Death of a Meme: The 5 Stages of Grief
1. Feeling Lamestream
Your meme used to be your inside joke with your drinking/weed/Gchat friends, but suddenly all these boring people have found it too. You know that liking your meme is going to make you seem redundant/behind the curve, so you officially pronounce it “dead.”
2. Scorn
Suddenly you hate everyone that still likes your meme. “I knew about this three months ago! It’s so over!” Get mad and comment about it on your Twitter.
3. Secretly Still Enjoying the Meme
You don’t want to admit it, but your old meme still makes you laugh/ feel at peace with the absurdity of the world. Don’t let anyone see you looking at it on Tumblr though.
4. Feeling Cynical About “Meme” Culture in General
You read an article on CNN that explains to Internetarted adults WTF a meme is, and it seems sad that now your parents will be memeing hardcore too. Maybe the meme of memes is over?
5. Finding a New Meme
This meme is a lot better than the old meme. It’s way less accessible for lamestreamers and has a lot more potential for combinatorial play. Post pics on 4chan, Canv.as and Tumblr. Get reblogged and start to feel happy again.