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I don't see how "Damn Daniel" is significantly different from "Badger Badger." I do agree with the author's other point that memes these days are much more mean

by Aunche 5y ago

I don't see how "Damn Daniel" is significantly different from "Badger Badger." I do agree with the author's other point that memes these days are much more mean spirited than they used to be. People these days tend to treat people they disagree with as if they were caricature wojaks rather than real people with complicated beliefs and motivations.

unbanned 5y ago
Are they? A lot of image macros from SA, 4chan, b3ta etc.. were racist and hate filled... Completely agree with Badger Badger. Weebls stuff cartoons were funny, because it was something to enjoy with people who also had access to the internet (which was quite few at the time, so the "in crowd") Additionally to explain why Damn Daniel is funny is as difficult as explaining why anything is funny.
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  Some people find "Badger badger" funny, and some don't. It's the same with "Damn, Daniel". I know about music and badgers and mushrooms and the "honey badger don't care" memes, so I find the badger song funny. I don't know anything about Daniel or his friend, and without context I don't find them funny. Now the images with a swirl blur effect that say "DAVE", "BROCCOLI", etc., for some reason I find some of them hilarious.
ASalazarMX 5y ago
Absurd and surreal humor has always been funny, it's not something GenZ invented. It's even possible that GenZ saw all the baggage and rules that late GenX and millennials established for using memes "correctly" and not wanting to be seen as clueless as the boomers, said "fuck it, let's do nonsense, if they criticize that we'll tell them they're the clueless ones". I also suspect memes like the ones you find in r/BoneHurtingJuice and r/AntiMemes are an interesting mix of that. They're creating their own baggage and rules for deconstruction memes. IMO the trend the article is hating is memes focused on ego and opinions. You can still see the deconstruction of a minion meme to make it funny again, but a significant part of memes today are personal opinions in trending templates. The template is not important, the opinion is, and its purpose is getting reactions, but not only laughs.

by Aunche 5y ago

unbanned 5y ago

Are they? A lot of image macros from SA, 4chan, b3ta etc.. were racist and hate filled... Completely agree with Badger Badger. Weebls stuff cartoons were funny, because it was something to enjoy with people who also had access to the internet (which was quite few at the time, so the "in crowd") Additionally to explain why Damn Daniel is funny is as difficult as explaining why anything is funny.

ASalazarMX 5y ago
Some people find "Badger badger" funny, and some don't. It's the same with "Damn, Daniel". I know about music and badgers and mushrooms and the "honey badger don't care" memes, so I find the badger song funny. I don't know anything about Daniel or his friend, and without context I don't find them funny. Now the images with a swirl blur effect that say "DAVE", "BROCCOLI", etc., for some reason I find some of them hilarious.

ASalazarMX 5y ago

Absurd and surreal humor has always been funny, it's not something GenZ invented. It's even possible that GenZ saw all the baggage and rules that late GenX and millennials established for using memes "correctly" and not wanting to be seen as clueless as the boomers, said "fuck it, let's do nonsense, if they criticize that we'll tell them they're the clueless ones". I also suspect memes like the ones you find in r/BoneHurtingJuice and r/AntiMemes are an interesting mix of that. They're creating their own baggage and rules for deconstruction memes. IMO the trend the article is hating is memes focused on ego and opinions. You can still see the deconstruction of a minion meme to make it funny again, but a significant part of memes today are personal opinions in trending templates. The template is not important, the opinion is, and its purpose is getting reactions, but not only laughs.