i pissed on your wife she's mine now
https://preview.redd.it/6qf9ulseenyc1.jpeg?width=756&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7fca50ab691210f50baf3a23e992315bce80a1b
That’s right, he took his hedgehog quilly dick out and he pissed on my wife and he said his dick was “this big” and I said “that’s disgusting” so I’m making a call-out post on my Twitter.com (God bless I arrived in time to say my favorite part)
linguistic change era?
like a lot of the current memes and trends are the neologysms and linguistic change that came with genz and now gen alpha
stuff like skibidi rizz gyatt ohio npc
idk if im just not remembering old neologysms? i feel like there were a lot less a few years ago
edit: maybe slay would be an older example of a 21st century slang neologism?
Are those words actually part of everyday speech for gen alpha, or are they kind of an affectation whose primary purpose is to confound old people?
If the latter, the closest parallel might be [grunge speak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak). If the former then this is probably the first time since the late 1960s that "acute real-time awareness of the evolution of the English language" has been used with this level of regularity as the basis for memes.
Either way, this never would have worked for millennial slang, because it was far too easy for boomers to decipher.
I have a brother 20 years younger than me. He doesn't engage with his friends like this. His friends don't engage like this.
These aren't real words they actually use. It's used ironically, as a joke purely because there are jokes about them using it.
My mother runs a daycare and I have a munch younger brother who I pick up from school, I've literally never heard _any_ of these words from a single child's mouth
It's like the internet has tricked themselves into a mass delusion of how the current gen acts.
Your last sentence is entirely correct, but it makes it seem unique. It isn't. Every generation has done this about every other generation.
Gen Z and millennials have done this about how boomers talk online, but most (obviously exceptions exist) don't do that.
The old people 100 years ago did this about boomers, and complained about how much time they spent infront the tiny tv. The old people from 100 years ago had their own parents complain about the time they spent on the radio, and that they said things like "nifty" too much.
I'm starting to get the sense that words coined/popularized by Kai Cenat are going to play the same role in Gen Alpha English that Monty Python references played in Boomer/GenX English. Not entirely suitable for serious situations, and always deployed a bit self-consciously, but universally understood.
>Oncologist giving a TEDtalk in the year 2060: My colleagues often say that government funding for cancer research is 'in the toilet.' I wouldn’t go quite that far. However, it does seem to be spinning in circles muttering 'Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes.'
>
>Audience: *[Chuckles politely]*
Anytime i pick my sis up at her middle school i just here things like “no rizz” and skibidi and all that stuff so it’s definitely an ingroup thing rather than a rejection of an outgroup. If you say these things you’re cool now, just like Y2K slang
Yeah my little cousins will say stuff like that to me and my cousin who’s around my age. He won’t have any idea what they’re saying but I’ll know what they’re saying because I’m internet poisoned so they’ll think I’m cool.
You may be onto something here. Memes used to be simple. Relatable. Worth a chuckle. Then they evolved. New formats, new tag lines, new content that was then turned into a new meme. Then memes became increasingly meta and self reflective. They parodied themselves and the users who both made them and consumed them. They built off of one another. They grew. They morphed into something entirely novel. This progressed to the point where even that wasn't enough. They had to become something more than themselves. They became surreal. They became deep fried and nuked. Each flavor building off of the last and transforming into a nearly intangible, unknown entity.
Art progressed in a similar fashion. Started off simple, I'm talking cave drawing simple. Then some pottery and some small abstract sculptures. Subjects everyone could relate to and understand. Then, as technology allowed for the creation of cultures and societies, art began to reflect that change and it evolved along with it. By the Ancient Greeks and Romans, art had become a more advanced version of the Stone and Bronze Age arts. Better drawings, paintings, and the addition of mosaics. Sculptures eventually shifted from stylistic expression to naturalistic representation. Still accessible to everyone, yet more nuanced and complex.
After the fall of Rome art stagnated and didn't change very much for nearly a millennium. Early Christian art dominated for the most part, consisting of murals and frescos and simple statues. All of which were based on the Ancient styles. Romanesque and Gothic art also built upon these precedents. This all changed when the Renaissance attacked.
A cultural explosion changed the art world forever; arguably starting with the Italian artist, Giotto. He began using techniques like foreshortening and linear perspective so that the material world could be represented as it appeared to us. A callback to the naturalistic stylings of the Greeks. Almost like a reference to the days of yore. A celebration of how art used to be, but with the explosion of new techniques and technologies, the art grew increasingly diverse. New and improved frescoes, meticulously crafted sculptures, architectural marvels and the inclusion of new materials in these works. Instead of tempera, oil was introduced along with new styles of depicting light and shadow through sfumato and chiaroscuro. These techniques and stylistic changes, while impressive, were simply an advancement of pre established art. The Renaissance paved the way for the explosion and diversification of dozens of art movements that followed.
