late last night during a sugar high-induced bout of insomnia i laid awake in bed contemplating the many philosophical questions posed by modern life and eventually my quadruple-digit-IQ brain brought me to the subject of contemporary internet culture and the ever-increasing rate at which memes are born and subsequently laid to rest. during deep thought about why it seems that we have been existing in an accelerated meme hell reality for the past few years, i arrived at a startling revelation:
the ease of accessibility to the internet enabled by the rise of smartphones and social media provided the mechanism by which lowest-common-demoninator african americans were able to quickly dominate and inevitably decimate online meme culture with low-quality content (dabbing, yeet, emoji spam, deep fried images (stuffpics), butchered english (aave) and associated slang terms (thicc, bruh, dat, swag, fam, bae, boi, etc.), real brother hours, bass boosted edits/distorted bass hit) in the latter half of the 2010s.
what happened to quality memes such as the ragefaces and lolcats of yore? why is there no concerted effort to bring new wonderful memes of this caliber into existence so as to purify internet culture, return it to its once-great state, and provide a respectable and wholesome online experience for generations to come?
we must secure the existence of traditional internet culture and a future for quality memes.
