Memetic Archetypes of 4chan

[Anonymous No.12575471]

>Wojak remains stable as a vessel for projecting anxiety. The widening gap between Millenials and Generation Z is represented within the Boomer and Zoomer variants.
>Pepe has refined his smugness, now commonly seen wearing a tuxedo. The stunted yet innocent Apu Apustaja has risen from a mere variation to a dominant status.

What developments will 2019 bring? Where does Pagliacci fit into this narrative?

[Anonymous No.12575485]

>>12575471
Yonic imagery will prevail as the Fempire begins to implement it's predictive programming and usher in a gynocratic slut era.

[Anonymous No.12575488]

pagliacci is chaotic evil, destined to derail any thread he enters

[Anonymous No.12575489]

>gondola and spurdo threaten to fall to obscurity
>will pröööhhh :DDD follow quickly after?

[Anonymous No.12575498]

Hopefully the uniquely annoying faults of gen x will be picked at rather than being lumped in the boomer meme with actual boomers and gen y "boomers" (the majority of gen y act exactly boomers tbqh)

[Anonymous No.12575503]

>Heard joke once
>Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed.
>Says life seems harsh and cruel.
>Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
>Doctor says, Treatment is simple
>Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight
>Go and see him. That should pick you up."
>Man bursts into tears.
>But doctor...I am Pagliacci.
>Good joke everybody laugh roll on snare drum curtains

[Anonymous No.12575562]

>>12575503
;_;

Based Watchmenfag.

[Anonymous No.12575593]

kill me

[Anonymous No.12575604]

>>12575471
I hope they all fucking die. It's been half a decade come up with something new. Don't be so afraid of a new image that you'll call it reddit. Half of the shit on this site comes from twitter now.

[Anonymous No.12575613]

>>12575604
>half a decade
>2011+8
>being this much of a newfag
Try and come up with some groundbreaking OC then faggot. /r9k/ was supposed to literally GENERATE OC and you see what pepe and wojak did to it.

[Anonymous No.12575674]

[Anonymous No.12575952]

Pagliacci is very unfunny. Possibly the most one dimensional pepe character ever created. There's nothing clever about it, there no subtlety or air of mystery around him. Nothing is left to imagination, no narrative can be created in which this pepe fits. With apu we can assign him a personality not explicitly stated, we could possibly relate to him. Same with all the wojacks and the other pepes. This is one on the other hands lacks any of this. The clown character only fits a narrow range of contexts because of its lack of universality and subtlety. This frog is just absolute trash and I hope it dies quickly.

[>he doesn't like /s4s/ No.12575967]

>>12575952
*HONK*
*HONK*
*HOOOOONK*
I have an announcement everybody!!!! *HONK* Everybody, I have an announcement!!!!! *HONK* *HONK*

*blows up balloon and makes a balloon dog* This announcement is gonna be monumental!!!!!! *sprays water from fake flower* The biggest *slaps you with rubber chicken* most amazing announcement *pulls string and bowtie spins like a fan* you'll ever hear in your life!!!!!!!!!

Get ready, for *takes off size 30 shoe, inflating a giant balloon hammer, then whacks you with it* the announcement *starts pulling line of multi-colored cloth from throat* to end all announcements!!!!!!!!

And that announcement *gets in tiny car, drives around and then gets back out* is gonna be coming to you *pulls out gun* NOW!!!! *"Bang!" flag pops out upon firing*

Here, just lean your head in closer to this sack of announcements and you'll hear it!!!!!!!

Closer...

Clooooosssseerrrr...

*HOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNKKKKKKKK*
*presses a coconut pie into your face*

And there it is!

[Anonymous No.12576305]

bump

[Anonymous No.12576311]

>>12575485
When the sluts rule us I will cower at their feet.

[Anonymous No.12576319]

>>12575489
Spurdo will always exist as long as you need a random-ass image to attach to a post. He is the perfect expression of the sheer off-the-wall nature of this site. God bless the Finns for coming up with him.

