memes truly die when companies use them in commercials and ads
@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
9 жыл бұрын
+shadedoom This.
@JamesKeithProduction
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you anti-smoking ad
@JamesKeithProduction
9 жыл бұрын
This^
@JamesKeithProduction
9 жыл бұрын
That ^
@deltax930
9 жыл бұрын
+shadedoom I suspect companies intentionally wait until memes are already dead, or on the verge of being dead before are willing to use them. This is because a meme is pretty much on its way out when everyone has seen it before, but advertisers know that in order for you to get the joke you have to have seen the meme already. By waiting till the meme is dead they know everyone is going to understand the reference, even if it's not really funny anymore as a result.
@AwesomeAceZ
8 жыл бұрын
Memes die when Nickelodeon uses them.
@aidendouglas8023
8 жыл бұрын
Truth
@shook8305
7 жыл бұрын
I Personally Disfavor The Whole Enchilada Especially Wendy's
@griff_irl3709
7 жыл бұрын
Make I personally disfavor mars bars
@Adamlovag1
3 жыл бұрын
Rip dude
@LittleJimmy835
8 жыл бұрын
The reason memes aren't funny is because the amount of time it takes for them to become popular is more than the amount of the amount of time it takes for them to become overdone. Repetition is the death of comedy. Even the funniest joke you've ever heard loses it's impact if it gets told to you 10 times in a row. Internet memes are by definition the same gag being told over and over and over again. So by the time the meme gets popular enough to be spread around the internet, you've already head the same joke THOUSANDS of times.
@Arkhansyd
8 жыл бұрын
I disagree with you on a few core things. Repetition is, by no means, the death of comedy. A lot of the times a joke is even funier when you've already heard it. Thing is it has to be good in order to work. And probably most importantly, have nice timing. I'd say bad comedy is the death of funny repetition. Internet memes, I'd say, are by definition "a recognizible thing being repeated over and over", but the gags are not the same. They can build on top of the same meme, mix with others or even coment on itself to make the joke and still be, in my opinion, the same meme. But when people with no comedic sense take image macros as a way of "funyfing" their jokes or upload the first thing that comes to mind, Internet comedy dies.
@mr_saiiko
4 жыл бұрын
@@Arkhansyd life is not ONLY about fun.thats just childish,memes have destroyed peoples lifes.people cant be normal in comment section anymore.
@durece100
4 жыл бұрын
@@Arkhansyd You're making a mistake. The lazy part is putting text into photo of a person, animal, or a cartoon character.
@MikhailKalashnikovMiG
10 жыл бұрын
memes were never funny. It encouraged stupidity and prevented originality. The irony was that those who reused memes were doing so in an attempt to be "hip", but in the process actually declared themselves witless and unoriginal.
@NVRL8
10 жыл бұрын
I want to add trolling to that as well. Getting tired of this forced nerd culture too.
@NVRL8
10 жыл бұрын
Sean Grady then I look at myself with my selfie hmmmmmm yeah,,, I hate myself now too
@discordlexia2429
10 жыл бұрын
Sean Grady Oh, prepare for the "Replying to yourself" hate. It's vicious. Good luck bro, I'll try and protect you if you ask intelligently and politely.
@MikhailKalashnikovMiG
10 жыл бұрын
Sean Grady Well, it was the term "trolling" that was invented, but the actual act itself was not invented on the internet. Heck I still do that all the time by giving some friends false Russian translations for English words, Problem is internet "trolling" has developed into something that's mainly negative and simply unfunny and sometimes even borderlines (cyber)bullying.
@NVRL8
10 жыл бұрын
Well said and I agree 100%
@Catlord98765
9 жыл бұрын
I used to love memes but then I took an arrow to the knee.
@deadchannel9282
9 жыл бұрын
-__-
@cameroncederquist9746
9 жыл бұрын
***** So you hated memes after you got married? what happened with that?
@Vivify5040
9 жыл бұрын
***** >meme arrow to the knee
@goahnary
9 жыл бұрын
***** Oh no.... this killed me lol
@Trixiethegoldenwitch
10 жыл бұрын
I've been on the internet around 10 years, aware of memes around 7. And I still find most of them funny. To me it's like the joke keeps taking on more and more meaning and gets more complex the more of it there is. Then again, I did get sick of rage faces after following the rage face comic reddit board for a while. Also bacon and nutella for the same reasons.
@fabulermo3428
10 жыл бұрын
Agreed, a lot of memes are still really funny. What urks me though, about both rage faces and memes on occasion, is when they start to intrude on natural life. There are very few people who I hear make internet references in daily conversation that don't make me cringe.
@AzureKnight90
10 жыл бұрын
Nice to see your take on the subject, Digi
@InkRose
10 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I still find many memes funny if they are used in clever ways. Some I am pretty sick of though. XD
@LyyNLyyN
10 жыл бұрын
***** Troll face and other rage faces were *born* old. Just like using hashtags outside Twitter. (You aren't guilty of that sin, but others here are.) For me hashtags denote ircchannels and irchannels only. Now I can't talk about an irchannel anywhere else because the silly sites understand it as a hashtag. Duh!
@bluetannery1527
10 жыл бұрын
Hello digibro!! Been a while!
@TM1337FalconPunch
8 жыл бұрын
the thing about classic jokes is that even though they often have a bunch of familiar formats (knock knock, englishman irishman scotsman, etc) but the punchline and direction of the joke is always different, so the surprise of the punchline is always there to make it funny. a jokes humour is in its suspense and the anticipation it creates in its audience, waiting for that moment where the punchline is delivered and the joke is wrapped up into one merry conclusion. memes are like jokes where you always know what the punchline is going to be. it is like a joke that spoils itself. it completely takes away the anticipation of what the humour is and so it ruins the spontaneity of laughter and mirth because you ALREADY KNOW that is going to be very laugh much wow. memes are like the laugh track of the internet.
@ZombieFighter95
9 жыл бұрын
"When Do Memes Stop Being Funny?" That would require them to be funny in ther first place.
