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Article 1 - The average outdatedness of r/memes posts

23rd of Av, 5780

In the first episode of my video series with the same name (https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=q3_weCxgSR9), I did the basic work showing how outdated the ten top posts on r/memes were. In this article, I will elaborate. The average year for the 8 memes (1 apperaing two times) in the video for which I have the definitive date, is 2015 exactly. That fits with the unscientific "vibe" that the subreddit gives off in a way. Not did even one of the memes in the video come from the current year. How did this happen? My hypothesis is that the r/memes members mainly get their memes from meme compilations and really mainstream sources, which generally do not have very new memes (because they haven't been around long enough to be mainstream yet). These meme compilations also generally only use other mainstream sources and thus is a normie feedback loop created. The r/memes members are just children and normies who haven't been around long enought themselves to be knowledgable about memes at all, and they stick to these boring format memes, because those are the only memes that they know about yet. I imagine that a large portion of them will become more dancc in the future, and many not. I followed that same progression, initially being a normie, and then becoming an enlightened dannncc boi.