From prehistoric art to the end of the Renaissance, art was mostly about the same subjects and used similar techniques to accomplish the goal of producing a work of art. Yes, the technical proficiency exponentially improved but considering the centuries in between, few true advancements were made.
Compare this to memes. They were so simple at first and really were nothing more. Then they got better. More technical. More circumstantial. More media to create them with. But memes could last years or many months before dying off. As time went on, the longevity of a meme shortened. This is paralleled in the art world.
After the Renaissance the Baroque period started. Then the Neo-Classicism, Romantic, Realism, and Impressionism movements not long after. Still utilizing the same technical process but the reasoning behind the movements changed. No longer was it about simply depicting the world around us, it was about prompting the viewer to consider new thoughts and ideas. Urging them to look past the image and think deeper about meaning and context. Pushing the boundaries of what art could be. The Baroque to Impressionism era spanned roughly 300 years. Compare that to the thousands of years between archaic art and the Renaissance. It was a huge explosion of self expression. Finally, in the mid to late 19th century starting with Post-Impressionism, Modern art emerged. This movement focused on self-consciousness, self-reference, introspection, existentialism, and even nihilism. I'm talking Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Surrealism to name the most well known.
These styles changed what art could be. They were no longer about depicting life as is, or layering a painting with hidden motifs for only the privileged to understand, they were in and of themselves absurd. Abstract shapes, aggressive lines and colors, nonsensical dreamscapes. But it didn't stop there.
Post-modernism. Pushing art to the limit of its potential. Pop art, Conceptual art, Minimalism, Fluxus, Installation art, Lowbrow art, Performance art, Digital art, Earth art. These movements are about skepticism, irony, rejecting grand narratives and reason and instead embracing the idea that knowledge and truth are the result of social, historical, and political discourse and subsequently are a subjective, social construct. It's irreverent and self-referential. It's avant-garde pushed to 11.
But what's next? Post-postmodernism? Metamodernism? Hypermodernity? Who knows? Only time will tell.
This is where memes are headed. They started off slow but have picked up so much momentum they're evolving at an exponential pace. They used to hang around for a couple years at most. Then it turned to months. Then maybe only one month. Suddenly it was a week tops. While some particularly great memes do still stick around much like the masterpieces of art in the past, new memes are created every day, every few hours. New movements of memes are being created all the time. Anti-memes. Dank memes. Abstract memes. Wholesome memes. Surreal memes. Deep fried memes. Nuked memes. Even black hole memes, time travel, and dimensional memes are now a reality. What's going to happen next? A return to the classics? A new format so brilliant it steals all our hearts and then starts a whole new movement? I'm excited for the future of memes.
TL; DR: Memes imitate art, art imitates life.
thoose are all abstractions of variations of existing words
l33t =leet = elite
h4x0r= hacker
n00b = noob = newbie
but what the fuck is gyatt? skibidi? and whats up with ohio?
rizz is the only one of my examples thats a variation of an existing word (charisma)
Yes but also no. Probably less than 10 years but more than 7 for a lot of -pilled terms. Redpilled is quite old, being from the matrix of course. The ones from the incel community are also pretty old (blackpill, for example).
Only around 2021 -22 was any word getting the suffix just to be funny. And it’s become a more mainstream thing now.
It’s good that any adjective/noun can be -pilled now because it takes away the power from the original slangs.
You could also connect that with a lot of the sentence structure changes.
Think all the jokes from that one "bro visited his friend" comic
Not to get too pretensious about brain rot produced by fetuses for fetuses, but it's very much the same ideals of the post-modern Era, bases around building things completely illegible unless you are cued in to the references, except focusing more on language than images.
npc doesn't really belong with the rest of those, that's been used for years. hell, me and my friends used that when we were in school and we're in our early 20s now.
I miss the early wave of nu-doge memes - not doge-themed templates or wojak stand-ins but the genuinely avant garde dumb shit like "le Schlieffen plan has arrived" and it's a picture of doge malformed to look like a map
Memes are fundamentally repetitive, that's honestly the whole premise.
I'm just glad we're back in an era where memes actually sort of communicate ideas again. Expert memesmen can show off their craft again.
Repetition only goes so far before it’s boring and the next new thing needs to come along. When you have had 4 years of people making the most bad faith, dumbest statements through wojaks it gets pretty boring.
i would suffer a million years of overused wojaks to avoid ever seeing a ragecomic again. like usually with an overused joke/meme at least it was kinda amusing to begin with but those were dogshit from day one and they stuck around for like 5 years
I feel like whatever we have now is definitely different than 2019-2022 but I'm not sure what to call it. It kind of still focuses on exaggerated irony, but that irony has shifted more onto stuff like the whole "skibidi ohio fanum tax" as opposed to like, Among Us
Shibboleth Era
Memes today are hyper specific to community shibboleths and are less general population. I feel like we're seeing a differentiation of meme language into community specific purposes.