@hawkeye2958
9 жыл бұрын
You must be fun at parties.
@ZombieFighter95
9 жыл бұрын
Why, yes. Yes, I am.
@happydays6777
7 жыл бұрын
How ironic
@jacksquatt6082
9 жыл бұрын
When do memes start becoming unfunny and annoying? When being taken out of the original context they were born in. Then it becomes someone's attempt to force a reference into a situation where it wasn't supposed to go in the first place.
@NaniGee
9 жыл бұрын
jack squatt Sorry to burst your bubble but they were never fucking funny
@jacksquatt6082
9 жыл бұрын
Nana nani There was a time they were funny, but that was almost certainly back before they had become memes, back when they were just fun little pics with puns attached that weren't circulating around all over.
@spacemonster7051
9 жыл бұрын
Nani Gee Sorry to burst your bubble but humor is a purely subjective concept and people are allowed to think things are funny even if they don't align with your sense of humor.
@sarfaraz.hosseini
9 жыл бұрын
jack squatt Is there a bubble bursting meme?
@jacksquatt6082
9 жыл бұрын
Sarfaraz Hussein Yeah, unfortunately, there is. It involves a bubblegum bubble exploding all over a kid's face. Honestly, I was hoping for something more witty, like zoom shot of a Wall Street banker at the start of the housing market crash.
@georgebrady5200
9 жыл бұрын
3 minutes in and it felt like 20.
@chefkendranguyen
10 жыл бұрын
Internet memes are never going away.
@seranes_silence
10 жыл бұрын
See you in a few years again.
@desender
10 жыл бұрын
YuukoDreams New memes show up... I promise.
@Camel76
10 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I still like many older memes.
@legendario13
10 жыл бұрын
By knowing what a meme in it's origin is you can realize that indeed is...lets say... unlikely for memes to disapear completely as they are constructs of the human to comunicate a message that can be understood by everyone. Just as it happens IRL we build, find, use signs, simbols and make a language to comunicate. The Ok, the middle finger, shake your hand in the air, a salute o7, etc. Are pieces of information that you can understand even when I dont explain to you where or when it originated. As just as with memes on internet, sometimes there are misinterpretations and etc. I think the thing here is that we are thinking of memes as objects that spawn on Internet but they are creations of the users on it. As I see it, as long as there's people (Online or IRL) there'll be memes.
@jbailey514
10 жыл бұрын
I think you really hit the nail on the head with regards to spontaneous humor vs. telling jokes - and that memes now seem almost like people trying too hard/telling old jokes. I'm curious why you didn't cover the original meaning of meme (which this 'funny picture' definition barely glosses) I think _that_ meaning conveys a lot more interest.
@drew2pac
10 жыл бұрын
For me it is people constantly posting them on Facebook. They are funny, but when people go overboard it is annoying - to the point I delete them. The irony is with people constantly posting the same crap: The girls that post they don't need man - actually crave it. The people that talk about living life, don't. Those that post about how they don't care what people thing, actually do. etc etc etc.
@nekomako777
10 жыл бұрын
Yup, that's why I say fuck facebook and social networks in general. KZitem comments are the exception- they don't matter. :P
@GerBarne
10 жыл бұрын
As my Dad would say, 'It was funny the first time'. For me, that has a lot to do with it. I don't find a 'yo dawg' joke for instance, funny more than once. But that isn't the whole story. Because what irritates me even more than a 'yo dawg' joke being repeated is a 'yo dawg' joke written on a picture of happy keanu. I think for the majority of people that is where the frustration lies. The people who are involved in 4chan and the likes have often contributed to the success of these memes. They feel a sense of ownership, and rightly so. They were maybe introverted people who found solace in the online community and feel proud of their combined creation. So when the popular girl uses their meme on Facebook for the four hundredth time, and incorrectly, they feel as if she is trying to invade their world and their community. And that she's taking the value out of what they've created. I'll tell you something. That would annoy me.
@zephilandevol
10 жыл бұрын
"Oh no, people are liking something I made! God, why is everyone such a dick?"
@GerBarne
10 жыл бұрын
Erick Hernandez it's not so much that they like it. I think it's to do with their hijacking and misuse of it.
@zephilandevol
10 жыл бұрын
I would get annoyed too, but at the same time, I wouldn't broaden my hate towards the internet as whole. The kind of person you're talking about has existed since the beginning of social interactions, and usually doesn't have much influence, so I wouldn't keep hating her for more than a couple of minutes
@GerBarne
10 жыл бұрын
Erick Hernandez She most certainly does have influence. I don't like it but she doea.
@SparkmanEX
10 жыл бұрын
You know a joke is dead when your teacher or your mom says it.
@jpheitman
10 жыл бұрын
Depends on the teacher. For example, my old high school US History and Government teachers were pretty cool.
@AbsoluuttinenTotuus
Жыл бұрын
Or your 11 year old nephew says it
@AbsoluuttinenTotuus
Жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ this comment is 8 years old??
@AbsoluuttinenTotuus
Жыл бұрын
It definitely dies whenever a news outlet says it. It quite literally suffocates the meme by flagging it with a political ideology.
@TryHardSista
10 жыл бұрын
Never got tired of "Allllrighty then"
@damnlookathim
10 жыл бұрын
RE-HE-HE-ALLLLY?
@PhilosophyTube
10 жыл бұрын
I've been doing stand-up for years now; what I've noticed is that tokens of jokes get old but types don't. Being told exactly the same joke over and over gets old, and maybe some memes get old fast because most tokens of them are too similar. Most doges are pretty similar, for instance; so are most harlem shakes. But a new riff on an established type can get big laughs. Like a comic basically doing the old "my kid says the darndest things" routine or the "my partner thinks differently from me" is an old type, but when told with a new spin or a refreshing angle they can be really funny. That's why "What's the deal with airline food?" is totally dead but observational comedy, i.e. "What's the deal with X?" is still a thing. Tokens age; types live on.
@TheSharpeful
10 жыл бұрын
hmmm wasn't aware memes stop being funny - if they are used in the wrong occasions then they just aren't funny, like a bad punchline. But when used in the right moment, they can still be pretty damn funny - even the older ones.
