Internet humour is rather unique, it comes in many forms. Normally nonsensical or unappealing to those offline, Internet phenomena like Numa-Numa, all your Base and image macros containing cats have spawned in various places and spread rapidly for many reasons. People not in the picture, end up destroying the humour entirely. So what is killing these ‘memes’ and online jokes?
Rickrolling
What made it funny?
Rickroll used to be funny, it still is funny at certain times. However, the entire reason it was funny was because of the deception involved. Your buddy would link you to something that you thought was breaking news, maybe something rather hot. Instead you were led to Rick Astley’s song, Never Gonna Give You Up. I don’t think anyone expected it to spread as fast and as wide as it did. Would this trend have stuck if another eighties song were used? Most likely, if it’s catchy and annoying and you could trick people into visiting it, then it would’ve worked.
What’s killing it?
Things like this.
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Motivational posters
What made them funny?
Motivational posters were just generally witty, like a new twist on image macros. The upside was also the fact that there were online generators, meaning anyone could come up with a witty idea and easily turn it into a motivational poster to show-off in online communities.
What’s killing them?
The fact that some people just do it wrong. Seriously, image macros should never go inside motivational posters. I swear I saw a motivational poster with a macro-ed image inside that said ‘owned’ and the motivational text was also ‘owned’. This is just making motivational posters for the sake of making them. It really makes it hard to find the potentially awesome motivational posters that exist.
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Flash movies
What made them funny?
Flash movies are one of the greatest ways of broadcasting humour if you are a creative and witty person. The potential for flash movies is extraordinary.
What’s killing them?
People like this that discourage flash artists to release their work or even make animations in the first place.
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Chocolate Rain and Tay Zonday
What made it funny?
Tay Zonday had a strange singing voice and his song, Chocolate Rain was what attracted attention to him. After much pleading, Internet users convinced him to sing a cover of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. This produced a lot of witty content for fans of the infamous rickrolling trend and thus Tay Zonday became an Internet superstar. Tay Zonday was never famous because he was an undiscovered talent, he was famous because his voice was unique and it was humourous to watch him sing.
What’s killing it?
When you see him singing on television for Dr. Pepper, sitting on a throne wearing robes and a crown while women in bikinis dance at his sides, you know that shit is going downhill.
Remember, this only a small handful of Internet memes that are currently withering in pain, trying to squeeze some last laughs from Internet users and these are just theories however, it’s up to the Internet to decide what’s funny and what’s not and to decide when a trend is finally over.
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