[Anonymous No.12576330]

>>12575952
>Pagliacci is very unfunny
that's the joke

[Anonymous No.12576336]

Go back to 2016 you normie

[Anonymous No.12576349]

>>12576319
lulrandom XD

[Anonymous No.12576360]

>>12575471
the boomer and zoomer can't be seen as normal wojaks, they have none of the pathology. The 30 yr old boomer has gone through the stages of hope and doubt and feels comfortable and secure in his mediocrity and control of his banal life, whereas the zoomer is still totally unaware because he has barely formed a conception of self or understanding of the world yet. They both originated with the concept of 'making it' in your 20s that 99% of people have to confront won't happen(whatever 'making it' entails is not clear)

Apu is a post smugPepe archetype, which means he inhabits the world that Pepe has made safer through his emergence as the absurd but competent tormentor of Wojak. Once anon is identified with pepe a kind of mooring is achieved in contrast to the fragmented neurosis of wojak, who is alone in an alien and unclear world. In this new safer world anon can regress to an infantile state of mind, the absurdity of pepe being like a cocoon of sorts, the normal rules of the world have stopped applying, and anon inside a sort of 'nested' meme reality, and sincere feelings, not yet poisoned by bitterness, fear and paranoia, depression, or vindictive spirit, can be cultivated, though at the cost of psychological maturity and awareness of the outside world

pagliacci doest have a clear character or relation to the memetic metastructure

[Anonymous No.12576368]

>>12576360
nuce analysis
what about spurdo and gondola? i was checked out of 4chan when they had their rise and fall, but i nevertheless feel a strong attachment to them

[Anonymous No.12576388]

>>12575952
What's your take on the crunch crunch sonic wojak?

[Anonymous No.12576433]

>>12575488
honk honk

[Anonymous No.12577453]

>>12575503

honk

[Anonymous No.12577470]

>>12575613
>le Pepe is 4chan dichotomy
>in a literal thread of pseuds over analyzing memes

[Anonymous No.12577484]

https://youtu.be/a1R8Rx2db9c
*honk*

[Anonymous No.12577636]

Pagliacci is easily one of the best pepe variants.

[Anonymous No.12577686]

>>12577636
nope

based /tv/

[Anonymous No.12577715]

Apu has evolved from a malicious but sympathetic anti-sue into a naive and innocent character. His disabilities are often forgotten and mistaken for childishness. Many newfags and normies don't even realize that Apu is a fully grown, mentally disabled adult.
I suspect something of the sort will also happen to Flatte once he gains popularity among the casual crowd. Even now most anons have no idea of his origins as a stalking rapist in the finnoverse. Even his unique style of talking has devolved into resembling bastardized yoda-talk. I suspect he will be used as a more mature version of Apu, but who knows what the future holds.

[Anonymous No.12577727]

retarded frogposters

[Anonymous No.12577744]

>>12577715
Apu is my favorite meme of all time

[Anonymous No.12577798]

>>12577470
I like how its obvious you are such a newfag you have no idea what that post is talking about

[Anonymous No.12577820]

>>12575967
the spinning bow tie is a nice touch

brap

[Anonymous No.12578677]

>>12576368

Spurdo is a savage meme, hailing from older, more brutish times.

[Anonymous No.12578695]

>>12577798
You're such a fucking faggot holy shit. Literally defending a thread that dissects shitty little meme variants. Nigga you probably didn't even post on /r9k/ before it was deleted.

[Anonymous No.12578750]

>>12578677
Pretty much this. Spurdo is basically a living fossil at this point. The absurd spirit of Pedobear continues on through him, whether that be through depictions of the average Finn, Gondola, or the American Bear.

[Anonymous No.12578775]

Finland now controls the fate of nations through memetics

[Anonymous No.12578778]

>>12578677
The time when people lived in fear of roaming eastern tribesmen, as cold and ruthless as the tundra.

[Anonymous No.12579253]

Can 4channers make the Gondola principle of wuwei their own?