@matonyayunonaesdughter1548
10 жыл бұрын
When do "memes" stop being funny? About two hours after I've seen it the first time.
@skreeran
10 жыл бұрын
I actually like internet memes, as long as their used properly. See: Adding something funny and not just repeating something to sound cool.
@yaujj65
4 жыл бұрын
This is a good representative of a good usage of memes. If you are going to repeat, it will become unfunny.
@JosiahJS976
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@TheJapanChannelDcom
10 жыл бұрын
"Meme" is so last year. Too late, PBS.
@LordCHull
10 жыл бұрын
60s Spiderman memes never get old. NEVER.
@sajins7444
Жыл бұрын
True
@phedran
10 жыл бұрын
I think with memes there's a progression similar to pop music: When you first encounter something new it's weird and you're not sure how to react. Not sure if it annoys you or you like it. As your familiarity grows, so does your understanding. It becomes "your jam" and you feel connected to people that like it. Then you encounter it one too many times. Someone at work mentions it. Your mom quotes it. The news does a piece on it. And your special piece of happiness is ripped away from you, far too soon. RIP in peace.
@jacobhamblin5875
10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but they're very different because of the mediums you receive them from. Popular songs are strategically made popular by radio gods trying to get listeners, and it spreads from the people who are infected. The internet however relies on people to actively spread something to a place you visit. It's actually rather ironic. The radio is much more voluntary to visit, but songs are more likely to be shoved down your throat if you don't want them. Songs have distinct stages that they have to go through to become popular, so they take much longer to peak, but since memes come from people, they typically will pop up much longer after their birth than songs without major effects to their connotation. Finally, I'll disagree that you don't know exactly how to react to memes. With the community aspect of the internet, you're rarely given long alone with a meme before being exposed to the biases of others. A song will have that period between its birth and popularity spike that you can make your own mind on it before being drowned in it. Memes don't really have that.
@caldw615
10 жыл бұрын
Meme's used to convey someones opinions thoughts and whatnot or for satire are funny. What isn't funny is when they just get slapped onto anything in an attempt to try and be funny on purpose. I know it doesn't sound like it makes sense but think of it as comparing a legitimate irony or witty remark vs forced humor. This is how an "Arrow to the knee" died out so quickly and became so hated because people weren't even using it for the sake of making a point or anything, the subject could've been completely unrelated or not really worth noting and yet someone would always leave a comment or image with an arrow to the knee line.
@CornishCreamtea07
10 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ShonaMcCarthy
10 жыл бұрын
I saw arrow to the knee rarely enough that I still love it.
@Dehumanized33
10 жыл бұрын
Not sure if memes are over used Or i spent too much time on the internet
@AwildTrollAppearsXD
9 жыл бұрын
nice one
@jacobstaten2366
5 жыл бұрын
I saw what you did there.
@negil
10 жыл бұрын
The internet seems to have a quicker aging cycle. It's in it's own time loop where everything ages at 3x quicker or more. Whereas old shows, while seeming dated still are enjoyable.
@ProtoMario
10 жыл бұрын
Because it has been done to death. Because on every facet of media there are memes. And these memes even invade serious things, like Abortion and Gay rights, then it becomes either more hated because the person disagrees or the person that agrees will feel bad as well because, its a meme that expressed that. My 2 cents memes are becoming like commercials!
@bigstank7638
10 жыл бұрын
some memes are funny and some are not
@mustangkrillin
10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting point about them reflecting a political viewpoint.
@carlosmedina1281
10 жыл бұрын
But proto what are doing watching this channel but proto what about arceus bring the god pokemon but proto
@lmperiun
10 жыл бұрын
I am not tired of Doge!! Such wrong
@PowerShawn5000
10 жыл бұрын
Shut the hell up.
@lmperiun
10 жыл бұрын
PowerShawn5000 Welp, fuck you
@GiomDe
10 жыл бұрын
PowerShawn5000 many angry
@PowerShawn5000
10 жыл бұрын
Rasta Guilherme Henrique You two sure have bright futures, blindly following whatever the everyone considers "humor".
@GiomDe
10 жыл бұрын
PowerShawn5000 many much rude
@glitchburgh4249
10 жыл бұрын
I laughed at every meme in this video. I'm also the kind of guy who goes to the same place and orders the same thing every time I'm hungry.
@anahte4003
8 жыл бұрын
Memes die the moment they are born.
@jonathanschossig1276
8 жыл бұрын
Default User So they travel at light speed.
@Titan0l
7 жыл бұрын
They travel at the speed of sound.
@BenRimes
10 жыл бұрын
The answer is never! Memes NEVER stop being funny! They age with a wonderful spammy patina. As touched upon in the video, it's a shared cultural reference, one that can transcend generations in a way that old media references aren't always capable of, because they aren't locked into a single event in time. I'm looking at you, "Dewey Defeats Truman!"
@waterbottle2031
10 жыл бұрын
You're the type of people who try to make statistics and science out of memes... they're just images that get thrown around so much by cancerous websites like KZitem Tumblr Reddit and 9gag so much that they move on to the next thing but if someone still finds it funny... i mean what can we do.
@fuzzypanda990
10 жыл бұрын
Ava Archie Your one of those people that thinks Millhouse is a Meme don't you?
@waterbottle2031
10 жыл бұрын
KYM is garbage so no i don't
@ronburgundy8031
10 жыл бұрын
Ava Archie >"...try to make statistics and science out of memes..." >Not knowing that the word "meme" was invented by a scientist to help describe the evolutionary principles of ideas and how they spread. I shig
@waterbottle2031
10 жыл бұрын
maymay arrows outside of 4chins? xD
@BetsywarlordofnoodlesLee
10 жыл бұрын
I can't decide if the people getting raucously angry over memes should seek out some kind of charity or hobby to focus their currently pointless passion on instead.... or continue to stay where they are because otherwise they would get in productive people's way. The fellow interneters have done nothing to you.... that you have not done to yourself.
