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4chan memes being bastardized by mainstream social media happens so often now, I barely even notice it anymore. The most egregious recent example is probably t
by bakugo 4y ago
4chan memes being bastardized by mainstream social media happens so often now, I barely even notice it anymore.
The most egregious recent example is probably the "virgin vs chad" meme. Within mere days of it being created, I was already seeing edits of it on various websites (mostly reddit) that completely missed the point of the joke and treated it as yet another "thing I do good, thing you do bad" image macro.
- smoldesu 4y agoDefinitely nothing new, but still really interesting to watch. I really don't understand how people could appropriate an image like Wojak unless they didn't know what it was.
- drekipus 4y agoI think there's a bit of a timeless, easy-to-convey meaning behind the image, which is what makes them memes. People like to treat 4chan like it's this obscure, underground, edgy hacker place. but it's really just a website like any other filled with people who have too much time on their hands. It has the same amount of gore, porn, and bullshit that goes on in Reddit, (less, if you account for the fact that posts get deleted eventually and there's a limitation on how many threads are open, unlike reddit). Your neighbours kids probably goes on 4chan, I know neighbour's does. And I'm a lot less worried about "avid 4chan users" than "avid reddit users"
- Jaygles 4y ago>missed the point of the joke Adapting and evolving formats isn't "missing the point". They are two distinct audiences with two distinct cultures. Of course they aren't going to make the same memes.
- jterrys 4y agoThe best part about the virgin vs chad meme is the evolution of the Nordic Aryan chad side profile image of it. A literal racist shitpost (against Mediterraneans) just casually makes its way into the mainstream without the vast majority of its users not realizing what it originated from.
- kirbys-memeteam 4y ago