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How to keep up with memes?
2016-06-08 10:06:24 Post No. 29140973
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How to keep up with memes?
Anonymous
2016-06-08 10:06:24
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I've been contemplating about acceptance of memes on 4chan since I started visiting /b/ in like 2009.
When I started coming to 4chan, I learned to lurk moar: the act of shutting the fuck up, learning the rules and not being cancer by browsing without posting. Naturally, many memes caught my eye, original as the were back then, and still funny, from before 9gag ruined them forever. So I saw Cool Face, and I saw some puddi, some DESU, and just stuff. Then I saw people arguing about newfaggotry. "Post the memes from when you first came to 4chan to prove how old of a fag you are!"
>But how do you know if the meme you saw today was made up yesterday, or in the early days of 4chan? How do you know if puddi was fresh, or if it was a recurring meme for years? I didn't.
So times moved on and new memes emerged. Some were natural, some were forced hard down our throats. As the course of life took me, I couldn't frequent 4chan as much as I used to, and suddenly I felt completely out of touch with whatever meme came out that week, or month. One day I arrive and I see doge. How can I tell how long it's been around? Where did it come from? No clue. It's not like you can ask, because you'd get called a newfag and never actually get an answer.
Luckily, I found Know Your Meme. For as much cancer as it supports, it allowed me to digest new crap that surfaces on 4chan behind my back.
Recently, I began seeing some pictures of a guy who seems very agitated about something, as if he's trying to heave out a hairball. It always seemed like something about womyns, or gamergate. I began seeing edits of the picture, and then crude MSPaint renditions of it. So I just avoided it. Marked as one of "those" memes, I didn't pay it much attention.
Last week I saw a guy mentions "aids skrillex" in a Skype group. I thought he meant simply "skrillex", because he's pretty aids already. Skrillex talk isn't important talk, so I tuned it out.
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