Karl wrote:Knoyleo wrote:I've just come in here to let you all know that I hate this meme, and it's making me hate that whole 22 Short Films About Springfield episode.
How come it's elected such a strong response from you? Genuinely interested. For me personally, if I think a joke's getting tired I find it pretty easy to scroll past it without it bothering me.
It's not that strong a response, (it's easy to hate just about everything on the Internet,) but it probably ties into my general dislike of the Internet meme machine, and how the industrialised, mass manufacturing of the same joke over and over again is probably the fastest way to kill it.
It is fairly hard to avoid, as well. Every time I open up youtube, the front page recommendations will usually contain several Steamed Hams variations. It's not like I'm forced to watch them, but it's always there, taking prominence over something else that might actually be new and interesting.
"Steamed Hams but it's X" is the exact same bullshit as "Allstar but it's X" when that was the hot MEME OF THE MONTH. A search for Steamed Hams on YouTube returns 149,000 results. There might be some diamonds in the rough, but the majority of it is either bad, or the same joke that has been laid over clips of Allstar/Shrek/Bee Movie or any other number of meme victims before. It takes an original joke, and kills it, by making it just like every other.
Plus I've been following a Simpsons fan twitter that's running a bracket to find the best episode, and people were voting 22 Short Films over better episodes because STEAMED HAMS LOL.
tl;dr: people like things I don't like, and it makes me mad.