Meme culture is getting...tiresome.

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**Asherian Command**

Certain meme culture parts are blending into reality and some of them can be annoying. Most of that is just stemming from "Heh i don't take anything seriously." Which really puts a damper on personal relationships when someone doesn't take anything seriously and they live in their own world of isolationism. (had a few that were like this but that was a programming school so mileage might vary)

I like Memes, i love reading them, i like laughing at them, but with anything its good in moderation.

**Asherian Command**

ScarletRose wrote:
It has gotten out of hand at least for some people.

I'm good friends with some people I know from college - we've all gone on a little bit in our lives, I moved across the country, but we still have a group FB chat and keep up with each others lives. We're still friends in a meaningful way.

The other day one of the chat members invited in some guy they had become friends with who immediately started spamming just memes. It was annoying when I'm trying to see how everyone's doing and I have to scroll past a bunch of "hurr cheesburga so funny' meme junk pics.

I mean it's contextual, there's def. times when it's humorous but this sort of epitomized how memes can just be noise drowning out actual discussion.

Point and case every thread about Alpharius turns into "I'm alpharius", I get its funny, But TTS (specifically to 40k) is the 40k equalivent of animemes. Its a joke. The whole thing is just misconstruction of lore to make a joke.

Some of it was true lore, most if not most of all the things they talk about aren't in the lore anymore or have been retconned completely.

It has ruined many good discussions especially when it comes to the dark angels, ultramarines, or the alpha legion.

Its horrible reading through the same repeated joke "Oh dark angels are traitors teehehehee." Before I just hit the ban button on most people who make that joke unironically.

**Asherian Command**

Togusa wrote:
Asherian Command wrote:
ScarletRose wrote:
It has gotten out of hand at least for some people.

I'm good friends with some people I know from college - we've all gone on a little bit in our lives, I moved across the country, but we still have a group FB chat and keep up with each others lives. We're still friends in a meaningful way.

The other day one of the chat members invited in some guy they had become friends with who immediately started spamming just memes. It was annoying when I'm trying to see how everyone's doing and I have to scroll past a bunch of "hurr cheesburga so funny' meme junk pics.

I mean it's contextual, there's def. times when it's humorous but this sort of epitomized how memes can just be noise drowning out actual discussion.

Point and case every thread about Alpharius turns into "I'm alpharius", I get its funny, But TTS (specifically to 40k) is the 40k equalivent of animemes. Its a joke. The whole thing is just misconstruction of lore to make a joke.

Some of it was true lore, most if not most of all the things they talk about aren't in the lore anymore or have been retconned completely.

It has ruined many good discussions especially when it comes to the dark angels, ultramarines, or the alpha legion.

Its horrible reading through the same repeated joke "Oh dark angels are traitors teehehehee." Before I just hit the ban button on most people who make that joke unironically.

Good points from everyone in the thread, but I'm not just talking about fun stuff. I'm seeing tons of memes pop up in political discourse, religion, higher education, etc.

It sometimes feels as though people boil very deep and difficult topics down to "insert meme here" views. The "chan post" as someone put it.

Memes have no place in discussions or serious topics, it comes off as disingenious and rude honestly. (I'm young too and i think there is a time place for everything) If i am talking about the Sacking of Constantinople or the fall of rome I'm not going to use memes to describe my point.

This is the same problem I have with most 40k memers is that they can't tell the difference between actual lore and TTS or memes. (Emperor Text to Speech being aggressively used as a reference point for some discussions in the past).

Its basically like taking the monty python and the life of brain for the bible. While a great source material and filled with humor, its not the real thing.

**Asherian Command**

I had someone tell me that clearly I didn't understand memes, and that i wasn't intelligent enough to comprehend his jokes. If a joke is bad its bad end of story.