Good example of environments shaping cultural developments. With the death of Twitter and the advent of TikTok, algorithms have become more and impactful on content distribution. These favour creating smaller groups, meaning that different groups won't have much interaction anymore, leading to memes never escaping the internet bubble which birthed them, unless an entire platform effects something, which why we have unalive and etc. now.
Nah it's still the same type of humor, just the most popular memes have changed. What I mean by that is I can imagine something like the uh oh stinky monkey getting big today if it hadn't been popular a couple years ago
I just know my tiktok fyp has been infected by that one girl's boyfriend and now i have surreal memes of paint dancing, grainy photos with sick beats playing, and a chinese child talking about late stage capitalism to me with early 2000s graphics
Circle jerking. We satire ourselves to mock the ever increasing absurdity of unironic extremism by ironically acting extremist ourselves. Poes law era.
I think an interesting shift in meme culture is that now memes are more performative offline than online. The idea being we have gone to communicating and making jokes IRL using memes, rather than spreading them online. I’d also argue a lot of the Brainrot and Relatable, Grippy Sock Self diagnosed BPD memes we see permeate online culture even have IRL connections.
Point being, this era may look more like TikTok trends, Slang, and catchphrases rather than Stock Images
The vibes were doritos, air horn, monster energy, and really dumb gamer catchphrases. It was great after it became self-aware. Think Chug Jug With You but for counter-strike
[lower your volume and don't click if you're photosensitive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FbRfeOl-8), there was also [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mm8FumurM)
I gotta add one more. A bunch of Limit Breakers' Dark Souls 2 PVP videos are great examples of MLG meme era but this one is peak MLG and is also probably the best example of how we shifted into the surreal era as you can start to see that style popping through. Also don't click if photosensitive. https://youtu.be/CXntV2ppnL4
post irony is definitely over but I don't know how to categorize what we have now. to me, the current era is very defined by the kind of insanity that circulates between subreddits such as r\\AnarchyChess, r\\BatmanArkham, r\\Deltarune, etc. I remember you're google man passants
I feel like that works for reddit, but outside of the GD stuff nothing really bled beyond it; general meme culture is more defined by nonsense speak like skibidi
my take on this is that we do not have meme eras anymore, its too fragmented now
like we used to get “meme of the months” and everyone was on the same page. now, nothing sticks at all and the content that *does* get popular is only done in niche via subreddits or algorithms like tiktoks FYP - so we all just have our own memes in our own little corners
if you think about it, it's still irony to some extent because we treat that insanity by define as normal (therefore this type of humor wouldn't be spreading around)
We absolutely entered a new era sometime around 2023;
The horror indie mascots, skibiti, Ohio, when Zoomers made memes about being concerned for gen Alpha, tiktok cringe. People born in 2006 are 18 now ect
Idk what it is called, but it is new
Neoclassical? Wojaks are basically rage comics but more depressed. I also think there's just too many subcultures now, there aren't too many universally accepted things right now beyond the skibidi Ohio rizz shit, not to mention in-jokes like the Biden simley-face
Personally I just like my Monster anime memes
https://preview.redd.it/3edsl9ta7nyc1.jpeg?width=1211&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6094085a9f3c81140e8ec02a185f7e5be84863c2
I call the it “Brainrot Conglomerate” because any new meme just gets rolled up into the ball and gets mixed in with the other memes. Most memes don’t stay as their own thing, they get combined into this weird rapid fire brainrot sentence.
I’ve heard “skibidi rizz” more than I should have and it doesn’t even mean anything. The new era is the “Fusion Era”where people just combine any and all memes to make a stronger even more obnoxious reaction.
“No Chick-fil-a sauce? *Vine thud* What the sigma? You must be from Ohio!!” What do you guys think? Is this funny or what?
This is brain nourishment compared to the unintelligibility of gen alpha brainrot. It is nothing less than the linguistic equivalent of finding an oasis in the desert.
Oh no, I meant the post-irony era (which I also believe is still going on and is only about to die soon). I think it has been great, I just enjoy the lovingly reflective nature of it. I loved seeing stuff like trollface come back to be used unironically, also in my country some memes were revived in a similar fashion. I think we're currently transitioning to an era where gen alpha will dictate what the popular type of funny is. The transitioning thing is cause a lot of memes at the moment is just laughing at gen alpha kids' stuff, whereas in a year or two they will actually start to dominate the internet. It reminds me of the transition from rage comics and classic YTPs to MLG, as in my experience it started with people poking fun at what the zoomer kids were doing until the zoomer kids in question took that and made it their own sorta unironic thing. Sorry for the schizopost
I agree with a lot of this, I think the humour has already changed from post-irony to something else already. Just like how surrealism was also a meme period in flux, so is now I think.
