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Minion facebook memes4/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Outside the occasional watermark, the look was clean. Older meme images were superimposed on a colored pinwheel backdrop, which eventually disappeared as new memes simply used an entire photo. Designīy the time it got popular, the traditional advice meme had settled into a standard format: An image, usually square, with two lines of text at top and bottom in the Impact typeface, white text with a black stroke. And on Facebook pages like Shut Up I’m Still Talking, Words of Wisdom, Heart Touching Fun, Love This Pic, and Bringing Humor to Your Day With Love, they remake memes in their own image. ![]() Their sense of style is less influenced by irony or tech design. The “cool” part of the internet has largely abandoned the advice meme format, and now visual memes can take almost any form.īut over the past few years, the advice meme trickled down to the lower class of the internet: boomers, parents, late adopters, mainstreamers, and possibly the actual lower class. 4chan’s best memes now comment on their own disappearing relevance reddit’s /r/adviceanimals is a quiet community that repurposes memes for personal storytelling. But whether through an aging userbase, competition from sites like Tumblr and Twitter, or just the inevitably shifting sands of the internet, they haven’t birthed a dominant meme format in years. The two forum sites had been the twin towers of meme creation for years, inventing and spreading Rickrolling, LOLcats, and Rage Comics. At their cultural pinnacle, advice memes mostly spread on 4chan and reddit (and some aggregation sites that stole from them).
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