The Life Cycle of a Meme (The death of a bad joke)

For those of you who do not know what a meme is, it is a trend on the internet that gets repeated by everyone until it no longer makes any sense.  It usually involves a funny picture or movie quote and is then manipulated into several variations of that joke until it is no longer relevant.  These are popular by teenagers and college kids.

I will be showing you the life cycle of a meme.

1.  A meme is born

It is kind of witty, a bit silly and loaded with cheesy goodness.  It is worth a chuckle.

2. The meme gets added to current events

You can appreciate that people are using the joke in new ways, but it has run its course.  So you think...

3.  Now the meme needs to be added to other memes

By now you are sick of the meme and it should respectfully bow out due to overuse.

4)  Comedians try to add a fresh coat of paint on the meme

Pretty lame, but that is human nature.  Now this is where the internet takes obsession to a whole new level.

5) The those mentally challenged kids try to draw their French version in PaintMS

Now you are discovering what it feels to hate again!


6).  Hipsters try to make a meme about the meme to make it look uncool

Wait, weren't those the kids who bragged about liking it first?

7)  It becomes so popular that TV gets in on it.

It should have been dead ages ago, but there is one more level of Hell for this joke to pass through.

8)  Someone has to correct this joke

And it is official!  The dead horse has been beaten into a fine powder.  You can actually put the dead horse's remains into a cigar and smoke them.

So really a meme is where a joke goes to die.  It is kind of a joke hospice.

MEMEBASE:

Where Unoriginality meets Laziness