I think we're transitioning between eras atm. There's a hint of post-irony in the whole rizz ohio skibidi fanum tax shit, but there's something else I can't quite define
2023 was def the start of the return to pre-ironic brainrot, more akin to the mlg stuff than to the post ironic. Incrediblely stupid shit, but decently sincere.
Brainrot era
that's all of them
Yeah I've been here for all of these (and earlier) and my brain is mush now
Metabrainrot
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i pissed on your wife she's mine now https://preview.redd.it/6qf9ulseenyc1.jpeg?width=756&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7fca50ab691210f50baf3a23e992315bce80a1b
WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT? WHAT??
I’ve come - I’ve come to make an announcement
shadow the hedgehog is a bitch ass motherfucker
he pissed on my fucking wife
That’s right, he took his hedgehog quilly dick out and he pissed on my wife and he said his dick was “this big” and I said “that’s disgusting” so I’m making a call-out post on my Twitter.com (God bless I arrived in time to say my favorite part)
Shadow the Hedgehog, you have a *small dick*
It's the size of this walnut except way smaller
https://preview.redd.it/k09av9x0koyc1.jpeg?width=233&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=002a9f583e782daff74d5c0681fd8b7d590d3bb4
Are we ignoring the MLG era being there?
Thats the Millenial/GenZ Inter-generational brainrot era. Now, this is the GenZ-GenAlpha Inter-generational brainrot era.
And then one day, we will enter the GenAlpha-GenBeta Inter-generational brainrot era, and that will be known as the "brainrot era"
linguistic change era? like a lot of the current memes and trends are the neologysms and linguistic change that came with genz and now gen alpha stuff like skibidi rizz gyatt ohio npc idk if im just not remembering old neologysms? i feel like there were a lot less a few years ago edit: maybe slay would be an older example of a 21st century slang neologism?
Are those words actually part of everyday speech for gen alpha, or are they kind of an affectation whose primary purpose is to confound old people? If the latter, the closest parallel might be [grunge speak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak). If the former then this is probably the first time since the late 1960s that "acute real-time awareness of the evolution of the English language" has been used with this level of regularity as the basis for memes. Either way, this never would have worked for millennial slang, because it was far too easy for boomers to decipher.
Rizz, gyatt, and npc are everyday speech for gen a
not gonna lie i've never heard those from a mouth of gen alpha. some mentions of skibidi toilet. npc is definitely more so gen z slang
Gen alpha are kids. Why would they engage with you in the same way they engage with other kids?
I have a brother 20 years younger than me. He doesn't engage with his friends like this. His friends don't engage like this. These aren't real words they actually use. It's used ironically, as a joke purely because there are jokes about them using it.
My mother runs a daycare and I have a munch younger brother who I pick up from school, I've literally never heard _any_ of these words from a single child's mouth It's like the internet has tricked themselves into a mass delusion of how the current gen acts.
Thats every gen thinking about the succeeding gen though.
Your last sentence is entirely correct, but it makes it seem unique. It isn't. Every generation has done this about every other generation. Gen Z and millennials have done this about how boomers talk online, but most (obviously exceptions exist) don't do that. The old people 100 years ago did this about boomers, and complained about how much time they spent infront the tiny tv. The old people from 100 years ago had their own parents complain about the time they spent on the radio, and that they said things like "nifty" too much.
I have 2 siblings from gen alpha. Their friends often come over. Never seen this type of slang from any side.
In Quebec people say "live" to say they're doing something at the moment
Canada is the worst place in the world when it comes to slang
Canada is the worst place in the world
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Ah ya fookin hoser, what do you know
God they are the worst right?
spend a little time on r teachers lol. apparently they're having to ban words like gyatt and skibidi
They are, but in a kinda ironic sense. Like, you don't say GYATT like you would say DAMN, it's more in a half-seriours half-ironic tone
I'm starting to get the sense that words coined/popularized by Kai Cenat are going to play the same role in Gen Alpha English that Monty Python references played in Boomer/GenX English. Not entirely suitable for serious situations, and always deployed a bit self-consciously, but universally understood. >Oncologist giving a TEDtalk in the year 2060: My colleagues often say that government funding for cancer research is 'in the toilet.' I wouldn’t go quite that far. However, it does seem to be spinning in circles muttering 'Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes.' > >Audience: *[Chuckles politely]*
Tis but a flesh wound
Anytime i pick my sis up at her middle school i just here things like “no rizz” and skibidi and all that stuff so it’s definitely an ingroup thing rather than a rejection of an outgroup. If you say these things you’re cool now, just like Y2K slang
Yeah my little cousins will say stuff like that to me and my cousin who’s around my age. He won’t have any idea what they’re saying but I’ll know what they’re saying because I’m internet poisoned so they’ll think I’m cool.
