This is high art.
How much internet brain rot do I have?
I understood that…The metaphor language made me wonder how kids in that culture learned to speak it. To understand what “Shaka when the walls fell” you need some backstory - who was Shaka? What happened when the walls fell? How did it affect Shaka? To understand the jokes here you have to know the Olympic break dancer story, the DiCaprio “cheers” meme, etc. I would think the civilization must have had a rudimentary factual language for telling stories and explaining the metaphors, and the metaphor language was more advanced, used by people once they learned enough metaphors to understand it.
Where is Stamets?
People, 30 years later, talking like predicted!
This is honestly a great case for the “memes are modern hieroglyphics” argument.
Imagine archeologists unearthing this meme in 10000 years and trying to decipher it. They’d never be able to, because it requires a LOT of external knowledge (which can only realistically be obtained by living through the present times) to make any sense.
Hieroglyphs were relatively easy in comparison. They just needed enough translated material as a reference to be almost universally understood.
Memes are shifting on a year to year basis and are sensitive to news events. There are people that are going to spend their entire lives looking for a specific meme or event that will allow them to understand another meme. And with the occasional “vintage” meme references there’s even lots of opportunity for dramatic eureka moments when an expert on 2000s memes finally provides the missing clue for a 2030s meme.
Edit: and for their sake I hope someone is backing up the Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme in several nuclear bunkers.
I can’t wait to explain “all your base” to my grandkids.
Your base, your base
Are belong to
Your base, your base
Arnock, on the night of his joining! Kira at Bashi… The beast at Tanagra, Sokath, his eyes uncovered!!
The path to Kamata in spring
Lebowski. His grin strong, his eyes wide!
Wonderful work!
I just wanna know how you got me to read it in their voices
This is magical.
This is what happens when the mass of memes is so heavy it collapses upon itself.
This is a goddamn masterpiece
the fact that i understand this makes me want to stop selling death sticks and go home and rethink my life
