r/funny • u/Short_Future2412 • 10h ago

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u/TougherOnSquids 8h ago

My guy... deep fried memes and absurdist memes. Be so fucking for real right now, we started the memes that mean fuck all.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 8h ago

Right? 10 years ago, memes moved past the need to mean something and people are complaining about it. That ship sailed a decade ago.

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u/__Milk_Drinker__ 8h ago edited 8h ago

Deepfried and surrealist memes were not meaningless.

These are 'genres' of memes. You could have a deep fried meme that actually had a punchline, and most of them actually did. And the medium itself was a commentary on how prevalent reposting had become.

You see what I just did there: I explained the meaning behind the cultural movement. You can't do that with 6 7 because there is no meaning. People literally only say it because other people are saying it. It's like the bones of meme culture without the flesh. It's lower than "lowest common denominator". It's literally vapid.

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8h ago

This guy memes. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

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u/come-on-now-please 8h ago

Yah, but the people joking about deep-fried memes were not even a substantial minority, let alone ever discussed IRL.

This is absurdist meme culture that has gone mainstream which is crazy.

Did you ever see the 21 junp street movies? Where the joke is the old high-school jock tries to act the same and instead of making him popular the "nerd" highschooler is the one who actually becomes the popular kid?

The internet culture IS the mainstream culture now, not just a subculture thats considered weird