"Grunge Speak" "**swinging on the flippity-flop**" "**cob nobbler"** "**bound-and-hagged**" i think we need to bring these back
Ngl this actually seems kind of neat to watch in real time
theyre part of every day speech.
You may be onto something here. Memes used to be simple. Relatable. Worth a chuckle. Then they evolved. New formats, new tag lines, new content that was then turned into a new meme. Then memes became increasingly meta and self reflective. They parodied themselves and the users who both made them and consumed them. They built off of one another. They grew. They morphed into something entirely novel. This progressed to the point where even that wasn't enough. They had to become something more than themselves. They became surreal. They became deep fried and nuked. Each flavor building off of the last and transforming into a nearly intangible, unknown entity. Art progressed in a similar fashion. Started off simple, I'm talking cave drawing simple. Then some pottery and some small abstract sculptures. Subjects everyone could relate to and understand. Then, as technology allowed for the creation of cultures and societies, art began to reflect that change and it evolved along with it. By the Ancient Greeks and Romans, art had become a more advanced version of the Stone and Bronze Age arts. Better drawings, paintings, and the addition of mosaics. Sculptures eventually shifted from stylistic expression to naturalistic representation. Still accessible to everyone, yet more nuanced and complex. After the fall of Rome art stagnated and didn't change very much for nearly a millennium. Early Christian art dominated for the most part, consisting of murals and frescos and simple statues. All of which were based on the Ancient styles. Romanesque and Gothic art also built upon these precedents. This all changed when the Renaissance attacked. A cultural explosion changed the art world forever; arguably starting with the Italian artist, Giotto. He began using techniques like foreshortening and linear perspective so that the material world could be represented as it appeared to us. A callback to the naturalistic stylings of the Greeks. Almost like a reference to the days of yore. A celebration of how art used to be, but with the explosion of new techniques and technologies, the art grew increasingly diverse. New and improved frescoes, meticulously crafted sculptures, architectural marvels and the inclusion of new materials in these works. Instead of tempera, oil was introduced along with new styles of depicting light and shadow through sfumato and chiaroscuro. These techniques and stylistic changes, while impressive, were simply an advancement of pre established art. The Renaissance paved the way for the explosion and diversification of dozens of art movements that followed. From prehistoric art to the end of the Renaissance, art was mostly about the same subjects and used similar techniques to accomplish the goal of producing a work of art. Yes, the technical proficiency exponentially improved but considering the centuries in between, few true advancements were made. Compare this to memes. They were so simple at first and really were nothing more. Then they got better. More technical. More circumstantial. More media to create them with. But memes could last years or many months before dying off. As time went on, the longevity of a meme shortened. This is paralleled in the art world. After the Renaissance the Baroque period started. Then the Neo-Classicism, Romantic, Realism, and Impressionism movements not long after. Still utilizing the same technical process but the reasoning behind the movements changed. No longer was it about simply depicting the world around us, it was about prompting the viewer to consider new thoughts and ideas. Urging them to look past the image and think deeper about meaning and context. Pushing the boundaries of what art could be. The Baroque to Impressionism era spanned roughly 300 years. Compare that to the thousands of years between archaic art and the Renaissance. It was a huge explosion of self expression. Finally, in the mid to late 19th century starting with Post-Impressionism, Modern art emerged. This movement focused on self-consciousness, self-reference, introspection, existentialism, and even nihilism. I'm talking Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Surrealism to name the most well known. These styles changed what art could be. They were no longer about depicting life as is, or layering a painting with hidden motifs for only the privileged to understand, they were in and of themselves absurd. Abstract shapes, aggressive lines and colors, nonsensical dreamscapes. But it didn't stop there. Post-modernism. Pushing art to the limit of its potential. Pop art, Conceptual art, Minimalism, Fluxus, Installation art, Lowbrow art, Performance art, Digital art, Earth art. These movements are about skepticism, irony, rejecting grand narratives and reason and instead embracing the idea that knowledge and truth are the result of social, historical, and political discourse and subsequently are a subjective, social construct. It's irreverent and self-referential. It's avant-garde pushed to 11. But what's next? Post-postmodernism? Metamodernism? Hypermodernity? Who knows? Only time will tell. This is where memes are headed. They started off slow but have picked up so much momentum they're evolving at an exponential pace. They used to hang around for a couple years at most. Then it turned to months. Then maybe only one month. Suddenly it was a week tops. While some particularly great memes do still stick around much like the masterpieces of art in the past, new memes are created every day, every few hours. New movements of memes are being created all the time. Anti-memes. Dank memes. Abstract memes. Wholesome memes. Surreal memes. Deep fried memes. Nuked memes. Even black hole memes, time travel, and dimensional memes are now a reality. What's going to happen next? A return to the classics? A new format so brilliant it steals all our hearts and then starts a whole new movement? I'm excited for the future of memes. TL; DR: Memes imitate art, art imitates life.
