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Raw data: Where our memes come from

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According to Know Your Meme, the platforms that generate most of our memes have changed over the past decade:

Back in the day, when dinosaurs trod the earth, our memes mostly came from YouTube and 4chan. Today, in our sleekly modern era, most of our memes come from Twitter and TikTok.

I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this, so go at it in comments. Are today's memes better or worse than they used to be?

17 thoughts on “Raw data: Where our memes come from”

    1. D_Ohrk_E1

      Trump Symphony No 2, "Insurrection".

      "Loved it. My heart was taken from the very first words." -- MAGAman

      But really, Mahler's 9th and 1st are better. Horn calls across a foggy morning field to open symphony no 1 is the luscious dream one wishes to wake up to, in late fall.

  4. morrospy

    Maybe, but a lot of them come from 4chan and Reddit and get spread elsewhere. I know "knowyourmeme" does work trying to track down where the OC was posted, but I have no idea how thorough they are.

  5. Bobber

    I don't know if they are better or worse, but they are almost always grammatically incorrect, or have a misspelling, or both.

  9. J. Frank Parnell

    According to the NY Times there are two equivalent realities; the one Kevin describes and the one where all our memes come from Truth Social.

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