it's interesting how getting rickrolled almost feels like being visited by an old friend at this point, like it used to really get me but now it's almost comforting, takes me back to a simpler time
Mankind knew they could not change society, but instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts... NOW society is changing, but really for the worse, and its not slowing down either...
Life isn’t just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we’ve seen, heard, felt anger, joy and sorrow, these are the things I will pass on. That’s what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what trace of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one in the same thing.
Memes die when boomers and legacy media becomes aware of it. So multi layer reverse meta irony is like a vax for that. Zoomers are quite good at it, almost like cryptography.
Thats.... that's why they die so quickly. They get EVERYWHERE and people get tired of seeing them. Remember the "only 3 views after 20 seconds bro fell off" comments? Those were still going around not even two weeks ago
I think another contributor to how memes can feel worse now is going back to the "5 real websites" thing, if everyone is forced into the same space, memes are gonna spread around faster if the meme has a wide enough appeal to not be limited to a specific community, more people are going to see it and want to involve themselves, even if they don't actually understand what makes the original funny. "Shoutout to women's day fr fr, gotta be one of my favourite genders... I fw men too in case anyone was wondering" is such a funny post, much as I can "OMG SO TRUE" a "shoutout to Pink women, gotta be one of my favourite genders", but it's nowhere near as funny. And that's at least still an example where its still enjoyable when the origianl joke is lost, being forced to see iterations of a joke you like contorted by the eyes of someone who saw it completely differently will age a joke waayyyy faster.
God we just. Live in a slop world, don't we? Melting into a mucky mush that's clogging our throats? Even the people who have historically (to varying degrees of correctness) said "Ah, that's just the nature of change, the human spirit will overcome!" are like "Oh, god, this doesn't normally happen. I'm worried about how the is world changing." But at the same time, we don't tend to remember all the YTPs that centered around SA, or extreme racism. We try to leave the worst bits of culture behind. So, we pick out the good ones and look back with rose-colored glasses. I just ... the thing is, I don't know what we'll be taking from the current years. I will say you forgot the *Grimace Shake* trend, but still. One major trend a year? With a couple each of minor trends, cultural events, & new pieces of lingo? I swear, we used to get dozens on varying scales! But now ... nothing can break through The Chamber Walls, or swim through The Slop. It's ... disheartening.
i think my chronic internet presence has genuinely changed my brain structure forever to repeat the same 5 memes whenever im in distress which makes everything worse, its like a never ending loop of me thinking of "Skibidi toilet ohio rizz gyatt amogus!!!" and then breaking down in my mind a minute later
It's wild that only two weeks ago I handed in a final English essay for school documenting the history of memes as well, and your script is very similar to mine only funnier and better. So cool to see another version of a topic I'm very interested in! Great video
@@emmanuelukwandu it was a school assignment where we could talk about any topic we want, so I did a brief deep dive into the timeline of memes, with comparisons to Richard Dawkins’ original interpretation. It was quite fun to write
Hell, even the last meme you played has been ruined by the drive for ever increasing profits using double adds on youtube - the line must go up, whatever the cost. Wonderful essay Radchad.
Absolutely fantastic video, dad! I think "irony poisoning" would have been a good thing to add to this because I feel as that is what has moved us away from memes that brought genuine joy (as well as corpos appropriating it). Still, I like the way you broke up the timeline, I found it very accurate as a person who was online for (most) of what was highlighted.
Just to really bring it home, there’s a pretty consistent trend in Skibidiscourse (I’m sorry) about how it’s only about as bad as TH-cam Poops or SFM animations from the olden days. And to that I say nobody who’s saying that was alive and sapient when YTP first became a thing, or at least wearing some rose-colored glasses and/or sticking to the good stuff. There was so much garbage. There is still so much garbage. Every time somebody makes the mistake of doing a large collab, 50% of it by volume is still video editor vomit, racism, and the worst sounds possible. The difference between yesteryear and now is that there’s money to be made off of nonsense content farms.
I do know that different communities still have their own individual memes. A few from the yugioh community include (yes, these are outdated at this point): Pend best deck Ban all the tuners Fire prison is Mystic Mine at home Also, funny side note, the Morbius meme was started by Rata (Rank10YGO). It's funny how it started from a prominent figure in the yugioh community. He also caused "ban all the tuners"
@@steeveedragoon ah yes that's the one. I don't even remember the names and I already felt the dread in my first reply. Some ygo memes are just long standing trauma I feel like. Like Gorz.
