this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Memes are going through a cycle similar to art I feel. We started with just basic memes of text on random pictures. Then we got really good at those and we started making meta memes. Then we started contemporary memes: memes that challenge what it even means to be a meme (b and big chungus). And now we are tired of contemporary memes and moving back towards basic memes.
I wonder if meme studies will be a legitimate field of research for future anthropologists that study the digital age.
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I mean, so long as some kind of record is kept?
It would be a wealth of social information. Political events, economic crisis, the views of the common man of the time, all have been represented through memery. This is, in a sense, a journal of opinion with a wonderful look across spectrums. They also encapsulate humor, showing where it has and hasn't changed across generations.
Sure, a massive chunk would be highly irrelevant, but it's still a solid look into part of a wide culture.