgic. It was a simpler time..
Memes are going through a cycle similar to art I feel. We started with just basic memes of text on random pictures. Then we got really good at those and we started making meta memes. Then we started contemporary memes: memes that challenge what it even means to be a meme (b and big chungus). And now we are tired of contemporary memes and moving back towards basic memes.
I wonder if meme studies will be a legitimate field of research for future anthropologists that study the digital age.
Hi, future people!