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Because most memes being created are just some image with text over it changing its context. Which are just rehashes of rehashes

Even 4chan has been boring lately, all that ever comes out of /pol/ now a days is "Lets take this thing people like but make it into a hate symbol hrhhrhrhrhr"

Big political event happens that everyone has a fuss over for a week until the next thing happens

2016 was a real hoot-n-holler but everything post 2016 just feels sameish, boring, stupid, and unoriginal

Liberalism is coming at its end. Recall that people effectively said that history ended in the 1990s when the Soviet Union fell, which obviously isn't true, but it is true that liberalism itself is stuck in the same place. This is partially the reason why fascism is on the rise again, as it still has room for ideological growth, and also the reemergence of socialism on the left.

There are still ideas left to explore (good or not), but those ideas are not found within liberal capitalist thought.

That's for sure. r/prequelmemes is running out of prequel lines to meme on. now they resort to eels and ants.

@TheLastMethBender

My interpretation of it is, that the internet has started to go through its meta/surreal/abstract/ironic phase, with things like me_irl, surreal memes, bone hurting juice, and increasingly verbose memes. We're at the tail end of that trend now, and the internet's way forward with memes isn't really certain. I don't think it's dead tho. Video memes certainly have a lot more to go, having a new renaissance from the "[Video] but [Change/Addition]" genre (Steamed Hams, We Are Number One), broadening the YTP/YTPMV format.

@Princeso Bubblegum

I don't believe that liberalism has much to do with the current change in memes, but this would be an interesting topic for another thread, if given more as a question on the future of ideologies. I'd certainly reply, but I dun want to derail this meme thread.

ironic and abstract 'new' memes using the twitter text captioning, deep fried memes and kornheisers are pretty much like impact font, advice animals and demotivational posters seen 8 years ago. image macros and exploitables are eternal, i thought you would know that by now.

a lot of recent memes are created through any of those, so it will always feel samey and unoriginal. it's a way of memes. original memes do pop up here and there, I think more than ever with the internet becoming more accessible, so and I don't think the number of those will ever fall when people keep coming up with crazier shit.

@Cronus

They're similar in format, but the goal with the humor is fairly different. Advice animals and demotivational posters were meant to be very directly humorous, though often collapsing into ways to just say your opinion. Abstract memes and the like are humorous for meta reasons to what memes typically are. Bone Hurting Juice is the premiere example, with the subreddit for it being a collection of memes designed to resemble a meme made by people who don't quite get the meme.

New formats being made is good though.

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you mean the shitposters and falseflaggers are running out of ideas for the next forced meme, real and natural memes will come on their own accord as the next laughing stock reveals themselves or event worth making fun of happens

Meme's seem to come out of no where and with no forewarning. There was no "Let's look at old simpsons content" meme to lead into Steamed Hams. Nor was there really any lead up for Ed Edd And Eddy nostalgia before that Sound Effects meme took off.

I think image based memes might be drying up a little, but video memes seem to be on the rise now that the software and know-how on how to make such videos is becomming common and affordable. It's a change of format, and what's easier to share between peers.