"Nothing is Safe from Gen-Z's Meme-ification"

[kane_magus]

I mean, I guess. But this isn't some new phenomenon. The Internet at large has been and becoming more and more like this for the past two decades or more. Which, if my math is right, and Google isn't lying to me, is at or before the midpoint of the birth range of Gen Z (1997-2012), so people have been making shitty memes about topics both unserious and serious since before some Gen Z babies were even born. I have long lamented the fact that far too many people in blogs or comments or forums or (I'm sure, though not speaking from personal exposure) on Discord or such have wrongly, mistakenly, embarrassingly believed that they were comedians when what they really were was just tediously banal copycats and johnny-come-latelies (or should that be "johnnies-come-lately"?).

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*laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

Before internet, there was xeroxalia.

Before Xerox, there was graffiti, like "Kilroy was here."

Before Kilroy, one caveman made a handprint on a wall, and suddenly everyone was doing it.