we finally have good memes again

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BENOFTHEWEEK

Fiction, News, Drama, Entertainment News, Comedy

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Did you hear the good news?! MEMES ARE BACK!! The McDonald's Grimace Shake, the Titanic death toll increase --> memes are officially returning. Join Ben as he theorizes who is responsible for the meme renaissance and what it means for the future of "monoculture"! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaYouTube Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK Follow Ben on YouTube Follow Ben on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, mamas.
0:06.0	I have excellent news, an amazing announcement to share with you.
0:11.2	Memes are back.
0:12.9	They are back, baby.
0:15.7	For so long, due to the tiktokification, let's call it, of the internet, it felt like
0:21.2	there was no beating center, no beating heart of the internet where we could all dance
0:26.8	around and laugh at the meme of the moment.
0:30.6	Everyone was pushed into their own little bubbles of content, their own little for you pages,
0:36.2	which very much still is the case, but it really feels like something has shifted, something
0:42.5	has changed in society that we finally have it back.
0:46.6	I'm talking back to the 2016 to 2018 vibes.
0:56.0	And there was Vine when there would be one popular Vine, like a week basically that
1:00.5	everyone would know and everyone would reference for the most part, or popular tweets.
1:06.2	And then, you know, I say it ended in 2018 because that's kind of when tiktok started
1:11.2	and everyone moved away from these centralized platforms where, you know, everyone would
1:17.5	see the same stuff.
1:18.5	It'd be like a Instagram, literally, you just have a popular page where it would be the
1:22.7	most like pictures would be on the popular page, which obviously isn't the best idea,
1:28.6	like celebrities like Selena Gomez or someone is probably would always be at the top of
1:33.6	that.
1:34.6	So not the best idea, but there was something to be said, there was something to be said
1:38.2	about the internet being like a town square where we could all gather around and laugh
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