Are memes, as a concept, dead?

Are memes, as a concept, dead?
It seems to me like there's no longer a period of life before normies get their hands on a meme and ruin it, even the lowest tier normies are these days up to date and present enough in internet culture to experience memes on ground zero, right? I don't know how to react to this, fellas.
How does one live without memes?

The only way a meme can become sacred is if the normies label it racist and stop using it.

Wouldnt be eaaier to juat ignore the normies?

memes died with harambe

just make pedo or nazi meme, normies dont touch those

Yes. Memes are only memes if they have time to evolve and burn out. People are just writing jokes on images and calling it memes now. Production is too ubiquitous and too forced. Memes used to more or less spontaneously come into being in a small corner of the Internet and then slowly spread. Now everyone thinks they will make the next big meme, so people are cranking out shit.

It's like the shift from people making their own web sites to everyone having a retarded blog.

Before the internet, memes were spread by word of mouth and grafitti, then later, through print, radio, and television...and somewhere in there oddly enough, stick pin buttons and patches. Thus the meme had to be good to catch on, and the creator had to have access to a medium to spread them.
With the advent of the intetnet, the means to create and spread memes became exponentially more accessible. We have now entered an age of expanding intellectual/cultural socialism in which easily expressible ideas can be spread at phenomenal speeds. The notion of contained memes is now only really possible by containing them in secret or exclusive societies that jealously guard and protect them, thereby maintaining there value and efficacy by limiting their exposure. If you put it on the internet, it belongs to the internet and is no longer yours to control.
If exclusivity is your measure of cool, you have misunderstood the nature of memes, and perhaps should find a different medium to express your creativity.

this

Actually this

>pepe the nazi frog

no this!

So, each and every "inside joke" gets bastardized and fit into the "formula" of another one. Take this for example, it combines the "this looks like a shop" and the 'shoop da whoop!', which were both iconic in their own ways
nowadays, everybody wants to be the first to make a reference to another "meme", but nobody has anything original to contribute, so they sit and spew out combinations of things they think are funny that they've seen others enjoy
I am also against every single god damn slightly amusing thing being a "meme". According to the rest of the internet, an image is a meme. a comic strip is a meme. a comic panel is a meme. an image of a wall of text is a meme. pictures with words written over it is a "meme". I fucking can never forgive advice animals for establishing impact font over the top and bottom of the image. people literally say because the typed words over an image, "they made a meme", and that's sickening

No

It's barely an "inside joke" when someone in the white house uploads a video of the interior of the white house but splices in the rick astley song and tells everybody they got rick rolled. Enjoyment from exclusion seems bad, but humans are wired to like it so I'm not against it. a rick roll just used to be, somebody would ask for source, you'd link them to the video, they'd click on it thinking they were getting a source, but then it's that video. it wasn't about just hearing the fucking song any old time, it was supposed to be unexpected. it wasn't even originally a rick astley thing, it was a Sup Forums thing where you >>'d to the picture of duckroll.

Are you this stupid?
(Also checked and balls)

This one was dead before it was even concealed.

Remember when that gangam style was a big video, so everybody did their own little joke off of it? Then a couple months later, the harlem shake shit hit and within 2 days everybody you could think of tried to cash in immediately, they ran it into the fucking ground in hours, because they had to be part of it but didn't know how to make it their own.

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Tbh I found funny the video with the queen, after that I hated the massive spam

lmao
the normies destroyed pepe

True, also kek

Memes were always trash. Even the people present during each meme's first appearance can't be sure that it wasn't just copied from somewhere else, so they all go about pretending they "get it" and talked shit to anyone who pointed out how transparently they were tryharding to be included in something. The normification of memes is no more prevalent now than ever, it's just become more obvious. Besides, you should have something else to be proud of. Anything else. Thinking you're first to see a meme makes you look worse, not better.

That's the story of every meme ever. People trying desperately to look like they were in on it, when there was no content to begin with. Think of "Here come dat boi"

This is a tried and true method for sure. The Hillary campaign declaring war on Pepe and making him a symbol of white supremacy only made the meme 2x funnier.

>funnier

what is funny about a cartoon frog?

I just miss things staying exclusive to Sup Forums. I never mixed up my Metroid forum jokes with my Sup Forums jokes, but people here have such an "I HAVE to prove I go there!" attitude. People on myspace posted about boxxy. people on facebook post pepe. people on twitter can't stop saying "feels". it's just annoying that everything is connected now and every funnyjunk poster thinks their website invented the joke they enjoy so well

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we still have loss memes and daily doses

not all hope is lost, hang in there user

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I think you're misunderstanding what a meme is. A meme is, by definition, a viral idea. A piece of information (a joke, a picture with a caption, a melody, an ideology) that spreads through human hosts like a virus. Putting white Impact font on a picture does not automatically make it a fucking meme.

The mainstream spread of the internet just makes it so that memes replicate to many more people in a much shorter amount of time. Other than that, nothing has changed. Most of them are stupid and annoying (all your base, dancing baby, etc). It's just MORE annoying because you see it more (what does the fox say, cash me ousside, etc)

A bunch of people on Sup Forums or Sup Forums (who ran it into the ground so hard they can't get doubles besides 00) can enjoy a patrick bateman joke that he's pointing at the digits of your post number. Then you see things like this that are meaningless without context outside of the place where you can get context. It's just a big circle jerk of proving you know what Sup Forums is and that's so edgy, you're cool but rude.

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>famous on Sup Forums
>everyone is anonymous
What did she mean by this?

If we're looking at "meme", then a Sup Forums-specific joke is not nearly as successful a meme as a joke that has no need for a specific context and can spread far and wide.

Understand, I'm only talking about what a "meme" actually is. You might even say that the mistaken definition of "meme" as a picture with a caption has, itself, become a meme.

I personally find most memes more annoying than entertaining, and I would agree with you that a good Sup Forums-specific joke can be better.