Some memes are hilarious under the right circumstances, but when they get overused and misused most just stop being funny. It goes from being like a big in-joke and it starts being just a lame thing.
I was introduced to memes around spring 2011, but the phenomenon exploded last December and now everyone is using them, including stupid duckface bitches who used to be the prime scapegoats of meme users -- my facebook newsfeed painfully confirms this every day. Like many things before, they got dumbed down to the lowest common denominator when they came in contact with the masses. It really needs to stop, they've become an embarrassment.
Memes are not inherently problematic. It only becomes an issue when they are used as a replacement for genuine cultural discourse, which unfortunately is almost all the time now.
Well memes are basically viral jokes, and I don't mind that at all. But the current trend of "Image+Impact font" as a ways to make something out of every shitty joke or idea the internet has bugs me.
Not anymore, memes used to be funny when nobody called them memes and were just internet jokes. Now a days everything gets overused by redittors, /b/, and facebook kids.
I was introduced to memes around spring 2011, but the phenomenon exploded last December and now everyone is using them, including stupid duckface bitches who used to be the prime scapegoats of meme users -- my facebook newsfeed painfully confirms this every day. Like many things before, they got dumbed down to the lowest common denominator when they came in contact with the masses. It really needs to stop, they've become an embarrassment.
it was always an embarassment, dude, get off your high horse
I was watching a video the other day by a youtuber that I actually really enjoy and respect due to his normally excellent banter, but once I heard him say "bad kid is bad", "zero fucks given", and "going balls deep" within about a minute's time. I immediately had the strong desire to unsubscribe to his channel.
It's MGS2 all over again... With the internet there is nothing filtering the crap out of culture.
I think the memes are funny at times. I don't really get upset over them. Just words. Over used, but that doesn't mean its inherently unfunny.
As for how they are used in Borderlands 2 most of them are just flavor text for challenges. What else are they supposed to write there? It's either references or puns for stuff that has to be one line of text.
I was introduced to memes around spring 2011, but the phenomenon exploded last December and now everyone is using them, including stupid duckface bitches who used to be the prime scapegoats of meme users -- my facebook newsfeed painfully confirms this every day. Like many things before, they got dumbed down to the lowest common denominator when they came in contact with the masses. It really needs to stop, they've become an embarrassment.
it was always an embarassment, dude, get off your high horse
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Look at this guy, OG internet spring 2011.
On topic: Memes are trash tier and always have been.
@darpa: You're definitely not a lame person for not being aware of many Internet memes. Internet memes are just nice insider-culture lingo which reinforce familiarity and a greater sense of shared experience within Internet communities.
So, don't worry, duder. Shoot that guy and root for #TeamBrad. Yo darpa, jump over dat big ass meme! Pay $775 million dollars for a new copy of Lincoln Force. That's million bucks, Batman! I'm a Wizard, and Internet memes are fucked up. No one meme should have all that power. And anime is for Peter Molyneux's balls. <>
There are still a few Giant Bomb memes that make me chuckle. :)
1x website with large, mainstream audience and aggregate system
1,000,000x people who find joke funny
Step-by-step guide:
Leave out at room temperature and test periodically with a fork or spoon to make sure the joke is funny. When satisfied, proceed to step two.
Submit to website and leave for approximately 24 hours. More popular websites may require a lower time.
Retrieve the now worn-out joke from the website.
Using a sharp knife, cut the punchline out of the joke and discard the build up and the context, you won't be needing those.
Resubmit the punchline of the worn-out joke and wait a further 24 hours.
When done, retrieve the worn out context-less punchline of the already worn-out joke, and create some kind of line-drawn picture or motivational poster with it.
I was introduced to memes around spring 2011, but the phenomenon exploded last December and now everyone is using them, including stupid duckface bitches who used to be the prime scapegoats of meme users -- my facebook newsfeed painfully confirms this every day. Like many things before, they got dumbed down to the lowest common denominator when they came in contact with the masses. It really needs to stop, they've become an embarrassment.
it was always an embarassment, dude, get off your high horse
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Look at this guy, OG internet spring 2011.
