Edgy memes were extremely popular during and after the 2016 election possibly in response to the resurgence of Political Correctness brought forward by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the mainstream media. Looking back the meme economy was definitely doing better then it is today.Ģ017 could be considered the year of edgy memes and edgy content on the internet. This was still the time of vines and dat boi and other iconic memes (vine had shut down late 2016 but vines themselves were still iconic). Memes lasted longer and were (debatably) of much better quality. In 2017 The Meme Economy was in a bull market and experiencing a lot of growth. This is important to know because it would be two toxic memes that would become too popular too fast and would ultimately be the cause the crash. I cannot overstate the sheer amount of how overused this meme was, you could not go on any meme site at the time without seeing at least one of those goddamn things. The meme was so extremely easy to reproduce you could literally put it in any situation and it would work to some extent. Many remember this meme with distaste, i know i do. One prime example of a toxic meme was the Spongegar meme of mid 2016. *also known as a bad or a very dead meme* It refers to a meme that is either toxic by nature, or becomes overused to such an extent that the community as a whole resents it. We will go deeper into this in a future article.Ī Toxic Meme is a term I have made up for this article. Meme historians are still unsure if we have entered a new meme era or if we are still living in The Dank Meme Era but for the purposes of this article we are going to say that we have entered a new meme era that began after the 2016 election as the outsiders began to distance themselves from the normies by creating more cryptic and hard to understand memes, such as: deep fried memes, surreal memes, and one letter memes like E. The Current Meme Era (2016-Now) *also known as the deep fried era or surreal era* Outsider- The opposite of a normie, someone who is up to date on memes and meme culture, most of you reading this belong to this category. (note: the word normie is also often used to describe people who don't look at memes at all) Normie- someone who looks at memes but is incredibly mainstream
Memer- someone who looks at memes on a regular basis Below we will attempt to define these eras and some common terms we will use. Meme history can be divided into specific eras: with each era defined by the current form of memes at the time. But funny thing about the internet is that it can create enormous amounts of content in a very small amount of time, so we still have a lot to go over. The internet is new enough, memes and meme culture is even more new. So without further ado, and a bit less emotion, let's get into it. In our last Article we briefly discussed the meme crash of late 2017 and early 2018, but we never went into great detail on what brought this crash and the events that led up to. Ok ok I was blowing that a bit out of proportion but it would not be that far off. The only thing i could make out was five words, five dark and evil words. An abomination of red and blue, a video game character but horribly deformed, and speaking in a cursed language i couldn't understand. As I looked on the features something unholy crossed my eyes. I had been busy during the break and had been pretty disconnected from the meme community. I walked into my first class and immediately went on ifunny (and yes i am deeply ashamed of this) to look at memes while i waited for class to start.
New Years had just passed along with the winter break and I was heading back into school. An article on Recent Meme History and Toxic Memes
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