@meatyunicorns
10 жыл бұрын
Do you by any chance wear a fedora and/or a Guy Fawks mask?
@koishiou
10 жыл бұрын
Memes are internet slang. Intuitively I have always seen memes as a unique language or dialect of the internet. The internet facilitates the transfer of ideas through a complex set of signifiers and signs that are sometimes textual, and sometimes not. Either way, though, a clear message is being communicated by one person and read by others. I would argue that memes don't even need to be funny to be memes. This isn't so much about comedy as about culture, sub-culture and dialect. Users are able to mix and remix audio, static and cycling images, video and the unique culture context of the cyberspace that a comparatively small group of people inhabits and understands. You could refer to memes as a sort of internet "slang", unique not to "this generation", but rather anyone who inhabits that space. If we're looking at memes through the lens of "slang", it can be argued that people who inhabit cyberspace and are familiar with the language have the same feelings of revulsion a young person from a different era would have at listening to a parent or adult in a position of authority using the word "groovy", even if it were during the peak of it's cultural relevance.
@Ujiltrom
10 жыл бұрын
The "Help I can't swim ! - Just fake it !" joke actually made my day !
@thatistheplan
10 жыл бұрын
never!!!!!! i still repeat "somebody set us up the bomb" to myself for the lulz.
@1DigitalFlow
10 жыл бұрын
Catz!
@dnys_7827
3 жыл бұрын
oh hey look the old fantano channel
@ArborDaze
8 жыл бұрын
Most memes never start being funny.
@NikoKun
10 жыл бұрын
Personally I don't get tired of a Meme unless it's really annoying or just stupid and not funny. However plenty of memes actually are funny, and as long as they're used properly and in an appropriate situation, I love them. A properly placed meme can be one of the funniest things ever, even the old ones. The same is true for any type of joke or 'funny' thing. The way I see this issue, generally people who hate memes are like hipsters or haters. They hate for the sake of hating. They've created an issue that doesn't even need to exist. People can hate badly used memes, or annoying memes, but don't hate on them just because their old. They're an important part of our internet culture and it's history.
@MiseFreisin
10 жыл бұрын
Spot on! It very quickly goes from being cool to quote a meme to being cool to hate on people that quote the same meme. I was laughing at arrow in the knee long after people got "sick" of it and I still appreciate a good doge. Then again, some people just enjoy hating memes, which is fine too I guess.
@Unclevertitle
10 жыл бұрын
So I suppose in a sense internet memes are similar to puns, often considered to be one of the worst forms of humor, yet occasionally (when used cleverly) devastatingly hilarious.
@thepancakeking
9 жыл бұрын
Am I the only person that loves memes?
@sirkane5727
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the cancer.
@stubbier75
9 жыл бұрын
i luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv maymays
@Metallica8589
9 жыл бұрын
No, I fucking love 'em.
@RafaelHabegger
9 жыл бұрын
me meme me meme moar meme for me
@NoahRodriguezShow
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, and that makes you a categorically awful person.
@phoroz1905
10 жыл бұрын
I and many others still love doge.
@phoroz1905
10 жыл бұрын
APimpNamedSlickback i'll what my family?
@Be_Gee
10 жыл бұрын
So Shibe. Such Swag. Much Doge. So WoW
@GreatWonderMoose
10 жыл бұрын
There are *dozens* of us.
@_grenade_3999
9 жыл бұрын
no
@MavenCree
10 жыл бұрын
Wasn't aware we were supposed to not like memes. Sure, some get a little boring after time, but so do just regular phrases. I view memes as part of the language of the internet. Like all languages, if you don't know what the word means, you don't understand the message. If you don't understand what a meme is referring to, you miss said message. Memes are a way of quickly conveying an idea by visual means, as do words. Modern hieroglyphs if you will. So, why should we be getting tired of words. The more words there are, the richer the language. Enjoy.
@SamMcKeown
10 жыл бұрын
Internet memes stopped being _as_ funny when they stopped being memes and devolved into simple jokes. The idea of a meme is that it references prior knowledge, and it should inherently be an inside joke. Over familiarity with sad keanu, rage face and doge means they have lost their organic, anarchic origins and have just become another trope alongside insipid inspirational quotes.
@DecayedPony
10 жыл бұрын
This. Couldn't have said it better myself.
@leeleeisgay
10 жыл бұрын
If anything, I find it's the reverse. It'll start as a simple joke or just something that's funny taken out of context (you dun goofed, an hero, arrow to the knee) which people find funny, then it gains traction and gets passed around, misinterpreted, picked apart to death, and documented as a meme. It becoming a meme kills the joke.
@solidkingcobra
9 жыл бұрын
Memes die when it makes it to an episode of Family Guy.
@Shippoyasha
10 жыл бұрын
A meme doesn't pass depending on a hard science, though people generally will get tired of it fairly quickly. Though the whole Gangnam Style thing lasted MONTHS (about half a year in fact) culminating in Psy's presence on American TV. Also, memes can still be funny if they're used 'past their expiration date' and sometimes bringing an old meme can be funny considering people may not expect to see it anymore.
@RacecarsAndRicefish
10 жыл бұрын
Why memes are interesting sometimes: When I am watching the history channel, and "Ancient Aliens" comes on, I laugh and continue watching. Then, with my friends, I go "Aliens." and do the hand gesture. If they get it, it was really funny. If they don't, not so funny. Why memes are really stupid most times: (let me come up with a great example) Someone posts on facebook: "Where has that missing jet plane gone?" "Aliens." Dozens of people like and share this post without even knowing why that person is famous for claiming that aliens did something. For real.
@atylerblack164
10 жыл бұрын
I just enjoy memes. In fact, I enjoyed most the meme's in this video, even when I've seen them a 100 times.