The concept of reel pulls are a fascinating reflection to this. Instead of the finely tuned, spammy meme content we know, it's become better for the algorhythm to redirect people to the more unrefined, genuine efforts of people outside of the zeitgeist, like someone's middle aged uncle or people who are untarnished by the past decade of brainrot but are considered entertaining for their uniqueness. You can really see it as the ocean of remixed, bizarre clips with funny music gives way to the sources and context of those clips. Bringing new parasocial relationships, new lolcows and a kind of colonial pride in 'discovering' the content of people who live in such seperate, non-cynical worlds as ourselves. videos from the likes of donohio2982 and gametimeocho proudly sport the flag of our regime in their comments. That being the shiny 'mythical reel pull' gifs which not only give us a way to leave our stamp on creators of 'uniqueness' and 'quality' but also gives us a way to rate them based on how special they've made us feel and how far removed we can pretend to be from the corporate shlock that fills our fyps on the daily. From the other side of the irony we've buried ourselves in, comes an escape from that irony. A window into a simpler, more sincere time that we are spoiling with our filthy, brain rotted mindsets. A land we invade using the buzzwords and catchphrases of the instagram meme machine to make cheap entertainment out of this phenomenon as we have always done. It really puts into perspective what the internet has done to us as a society.
Bro wtf. You are with this comment. The first time I say “mythical reel pull” I was bursting In Laughter cause firstly it was accurate- and secondly it hit me that wow, we’re just that used to getting consistent slop.
The rick roll at the end ngl, yied the video together. I adore how you just added it there in the reflection part because. The rick roll hasnt aged its still good.
I keep coming back to this channel because it feels real, you might not ever be super mainstream or hugely internet famous but I appreciate the care you put into these videos. Keep it up you Legend!
Memes are kinda jokes. Yeah. Hot take, right there, I know. What I wanted to say is that, like normal jokes, they start to feel stale after a while. Like a running gag of a friend. It's funny for some time, after that it gets to be something to kind of expect and you need to spice it up from time to time, to stay relevant. At first it was the rage comic with the rage face and me gusta. After that the drake meme. After that the boyfriend looking after another girl. The core jokes remain the same, but the way we transport them changes. This is something I think is generally true. But it is also true, that everyone wants to have a piece of this cake. So a lot of people try to market something new as a new meme format, where the "idea behind the meme" is more of a meme, than the template itself. A recent example of this might be the Shikanoko meme, if anyone is familiar with it. Everyone editted the shit out of it to give it different characters and it was funny. This whole shtick was started by the team responsible for the anime itself. The meme has become advertisement. Not that it wasn't funny mind you. But the thought behind the memes is less "pure" for a lack of a better word. And this feels like this missing purity is what is kind of missing these days.
I think another reason why older memes feel better is that they could also be used by older internet user such as MLG parodies, which mainly originated from mature games adults and teens played such as mw2, in which nowadays memes sadly feel mainly targeted towards children, or just gained a child audience such as skibidi toilet, (I might be wrong on some things so id love to here any other opinions)
Memes have always existed. That was part of why richard dawkin coined the term in the first place. The cross is a good example. Entire religions and ideologies wrapped up in a single symbol. Theyve just taken new forms over time.
People who say memes today are worst need to remember that the harlem shake and gangum style minecraft parodies were the most popular videos back in the days.
Harem Shake was fun because you can rewatch it a couple times to notice what everyone was doing. Mini gift that keeps on giving. Gangnam style was popular because at the time there was a k-pop boom and groups like Big Bang and Girl's Generation are hot people singing songs as a group. Then there's this random fat Korean dude who doesn't adhere to what would sell at the time and does funny and simple dances so it pops out and made the people around me at least at the time why are the other groups so clean and unfun. Both were fun and easy to understand so people decided to copy them and have fun. Simple as that really. Unlike some other memes that require you to learn lore and slang that people would never use regularly
Very good video, I always get upset when people talk about MLG or older memes and say that they're just as bad as modern brainrot, while modern slop is for profit and old memes were because the people creating them also found them funny. You cannot convince me that a man who created however many skibidi toilet videos finds it funny.
The guy who made skibidy toilet used to make gmod shitposts with varying levels of quality/insanity that were (mostly) pretty funny and most importantly made to be funny Now in order to see the meme shitposts I grew up with I need to scroll past hundreds of soulless animations, and watch as one of my favourite animators gets turned into another cog in the system that I’m not enthusiastic about (to put it lightly)
a point i hoped you'd make, was the fact how friendgroup- and semi-provate discord servers can be seen as the modern equivalent to the old forums, where memes still live and thrive to clarify: not stating that and claming its true or false, but rather discussing the facettes in which and the degrees to which it is true
There are still communities that exist in their own websites seperated (mostly) from the big sites like youtube. The one I know is the manhwa/manhua community where we share memes of funnily drawn facial expressions from the stuff we read across sites like asurascans, reaperscans, flamescana and kenmei too.
17:45 I think that the starman/superman memes also have a significant relation to our culture. The normalized anti heros and morally gray charakters who reflect our society, wich has several flaws, that people accept, just like the flaws of anti-heros. And those beeing contrasted by superman the ideal of ideals ( arguably ) shows the dissatisfaction many people have with the current state of values and the world. Using Starman an older song also contrasts the present with an idealized past, due to many people also saying : "old music was better". I think that meme also sparks an interesting arguement about past vs. present discourse. And in general is partially a commment on current meme culture with many points miroring the points in the video. P.S. Love the videos dad
I mean, as long as sites like Tumblr exist it's gonna be pretty hard for any meme to do it. It's kinda like some distant isolated country that rarely interacts with the outside in the way that the memes there rarely exit and the memes outside of there rarely enter (at least not naturally, sometimes people there can talk about memes, but it's more like a glass tube with a cool insect rather than actually "infecting" the site) As long as isolated weird little communities exist there will never be a true meme pandemic on the internet.
