Internet Meme Culture
(P.S. THIS IS MY FIRST ENGLISH ARTICLE, SO SORRY WHEN THERE ARE GRAMMAR ERRORS)
Nowadays, Internet memes spread very fast around the world. They evolves quickly. A meme dies, another meme replaces it. From the 2000's Rick Rolling prank, classic image macros, dank memes, and surreal memes.
Basically, a meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads in a culture. Nowadays, the Internet is a very effective way to spread a meme. Internet memes mainly talk about jokes, parody, or a relatable event that happened to somebody.
There is many kinds of meme. Image macro, better known as classic meme or old meme, is one of the oldest Internet meme. It features a center picture, top text and bottom text. The text mainly written in all-caps Impact font.
Dank meme is a newer kind of meme, that persists until now. The meme is about a joke that had lost its value due of overuse of it.
Surreal meme is a meme that has a bizarre story and somewhat too imaginative. Surreal memes often insert some characters, such as Meme Man (Mr. Stonks), Orang, Vegetal, and many more. The main setting is the space void, and commonly the characters have a overwhelming power and transcendence.
Memes can be useful. It can be a entertainment medium, or even to voice our idea and story. But it can also harmful, if we take it too far.
I have experienced the negative impact of meme before. One day, I watched a meme video titled "Memes about Your Parents" on Memenade Youtube channel (I'm his subscriber). The video mostly tell about parents figures that characterized as "an evil beings that will crush children's dreams and rights".
I was taken it too far, and when my mom advised me and it made me not feeling good, I told them I was afraid that my parents will punish me in a evil way. My mom told me that it's because I had watched too many memes, so I had a bad prejudice about her.
Memes can be useful or harmful, depend how we respond them.
That's all folks, my article today. So, be careful when surfing on the Net Sea, especially when watching entertainment content.
See ya in next post.
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