I’m a man who likes a good meme.
I really shouldn’t. I’m a comedian. I spend most of my free time trying to create original stuff and put it out on stages or the internets for a few people to chuckle with and memes are the complete antithesis of originality. It’s community aggregated humor. Most people don’t even know who originally came up with almost all of the image memes on the web but people will throw some text under a picture of Fry from Futurama and all of the sudden they’ve made a joke –
Of course we all know where the Futurama memes come from. Math teachers.
Some of these reach a dizzying height of unoriginality. The “Overly Attached Girlfriend” meme is just a picture of the Overly Attached Girlfriend character with text of something she might say. So people are basically just writing jokes in the style of something a comedian already does and then puts it on a picture of them. It’s the internet equivalent of a shitty Rodney Dangerfield impersonator that I usually end up opening for in bar gigs in North Dakota –
See what I did there?
While the sheer hackiness of a lot of memes pisses me off, there are some that I do find pretty funny and –
In the future we will only communicate via image meme.
that’s why I love knowyourmeme.com. Created by the people who started the “I can haz cheezburger” site that arguably took memes out of 4chan obscurity and into the cubicles of office drones screwing off all over the world, knowyourmeme is like the wikipedia of memes. You can find out about where image memes came from (usually 4chan or reddit) and how they spread. You can find out about overly manly man, good guy greg and they even have videos on some of the more popular ones.
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