Memes haven't gotten worse. Rather, we already have an established frame work for what they mean. They are the same jokes/expressions with a new coat of paint. We just don't like the new ones because they are redundant in our eyes. Meanwhile they fill a role for the new generation.
1:30 as one of the women subscribed to this channel, the only reason I'm not unsubscribing to help you with that is that I don't want to risk missing any videos
Incredible essay RadChad, more people definitely need to see this! Especially those like Gen Alpha who are growing up having never known what the internet used to be like
I’m sorry but SKIBIDI is Brainrot not a meme and rizz and sigma it’s different it’s not memes but trolll face is a meme like it’s hard to understand what’s a meme and not but like it’s like weird whatever
I sense a feeling of “It’s Jover” when I believe that there is a glimmer of “We’re so Barack.” I propose that the “inside joke” is still present with us as it is not platform specific but fandom and community specific. This transcends platform. Brainrot, lobotomy, the art of modern shitposting has been messiahs for the culture of meme. Allow me to quote a mantra that truly speaks volume to this sentiment: “Sol Badguy” - r/guiltygear The most recent resonant meme wasn’t Morbin’, it was Lobotomykaisen, Lobotomy dash, r/BatmanArkham, gen alpha slang. For throughout jojo shitposts and feeling skibidi in Ohio with the gyatts of the rizzlers, brainrot is the peak one. So there is a lore reason why meme culture still moves as if Sigma. This shit *ain’t* so ass.
Really interesting look on meme culture, personally I've always treated memes as nothing more than for the here and now, if I make a joke I don't think about how it's going to last or how I am adding to the mem culture. It's just in that moment and time it was funny, so viewing memes as more of the look into what was surrounding culture is a really neato way to think of it Cause I and everyone else on the internet are going to keeping making new memes and repeating memes when they become ironically funny. AI when it comes to memes I am hoping and praying will fade as the AI covers or AI funny Pictures become over used, just like every other meme right?
I wake for the rad and then I see the time, and so I sleep for the Chad. Praise be to 12:00am Edit: it is actually amazing how rad Chad lures ne in with funny and then proceeds to give insightful commentary about the topic just the content I subscribed for. But also the funny.
Skibidi toilet can be decent if you acualy watch it, the god damm content farms complitly ruined its reputathon. (Please dont call me a 5 year old for gods sake, eng is not my first language)
\*points* heehee, F I V E Seriously though, from what I've seen of the weird toilet series, it's (currently) not as bad as people say. However it does not deserve the sheer amount of popularity it got and it's not as deep as some people seem to say.
i think memes are completely better than they used to be. nowadays theyre more unique and complex and imo funny than i found them to be as a kid. i remember chuckling at funny ones a while ago but nowadays theyll hit you with some indecipherable image and its the funniest thing on the planet, im happy to be in our nonsensical humor cult
I’ll never understand why people will say your just getting older as an excuse meme are getting worse and it’s because there mainstream and overdone id probably like things like skbidi toilet more if they weren’t in your face constantly this was not a problem ten to fifteen years ago the problem is nobody knows when to have moderation it’s funny in smaller doses
@@Its_hoekin_time I agree with the point about it being shoved in your face (not the rest, see "We Like to Party" for an example of "proto-skibidi"), but also who fucking cares? Ignore it. It's just fuckin' memes. Also, they were shoved down just as much back then.
@@RealYuri2009and this is why every generation sees the other as more annoying and you can say it’s just memes but like it’s still annoying especially when you can’t go on the internet for not even five minutes without seeing the same exact meme over and over again you try to ignore but it’s getting to point where you can’t but I do agree the we like to party meme was godawful
@@RealYuri2009 also to clarify it isn’t as much of a problem on TH-cam because you don’t gotta watch the TH-cam video on an overdone meme so you can just ignore it in that aspect but it’s more of problem on other social media apps such as instagram or TikTok but I guess that’s expected but still…
Yeah the world ended in 2012 your stuck in a purgatory dont things feel the same remember you aren't yourself either remember all your base are belong to us that was years ago you have been stuck you need to leave
Older memes were the human condition and soul distilled into a short joke. Now that we are slipping into a cyberpunk future which commodifies the human soul, the only comfort is there might be a underground counter culture to try and combat it.
