I guess that would make knowyourmeme the modern Rosetta Stone
perhaps, but it will be indecipherable due to the 42gb of advertisements and pop-ups it loads.
Knowyourmeme has ads?
If I become rich I will download the entirety of knowyourmeme and engrave it on a giant block of granite or carve it into the side of a mountain. Our descendants will thank me.
It’s free real estate.
THE HOUSE IS FREE!!
It’s loss.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
His memes spreading wide
There’s gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who’s focus is “Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century”.
I’d bet money there are already
thesises(??)theses (thanks, atomicorange!) and dissertations on this.There’s def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially “interpret” what the emojis mean for the court.
At least some portion of that have to be grifters
An accurate statement to append to literally all human effort.
Theses is the plural of thesis. Kinda looks stupid out of context but there you go.
And the Ship of Theses is when you rewrite the seven parts of your dissertation so many times that you’re not sure if it’s even your original intent anymore
Oh, I’m sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like “Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground”.
With the proliferation of memes, that’s probably going to be its own branch of academic study.
So one of my great-great-great grandkids might be able to get a PhD in Memeology?
You can get that right now.
Memes didn’t start because of the internet. They’ve been around for a long time.
As long as there are boxes and cats, everyone will know what this means for all time.
I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn’t get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said “yeah it’s not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean” and I thought that’s a stupid ass concept and wtf.
Well, here we are now. It’s about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks “English” but it’s basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.
Beautiful. You’re raising a top tier meme lord. Meme nostalgia is gonna be huge
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Its not about the cat its about the reaction image being interpreted without its usual text because many people have seen it so many times that its not needed.
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I don’t get it even now
The face is from the “it’s free real estate” meme, with the unspoken words being the punchline
It’s also [the face my cat makes when he’s found a good box.
A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’
I think I first heard this from Ea-nāṣir
So his jokes were as shitty as his copper!
ūd reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I just love that “x walks into a bar” is such a universal joke format. Even if we don’t know why it was funny.
I Googled this, read about it, and then found a Reddit thread where two historian/Sumerologists get into a discussion about the potential meaning.
Maybe it is we who are the joke.
I think I first heard this from Ea-nāṣir
I absolutely love the idea that hieroglyphics were all just period specific dank memes that we just don’t get because we’re not in.
I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.
That’s okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we’ll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.
If they can read the English of this era and cats are still around, yes they will. The expression is pretty universal as depicting satisfied smugness.
Aha but that would be only partially correct! Theres more to free real estate than smugness.
The fact that the reply used “hieroglyphics” and cats have been pulling this shit longer ago than those were used as written language… And said poster’s argument was that “someday” that wouldn’t be the case?
Have they met a fucking cat?!
A bit off topic, but I was playing RimWorld and ended up with a colonist nicknamed Real Estate. He got captured during a raid at one point. I kept waiting for the quest to rescue him so I could post this meme, but it never happened…