[Anonymous No.12579370]

>>12576360

nicely put. pagliacci is a throw away forced meme

[Anonymous No.12579413]

>>12578695
>making this post even though still very clearly have no idea what I was talking about
wow

[Anonymous No.12579443]

new meme called sog check it out

[Anonymous No.12579458]

>>12575503
>the punchline has been finally explained
ruined the meme lmao

[Anonymous No.12579465]

>>12579443
I unironically like it

[Anonymous No.12579475]

>>12579465
feel free to use him fren

[Anonymous No.12579480]

Pepe and wojak got real staying power, how much longer they got? 5 years and things will have shifted. Screencap this

[Anonymous No.12579500]

>4chan will pazz out when you post a meme from 4 months ago calling it dead
>continues to post a meme from the 2000s

[Anonymous No.12579518]

>>12575952
>thatsthejoke.jpg

[Anonymous No.12579538]

>>12576360
>pagliacci doest have a clear character or relation to the memetic metastructure
Isn't that the whole point of pagliacci?

[Anonymous No.12579545]

>>12576349
this but post ironically

[Anonymous No.12579566]

>>12579458
>finally
Nobody tell this guy pagliacci posting is way older than this pepe on /tv/'s joker threads

[Anonymous No.12579591]

And where do /s4s/ memes like such as assman and introducing fit in to the grand narrative?

[Anonymous No.12579605]

>>12579591
le shig pig
>tfw I made le top doge shiggy pigatello years ago and don't have it
Someone reposted it at least once much later

[Anonymous No.12579607]

don't forget too.. wrap up warm :)

[Anonymous No.12579656]

>>12576360
>pagliacci doest have a clear character or relation to the memetic metastructure
Pagliacci epitomizes the psychotic, yet conscious, reaction to the acceleration of the chaotic in the world that in the last decade increasingly started to permeate the everyday life of single individuals. "What happens in the world" eerily materializes in the private, once safe, spaces of our very own homes. No walls are thick enough to prevent this ghostly invader, that irreversibly distorts the very bare geometry on which we built our value systems. Images of people being graphically beheaded are processed with the same banality of a fitness device's infomercial.
The pagliacci is the embodiment of a voluntary surrender to the madness, the hope of floating on it rather being devoured and consumed by it.
Nothing rational can be expected from the pagliacci, and he comes with all the disturbing imagery attached to the figure of the circus clown, that to the modern man is more close to that of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy rather than a foolish entertainer.
The pagliacci is one of the modern man's last stands: the absurdity to be willing to turn oneself into a full blown psychopath, in order to escape the horror and as the last resort for self preservation.
The impossibility to actually accomplish such transformation brings to the pagliacci: he "hurts" people with his jokes, but with the goal of amuse them (and, probably, viceversa). Faced to the contemporary hostility of the external world, he hides his repulsion to necessary violence in the absurd, the grotesque, in a dissociative state of amusement. He laughs when he has to cuts throats, in order to be able to do so.

[Anonymous No.12579663]

>>12579656
>stoner frog turned into a deranged clown
>paedo bear turned into a meditative taoist
>depressed bald pole turned into a brainwashed nu-male
What interesting character progressions for Internet: The Anime.

[Anonymous No.12579681]

>>12579663
4chan really is a pretty fascinating place when you think about it.

[Anonymous No.12579704]

[Anonymous No.12579710]

>>12579656
You've read Heart of darkness while 12 too?

[Anonymous No.12579711]

>>12579607
nice hat fren

[Anonymous No.12579749]

I personally think horny and lonelyposting should be more popular

[Anonymous No.12579825]

>>12579480
I unironically think frog posting is the best thing that happened on internet. I don't ever want it to go

[Anonymous No.12579828]

>>12579591
Is /s4s/ the most evil and sinister board?