There's two other things that I see happen in meme culture that is similar to genre cycles. 1) The retro stage. This is anything from doing a recreation of that specific style, to doing genre fusion that uses elements to create a sort of modernized nostalgia. For example, there's been a resurgance of Nu-metal in several different spaces, from Pop to experimental Black Metal. With memes, it's like using a Rickroll in your video or something like that. 2) The insular microgenre. This is when hyper-specific scenes emerge and stay fragmentary, even if they become known by wider circles. For instance, people might know Punk Rock at least vaguely, and they might even recognize a Pop Punk sound even if it's more specific. But trying to explain what Crack Rock Steady is will make you sound like you are on crack. In meme terms, this is the same kind of injokes like the classical era of memes and even the experimental era, only it happens in spaces so specific that it will be incomprehensible to anyone who isn't in the spaces. I will never be able to explain some discord server injokes to outsiders (not that it's incomprehensible, but the shame would kill me), but there is a whole culture around making those memes. For a more accessible example, Never Meant Soundfont covers or Apple Bottom Jeans covers is a nice example of a lesser known blips of a meme. I'm sure there are other things to point to that aren't music memes, but my brain is tiny and only understands music and vtubers.
it's interesting how getting rickrolled almost feels like being visited by an old friend at this point, like it used to really get me but now it's almost comforting, takes me back to a simpler time
Yeah, I get that sentiment.
Almost like a "it's still you" moment from undertale, but in the form of a meme.
Yeah, it is but still...
*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
I see it like once a day, it’s an annoying trend created by the new generations
At this point it's the only evidence that the masses care anymore, it hurts man
@@mrhalfsaid1389 care about what?
Rad chad going from funny guilty gear man to philosophical retrospective on Modern culture and the world around us is worrying and oddly comforting
He's John Guilty Gear, Bricky is John Warhammer and uh, I'm out of examples.
Mankind knew they could not change society, but instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts... NOW society is changing, but really for the worse, and its not slowing down either...
Holy shit a video on memes that isn't about how racism was funny and "everyone is too sensitive nowadays". Good stuff
Nothing feels real after Harambe died
NOOO!!!!!!
noooooo
HE DIED???
things been goin down since
@@3dblue255 "-When they SHOT that DAMN Gorilla!"
_"Ok grandpa, now let's go to bed."_
Memes the DNA of the soul. Not just for jokes but a little something for future generations.
Jack... Memes. Are the the DNA of the soul.
Life isn’t just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we’ve seen, heard, felt anger, joy and sorrow, these are the things I will pass on. That’s what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what trace of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one in the same thing.
You're full of sh t, is that a meme ?
@@geurworx8164We’re all pawns controlled by something greater….Memes, the dna of the soul
@@conrad-ft2dk YES THAT'S IT
YOU FOUND THE LINE, thanks
For memes that are supposed to die quickly, they sure get spammed a lot
Memes die when boomers and legacy media becomes aware of it. So multi layer reverse meta irony is like a vax for that. Zoomers are quite good at it, almost like cryptography.
Memes were like "ha ha I'm never gonna see that again😀"
Gone out with a bang
Thats.... that's why they die so quickly. They get EVERYWHERE and people get tired of seeing them.
Remember the "only 3 views after 20 seconds bro fell off" comments? Those were still going around not even two weeks ago
@@yourlocalreptillian1742amogus
I think another contributor to how memes can feel worse now is going back to the "5 real websites" thing, if everyone is forced into the same space, memes are gonna spread around faster if the meme has a wide enough appeal to not be limited to a specific community, more people are going to see it and want to involve themselves, even if they don't actually understand what makes the original funny. "Shoutout to women's day fr fr, gotta be one of my favourite genders... I fw men too in case anyone was wondering" is such a funny post, much as I can "OMG SO TRUE" a "shoutout to Pink women, gotta be one of my favourite genders", but it's nowhere near as funny. And that's at least still an example where its still enjoyable when the origianl joke is lost, being forced to see iterations of a joke you like contorted by the eyes of someone who saw it completely differently will age a joke waayyyy faster.
I remember when saying something like " |, ||, |I, |_" would make people die from laughter, those were mediocre times.
Not laughter pure cringe
Pizza mozzarella
*-:.I:;-* ?
loss
Loss is more of a psychic damage meme imo. No one laughs at it. At most people go "goddammit" when they realise
God we just. Live in a slop world, don't we? Melting into a mucky mush that's clogging our throats? Even the people who have historically (to varying degrees of correctness) said "Ah, that's just the nature of change, the human spirit will overcome!" are like "Oh, god, this doesn't normally happen. I'm worried about how the is world changing."
But at the same time, we don't tend to remember all the YTPs that centered around SA, or extreme racism. We try to leave the worst bits of culture behind. So, we pick out the good ones and look back with rose-colored glasses. I just ... the thing is, I don't know what we'll be taking from the current years.
I will say you forgot the *Grimace Shake* trend, but still. One major trend a year? With a couple each of minor trends, cultural events, & new pieces of lingo? I swear, we used to get dozens on varying scales! But now ... nothing can break through The Chamber Walls, or swim through The Slop. It's ... disheartening.
i think my chronic internet presence has genuinely changed my brain structure forever to repeat the same 5 memes whenever im in distress which makes everything worse, its like a never ending loop of me thinking of "Skibidi toilet ohio rizz gyatt amogus!!!" and then breaking down in my mind a minute later
It's wild that only two weeks ago I handed in a final English essay for school documenting the history of memes as well, and your script is very similar to mine only funnier and better. So cool to see another version of a topic I'm very interested in! Great video
I'm interested. Could you tell me more?