@GameLifeBalance
10 жыл бұрын
I feel like even when memes lose their humor, they can still become a part of the vocabulary of the Internet. For example, when I leave a comment on someone's Facebook post, I might say "one does not simply ______" and fill in the blank with the appropriate response. This use of the lexicon may not be outwardly "funny," per se, but it can display a sort of internet savviness by acknowledging a common phrase, almost like being able to use idioms when speaking in a particular language. Notice how the final sentence of this comment makes you feel; it's not intended to be "funny," but should still get a reaction out of your brain in some way. And if you're impressed with this insight, then you should know that this isn't even my final form. ^CG
@drackar
10 жыл бұрын
The hate for internet memes is simple, really. Repetitive things give you a headache.
@IceFireofVoid
8 жыл бұрын
Because people on the internet are full of hatred.
@IceFireofVoid
8 жыл бұрын
OwlCreekFims I know.
@postmodernityarmageddon
8 жыл бұрын
Preach it.
@Maroonga
8 жыл бұрын
+SnowScales You dont get annoyed of things after you hear them for the millionth time?
@lnfestissumam
8 жыл бұрын
My name is not important.
@thatnerdthatruinsthefun3221
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheVideoGuyfromOhio Good joke
@burnzy3210
10 жыл бұрын
just dont go to reddit, reddit is where meme's go to die by being beaten to death
@FearedByKittens
10 жыл бұрын
9gag where they get brought back to life as the undead, so much worse.
@leeminchung9
4 жыл бұрын
And redditors keep thinking they are the king of comedy and shit. It's so annoying how redditors try so hard to be funny by churning out some of the stupidest memes and they think they are the kings of comedy
@e7venjedi
10 жыл бұрын
Well this is my first time watching the channel. I'm hooked. [Your format is something I would love to do. Perhaps I'll be able to one day soon!] Cheers all!
@NikolajLepka
10 жыл бұрын
surprisingly I don't feel at all that memes are annoying, I don't cringe or groan or rage at them; I embrace them as part of internet culture and even enjoy them most of the time, not just that but I don't know anyone who hates memes, so hearing about the hate in this video is actually news to me...
@TheSweetestCurse
10 жыл бұрын
One of the things that make some memes quickly aggravating to see plastered on every form of social media you go on is that some can be seen as a kind of 'in-joke' with certain websites and their culture. Seeing something genuinely funny made and contained on one website then see it leaked out, posted over and over makes it kind of...lose it's meaning and what made it funny. I mean, seeing something made on a website as chaotic and deprived as 4chan being posted on facebook by your old aunt in Minnesota is kind of...jarring, aint it?
@thecanadianfood
10 жыл бұрын
But I love Memes. What is hate?
@Lantern_Light
8 жыл бұрын
Well, now that this video is a few years old i can now add somthing, Memes can come back. Oddly enough It seems a really old meme can come back as a way to purposefully annoy. As well as be used ironically. Bringing memes back into focus.
@CathPaluigi
10 жыл бұрын
That was the longest 13 minutes of my life. Geez...
@rotomfan63
10 жыл бұрын
When they start. That's when they stop being funny.
@JoeHanson
10 жыл бұрын
Memes usually lose me when they do that silly "I'm trapped in a box" thing LIKE WE'VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE. Puh-leez.
@jbealsmusic
10 жыл бұрын
Wait... There's people who don't like memes?
@SocialistSenpai
10 жыл бұрын
I think they're the people who think facebook is the internet and who still buy CD's... Well to you people I have but one question... will it blend?
@Ceirenthir
10 жыл бұрын
I was asking that same question 10 seconds into the video..
@Psyvel
10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they started to grow up. Now it's more of a relation to what you experienced when you were younger, such as over 9000 or shoop da whoop for me, while others (probably middle schoolers) still like rage memes.
@braydenmaine
10 жыл бұрын
RIGHT!
@OkagaCalifornia
10 жыл бұрын
Yes because memes are cancer whenever they're used incorrectly, and they're almost always used incorrectly.
@MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
10 жыл бұрын
why does this guy sound like he's trying to sound like vsauce?
@marcusnelson8912
10 жыл бұрын
Because he is a man with a beard who covers interesting topics that you would have never been able to think of or research as well yourself.
@MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
10 жыл бұрын
Marcus Nelson LOL chill fanboy I'm just stating the obvious.
@marcusnelson8912
10 жыл бұрын
not even worked up. All I said was they're both covering topics that are broad and non-researched by you, or most people in general since they're secondary thoughts. Also that they have beards. Calm down I'm just stating the obvious as well
@MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
10 жыл бұрын
Marcus Nelson well the fact that you said it in a condescending manner, "that you would have never been able to think of" shows your heightened aggressiveness towards someone who merely stated their opinion. If you can't handle someone being judgmental towards your biggest idol then you need to get off the internet.
@marcusnelson8912
10 жыл бұрын
No you're implying that over your personal interpretation of what I was saying. How would you even know my specific emotional intention with that comment from monotone text? I apologize I didn't specifically say "you and most people including myself." That was heightened aggression, not my original comment. If you can't handle being wrong then you need to get off the internet.
@theorosef
7 жыл бұрын
personally, I think memes go through multiple "phases": 1. the meme is brand new, no one knows what it is yet. usually very short 2. the meme rapidly gains in popularity. 3. the meme has reached its peak fame and enjoyable-ness (depending on how "good" the meme is, phase 2 and 3 can last longer or shorter) 4. the meme starts to decline in popularity, people get tired of it 5. the meme is now horrid and disgusting. it brings shame upon any who use it 6. usually a few months or a year later, it reaches a neutral stage. some people like it, some people don't, it's mostly just ordinary OR 6. the meme remains in the 5th stage anyone want to add anything?
@itsasecret5822
10 жыл бұрын
One does not simply forget memes
@BricksOfAwesome
10 жыл бұрын
I think it's simply that we consume too much too fast, kinda like how a song reaches huge popularity and fades out quickly because we all get so sick of it.
