Meh; I'm all for just enjoying them for what they're worth. But agreed, Youtube Poop is sickeningly immature. Bleh.
What I find truly upsetting is the emergence of memetics into everyday culture. If anyone else here can even vaguely recall
Epic Movie,
Date Movie or
Meet the Spartans, a) you get a cookie, and b) you should be able to see my point. As the films' cultural references fade from significance, so do the laughs. In the case of
Spartans, the movie's entire premise revolved around the fact that a number of teenagers (including myself for a time) perceived
a line or two to be funny. And thus the film was an undeserving success.
Just wait five years and show Epic/Date/Scary Movie to someone who's hardly seen a single film released before 2012. As with any other example of meme-based humour, the movie wouldn't be able to crack a smile. A meme is entirely contextual, and often can't be appreciated by those with no connection to its source. Hence, Weegee is to me as Advice Dog is to Rao. As crosseyed7 eloquently stated while I was composing this message, memes can indeed create "community" of sorts, or at least a sorority that one can identify with.
Whether a meme is annoying is entirely opinion. Rejecting anything popular culture throws your way signifies a desire to feel "above" the mainstream culture, at least if interpreted in such a Fruedian sense.
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