I can’t believe he broke into your apartment and stole your script
@@emmanuelukwandu it was a school assignment where we could talk about any topic we want, so I did a brief deep dive into the timeline of memes, with comparisons to Richard Dawkins’ original interpretation. It was quite fun to write
@@polterkitty3639 I mean he is my dad I need to run my school assignments past him to ensure they’re of high quality
Hell, even the last meme you played has been ruined by the drive for ever increasing profits using double adds on youtube - the line must go up, whatever the cost.
Wonderful essay Radchad.
2:38 YIIKING OUT RN
When I heard that song I freaken YIIKED
I got YIIKY
"Nobody cares about your dead sister!!!"- YIIK man
I LOVE BEING IN YIIK
Absolutely fantastic video, dad! I think "irony poisoning" would have been a good thing to add to this because I feel as that is what has moved us away from memes that brought genuine joy (as well as corpos appropriating it). Still, I like the way you broke up the timeline, I found it very accurate as a person who was online for (most) of what was highlighted.
Just to really bring it home, there’s a pretty consistent trend in Skibidiscourse (I’m sorry) about how it’s only about as bad as TH-cam Poops or SFM animations from the olden days.
And to that I say nobody who’s saying that was alive and sapient when YTP first became a thing, or at least wearing some rose-colored glasses and/or sticking to the good stuff. There was so much garbage. There is still so much garbage. Every time somebody makes the mistake of doing a large collab, 50% of it by volume is still video editor vomit, racism, and the worst sounds possible. The difference between yesteryear and now is that there’s money to be made off of nonsense content farms.
I do know that different communities still have their own individual memes.
A few from the yugioh community include (yes, these are outdated at this point):
Pend best deck
Ban all the tuners
Fire prison is Mystic Mine at home
Also, funny side note, the Morbius meme was started by Rata (Rank10YGO). It's funny how it started from a prominent figure in the yugioh community. He also caused "ban all the tuners"
What's that BA meme with chain link 1, chain link 2?
@@HazeEmry Cir target Dante, Dante target Cir.
@@steeveedragoon ah yes that's the one. I don't even remember the names and I already felt the dread in my first reply. Some ygo memes are just long standing trauma I feel like. Like Gorz.
The concept of reel pulls are a fascinating reflection to this. Instead of the finely tuned, spammy meme content we know, it's become better for the algorhythm to redirect people to the more unrefined, genuine efforts of people outside of the zeitgeist, like someone's middle aged uncle or people who are untarnished by the past decade of brainrot but are considered entertaining for their uniqueness. You can really see it as the ocean of remixed, bizarre clips with funny music gives way to the sources and context of those clips. Bringing new parasocial relationships, new lolcows and a kind of colonial pride in 'discovering' the content of people who live in such seperate, non-cynical worlds as ourselves. videos from the likes of donohio2982 and gametimeocho proudly sport the flag of our regime in their comments. That being the shiny 'mythical reel pull' gifs which not only give us a way to leave our stamp on creators of 'uniqueness' and 'quality' but also gives us a way to rate them based on how special they've made us feel and how far removed we can pretend to be from the corporate shlock that fills our fyps on the daily. From the other side of the irony we've buried ourselves in, comes an escape from that irony. A window into a simpler, more sincere time that we are spoiling with our filthy, brain rotted mindsets. A land we invade using the buzzwords and catchphrases of the instagram meme machine to make cheap entertainment out of this phenomenon as we have always done. It really puts into perspective what the internet has done to us as a society.
Bro wtf. You are with this comment. The first time I say “mythical reel pull” I was bursting In Laughter cause firstly it was accurate- and secondly it hit me that wow, we’re just that used to getting consistent slop.
The rick roll at the end ngl, yied the video together. I adore how you just added it there in the reflection part because. The rick roll hasnt aged its still good.
Hey can you stop talking please? I am trying to sleep.
*bangs all the the pots and pans* Oh you were trying to sleep? Then stop trying, cause I ain't stopping ☺️
Stay up, let him cook. 🍳
@@ameladaptivedaydreamer949You did not cook with this one
-Bedman
@@HababaloooI have been called it out it seems. No matter.
I keep coming back to this channel because it feels real, you might not ever be super mainstream or hugely internet famous but I appreciate the care you put into these videos. Keep it up you Legend!
RAD CHAD USED YIIK MUSIC IM LOSING IT
Memes are kinda jokes. Yeah. Hot take, right there, I know. What I wanted to say is that, like normal jokes, they start to feel stale after a while. Like a running gag of a friend. It's funny for some time, after that it gets to be something to kind of expect and you need to spice it up from time to time, to stay relevant.
At first it was the rage comic with the rage face and me gusta.
After that the drake meme.
After that the boyfriend looking after another girl.