@x3naurus
10 жыл бұрын
Agreed, but there's definitely more to it. I can take my underground Quasimoto album and replay that WAY more than I hear Ke$ha or Li'l Wayne... but the second I hear my brothers playing it from their mono stereo, I'm completely sick of it. Same thing happened with Tyler, the Creator, too. I think it has to do with purpose. The purpose of LISTENING TO pop Ke$ha songs, etc., is exactly the same reason to subscribe to a currently famous meme: to gain traction in current culture. The reason to hate either is just the opposite: realizing that you are no longer gaining traction in popular culture. (I should also note that following the crowd isn't necessarily what I mean. It has more to do with looking better in the face of a popular crowd. Sometimes, that means listening to Ke$ha, sometimes that means blasting underground rap that no one has heard of.)
@pseudonym4893
10 жыл бұрын
Jadden Norman Wait wait wait back up... "mono stereo"?
@x3naurus
10 жыл бұрын
Definitely on purpose x'D Thanks, man.
@BricksOfAwesome
10 жыл бұрын
Jadden Norman That`s a good point, gaining the popularity is kind of like the snowball effect. some people like it and share it and then because of the following it gains more followers, and so on. but I think the reason why it is hated so quickly afterwards is similar to a stock market crash. It reaches it`s peak gradually until it is heard so often we all get sick of leading to a rapid decline in popularity.
@Adv3nturePrime
10 жыл бұрын
Memes stop being funny the first couple of times they are used. They're just joke templates for unfunny people with no imagination. Or, inside jokes for people with no life. Either one. Not a whole lot of discussion is necessary here.
@Adv3nturePrime
10 жыл бұрын
John Luke Horan Thank you for proving my point.
@CrazyPoochification
10 жыл бұрын
Not quite. Meme's generally (if used properly) are a template for expressing an idea or a joke in a fashion that takes less time, is more spontaneous - And oftenly making the person more able to relate to it - If it ties into the joke. While, yes, it does require the reciever to know of the Meme - The same can be said for any recipient of a joke. The person must be familiar and willing to recieve of the format of the joke - Otherwise they won't be responsive as in ; they will have no idea what you are talking about. So, ignorance and hate aside - You are simply wrong.
@Adv3nturePrime
10 жыл бұрын
CrazyPoochification You do have a good point. After all, a meme can be successful if done right. Problem is, a lot of people don't do it right. And the overuse causes said joke to become stale much quicker. Any person with a decent sense of humor and/or imagination would have moved on to pursue more funny jokes. But then there is a chunk of the community that still latches onto these month old memes. These people are unfunny. Granted, the same can be said about any joke. If I have to hear one more idiot say "that's what she said", I'm going to break something.
@CrazyPoochification
10 жыл бұрын
Adv3nturePrime I do understand what demographic of people you are talking about. They are generally unfunny in most circumstances or lack some of the core understanding to what makes a joke good - such as timing, expression of choise of meme. Overall though - Yes, there is a overuse of Meme's that become so watered down that they in the end yield no real humorous value ; because they have been overdone in a poorly made fashion. But perhaps these kinds of people thrive on the value of the trolling - or maybe they relish only on their own humor given from the idea ; i would not know. At any rate, i wish you well and that you get to avoid infuriating meme's.
@devinodriscoll
10 жыл бұрын
My theory is simple. The reason the more popular memes wear out quicker is for the same reason you get tired of a song if you hear it over and over again. It becomes annoying, and you don't want to come in contact with it again.
@LuckerLol
10 жыл бұрын
So say, a repetitive joke("internet meme") would be immortal?
@ronburgundy8031
10 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting point! Even more interesting of you consider the role remixing plays in both music and image macro's. It's the only way to really renew their former glory after their popularity has waned.
@AlmightyDoubleHelix
10 жыл бұрын
For me, a meme or joke is either funny, or it's not. Very rarely do I find something funny and eventually tire of it or have something previously unfunny become funny.
@damnlookathim
10 жыл бұрын
I don't get upset by internet memes normally, I get upset when internet memes are used incorrectly. People break the template and put any kind of words on any picture and post it and that itself is rage inducing.. And my wife..
@PaleoSteno
10 жыл бұрын
As soon as this video existed, all current, past and future memes have now stopped being funny. Get off the ride kiddies, it's over.
@CrownedGD
10 жыл бұрын
Am I the only person who think that some internet meme's doesn't have a "Har har har humor" in it? I mean yeah, memes can be used annoyingly if no creativity is put into it. I think some internet meme's are used just to make a point. If I say on a FB status, "How do I get a girlfriend?". A person could respond with a meme: "One does not simply get a girlfriend". Well you see, that could be humorous while at the same time answering my question and understanding the my friend's expression at the same time. I mean it doesn't even have to be funny. It's just like smily faces at sometimes. Humor is humor, subjective. I don't find all meme's funny. The "arrow to the knee" meme was so annoying to me. The obsessed GF wasn't funny to me either. Heck, I grew up with LOLcats and I find a smile on my face when I see a humorous one- not all meme users are kids. Just the way they world works: Things that aren't attractive to you are probably attractive to someone else.
@ekjswim
4 жыл бұрын
Watching during COVID in Oct 2020 and when Brady popped up all I could think was "Man, they are really really close together."
@PorkRoll_F3
10 жыл бұрын
I used to live, and still work, in Hoboken ;) Thanks for the shout out!
@ShunShinimaru
9 жыл бұрын
Memes die when they become popular on Facebook. Look at MLG Montage Parodies, and Doge, and image macros. Facebook killed all of those memes. The meme becomes old or stale when it gets overrused or ruined by Facebook users.
@ShunShinimaru
8 жыл бұрын
OwlCreekFims if you think i'm wrong then you're not a true dank memer
@ShunShinimaru
8 жыл бұрын
OwlCreekFims dank just means damp it doesn't have anything to do with drugs though the word is often associated with marijuana, which isn't a drug, it is a plant. the drug is Tetrahydrocannabinol. Furthermore, you say all drugs are bad yet Jesus says let the man who is without sin throw the first stone. So i am going to list off some drugs, tell me if you don't take any of them. ibuprofen, tylenol, advil, sugar, dextrose, glucose, caffeine, nicotine, sucrose, alcohol, dihydrogen monoxide.
