Meme eras (eras used to last ~2y, now they last 6mo)
prehistoric lolcat era
doge classical era
harambe dark age
expanding brain enlightenment
distracted boyfriend impressionism
American chopper expressionism
We should expect surrealist, cubist, abstract expressionist by 2020
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Somebody suggest dates
Appears to be a missing link between doge and harambe. Could use an era label there.
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Spend time on 4ch4n where memes last hours/days.
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Nobody really gives a crap about memes and meme cycles that don’t crossover into mainstream visibility. It’s nice that channers have that local stuff to keep them busy but it ain’t history until it hits the mainstream.
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A humongous gap here between classical doge and Harambe Dark Age.
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What do you suggest? There were a lot of human memes around then I think, like Ned Stark from GoT saying “one does not simply....”
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According to my teenage son, currently meme lifetime is 4-6 weeks. Anything older than that is ancient history. Black Panther using an eight month old meme was shameful.
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this is why I don't write for teenagers, they mistake subcultural time for historical time
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