[Anonymous No.12579844]

>>12579500
>4chan will spazz out about a meme from 4 months ago calling it old
the only people i ever saw do that were normalfags back when I had faceberg

[Anonymous No.12579916]

>>12579825
how about... merylposting

[Anonymous No.12579922]

>>12575471
Honestly I think meme culture, such as it is, is partially responsible for the sense of emptiness we find on the modern internet. Look at what happened to Wojak, for example. The image initially had a resigned, somewhat forlorn expression and was used to express one particular sentiment. Over time the resigned, forlorn expression became used to express other relatively complex sentiments, in association with posts expressing forlorn resignation, including posts regarding political or economic subjects. But the Wojaks people make today tend to have exaggerated, enormously overstated emotions instead of the comparatively listless Wojak. Wojaks today are usually crying streaming rivers, sometimes of blood. They're screaming, they're wailing, they're gnashing their teeth, they're expressing paroxysmal emotional attacks of one kind or another. One is worse than the other even though both are used to visually convey sentiment, because the latter distances the user and the viewer from any possible sympathy. The image poster takes on the role of eiron, mocking and attempting to convey personal superiority over the very sentiment expressed. This in turn diminishes the willingness of anyone to express anything of a similar nature. So Wojak, once used to partially express a human sentiment, becomes a method of dehumanizing the sentimental. This was inevitable, as a property of meme culture being the mutation of simple signals in order to produce something entertaining. The product becomes weaponized against the production base. We only call Fatlink by that name because he hates it. The pursuit of entertainment value, trying to get a gotcha or a snap or an ice burn or a BTFO, destroys common bonds and devalues communication.

[Anonymous No.12579928]

>>12579922
Even at the start of the process people would not attempt to convey their human emotions, the very act of using Wojak to communicate already separates the post from the poster, the poster is wearing a mask, it is simply not yet a mask in the ironic mode. The sense of community that develops from relating to Wojak would develop out of relating to the mask, not to the man behind it. To intentionally attempt to create a communal meme is to intentionally attempt to create a theater performance or similar, to assign a role and hope to force a relationship to it. Some memes can stand this and help build communities, ones that are simply hollow stamps of identification and recognition, the secret handshakes of secret societies, such as RC Cola or SomethingAwful's own "do you have stairs in your house," which do not attempt to assign a role or particular relationship beyond mutual recognition. But the communal theater memes, the type that go further, such as /r9k/'s chicken tendies and good boy points bullshit, or politically themed online roleplaying, are doomed right from the start, unless the community has an exceptionally good sense of humor (it doesn't and nearly nobody is ever as funny as they think they are). Wojak was destined from the start to eventually fall down the path to Pink Wojak crying rivers of blood, because the entertainment value of the reversal and subversion is infinitely higher than the entertainment value of the communal role relationship. People naturally want to be the eiron and to avoid becoming the alazon, except for some who are so narcissistic and socially focused that even the kind of attention given to the alazon is considered desirable. Because in meme culture people reduce the need to have native wit to appear witty, the role of eiron becomes even more valuable, destabilizing the balance between man and mask. The meme becomes less and less suitable for self-expression and more suitable as a jab until it can no longer express, only attack. The community becomes anti-communal through the pursuit of entertainment at the expense of commonality. This happened with much of the SomethingAwful internet diaspora through their communal holiness spiral into the batshit insanity of "Callout Culture" and it is happening with imageboards through an equal if opposite purity spiral of batshit insanity, but I don't think it has to be inherently political.

[Anonymous No.12579930]

>>12579916
there's potential

[Anonymous No.12579961]

>>12579828
It's a nice board.

[Anonymous No.12579965]

>>12579443
based

[Anonymous No.12579986]

>>12579828
that'd be /gif/ i think

[Anonymous No.12579999]

>>12579928
Really good post. This is explicitly at work in most recent memes, specially the Chad ones.

[Anonymous No.12580027]

>>12577715
I had no idea he was an adult. Thought he was a mentally disabled child

[Anonymous No.12580032]

>>12579749
goslingscreamposting makes me lole every time!!11!!
mommyposting is also funny

[Anonymous No.12580077]