Why won't 2017 memes die off?

[Yuri_]

Sneed, gigachad, bogdanofs, the various versions of wojaks (doomer/boomer/pink/etc)

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Nostalgia for a more innocent and glorious time.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Some memes are eternal. People still use Pepe the Frog and Trollface and those have been around since the mid 2000s.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

Based memes never die

 

[Ozul]

Because they're very versatile and can still be used in current context, unlike one-hit-wonders like "Damn Daniel," "Ugandan Knuckles," "Momo," "Me and the boys," etc. etc.

 

[Zwarbo]

I miss We are Number One

 

[Meat Target]

They're the Coin of the Realm now.

Wojaks are a neutral, exploitable template. He's basically a stick figure now.

 

[urr13 account]

Their versatility is a big reason, but I also think it has to do with an overall internet culture stagnation that's been going on for the last few years. Two possible explanations:

1. Zoomers/the new generation cant create new memes because they suck and are lazy and all the older people are out of that phase of their life so now they just reuse the memes from before.

2. Lockdowns caused everything to slow down, even the Internet which you would think would have seen an explosion in creativity since being online is the only thing some people were able to do for almost 2 years. A paradox maybe, but is it possible you must touch grass every once in a while to be able to create good content?

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Dicks out for harambe

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Dicks out for harambe

But he started all of this!

 

[HarveyMCR]

That’s when all the NGOs/three letter agencies hired their staff. Every single internet influencer who was hired to spout “correct opinions online” were trained using 2016/17 memes. Obviously they have had time to learn memes, but humans are simple creatures. At the end of the day, they’ll just collapse back to the old reliable Shaq “thank you, have a nice day” if they’re too tired to think of anything else

 

[King Fructose]

Some memes are eternal. People still use Pepe the Frog and Trollface and those have been around since the mid 2000s.

Imagine posting a meme with a frog in 2022 lol.

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

here come that boi
oh shit waddup

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

Because we're still in 2017.

 

[Uncle Sid]

Badger badger badger

 

[Foxxo]

Because our culture is dead.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

Wojak is a perpetually evolving meme.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Because we're still in 2017.

I wish

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Have you seen current normalfag maymays? That's why.

 

[Retink]

Didn't it take something like a decade for troll/rage faces to die off?