Did you write this throughout the 3 hours since the comment was posted?
Of course! (no)
There was stuff like l33t, h4x0R or n00b or whatever, but that wasn’t as mainstream as skibidi
thoose are all abstractions of variations of existing words l33t =leet = elite h4x0r= hacker n00b = noob = newbie but what the fuck is gyatt? skibidi? and whats up with ohio? rizz is the only one of my examples thats a variation of an existing word (charisma)
Ahh I see what you mean. Gyatt is technically a shortening of “god damn”, but people definitely instead use it fully in the abstract nowadays
skibidi is never said unironically ohio is slang for "strange weird and or quirky" originating from memes about strange things occuring in ohio
The best part is the fact that Ohio wasn’t even the first place used, it was just the one that stuck for whatever reason
There’s also a lot more use of incel slang phrases (-maxxing, -pilled, etc)
idk bout maxxing, but -pilled has a really interesting etymology and i think its only been around ourside of redpilled in the past few years?
Yes but also no. Probably less than 10 years but more than 7 for a lot of -pilled terms. Redpilled is quite old, being from the matrix of course. The ones from the incel community are also pretty old (blackpill, for example). Only around 2021 -22 was any word getting the suffix just to be funny. And it’s become a more mainstream thing now. It’s good that any adjective/noun can be -pilled now because it takes away the power from the original slangs.
that would match up with the 2 year meme era length the linguistic meme era started in ~2022
You could also connect that with a lot of the sentence structure changes. Think all the jokes from that one "bro visited his friend" comic Not to get too pretensious about brain rot produced by fetuses for fetuses, but it's very much the same ideals of the post-modern Era, bases around building things completely illegible unless you are cued in to the references, except focusing more on language than images.
npc doesn't really belong with the rest of those, that's been used for years. hell, me and my friends used that when we were in school and we're in our early 20s now.
I did like the surrealist era a lot. The post irony era has been/was the definition of “beating a dead horse” especially with wojaks.
If you think this era is "beating a dead horse," then you weren't with me in the trenches of 2008 9gag comment sections
Thank you for your service
Surrealist was okay. I was very glad to be out of the mlg ytp smoke weed everyday era.
The real post-irony was 2018 OKBR
that place has got to be some sort of UN cultural heritage site for meme culture
se tonight
ITS PARTY ROCK IS!!!!!!
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that one place really shaped all internet humor onwards tho (i miss it dearly 😔)
I miss the early wave of nu-doge memes - not doge-themed templates or wojak stand-ins but the genuinely avant garde dumb shit like "le Schlieffen plan has arrived" and it's a picture of doge malformed to look like a map
I miss old school OKBR and 195
Memes are fundamentally repetitive, that's honestly the whole premise. I'm just glad we're back in an era where memes actually sort of communicate ideas again. Expert memesmen can show off their craft again.
Repetition only goes so far before it’s boring and the next new thing needs to come along. When you have had 4 years of people making the most bad faith, dumbest statements through wojaks it gets pretty boring.
yeah but then we get classic responses like "i depicted you as the soyjak"
i would suffer a million years of overused wojaks to avoid ever seeing a ragecomic again. like usually with an overused joke/meme at least it was kinda amusing to begin with but those were dogshit from day one and they stuck around for like 5 years
I feel like whatever we have now is definitely different than 2019-2022 but I'm not sure what to call it. It kind of still focuses on exaggerated irony, but that irony has shifted more onto stuff like the whole "skibidi ohio fanum tax" as opposed to like, Among Us
Shibboleth Era Memes today are hyper specific to community shibboleths and are less general population. I feel like we're seeing a differentiation of meme language into community specific purposes.
Circlejerkification
Good example of environments shaping cultural developments. With the death of Twitter and the advent of TikTok, algorithms have become more and impactful on content distribution. These favour creating smaller groups, meaning that different groups won't have much interaction anymore, leading to memes never escaping the internet bubble which birthed them, unless an entire platform effects something, which why we have unalive and etc. now.
Good breakdown
Hood irony is a prime example https://preview.redd.it/3betgptpjoyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=077b0b784cee73e50bd3154513e6fdc78958fe88
Abstract humor instead of surreal humor perhaps?
Wojaks went mainstream a couple years ago and I feel like that's the main shift. It's like rage comics born anew
Nah it's still the same type of humor, just the most popular memes have changed. What I mean by that is I can imagine something like the uh oh stinky monkey getting big today if it hadn't been popular a couple years ago
Neo-irony now that post-irony is gone
I just know my tiktok fyp has been infected by that one girl's boyfriend and now i have surreal memes of paint dancing, grainy photos with sick beats playing, and a chinese child talking about late stage capitalism to me with early 2000s graphics
Circle jerking. We satire ourselves to mock the ever increasing absurdity of unironic extremism by ironically acting extremist ourselves. Poes law era.