On topic: Memes are trash tier and always have been.
Whoa, you guys are snarky today. I admittedly came in late, but I still witnessed a remarkable degradation in the past few months. That's all I meant to say.
Yeah, I think internet memes can be funny and I've gotten a lot of laughs out of the better stuff out there. They're basically the same thing as a running gag and a lot of them are just joke structures, which have both been around for a very long time and have proven themselves funny. Like almost everyone else here though, I think they get overused. People have the tendency to run any kind of joke into the ground, and this might be more true of people in internet culture than anywhere else.
they could be funny but then get overused fast. pretty much what everyone else said.
speaking of memes, have you heard of movie smiley? it's a movie about an urban legend of a meme and a killer comes to get you after you say it. i did it for the lulz three times.
They just get overused way too much and get old real fast. I also can't stand people saying stuff like "... like a boss" or "fail", etc. I don't mind it every now and then, but when they start saying in context that don't make sense with what it means, I just go nuts. I got too many people on facebook doing that.
I'd say this sums up my feelings about memes.
I'd say memes pretty much go through a Human Centipede cycle (4chan>reddit>9gag>Facebook); they can be great at the beginning, but after the shit gets digested a few times, they become insufferable.
@darpa: You're definitely not a lame person for not being aware of many Internet memes. Internet memes are just nice insider-culture lingo which reinforce familiarity and a greater sense of shared experience within Internet communities.
So, don't worry, duder. Shoot that guy and root for #TeamBrad. Yo darpa, jump over dat big ass meme! Pay $775 million dollars for a new copy of Lincoln Force. That's million bucks, Batman! I'm a Wizard, and Internet memes are fucked up. No one meme should have all that power. And anime is for Peter Molyneux's balls. <>
Couldn't have said it better. Loads of people here hate meme's but have no problem at all with the Giantbomb ones. Funny how that works.
Some times I find memes funny, sometimes I don't. It doesn't really matter to me if other people agree. Then again, I don't go around trying to use it as humor myself. My usage of humor in real life is much more rooted in strategic usage of witty and self-deprecative remarks. Works pretty well.
All this talk of memes makes me wonder how many people here have run into someone who incorporates them into conversations. I'm all for memes for the short while they stay funny, but I can't help but groan to myself when this happens.
Thanks everyone for sharing thoughts on this matter. Now I know that I'm old, slightly lame-ish and spend an appropriate amout of time on the internet.
Please continue discussion if needed. I'm out. Good luck, have Batmen!
Some are fine for a time (i.e. the first time you see them) but the nature of the Internet means they get overused fast.
I also don't want them in my Borderlands. Thankfully for me, the Siren doesn't seem to spout them as often as Jeff says the Commando does (at least, I haven't heard any) and challenge titles are easy to ignore.
I see a lot of Borderlands 2 Logic Memes (if they are that). and i really hate people using the word "fail" or "epic fail" i have spoken to people and i noticed they started using "omg" and "lol" in conversation. walk away.
However memes get overussed to a point that you feeling physically urked when you hear them.
the trouble with normal folk , they sometimes get into memes late and use it constantly (gunnamestyle is curerently my example) when people are genrally net savvy are over it.
A good deal of them are funny, but they eventually stop being funny. It's like a joke that's repeated too many times. Each person has their own interpretation on when a meme stops being funny based on their exposure.
It would be unfair to proclaim a meme unfunny to someone who has just been exposed to it. The ironic thing is that a good deal of the giant bomb community decries memes and yet continue to beat giant bomb memes to death in the same breath.
@Freshbandito: If said parties involve unoriginal chucklefucks standing around spouting regurgitated lines, often without any kind of context and expecting a laugh, then they're not exactly parties I wanna be at anyway. I'm not wasting my time on boring people.
Nobody doing that is going to be at a good party, fucking fact.
I find internet memes funny when they're done well, so fuck 9gag as a staff label and as a muthafuckin' crew.
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