Now That We’ve Hit Peak Meme, Let’s Take A Deep Dive Into Meme Culture

Memetic Engineering

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One of the coolest things about memes is that they seem to arise organically. Just take salt bae. He didn’t upload his video expecting to become a meme, but one screenshot and some overplayed text later and voila.

Memetic engineering refers to when you actively create a meme. 4Chan users made most of them originally, and this is still more common today than we think. Just think about when cartoons or drawings become memes. Any SpongeBob meme is memetically engineered, so if you create memes and your parents complain you’re not doing enough in life, you can call yourself a memetic engineer.

These next few memes would never last in today savage meme world.