Meme webs

Facebook: such a great, top of the notch website that carries an obscure curse... minion memes. "What are minion memes?", you may ask. Well, they are the very defilement to the integrity of memes. A minion meme consists on the following: a piece of text put right next to the picture of a minion from the "Despicable Me" saga. These "memes" -in quotation marks, as it hurts categorizing them like that- often express and emotion or action from the OP that nobody cares about, and are, even more often, cringy. Sadly, minion memes are a pandemic to Facebook, and that is why this page is one of the worst -if not the worst- to navigate in search of memes.


Instagram: this application, used to publish photos, videos and comments only, has a signature meme. I call them "philosophy fiascos", because they attend to the rule of inference for conjunction and use one case where the rule is wrong -you had one job-. This case is when something that is true is followed by something untrue. For example, the image at the left. As you can see, they are bad, but at least they're not as bad as minion memes.




9gag: this website had its golden times long ago, now it's full of regular memes, but sometimes, something truly golden appears again. The name 9gag comes from its first times, when each page had 9 gags or posts, and you had to click a button to see more.



Reddit: to my belief, the father of all blogs. It's an enormous blog containing subsequent blogs where people can post whatever they want, and thus, it's inevitable for memes to concieve in this website. In fact, and quite sadly, most other pages steal memes and ideas from Reddit, but that just empowers them. Why is it not the best website, then? We will see why in a moment...

Youtube: I understand those who agree to disagree on this one, but, to my belief, the famous video portal should be the number one. Why? Because in its domains, there are millions of videos that are whole memes in their entirety, and have costed a lot of blood, sweat and tears to produce. You'll see the most well-edited videos here, that feel just like another movie from Quentin Tarantino. Only difference is that the creator is most probably a 16 years old, but whatever.

Meme webs

Facebook: such a great, top of the notch website that carries an obscure curse... minion memes. "What are minion memes?", you may ask. Well, they are the very defilement to the integrity of memes. A minion meme consists on the following: a piece of text put right next to the picture of a minion from the "Despicable Me" saga. These "memes" -in quotation marks, as it hurts categorizing them like that- often express and emotion or action from the OP that nobody cares about, and are, even more often, cringy. Sadly, minion memes are a pandemic to Facebook, and that is why this page is one of the worst -if not the worst- to navigate in search of memes.


Instagram: this application, used to publish photos, videos and comments only, has a signature meme. I call them "philosophy fiascos", because they attend to the rule of inference for conjunction and use one case where the rule is wrong -you had one job-. This case is when something that is true is followed by something untrue. For example, the image at the left. As you can see, they are bad, but at least they're not as bad as minion memes.




9gag: this website had its golden times long ago, now it's full of regular memes, but sometimes, something truly golden appears again. The name 9gag comes from its first times, when each page had 9 gags or posts, and you had to click a button to see more.



Reddit: to my belief, the father of all blogs. It's an enormous blog containing subsequent blogs where people can post whatever they want, and thus, it's inevitable for memes to concieve in this website. In fact, and quite sadly, most other pages steal memes and ideas from Reddit, but that just empowers them. Why is it not the best website, then? We will see why in a moment...

Youtube: I understand those who agree to disagree on this one, but, to my belief, the famous video portal should be the number one. Why? Because in its domains, there are millions of videos that are whole memes in their entirety, and have costed a lot of blood, sweat and tears to produce. You'll see the most well-edited videos here, that feel just like another movie from Quentin Tarantino. Only difference is that the creator is most probably a 16 years old, but whatever.

Meme Compilations

In YouTube you will find lots and lots of videos about memes. Obviously, we can't list every single one of them, that's why we will be focusing on memes compilations through the years.

This one is from a guy that makes 8-bit song covers, but in this case, decided to make a medley about memes. Songs are usually converted into memes because the song itself is either catchy or funny. Medleys like this are really entertaining to watch because you recognize songs that you haven't heard in a long time and puts your knowledge of memes to the test.

There are a lot of meme compilations, not all are good though. Here is one that I enjoyed:

Where memes are born

You can't force a meme, and please, don't try to. If you have your company and want to make an ad, please, don't use memes. That's just cringy and pathetic. Memes have to be born when you are not even looking to create new memes, it just happens. Maybe some scene in a movie is particulary funny, or some game has a pretty memeable cinematic, or someone makes something dumb and you want to laugh about it. You know, you can't just go find a woman in the streets and rape her, or force her to love you. Both memes and love happen when you don't force it. Want to see what it looks like to force a meme? Look at this:

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LOOK AT IT

                                LOOK

THAT'S HOW IT FEELS TO SEE A FORCED MEME

IT HURTS SO MUCH

Memes through the years

In the early days of the internet, memes were usually pretty simple, and, normally, when we look at them now, they seem pretty dumb.

For example, this video of "a cat playing piano" has 50 Millions of views in YouTube, and, when it first came out, people found it hilarious. If that video was posted to day, it wouldn't have such huge amount of views. Nowdays you might need a YouTube tutorial to understand a meme... Who am I trying to fool? Memes are still dumb, that's the point of memes anyway. Yeah this entry is compleatly irrelevant as it could be summarized into "memes were dumb, memes still dumb", but, you know, gotta fill the blog, am I rite?

Well, where was I? Oh yeah, memes have changed a lot since the first years of internet, and while back then they were understandable by everyone, know you need knowledge about the internet in general, movies, games... Others are just so dumb that people don't know where is the joke.

This is what a meme looked like in 2006:

This is what a meme looks nowdays: