Hey, I want to try a little activity
Please direct your attention to this meme. (I would feel better. If you go play over on the sponge beds)
Did you find that funny then well it doesn't matter because 130,000 other people did okay, how about this one
Yep, that was it, that was the meme. It's very interesting following the progression of memes over the years going from this to this
They're vastly different but they both share the core essence of what a meme achieves and in today's society
Memes though everywhere. You just can't escape it. Trust me guys
I've done years of research of watching memes progress and by that I just mean I've been sitting on a couch and laughing it means
With my bro over on my second Channel and I just want to share with you beautiful people my analysis of how I think memes have evolved over time and how important they've become
Before we begin. There is one important question
What is a meme is it an image an icon is a PewDiePie?
Well, sorta a meme folks is like an idea or behavior that is spread from person to person.
A meme carries cultural meaning or symbolism that invokes a particular response from individuals, okay
Let me dumb it down a bit say you post an image of a roblox character
A lot of people will all think the same thing and most comments are gonna look similar. Let's try another example
What would your comment be on this video?
Know at least one of you thought about typing the letter F see memes all stem from something
We find relatable like an inside joke or an experience. We've had oh, wow, that is relatable
You sent an F comment, because everyone else knows exactly what you mean
That is what means ow in modern times a way of sharing a funny idea
But I'm even needing to talk to each other. Now. I'm gonna be categorizing means of the three categories
You have the early error the creation error and the mainstream error who's ready for a linearly crappy history lesson folks now
Let's begin in the early era the pre 2010 memes around this time. We're pretty innocent and silly
well
most of them they consisted of viral images or videos being circulated to you to all your friends and family and
even your local runescape trend group
Your friends would send you a video of a cat playing a keyboard over MSN and you'd be like hey, yeah
That's a pretty funny and then you send it to some old friends or another example
If a friend told you something that was super obvious you'd apply with. Oh really? Yeah
It was a lot more personal back. Then it was inside jokes between mates or small online communities. All your base are belong to us
Twitter had only just started in 2006 and YouTube a year earlier. So memes were just beginning to be injected into people's blood streams
I can't go through every Mimi's this video would be like 10 hours long
But numa numa and Leroy Jenkins were my personal favorites that went viral back in the early days before you knew it
Everybody was strangling each other since they were getting rickrolled by their friends
So as we approach the 2010s memmio's were just beginning to get popular but it just didn't have that iconic image attached to it
Well that was until the creation era baby now in the creation era
This is where memes truly begin to form an identity on the Internet
I'm sure most of you get nostalgic or at least have some memory seeing these old boys back on lo cat's Como I can as
Cheeseburgers calm got these names are so bad humans started becoming punchlines
associated with the iconic images and this started defining what memes are for more and more people every
Single one of these memes had something that the last era did it
user creation
That's why means began taking a creative turn and people began putting their own creative
stun things the early error only had viral images you'd share or sent but now so many variations of one meme were being made by
Everyone hello to the nice scumbag Steve. Good guy Greg and let's not forget the rage comics
It didn't even end there people were mashing songs with videos editing really random stuff
It was a sign of what was coming YouTube poops and MLG memes take things a step further and express. What true art means
Amazing memes was party from left and right and it was all our fault
And so the directions and memes was becoming clear user-generated content
And for this era it was funny punchlines epic game amines and cute cat pictures, but Luke you asked
Why isn't that the humor anymore? Why are you showing us all this cringy craft? Well guys
There's only one thing you can blame for this change in humor that mainstream era as we headed towards the mid-2010
Memes began to get seriously popular on mainstream media. YouTube was all like, let's celebrate all the means. Yeah
More and more people began to voice their own opinions on the net and show the bitterness towards things
That means pausing memes themselves become increasingly software and cynical and so relatable memes skyrocketed in popularity
What are relatable memes?
Oh these kind of CAPTCHA means
You know ones that always describe a situation with a perfect reaction image that you feel on a soul level
Social sites like Twitter and Instagram started becoming flooded with these relatable means means overcoming
accessible to almost every single person and now it was all about how relatable can you get now at the same time the rise of
Cynicism on the Internet has caused the humor to shift focus heavily on two things number one
mockery and parody for example to be fair
You have to have a very high cute honest and wicked mori the human is extremely subtle and but that exists is so said
Alexa please played Esposito. Is this loss?