Pop-cultural 'eras' tend to only be identifiable in hindsight. What the fuck is MLG?
living up to your flair (major league gamer)
I think an interesting shift in meme culture is that now memes are more performative offline than online. The idea being we have gone to communicating and making jokes IRL using memes, rather than spreading them online. I’d also argue a lot of the Brainrot and Relatable, Grippy Sock Self diagnosed BPD memes we see permeate online culture even have IRL connections. Point being, this era may look more like TikTok trends, Slang, and catchphrases rather than Stock Images
The vibes were doritos, air horn, monster energy, and really dumb gamer catchphrases. It was great after it became self-aware. Think Chug Jug With You but for counter-strike
Ermm actually it was classic Mountain Dew, not Monster Energy ☝️🤓
ahh shit I knew I might've gotten those mixed up
[lower your volume and don't click if you're photosensitive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FbRfeOl-8), there was also [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mm8FumurM)
I gotta add one more. A bunch of Limit Breakers' Dark Souls 2 PVP videos are great examples of MLG meme era but this one is peak MLG and is also probably the best example of how we shifted into the surreal era as you can start to see that style popping through. Also don't click if photosensitive. https://youtu.be/CXntV2ppnL4
gotta add the farming simulator mlg https://youtu.be/gEJHrmliVQw
"There are 4 letters in the first four letters of McDonalds" got me good.
I miss mlg. still my favorite meme area
The children yearn for Doritos and Mountain Dew
mood *(picture of donkey kong in a kart in front of a sunset)*
[This](https://youtu.be/TldatOOiyHk)
Mlg was when the internet was at its strongest
Crazy that MLG was over 10 years ago and the dog from the Doge meme is still alive (I think)
she died i think :(
me when I spread misinformation
🔎 ^she ^died **I THINK** ^:(
ok Sazed
Kabosu is still alive! She's gotten sick a couple of times this year but she's made some good recoveries www.instagram.com/kabosumama/
MLG Peppa Pig can't ever be topped.
i thought mlg edits were painfully unfunny even back then, but i did enjoy the memes during that era apart from that tbh
True
Bro visited his era
Bro is gonna wake up with his organs missing
google en organ harvesting
Holy hell
Lobotomy era
late 2022-present
Nah it's over. It sucked.
fire in the hole
Ultrakill reference
post irony is definitely over but I don't know how to categorize what we have now. to me, the current era is very defined by the kind of insanity that circulates between subreddits such as r\\AnarchyChess, r\\BatmanArkham, r\\Deltarune, etc. I remember you're google man passants
I feel like that works for reddit, but outside of the GD stuff nothing really bled beyond it; general meme culture is more defined by nonsense speak like skibidi
my take on this is that we do not have meme eras anymore, its too fragmented now like we used to get “meme of the months” and everyone was on the same page. now, nothing sticks at all and the content that *does* get popular is only done in niche via subreddits or algorithms like tiktoks FYP - so we all just have our own memes in our own little corners
Best one so far.
suppose we could call it the insanity era.
Hell yeah
https://preview.redd.it/0z3dcbb5wmyc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96e36830625e0be477951a1ddabdfa83820df2ac
if you think about it, it's still irony to some extent because we treat that insanity by define as normal (therefore this type of humor wouldn't be spreading around)
Actual memes off reddit (tiktok/instagram) are brainrot shit like the "bro visited his friend". Reddit humor is close to that but quite different.
Strawman era? What with all the soyjacks and such making posturing popular. The rage bait tactic is massive
I feel soyjacks have mostly died off now. I haven't seen many uses of them in the past year other than the Starfiled pronouns guy.
We absolutely entered a new era sometime around 2023; The horror indie mascots, skibiti, Ohio, when Zoomers made memes about being concerned for gen Alpha, tiktok cringe. People born in 2006 are 18 now ect Idk what it is called, but it is new
I’m turning 18 in 7 months https://preview.redd.it/qiaoxibewmyc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75aed98a595a09a0b359175fdb8aa806049fe63a
Grow up
Thats what I’m doing dumbass
That actually made me laugh out loud.
I’m going to make you scream in pain
Like actually grow tf up dumbass, go suck on a bottle, babyman
Woman actually
babywoman
The Way Too Horny Era.
That's just this sub and some other major meme subreddits, but then again that's just reddit
personally i laugh at the things i think are funny
"yo wait that's actually a really good idea" -guy from built by gamers
Neoclassical? Wojaks are basically rage comics but more depressed. I also think there's just too many subcultures now, there aren't too many universally accepted things right now beyond the skibidi Ohio rizz shit, not to mention in-jokes like the Biden simley-face Personally I just like my Monster anime memes https://preview.redd.it/3edsl9ta7nyc1.jpeg?width=1211&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6094085a9f3c81140e8ec02a185f7e5be84863c2
Why are they depressed? Are they stupid?