The core jokes remain the same, but the way we transport them changes. This is something I think is generally true.
But it is also true, that everyone wants to have a piece of this cake. So a lot of people try to market something new as a new meme format, where the "idea behind the meme" is more of a meme, than the template itself.
A recent example of this might be the Shikanoko meme, if anyone is familiar with it. Everyone editted the shit out of it to give it different characters and it was funny. This whole shtick was started by the team responsible for the anime itself. The meme has become advertisement. Not that it wasn't funny mind you. But the thought behind the memes is less "pure" for a lack of a better word. And this feels like this missing purity is what is kind of missing these days.
Lack of uniqueness is killing memes, sadly.
Btw I agree with you.
I think another reason why older memes feel better is that they could also be used by older internet user such as MLG parodies, which mainly originated from mature games adults and teens played such as mw2, in which nowadays memes sadly feel mainly targeted towards children, or just gained a child audience such as skibidi toilet, (I might be wrong on some things so id love to here any other opinions)
Memes have always existed. That was part of why richard dawkin coined the term in the first place. The cross is a good example. Entire religions and ideologies wrapped up in a single symbol.
Theyve just taken new forms over time.
I just played through Persona 5 royal, and the music in the last part made me tense up. What a Chad music choice, Rad Chad, the mad lad!
also known as your dad
Love your videos so much. Great work man.
People who say memes today are worst need to remember that the harlem shake and gangum style minecraft parodies were the most popular videos back in the days.
Oh yeah, that's actually a good example of how soulless memes have always been there.
Woahoahooaoaohooo story of undetale
Harem Shake was fun because you can rewatch it a couple times to notice what everyone was doing. Mini gift that keeps on giving. Gangnam style was popular because at the time there was a k-pop boom and groups like Big Bang and Girl's Generation are hot people singing songs as a group. Then there's this random fat Korean dude who doesn't adhere to what would sell at the time and does funny and simple dances so it pops out and made the people around me at least at the time why are the other groups so clean and unfun.
Both were fun and easy to understand so people decided to copy them and have fun. Simple as that really. Unlike some other memes that require you to learn lore and slang that people would never use regularly
17:44 dear god...
Chemical consumption for addiction, humans sure know humans
I hope self awareness will one day persevere
story of undertale
Woahoh oh
story of undertale
Story of peppa pig
@@unoriginalperson72 Silence child
I love sans understale
Very good video, I always get upset when people talk about MLG or older memes and say that they're just as bad as modern brainrot, while modern slop is for profit and old memes were because the people creating them also found them funny. You cannot convince me that a man who created however many skibidi toilet videos finds it funny.
Instead of profit it was attention, and skibidi toilet isn't pure comedy
MLG is annoying lights, skipdodi toilet isnt even comedy, it’s just an action movie
The guy who made skibidy toilet used to make gmod shitposts with varying levels of quality/insanity that were (mostly) pretty funny and most importantly made to be funny
Now in order to see the meme shitposts I grew up with I need to scroll past hundreds of soulless animations, and watch as one of my favourite animators gets turned into another cog in the system that I’m not enthusiastic about (to put it lightly)
@@sparrqy7117 "Soulless", yeah sure bro, have you ever considered that he might wanna try making something other than memes for once?
i like how radchad's videos are shitposts or the most thought provoking videos that are also shitposts
Its hard to not be a doomer over life. It feels like everything is just worse than the past you were never aware enough to appreciate.
Thing is the corpos are hedging their bets on apathy. Just like some old jedi said, "Apathy is worst than death".
That bit with the mirror kinda fucked me up ngl
"Why doesn't the internet produce more funnies for me while I snack on corn chips."
Make some, or go to different websites.
a point i hoped you'd make, was the fact how friendgroup- and semi-provate discord servers can be seen as the modern equivalent to the old forums, where memes still live and thrive
to clarify: not stating that and claming its true or false, but rather discussing the facettes in which and the degrees to which it is true
17:55 Golira getting strays even 6 months later lmao.
There are still communities that exist in their own websites seperated (mostly) from the big sites like youtube. The one I know is the manhwa/manhua community where we share memes of funnily drawn facial expressions from the stuff we read across sites like asurascans, reaperscans, flamescana and kenmei too.
17:45 I think that the starman/superman memes also have a significant relation to our culture.
The normalized anti heros and morally gray charakters who reflect our society, wich has several flaws, that people accept, just like the flaws of anti-heros. And those beeing contrasted by superman the ideal of ideals ( arguably ) shows the dissatisfaction many people have with the current state of values and the world. Using Starman an older song also contrasts the present with an idealized past, due to many people also saying : "old music was better".
I think that meme also sparks an interesting arguement about past vs. present discourse. And in general is partially a commment on current meme culture with many points miroring the points in the video.
P.S. Love the videos dad
i lost my edging streak to rad chad
dude i miss the old minecraft memes sooo ironicly
I remember when buddha said that
if a meme is just a virus in the form of information, i wonder if the internet is simply too big for any meme to fully infect the interwebs...
