Antique Memes Roadshow

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A simpler time (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Modern memes are incomprehensible, just take a random picture and slap some completely unrelated text on top of it. Or maybe I'm just too old to get it. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Because they're not memes. I had a heck of a time explaining to my partner that a picture with text on it does not constitute a meme - the same picture used repeatedly with different text captions? Meme.

It did not compute.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This was actually peak comedy in 2018 though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Absurdist memes were/are peak

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the poorly drawn black/white dudes that bother me the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The rage comics?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

No, I like those. I mean the newer ones-