These are only some examples of memes that creatively mocks and parodies communities events or individuals. They can be pretty clever
or pretty surreal
And the internet loves it and number two
The biggest change in my opinion is obscurity
The hema of the Internet has evolved so much that we only find humor and stuff that is completely stupid and insane
But how did we get to this point? Well, the answer is quite simple. Actually, it's called post
Irony folks when you expose to something for so long
You don't know if you're laughing at it, ironically or genuinely have a look at this pulley made graph over time
You can see the weirdness and the amount of memes. That's spawn. Okay?
I don't really have any numbers or anything
but I'm pretty sure everyone can agree that memes just kept popping up more and more over the years and the level of
Obscurity just gets a little bit higher every year. It's just become what standard to us. We see something really obscure and we're like
Okay, what you're seeing on screen right now. I bet you don't even flinch but show it to your parents or grandparents
They're gonna be a bit confused
Look at this lemon meme
What does this even I don't even know what this means nothing. That's exactly it
It means absolutely nothing and that is the pure
Memes have become so out of context so
Ridiculously stupid that it's become Alerus to people you get Knuckles big chunga's moth memes league
Ma Venus Oh stinky penis music and 100 million other memes
I can't even name the joke is we're laughing at how low our humor has become
So that's why what I showed you at the beginning was pretty funny to people. So yeah
Most memes today fold at least into one of the categories I've talked about in this video
And in result of all this crap that's going on the death and spawn rate of memes have increased so damn much over the years
If memes were an inside joke
Mainstream media would be that one guy that were peaches so much that he gets old and you just don't want to hear it anymore
One day there's a meme next day. It expired in warden key
imagine going home one day and your parents were laughing and you were like
What are you and your dad was like hey son. We're just watching penis. Music Maivia. Come join us
Yeah
Would be pretty awkward wouldn't it and don't even think of singing any old meme on erotically or else the internet will slaughter you
Metaphorically, it's a it's an unwritten taboo. You just don't say old memes or else you die
The internet is spouting so much new crap at an alarming rate that we just have to move on to the next meme
Immediately. Next me next me next MIT. You have to keep me in calendars for God's sake just too damn many memes
But in all honesty all the means I've mentioned in this video
I really like they were weird at first but you know
I've just come to accept and embrace them all in all memes have had a
Huge-ass role in shaping the culture we know today
The word meme has changed so much that anything could be a meme at this footage
Like for example stretched out an eva
Jamario, blob out his eyes and add the word chicken, but with no siva placed with the emoji see hey, maybe some rules
Damn, it's a meme
Memes are truly fascinating guys everywhere you go. Whoever you talk to that either quota mean you're not saying I think because of her earth
for the use of reaction gifts
Means help us express what we feel and you know bring us together
Okay. Okay. I know this sounds really corny and crap, but it's true like people come together and celebrate me me
Why did I think I look forward to and I'm sure you guys look forward to me me wines as well
It's become part of our lives
You can't deny that also YouTube comes to just filled with people making the old memes out of timestamps in the videos
I mean look at all that I even go on my own reddit and people make memes out of my videos, too
And it's it's great. Everyone is even meaning serious real life events
And like I don't know if that's a coping thing or if everyone just yeah, if everything is just a mean to everyone nowadays
But you know, that's that's just how society is and oh, yeah, this memes and mainstream movies - oh God look two endings off
I'm gonna leave you with the best example of a meme that has shown how important mean culture has become
meat sands this skeletal boy has been on so many memes that it's not funny like every single component of
This character has been turned into a mean his jacket. He's glowing I his theme
his catchphrases just being a skeleton in general meme culture has made this character world-renowned and you know, what proves that
Boom Nintendo listens to us and stands and smashed Oh God's and is it Wesley? Why? Oh, oh, we've objects max t-shirt as well
Oh
Everyone
So that my friends is the power of mean culture
We've yelled so loud that you know, even real life is beginning to react to it
And that's why my final point is Nintendo, please put sans as a playable character in smash. I know he's a me fighter
But I actually wanted to be you know his own slot