Brainrot memes are dangerously close though
@@odavex2848 Nah, I'd win.
I mean, as long as sites like Tumblr exist it's gonna be pretty hard for any meme to do it.
It's kinda like some distant isolated country that rarely interacts with the outside in the way that the memes there rarely exit and the memes outside of there rarely enter (at least not naturally, sometimes people there can talk about memes, but it's more like a glass tube with a cool insect rather than actually "infecting" the site)
As long as isolated weird little communities exist there will never be a true meme pandemic on the internet.
dude what are these comments????? its like 80% of them didnt even watch the video
Memes haven't gotten worse. Rather, we already have an established frame work for what they mean. They are the same jokes/expressions with a new coat of paint. We just don't like the new ones because they are redundant in our eyes. Meanwhile they fill a role for the new generation.
imagine if rad chad the mad lad and to some people your dad was evil and instead was called bad chad the mad lad and to some people your dad
1:30 as one of the women subscribed to this channel, the only reason I'm not unsubscribing to help you with that is that I don't want to risk missing any videos
2:39 IM YIIKING OHHHHHHHH OHHHHHH MY GOD IM YIIKING!!!!
Incredible essay RadChad, more people definitely need to see this! Especially those like Gen Alpha who are growing up having never known what the internet used to be like
19:10 best part of the video, trust me :)
I’m sorry but SKIBIDI is Brainrot not a meme and rizz and sigma it’s different it’s not memes but trolll face is a meme like it’s hard to understand what’s a meme and not but like it’s like weird whatever
the YIIK music usage tho, goes hard it was perfect BGM for the era in question being spoke of.
You say memes are bad today, but were Annoying Orange, MLG and YTPs good? I'd argue they were just as deranged.
Why asking men to subscribe to outnumber women, tell the women to transition, that's the quickest way to hit 0%.
wym asking men? Raddicus Chaddicus asked them non-binaries 🏳️⚧️✊
Instructions unclear, became woman
@@lilyofthatvelley That's the problem of the strat, it won't works if men become women at the same rate as women becoming men.
Ugh, AGAIN?!
That's absurd, that'll never work
18:30 Mario graduates in medicine is somehow a really good joke tho tf
Do you know the way?
I sense a feeling of “It’s Jover” when I believe that there is a glimmer of “We’re so Barack.”
I propose that the “inside joke” is still present with us as it is not platform specific but fandom and community specific. This transcends platform. Brainrot, lobotomy, the art of modern shitposting has been messiahs for the culture of meme.
Allow me to quote a mantra that truly speaks volume to this sentiment:
“Sol Badguy” - r/guiltygear
The most recent resonant meme wasn’t Morbin’, it was Lobotomykaisen, Lobotomy dash, r/BatmanArkham, gen alpha slang. For throughout jojo shitposts and feeling skibidi in Ohio with the gyatts of the rizzlers, brainrot is the peak one.
So there is a lore reason why meme culture still moves as if Sigma. This shit *ain’t* so ass.
If there was ever a meme that had to wrap up this kind of video, it had to be that one. It genuinely got a smile on my face.
"Rad Chad the mad lad and to some of you, your dad." Ah, so he's an abusive alcoholic? Cool, cool, good to hear.
Of course memes have gotten worse, the people creating them have been on the Internet since they where 7 and have grown with the Internet
Rad Chad you Mad Lad
You may not be my Dad
Your video Essay wasn't Bad
The state of memes makes me Sad
Here's hoping your day is Glad
So basically millenials are experiencing their boomer phase
yeah brainrot is more emminent now than ever.
I don't know what skibidi means, but I know that skibiddy is an adjective that I also don't know the meaning of
Bro who in NZ would know “all base are belongus”. Even 30 year olds don’t know it now.
I like to think meme are like a rollercoaster and go up and down and sometimes the ride just sucks the whole time or is the best thing ever
yes, surely it's not me just becoming older and older and older...
Really interesting look on meme culture, personally I've always treated memes as nothing more than for the here and now, if I make a joke I don't think about how it's going to last or how I am adding to the mem culture. It's just in that moment and time it was funny, so viewing memes as more of the look into what was surrounding culture is a really neato way to think of it
Cause I and everyone else on the internet are going to keeping making new memes and repeating memes when they become ironically funny. AI when it comes to memes I am hoping and praying will fade as the AI covers or AI funny Pictures become over used, just like every other meme right?
emergency frog situation
I was surprised there was no rickroll in the entire video😢 my man is no man of culture
Contains irony
Please don't let new grounds die
1:34
“So we can beat women.” - RadChad (my Dad), 2024
19:19 woah vantage apex!!1!
Also… wow. You have outdone yourself as always Mr. Rad Chad, The Mad Lad and to Some of You Your Dad.
memes have always been bad, when i think back to stuff from when i was in it 2016-2018 i just think "damn this is bad"
That’s called nostalgia, people think the stuff they had is better than the new stuff and the old stuff is worse than the stuff they made
I wake for the rad and then I see the time, and so I sleep for the Chad.
