for how much the internet was hyped as a driver of visual-first communication it is interesting that in the last few years meme culture seems to have moved back to twitter, a mostly text based medium
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i'm only like 40% confident in this slice of thought leadership if there r teens out there please tell me if i'm wrong but everything on instagram seems to be just text twitter memes. not sure how tiktok changes this equation but tbh not sure if it'll last
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might just be my text brain talking but i feel like image/video memes inherently lack the context carrying capacity of text memes. like u can go viral for sure but the range & depth & versatility seems limited so far
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by doomer memes you mean the like "18yo zoomer" ones or whatever right isn't 90% of the semantic context in those conveyed via text? the wojaks don't do much by themselves
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Other than the greater depth they communicate& more context to work with, the hurdle for making text memes seems lower; attractive and accessible for pretty much all ages vs. sumth like tiktok
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Tiktok is interesting in that the meme formats are based off the audio but the fill in the blank parts are still mostly text or sometimes visual. A true multimedia experience.
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