#memetic analysis

Right, so I saw some people talking about how this is 'cringe', which, I grant - it is. It's "to make maths interesting," but "it should have gone through a proofreader," bla blah etc. Here's my personal opinion as the designate Weird Cringey Maths/Linguistics person: Language changes, interests change, and If you want people to learn, you gotta meet them halfway. I'd say this was a decent attempt.

Yes, this may feel stupid and cringe to some of you, but you know what else got called cringe? Almost everything we liked as kids. And yet, some of us leaned into it anyways, learned and grew and now we're making cool stuff with our weird knowledge. "Cringe" can become beauty if you give it time, but stubbornly clinging to "Back in my dayy.." nostalgia or bitching about "brainrot" is only gonna make you feel more isolated. As we Tumblrites like to say, we're cringe but we're free - so let the kids be free, and let this teacher go into this new adventure in language evolution with them.

Because,,

unfortunately, i do not have the answers to your queries, mainly because i have made very similar observations. i keep seeing things with a lot of potential, like hotline bling or the short-lived urinal meme. but there’s almost like....a lack of enthusiasm??? it’s very strange. 

tbh i’m probably guilty of the whole “resurrection of old memes as egotism” thing, but i think that’s partly due to my desperation for memes. you can’t force a new meme, and if you know that, your only real option is to overanalyze and pseudo-intellectualize old memes (partly why i think memeology itself became a meme in the first place)

for all the talk of the skeleton war bringing back the memeconomy, meme production in october was--pun slightly intended--bone dry. i didn’t even see that many skeleton war memes. 

honestly i wanted to argue w/ u about breadsticks being the last true meme but u know what???? i think you’re right. JOHN CENA technically started before breadsticks, but didn’t become widespread until afterwards. so there’s that, but i couldn’t definitely say that that came *after* breadsticks. and also “that sounds fake but ok,” started around the same time.