{"id":8744,"date":"2017-08-15T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/15\/news-2517\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:45:20","slug":"news-2517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/15\/news-2517\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Where Memes Go When the Dank Wears Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59934793fcc2351fcbdb2b18\/lede\/1502824340362-1u50oo.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:14:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The internet is getting old, folks. I was astonished to learn recently that Grumpy Cat, the forever-frowning pet beloved by the internet, is nearly five years old. That meme seemed to last forever, and it&#8217;s strange to think it surfaced before President Obama had even won a second term. I didn&#8217;t even have an Instagram back then.<\/p>\n<p> Thankfully, there&#8217;s a place where you can revisit Grumpy Cat, along with every other shitty meme from the internet&#8217;s long, garbage-filled past. Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Antiquememes\/\" target=\"_blank\">r\/antiquememes<\/a>, a small subreddit (there are around 3,000 subscribers) that serves as a place for reposting the memes you once sent to your friends with glee, but now cringe at. <\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"gva1HTh\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Scrolling through the forum makes me feel confused about the internet&#8217;s relationship with time. For example, one of the current top posts is the classic meme &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Bit My Finger<\/a>.&#8221; Upsettingly, I discovered that it&#8217;s a whopping ten years old. Sometimes a viral video enters into the permanent record of our culture, and it really dies.<\/p>\n<p> Other memes on the subreddit, like <a href=\"http:\/\/i2.kym-cdn.com\/photos\/images\/newsfeed\/000\/003\/062\/Courage-Wolf-Pain-is-temporary-Failure-is-forever.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Courage Wolf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/kellys-shoes\" target=\"_blank\">OMG Shoes<\/a>, I had forgotten about entirely. Looking at them now proves how much internet aesthetics have changed. The memes of the past feel grungier, more pixilated. Now, we have futuristic, <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xwz833\/surreal-memes-are-the-last-escape-the-internet-has\">surreal memes<\/a>. Back then, in the heyday of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/12\/internet-ugly-and-the-aesthetic-of-failing-on-purpose\/384023\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Ugly<\/a>, the humor was more straightforward.<\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"UFpDiQV\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Antiquememes\/top\/\" target=\"_blank\">top<\/a> posts on r\/antiquememes are the meta ones\u2014they use a meme to poke fun at the fact that it itself has become vintage. Those posts are indicative of the real point of the subreddit: to marvel at how strange it is that online humor we once found so funny feels so, so dumb now.<\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"ieDqnwg\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j55mkb\/heres-where-memes-go-when-the-dank-wears-off\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59934793fcc2351fcbdb2b18\/lede\/1502824340362-1u50oo.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:14:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From \u2018Charlie Bit My Finger,\u2019 to &#8216;OMG Shoes.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[13687,13686,13432,3116,1571,4371,13685],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-charlie-bit-my-finger","tag-grumpy-cat","tag-meme","tag-memes","tag-reddit","tag-time","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}