/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20909059
I don't know why I saved it but have this thing
No, I don't know why it's circled either.

>>15119419
>remember when we called each other weebs jokingly? and faggot(kind of)?
Neither of those were ever not insults, even if people tried to appropriate them as affectionate terms.

>and image macros were called image macros and not "memes"
Macros are a subset of memes, but I do hate how people use the word "memes" the way they do nowadays. A lot of old memes were just in jokes. You couldn't "generate" memes, like each individual image is a meme in itself rather than part of an existing meme.

Of course the word meme itself is nothing new, as you can see from this image that I don't know why I have.

I really hate how you can't use some macros nowadays without being thought as some meme spewer. It's like macros themselves aren't dead, but you can't post ones with stupid random text. You can't say stuff like "lollercoaster" anymore (maybe, people do still say pretty stupid stuff with kek, but greater things like rofl are dead.) You can't say 'win' or 'fail' or any sort of short phrase anymore.