@TheVideoGuyfromOhio
8 жыл бұрын
+WeActOnImpulse Official more like avoid these Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Sugar protesting, Vegans,
@rbz0
10 жыл бұрын
They don't stop being funny.
@Simok1234
10 жыл бұрын
Some people think they were never funny in the first place.
@rbz0
10 жыл бұрын
Simok1234 Some people think Conan O'Brien isn't funny, what can you do?
@earlynovfan
10 жыл бұрын
rbz0 Some people think Conan O'Brien IS funny. What can you do?
@rbz0
10 жыл бұрын
earlynovfan What are you doing here? Go watch Jimmy Fallon already.
@JoeHanson
10 жыл бұрын
This brings up interesting questions about the evolution of memes (I'm coming at this from the perspective of biological evolution and natural selection). Let's say a meme is declared "passé" on Reddit, which as a platform where up and down votes determine the success of content, gives us a very real score of a meme's fitness (it's success/popularity/subjective humor) in that population… but in that population only. If that meme is transferred to a new population (say, if one's grandmother just found out about LOLcats), then it is subject to entirely different set of feedback, which, if it's a population of old ladies on Facebook who love cats, might prove to be incredibly successful to your grandma's social status and success of that meme's spread… but again, only in that population. That new population may even modify the meme to their own desires, a change which would be downvoted out of the original population and which would bring on ALL TEH RAGE, but may actually benefit the meme in the new population. Someone's blanket declaration of memes as "passé" internet-wide almost certainly stems from the fact that the meme is unfit for their group, and trying to impose that selection on a distant group. It would be like toucans telling polar bears that because they'd never make it in the tropics, they might as well go ahead and just die already. I'm not sure that the fact that the internet is theoretically "connected" means that everything is subject to the same rules and cultural selection everywhere all the time.
@e7venjedi
10 жыл бұрын
To answer the question [late I presume?]: for me, I don't really understand the hate. I laugh at most memes I encounter, and if I somehow start tiring of one, I simply don't read/view it. I think you got into this with the ambiguous "are we being forced to see them if the internet is a public place"... but for me it's really that simple.
@katherinepagan4860
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I love seeing old, worn out memes. They just feel nostalgic, and it makes me smile how something so small can grow to mean so much and then nothing to everyone. The only meme that needs to die are the Minions, and that's because I'm sick of seeing them on my relatives' Facebook feed masquerading as enjoyable content
@justadragonryu
10 жыл бұрын
Much Idea, very channel, wow.
@orkenuu
10 жыл бұрын
Wait, am I the only one who still uses doge?
@Sacrengard
10 жыл бұрын
no
@PetrHerold
10 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@Sacrengard
10 жыл бұрын
No
@orkenuu
10 жыл бұрын
Oh, ok. For a moment i thought i was the only one.
@PetrHerold
10 жыл бұрын
So there is two of you slowpokes. Cool.
@ViixEdits
10 жыл бұрын
Anonymous (ID: /dtaSzje) 04/12/14(Sat)18:21:18 UTC+2 No.541906181 >when do memes stop being funny >implying memes are funny to begin with this anon is right
@REqualsOstrich
10 жыл бұрын
I started watching Idea Channel at the beginning of last year after having a brush with the subject of rhetorical criticism and am increasingly interested in studying the effects and inner-workings pop culture. Your channel has been and continues to be an AWESOME place to learn from and be inspired by, but if I were producing these videos (and I'm not) I would consider mentioning why the information in the video is applicable to real life as a cap for episodes. You can derive meaning from anything if you just sit there and think about it long enough like a decent critical thinker, but the internet has a pretty short attention span. I feel like a there is a lot of important stuff in your videos that people want to know that gets lost in "hey! It's a video about my fandom!" Of course this doesn't apply to those who already think deeper about these sorts of things, but to those who might not care about the deeper meaning of their favorite series or internet-related activity. A hook would serve as a reminder to those who got sucked in by the word "Homestuck" why their areas of interest are, in fact, important. What do you guys think? Let us know in your next video.
@pwnicorn999
10 жыл бұрын
"...replaced your ringtone, car horn, and the sound of rain falling." lol
@MathAndComputers
10 жыл бұрын
Maybe I'm alone in thinking so, but this episode just seemed like an angry hipster ranting "I liked memes *before* they were cool." Internet memes can still be plenty fun; the fact that they're more mainstream than they once were does not make them ruined or worthy of scorn.
@MirageMiM
10 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it's possible that anger over memes is like a meme itself. I don't know it's memeingless to me :P such humor
@GumMagnum
8 жыл бұрын
I'm not an edgy teenager nor a hipster, therefore I don't just hate things because I bore of them or because they're common.
@michemagius
10 жыл бұрын
Truly, it is impossible to say when something stops being funny, because there will always be groups of people who continue to love it or stop loving it first. However, memes tend to age well, like songs that you love do much that you listen to them until you can't stand them any longer. Nostalgia is powerful, an over used joke or reference to something from pop culture in the 80's gets tons of love from people who were fans back then, even if they grew to hate it. Like everything else, the rule of 'too much of a good thing' applies to internet memes.
@Malfashoud
10 жыл бұрын
TL;DR : Some memes moved on from being jokes to being internet short hand for conveying a whole concept in itself. Some memes have transcended their original meanings though. One could make an example similar to the emoticon, or hash-tags. Emoticons are useful ways to convey the tone of a text. Choice of words is one way, but there is a massive gulf in the way you'd interpret a e-mail from your boss saying "Are the TPS reports done yet?" if it includes a smiley at the end. Emoticons came into being because they needed to be there and made life easier. Now memes are a bit of a different thing. They're regurgitated jokes, but once they served their purpose, the meaning of the joke (i.e. the Troll-face, the i-know-i-will-fail enthusiasm of "all the things" etc.) took a life of their own and can now be used as a short hand for conveying the meaning of a text instead of writing it out. Once can just as well just copy-paste the ASCII-art of a troll face instead of writing: "I was merely trying to aggravate you in a puckish attempt at humor". I foresee the hash-tag following the same trajectory. It's a useful thing to show what should be read between the lines, since -once again- tone can't be conveyed easily through text. The difference between writing "I'm having cookies at the hotel" followed by a hash-tag with either "luxury life" or "imfeedingmydiabetus" completely changes the interpretation of your words.
