perhaps, but it will be indecipherable due to the 42gb of advertisements and pop-ups it loads.
Or maybe websites can go back to simple ads that just have a picture with a link. Modern advertising is about harvesting your data, which is why I use an ad blocker. They also use a ton of resources that slow down websites.
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We can't close pandora's box. Google ads are extremely profitable, nothing else comes close. I work for a company that uses ads as the main revenue source. We tried to avoid Google but it just makes no business sense. We're talking 10 times the revenue compared to other major players. Google not only pays better, but the ads are just better.
I'm very pessimistic. I'm pretty sure we're heading in the direction where most websites will be DRM'd and impossible to block ads.
If I become rich I will download the entirety of knowyourmeme and engrave it on a giant block of granite or carve it into the side of a mountain. Our descendants will thank me.
I have no idea who the person is or what the context of the photo was, but just the cat + box part tells me all I need to know.
“I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually”
Why is that in quotes? Are you actually a bot?
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There's gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who's focus is "Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century".
I'd bet money there are already thesises(??) theses (thanks, atomicorange!) and dissertations on this.
There's def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially "interpret" what the emojis mean for the court.
And the Ship of Theses is when you rewrite the seven parts of your dissertation so many times that you're not sure if it's even your original intent anymore
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Oh, I'm sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like "Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground".
Once I used a video meme to explain source studies and intertextuality to my students
With the proliferation of memes, that's probably going to be its own branch of academic study.
You can get that right now.
Memes didn’t start because of the internet. They’ve been around for a long time.
I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn't get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said "yeah it's not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean" and I thought that's a stupid ass concept and wtf.
Well, here we are now. It's about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks "English" but it's basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.
Its not about the cat its about the reaction image being interpreted without its usual text because many people have seen it so many times that its not needed.
The face is from the “it’s free real estate” meme, with the unspoken words being the punchline
I just love that "x walks into a bar" is such a universal joke format. Even if we don't know why it was funny.
I Googled this, read about it, and then found a Reddit thread where two historian/Sumerologists get into a discussion about the potential meaning.
Maybe it is we who are the joke.
I absolutely love the idea that hieroglyphics were all just period specific dank memes that we just don't get because we're not in.
That's okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we'll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.
A bit off topic, but I was playing RimWorld and ended up with a colonist nicknamed Real Estate. He got captured during a raid at one point. I kept waiting for the quest to rescue him so I could post this meme, but it never happened...
If they can read the English of this era and cats are still around, yes they will. The expression is pretty universal as depicting satisfied smugness.
Aha but that would be only partially correct! Theres more to free real estate than smugness.
The fact that the reply used "hieroglyphics" and cats have been pulling this shit longer ago than those were used as written language... And said poster's argument was that "someday" that wouldn't be the case?
Have they met a fucking cat?!
If you're not a stoner and a fan of Adult Swim or an internet person: You wouldn't get this meme right fucking now.
You have to have at least seen the clip from Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job to understand it and that is a pretty big ask for a super niche show that doesn't have mainstream appeal. lol
If you wish to know more, search "Tim & Eric free real estate"
Totally agree. I thought I was an internet person, but according to this I was wrong. I had no idea what any of this was, I watched the video and I'm still not sure.
I watched the video and I'm still not sure.
It really helps to watch Tim & Eric while as high as you can possibly get.
Idk why I originally thought this was a schrodinger's cat joke. Thought it was he opened the box and the cat is happy because it's observed to be alive or something like that lol