As a newbie in relative speaking on here, I feel a nagging suspicion on my back about the nature of memes. Whenever I see a meme, especially if it involves some random celebrity of the day being a part of a gate or a tumblr image post on here, I ponder why it's a meme here. It's something that I think should be more exclusive because, to quote Syndrome: "When everyone's a super, no one will be." And here's what I would say is enough to warrant the birth of a meme.
Whenever a meme is created, there's something that at least gives it relevancy without having sole reliance on secondary sources. More often than not, memes would be born as a repetition of a phrase or a particularly noteworthy piece from within the work. My main example would be the old "This is Sparta!" meme, stemming from when King Leonidas kicks the Persian Messenger into a pit, followed by his fellow men slicing the guards into the same pit. It's a meme born from a a scene in the movie where it was legendary for its overly hammy delivery from the king and being a short burst of action sandwiched between idle scenes. Another example that works well is "Carlos!", since it's able to stand its own ground by Carlos being a pun master, where the meme relies on people understanding and being funny with their puns. One meme I'd argue is not a meme is "He protec but he also attac", since this basically requires an strap-on from other media and it cannot stand up by its own merit. Memes similar to the previously mentioned also has this principal problem and it's flat-out insulting if a joke can't stand up for itself and has to rely on a strap-on just to even complete the joke. As a fellow shitlord of memes, I want to see memes like the old days, but it's getting replaced by more memes that don't make sense by their own accord. I miss the likes of GlaDOS and Gaston and I hope to see more memes like this because they have personality to their joke and they can hold themselves up by their bootstraps.
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