Praise be to 12:00am
Edit: it is actually amazing how rad Chad lures ne in with funny and then proceeds to give insightful commentary about the topic just the content I subscribed for.
But also the funny.
No one:
Me: Omg he made a SotN reference!!!!!
Mlg Montage parodies were the peak of memes
Am I the only one that found the secret doobus goobus?
PERFECT ENDING
What happened to memes is just what happens to anything once it starts getting mass produced.
Skibidi toilet can be decent if you acualy watch it, the god damm content farms complitly ruined its reputathon. (Please dont call me a 5 year old for gods sake, eng is not my first language)
Ha, he is five!
@@LockMatch is this sarcasm
@@LockMatch anyways im gonna watch piemations
\*points* heehee, F I V E
Seriously though, from what I've seen of the weird toilet series, it's (currently) not as bad as people say. However it does not deserve the sheer amount of popularity it got and it's not as deep as some people seem to say.
My space still exists
I honestly blame the shitty toilet humor for attracting N’s attention to the Gary’s mod workshop
RadChad the mad lad and to some of us and only a small percentage of us our dad this video is very awesome sauce👍
Who knows, if RadChad the mad lad was to some our dad maybe we'd be less sad. Also yes video good
Memes havent been the same since rad Chad stopped making guilty gear memes video.
Banger vid. Time to go back to my daily dose of youtube shorts slop for my instant dopamine. (Genuinely been avoiding them, idk how to turn them off)
Chat, does rad chad have W skibdi kay cenat duke denum riz?
The man the game meme is actually pretty good
i think memes are completely better than they used to be. nowadays theyre more unique and complex and imo funny than i found them to be as a kid. i remember chuckling at funny ones a while ago but nowadays theyll hit you with some indecipherable image and its the funniest thing on the planet, im happy to be in our nonsensical humor cult
No, they are not. The memes of back in the day were just as dumb, it's just that you were a kid back then.
I’ll never understand why people will say your just getting older as an excuse meme are getting worse and it’s because there mainstream and overdone id probably like things like skbidi toilet more if they weren’t in your face constantly this was not a problem ten to fifteen years ago the problem is nobody knows when to have moderation it’s funny in smaller doses
@@Its_hoekin_time I agree with the point about it being shoved in your face (not the rest, see "We Like to Party" for an example of "proto-skibidi"), but also who fucking cares? Ignore it. It's just fuckin' memes. Also, they were shoved down just as much back then.
@@RealYuri2009and this is why every generation sees the other as more annoying and you can say it’s just memes but like it’s still annoying especially when you can’t go on the internet for not even five minutes without seeing the same exact meme over and over again you try to ignore but it’s getting to point where you can’t but I do agree the we like to party meme was godawful
@@RealYuri2009 also to clarify it isn’t as much of a problem on TH-cam because you don’t gotta watch the TH-cam video on an overdone meme so you can just ignore it in that aspect but it’s more of problem on other social media apps such as instagram or TikTok but I guess that’s expected but still…
Yeah the world ended in 2012 your stuck in a purgatory dont things feel the same remember you aren't yourself either remember all your base are belong to us that was years ago you have been stuck you need to leave
im putting this in my poetry folder
16:58 caught me so off guard LMFAO
That ending was such a mirror of the world moment (it’s never over yesterday)
This was the longest rickroll bait I watched
Older memes were the human condition and soul distilled into a short joke. Now that we are slipping into a cyberpunk future which commodifies the human soul, the only comfort is there might be a underground counter culture to try and combat it.
I’ve seen some great memes from the lancer community
They make text out of the rules books witch gives a sort of random note vibe
what is the source for the meme at 6:25 about „an independent song writer talking about the blight of a black man“
He's gonna take you back to the past
To see those shitty memes that suck ass
Loving the UT and UTY music🔥
There's two other things that I see happen in meme culture that is similar to genre cycles.
1) The retro stage. This is anything from doing a recreation of that specific style, to doing genre fusion that uses elements to create a sort of modernized nostalgia. For example, there's been a resurgance of Nu-metal in several different spaces, from Pop to experimental Black Metal. With memes, it's like using a Rickroll in your video or something like that.
2) The insular microgenre. This is when hyper-specific scenes emerge and stay fragmentary, even if they become known by wider circles. For instance, people might know Punk Rock at least vaguely, and they might even recognize a Pop Punk sound even if it's more specific. But trying to explain what Crack Rock Steady is will make you sound like you are on crack.
In meme terms, this is the same kind of injokes like the classical era of memes and even the experimental era, only it happens in spaces so specific that it will be incomprehensible to anyone who isn't in the spaces. I will never be able to explain some discord server injokes to outsiders (not that it's incomprehensible, but the shame would kill me), but there is a whole culture around making those memes. For a more accessible example, Never Meant Soundfont covers or Apple Bottom Jeans covers is a nice example of a lesser known blips of a meme. I'm sure there are other things to point to that aren't music memes, but my brain is tiny and only understands music and vtubers.