Immortal Meme
The Immortal Meme (Meme Theorem Number 5) is the controversial idea that for a meme to be enduring and henceforth free from Normies, meme-thiefs, and whatnot, it must not exist. Contrariwise, the Mortal Meme Theorem (Number 3) states that as long as a meme exists, it is vulnerable to Normies, meme-theft, and not what, including whatnots.
Concept history[edit]
On 15 January 2018, the non-Reddit User Anonymous had a revelation: "if a meme didn't exist, it would be free from Normies". This triggered a shitstorm of infighting by Redditors, causing a temporary shutdown of the subreddit "/r/notanormiejustcatfishing". Other critics pointed out that 4chan already had a board proving the hypothesis. It consisted of page after page of blank images intended to induce zenlike trances and resultant memes unimaginable in the "real" world. While some say that that board has since been removed for being NSFW, others say it never actually existed in this world except for brief overlaps into the n-space Tesseract of Unbeing.
The golden age of memes[edit]
The earliest memes were once the province of the intellectual elite of the world, assuming there wasn't homework to do or good pr0n available. Content would include puns in hieroglyphics, references to obscure Japanese anime and the most elegant shit/ piss/ fart/ shart jokes one could imagine. This information would be quietly shared and never publicly revealed under penalty of being shunned at school by one's online peers. However, the back channels[1] and secret boards[2] were hacked by evil programmers at Skynet[3] and many memes were allowed to escape into the wild. They were quickly taken over by most of the world on the internet, who could hardly be expected to understand the subtly nuanced humor found in the early meme.
Still, the solidity of concept and originality shone through.
Examples[edit]
The recent MemeDemic
Observe this graph from a Meme Expert Memes from the Meme Age have lived for YEARS. But now, memes die off in days.
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