Internet Meme's

[blas87]

And this would be why, in general, I hate people who use the same old jokes or zingers over and over, forever and ever, and they seriously expect the same first time reaction you had, every time.

I'm not sure what's really worse.....being Rick Rolled for the hundredth time, or being asked if I'm cleaning my car because I shit my seat for the hundredth time.

[Gravekeeper]

Trollface ( and its variants such as Always Alone and what not ) are basically just elaborate emoticons. So I don't really mind them ( in moderation anyway ). Memes based on phrases tend to be much more of a tiresome piss off. Such as "The Cake Is a Lie", "One does not simply <insert term> into Mordor", "Cool story, bro", "Until I took an arrow in the knee", etc.

The inherent problem is they only function the first time they are used in a particular context. However, there's always an addition 10-15 people that wish they were as cool as the original user and either reuse it in the same damn thread or sit around waiting for any possible opportunity to be the first to insert it in a new situation or thread.

[blas87]

The picture of Gene Wilder (original Willy Wonka) and the many, many uses of that picture are starting to get annoying.

[Andara Bledin]

What's worse than new people repeating the same meme in different contexts is a single person in a single session repeating the same meme over and over again. And then doing that several weeks in a row.

I have a friend that comes over to visit (and escape his crazy family) and he plays Skyrim on our Xbox.

The "arrow to the knee" thing wasn't even funny when it started... >_<

^-.-^

[Gravekeeper]

The problem isn't meme's, its people that are A) Unaware memes have a shelf life and B) Don't learn about a meme till its already been on the shelf so long its appeared on MSNBC.

[NateSean]

I'm resisting the urge to quote Amy Farrah Fowler as I read this. Memes never really bother me as much. Some of the "How Society Percieves this Thing" memes going around can be pretty funny and others get old. But just like the Kirk Vs. Picard and the Chuck Norris list, I'm sure it won't be long before we see those on a T-shirt somewhere.

[Gravekeeper]

But just like the Kirk Vs. Picard and the Chuck Norris list, I'm sure it won't be long before we see those on a T-shirt somewhere.

Chuck Norris isn't a meme, he's a prostate cancer half the Internet refuses to get checked out.

[bex1218]

Chuck Norris isn't a meme, he's a prostate cancer half the Internet refuses to get checked out.

Best. Quote. Ever.

Willy Wonka was ok at first. The baby one's that are popping around are kinda cute, used the right way. But I get tired of seeing Chuck Norris everywhere.

[AdminAssistant]

I haven't seen a Chuck Norris meme in well over a year.

[Andara Bledin]

I have a friend who tried to replace Chuck Norris with Bob Ross.

It actually caught on with a small but noticeable chunk of the WoW population on that server at the time.

^-.-^

[AdminAssistant]

Bob Ross is decently popular on r/AdviceAnimals (the reddit for memes).

[Amanita]

I remember one poster on a cosplay forum I'm on- she was part of a group planning to perform a skit at an upcoming con. She had written a script, sent it to her groupmates, and asked for feedback- like it, don't like it, want anything changed, speak up now. They all went along with it, and began memorizing their parts. With only a month before the con, the group rebelled. All of a sudden, they wanted to change the skit's theme to "Internet Memes".

Needless to say, the young lady posting her tale of woe was pissed. She had already given the group lots of time to voice ideas and objections. There was only a month to learn new material. And she had a bad feeling about the new subject matter itself- she was worried the skit was going to bomb. Needless to say, a lot of other posters backed her, telling her that if she wished to drop out of the group she was in, she was well within her rights. The rest of the group had abandoned the original plan, changing the theme of the skit entirely. And she was right about how it was likely going to bomb in front of the audience.

Quite a few of us pointed out how quickly internet memes lose their humor, and what a short shelf life they have. A meme that's hilarious now might be old hat which everyone is sick of in a month, and audiences tend to hate skits based on them, because by the time they're acted out on stage, they've been done to death and people have had enough.

I also hate how these memes seem to take the place of intelligent discussion- I remember posting some of my character ideas someplace, and one poster, instead of saying anything to explain themselves, simply posted one of those silly MLP meme pics, with the words "Do not like". Maybe they thought they were trying to lighten things up, but to me it came across as trite, dismissive, and completely unhelpful. They only clarified their feelings when I pressed the issue, asking exactly why they "did not like". It turns out they didn't like anthropomorphics in general, and wondered why characters always had to be depicted as humanoid- isn't there some other way to show intelligence?
I was able to explain myself, and my reasons for designing the character as I had, and the other person "got it" then. But all of that could have been explained and hashed out much faster, had that person posted their reason for feeling as they did from the beginning, and not wasted time with that silly meme pic.

[Gravekeeper]

I have a friend who tried to replace Chuck Norris with Bob Ross.

The Bob Ross meme has been around as long if not longer than Chuck, it just never really caught on that much outside of Fark / 4Chan. Everybody likes Bob Ross to much to abuse him -.-

Quite a few of us pointed out how quickly internet memes lose their humor, and what a short shelf life they have. A meme that's hilarious now might be old hat which everyone is sick of in a month, and audiences tend to hate skits based on them, because by the time they're acted out on stage, they've been done to death and people have had enough.

Amen. On top of that the idjits most likely to use a meme are also the ones most likely to use memes that have a short shelf life. If someone actually thinks a show based on memes is a good idea, chances are the sort of memes they think are funny are the ones that were overdone inside of 48 hours two months ago.

To channel Cracked for a moment: The essential problem is people who aren't funny now think that shit like meme's, hashtags, etc make other people think they are funny. In much the same way people who aren't actually funny think they are funny if they just keep repeating jokes they heard.

Its the modern equivilent of your insufferable Uncle Jim that thinks he's funny because he rattles off terrible blond jokes in every conversation.