Popular memes in indie web of today(?)

[robotickyuu]

Hello! This is my first ever post after a long hiatus from the indie web, super psyched to be back!!

So, as the title suggests, I was curious about the meme ecosystem within modern indie web communities, like Neocities or Nekoweb, if there is any at all. Because back in the day, it were stuff like Nyan Cat or Rickroll that dominated the old internet (there are probably better examples than those but I'm actually not that old enough to remember the memes from the old web so yeah... but still you get my point) and I thought "hey, it'd be super cool if the indie web revival had this in it's revival list!!"

I was wondering, are there any memes like that that are getting popular? And if not, would you like to see new memes to emerge in the indie web revival community?

(Oh, and also, I wonder about other people's opinions on memes as well! It's a pretty interesting topic of discussion the more you think about it!!)

[cult_status18]

people don't really post memes here surface web memes are discouraged in the rules pages but their isn't anything in the rules that says we cant make any that are just for the forums my sister made this thing and she's posted it to her TikTok page but it didn't get any tracion she doesn't care about it she lets me do whatever I want with it so we can use it here if you guys want too its kinda a wojack style meme like pog face or chud face but according to my sister his name is "carson the carrot" so you all can call him that I think something better tho would be a meme based off an inside joke from the forums any ideas? Ive only now just been more active

[Melooon]

isn't anything in the rules that says we cant make any that are just for the forums

Actually there is The forum rules are that you cant use meme's as reactions or in conversations ~ in the same was as we don't allow very short replies like "thanks" I feel meme is a disingenuous way to engage with people as part of a discussion.

There's nothing against discussing them, except for that fact that a vast majority of memes are actually quite unpleasant or come from unpleasant parts of the web. Although I think the deeper reason is that the web revival and indie web are all about timeless content, where as memes are about timed content (most memes have a very limited shelf life while most webpages last decades).

In general I think that memes embody everything sick about the wider web, short format, heartless and shallow content that diminishes rather than enriches people. I know that's a touch harsh though, I do also think they they capture moments in culture and time and that is an important part of the web, and sometimes they are very fun! However for me they just don't stick as something I find personal value in.

[cult_status18]

Actually there is

ahh ok thank you for clearing that up and yeahhhh....I was just having a conversation yesterday with a friend about where the "chud face" came from

[You can look it up if you want but what that man did was very evil, so be warned.]

When I think of it like that it is really concerning that a lot of memes come from bad people or places or end up being racial dog whistles or things like that and something I found really annoying about discord was all the memes that ppl would not stop posting I never understood them and they would just chepen the conversations I Was in so I get that too and as cute as boy kisser is I'm still SO TIRED OF SEEING IT

the worst of it is on tiktok for sure my sister will turn her phone to me and show me some of the weirdist and most stupid things I have ever seen its really gotten bad people hardly even care about a punchline now its just who can do the cringiest thing on camera or here's the new lol-cow for the next couple of months knock your self out internet

Here's a picture of Joshua Block This poor man has been harassed on tik-tok for ages now to the point where he is a severe alcoholic, and people just leech off of him and are only around him to  record content of him.

its terrible and I hate it too but I feel like at least pre-Vine era memes had some heart in them, but after vine it was all downhill from there