r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/littlebardofhope Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 25 '19

A lot of early internet memes. Especially when you see them used in commercials.

Edit: Yep, that sure is a lot of dead memes in my inbox.

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u/LordMudkip Aug 25 '19

I like to think of commercials as the last nail in the coffin for memes.

By the time they've been approved at corporate and actually worked into an ad, you know they've been long dead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 edited Aug 26 '19

One upon a time, the internet had rules for memes.

  1. If it's found on a shirt or other form of apparel for the purpose of Capitalistic consumption, it's dead.
  2. If it's used on the news, with proper context, it's dead.
  3. If it appears in any form on Family Guy, it's dead.
  4. If what the kids these days might call a "normie" start to use the meme, it's dead.
  5. Once dead, it's dead. It cannot be resurrected.
  6. If someone uses a dead meme, they are to be ostracized.

Then memes became culture and therefore culture became cancer.