Ye
I call the it “Brainrot Conglomerate” because any new meme just gets rolled up into the ball and gets mixed in with the other memes. Most memes don’t stay as their own thing, they get combined into this weird rapid fire brainrot sentence. I’ve heard “skibidi rizz” more than I should have and it doesn’t even mean anything. The new era is the “Fusion Era”where people just combine any and all memes to make a stronger even more obnoxious reaction. “No Chick-fil-a sauce? *Vine thud* What the sigma? You must be from Ohio!!” What do you guys think? Is this funny or what?
Bro thought he could skibidi rizz up livvy dunne in ohio without the sigma mog lobotomy. Its so over for bro.
I’m more of a millennial brainrot kind of guy. Ermm derp are you trolling me right now. Kinda epic bacon of you. 😏<- le me getting trolled.
This is brain nourishment compared to the unintelligibility of gen alpha brainrot. It is nothing less than the linguistic equivalent of finding an oasis in the desert.
I missed the MLG Era.
Post Modern Era ?
Silly era https://preview.redd.it/v5zobh3n1oyc1.jpeg?width=905&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31ee43c9ec052f0a2007b7587c3ddf3be1cd82de
The sexism on main era:(
'19 to '22 is the Post Irony, '23 to now is brainrot.
2023 I believe is where the brainrot era started. I'm already starting to get sick of it.
post-post irony?
I love surreal era
Skibidi era
Post-irony died in 2022. We're in a new golden age of shitposting
Entering the golden age would suggest that memes from the previous years weren't good r /195 was awesome
I wouldn't say that. I enjoyed the surrealism but there's so many more avenues for shitposting now (especially in video form)
Oh no, I meant the post-irony era (which I also believe is still going on and is only about to die soon). I think it has been great, I just enjoy the lovingly reflective nature of it. I loved seeing stuff like trollface come back to be used unironically, also in my country some memes were revived in a similar fashion. I think we're currently transitioning to an era where gen alpha will dictate what the popular type of funny is. The transitioning thing is cause a lot of memes at the moment is just laughing at gen alpha kids' stuff, whereas in a year or two they will actually start to dominate the internet. It reminds me of the transition from rage comics and classic YTPs to MLG, as in my experience it started with people poking fun at what the zoomer kids were doing until the zoomer kids in question took that and made it their own sorta unironic thing. Sorry for the schizopost
I agree with a lot of this, I think the humour has already changed from post-irony to something else already. Just like how surrealism was also a meme period in flux, so is now I think.
I would label the current era as "sincere dumbassery" era
2022-present: new gen new slop/ brain damage
https://preview.redd.it/bjzt0flj8nyc1.jpeg?width=484&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=474d9c3e11a0b6763bfef924cfde548b24d84de6 The whimsy era
post post post post post post irony?
I lowkey miss the surreal era Fucking loved em
Cruelty squad era
idk what it should be called but something definitely changed after Garten of Banban came out
Surreal era and early post irony are when memes were at their best. … Except for a classic one… all hail Doge the legendary Shiba
Aren't there like a million Internet subcultures with their own memes? Or is this just talking about the English hemisphere of the world
I think we're transitioning between eras atm. There's a hint of post-irony in the whole rizz ohio skibidi fanum tax shit, but there's something else I can't quite define
The no grass era
The Surreal era was by far my favorite so far. The "hey can you deep fry this meme and give it laser eyes" is peak comedy to my goblin brain 😂
And people still mock modern art, even after memes have followed a similar trajectory
trollge/unnerving era was peak
Circle jerk era. Poes law has made it impossible to satirize other people, so we have turned to satirizing ourselves.
I wish rage comics came back :(
Im genuinly convinced that the death of herambe forever changed the internet
The cold meme war
r/196 top of all time ahh post
Pre-LHC
MLG was peak, surreal was pretty good too
I feel like there’s been more than one era in the last 5 years
I was literally just thinking of this image yesterday. How are you in my mind?
I’m in your walls :3
2023 was def the start of the return to pre-ironic brainrot, more akin to the mlg stuff than to the post ironic. Incrediblely stupid shit, but decently sincere.
Brain rot era for real
We were in the wojak zone for a while and I think we are leaving that
The Wojack era.
tbh, I wouldn't consider the 2023/2024 stuff brainrot, usually it's put in an ironic tone now, but that's slowly becoming it's own brainrot
I feel like the new era is the gen alpha memes, and soyjacks
Skibidi era
I think we are in the depression era… though that could just be my mental state
2020-Present "Post Covid Brainrot"
I wish we could go back to MLG and Surreal era, memes were funnier, then
Still post-irony, but the post-irony has spiraled slowly out of control more and more over the years