Meme Extreme

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Meme Extreme

                Memes are great.  The first time I really encountered memes in volume in what I call the ‘meme-era’ was on a Facebook page called “Hello, welcome to the Pokemon Centre!” - *rapes A button*.  Basically, the title of the page is a hilarious matter that everyone who plays Pokemon games can relate to.  The guy who runs the page is a student of some sort, and often apologizes for his lack of posts due to being very busy lately with his studies.  Anyway, he uses pictures from in-game scenes or from the show, and puts words, usually something sarcastic that only someone who plays or played the game understands, and then puts it on the page.  He also uses material that he gets from people that like his page, who send this material to him, and he posts it, giving them credit.  Click here for an example of a meme from the page.

                The first time I looked at this page, I went through every single post on it, and was falling out of my chair laughing at every single one.  They all made sense to me, and I could appreciate all the humor, as I was an avid Pokemon player when I was younger.  Heck, I still play once in a while.  I loved these photos dubbed “memes,” and soon afterwards I saw them being posted by all kinds of pages all over Facebook, and then all over Google, and then all over the entire internet.  The concept is great, and memes are really funny.  However, the rate at which they are produced and shown is obscene.  In fact, nowadays when I see a meme, I understand and appreciate it, but I don’t laugh, because they are just too common.  Now, the very best ones will only make me smile.  Nothing near as funny as that day that I stumbled upon that amazing Pokemon page.

                I think that in today’s world of instantaneous interaction through technology, things are totally blown out of proportion, everybody talks about it, and there is simply no time for the whole process of the material’s growth to occur.  It’s like for every story that I hear on the news or on the internet, I am so ridiculously tired of it after a couple days that I can’t stand hearing about it anymore.  I think that memes, an ingenious, novel innovation of creativity, have been slighted by this new rate of technology.  They don’t have nearly the effect that they would have had even a couple of years ago.  It really disappoints me.  I wish I could still fall out of my chair laughing every time I see a good meme.