@KevinNalts
10 жыл бұрын
Brady you're like if RWJ and Andy Rooney had a love child
@AnthonyIdle
10 жыл бұрын
Like it. Didn't I see a Southpark episode on this? Taylor Swifting, Faith Hilling etc Are videos about memes creating a new meme - a meme meme?
@ThePsychonautsmaster
10 жыл бұрын
>When Do Memes Stop Being Funny? LOL XDDDDD XDDDD I'M SO LE FUNNY GUYS :-PPPPP XDDDDDD Epic :^) simply epic maymay my friend XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LE CAKE IS LE LIE FUUUUUUUUUUUU FOREVER ALONE SO LE FUNNY Meme's are the death of comedy.
@TheLeesaz
10 жыл бұрын
As I violist, I can confirm that the jokes are mostly true.
@JasonBrooks0
10 жыл бұрын
I'm not mad at old memes.
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10 жыл бұрын
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@Ldarogeninga
9 жыл бұрын
I think it's the fact that memes are spontaneous humor when they're first born and start spawning, but once they become popular enough to be called an internet meme, they aren't spontaneous anymore, therefore they aren't humorous anymore. Plus with things like tv, radio, magazines, and politicians using the overly popular memes, to me, memes have always felt like an inside joke to whichever community spawned them. It'd be like the word "spoons" having special meaning to your group of friends and it always makes everyone laugh, but then someone outside the group just goes "Spoons! haha I'm funny right? I'm a cool kid now" and then everything feels awkward.
@waterbottle2031
10 жыл бұрын
Internet memes stop being funny the moment they hit: 9gag, Facebook, Tumblr, iFunny, and Meme generator and KZitem. Although Reddit isn't all too great, it's not as bad as the other websites. Generally, a lot of shit comes from 4chan and gets reported on other websites. Like the Shrek video for example, it was a "thing" on 4chan's /b/ months ago... WELL it wasn't necessarily a video, it was actually a grentext story... now it's a thing on Reddit Tumblr and KZitem. Also LMAO the mad people.
@LuckerLol
10 жыл бұрын
Reddit's the worst.
@kitokopter
10 жыл бұрын
Fucking 9gag. It's community is like a bunch of try-hard kids.
@funstuff81girl
8 жыл бұрын
I don't have meme cringe. I actually enjoy them quite a bit, sort of nostalgic, keeps things fresh. Sad that everyone else hates them.
@GaJ42
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah i agree
@wishbone346
8 жыл бұрын
funstuff81girl Totally agree
@KnaveMurdok
10 жыл бұрын
wait wait wait... I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the notion of people being tired of Doge...
@ALE0LAGUNA
10 жыл бұрын
yes .. i am tiired of it ....
@KnaveMurdok
10 жыл бұрын
but but but... doge so cute much hilarity wow
@dolphingirl1205
10 жыл бұрын
KnaveMurdok doge meme is dead shiba inus are still adorable as fuck
@KnaveMurdok
10 жыл бұрын
I don't believe you... =_=
@ALE0LAGUNA
10 жыл бұрын
heichuu (◕‿◕✿) You are right ! i love shiba inus but the meme is just annoying
@neke989
10 жыл бұрын
I always figured a big part of the humor of memes and image macros comes from their "inside joke" nature. I live in a house of college guys and we pass internet jokes around in the exact same way we use inside jokes. Like inside jokes, memes and image macros, in my experience, become less funny when everyone is in on it. Now please do an episode explaining why exclusive humor is funny, because I just realized I don't even understand what I just said XD Thanks :)
@Alex-lf2hv
9 жыл бұрын
I've never seen that movie, but I laughed my ass off every time you said "my wife"
@mustangkrillin
10 жыл бұрын
Every now and then, I'll see a really funny meme, and I'll download it to a file. Then when I get bored, I'll go through the file and look at all the lolcat, funny dogs, epic fails, and meme pictures I've collected and laugh out loud almost as much as I did when I first saw them. It's like watching a funny movie or hearing an old joke. If you've seen it several times, the punch lines are predictable and it loses its charm. Don't watch that movie for a few years and then watch it while it's had some time to freshen in your mind and it's entertaining again. I think memes are the same way. Often they are just visual jokes. Some are funny, some are dumb, and some are so dumb that they are funny. We see a lot of them everyday and not all of them are exceptionally funny so it becomes easier to dismiss the entire collective process.
@weezymybweezy7364
10 жыл бұрын
The amount of meme complaints is too damn high! ... .. Sorry:( i will shut up now.
@SvensPron
10 жыл бұрын
wait, tattoos are over? that thing that's been around for almost as long as mankind?
@TheSws64
10 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I don't hate memes, in fact, I binged on Know Your Meme yesterday. Great job on the G. I. Joe PSA episode by the way! I thought I recognized you when I first started watching IdeaChannel
@qoe_shiro
10 жыл бұрын
I still loves meme's, they are a huge part of the Internet and it wouldn't be the same without them
@MadBunnyRabbit
10 жыл бұрын
Do people actually hate memes? Or are they just tired or anoyed? If anything what I see are people nagging about overuse or misuse of particular meme; which I can understand. If something is intended to be used in a particular way and you are aware of it, it can be anoying to see it twisted. Understanding something makes us realate to it it more, rather than just being a funny caption. Seeing it distorted creates this sense of lose. But again, people hating memes? Um... Never heard about it. If anything, the hate is directed at people misusing or overusing, not meme itself.
@seifer93
10 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that it is less hating a meme, and more like getting tired of it. Eventually is you see the same thing over and over again then it is bound to get stale, and if you see enough of that then it will progress to dislike and so forth. That having been said, it is possible for someone to dislike a particular type of internet meme from the very beginning in the same way that some people simply don't see the humor behind a knock-knock joke.
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