Rant About Anime Memes

To find out why anime memes simply aren't funny, we must first find out why memes are funny. Some memes are a reference to a certain franchise, which tend to receive a great response from a specific group of people, usually the ones who are into the franchise. These include Star Wars memes and Reddit memes. These memes also sometimes have a relatable topic (eg: when you stub your toe with a picture of a screaming Elon musk or something idk) that makes other people think "oh yeah that happens to me too haha" and connects this feeling of being the same with another individual with humor. If the picture is random and seems to express a strong exaggerated emotion, it may or may not provoke a greater reaction from a "surreal" emotion and circumstance that still hits so close to home.
Now what do anime memes lack compared to normal memes? First of all is the "first impression"
You may have heard of this term from interviews. Despite interviews and memes having barely any similarities, this plays into psychology, as does most research into humor. The original deep-rooted impression that anime is cringe, which in turn give a bad impression of anime memes, a part of anime, which lowers anime's reputation even more, a cycle. This is an interesting phenomenon I will dub "virgous cycle", a play of words with "virgin"(weebs) and "vicious cycle".
Apart from this, what key difference could there be? This drags us back to what I hadn't finished earlier: relatable scenarios. Some unscientific studies show that relatable memes of common daily scenarios gain high approval in the form of exhaling air. Nearly NO anime memes have this, instead having unrealistic scenarios like, well, anime. Who on Reddit or similar social media platforms would have a social life, much less a romantic partner? The mere idea is scoffable. What foolishness, such unrealistic wishful thinking!
But you may say, "but not all memes are like this! How about dark jokes or something? How about reaction memes? How about memes including celebrities?" Well, anime memes have exactly none of those. Dark jokes in anime form, paralleling jokes like "i am in your walls" would make the anime community seem worse, ruining their reputation even faster (not that it matters anyway it's declining so fast already). Reaction memes are possible, but the anime community believes that they are old and unfunny (which is true, but it's better than what's being made now) and memes involving celebrities would appear to be an extra obvious attempt to directly mimic previously successful memes of celebs, and a weeb with no life probably wouldn't be familiar with real people, needless to consider celebs. That leaves only the cringiest possible meme-mold that an anime meme has to follow the structure of.
Is that it? No, there's one meme type we missed out on. Ah, surreal memes! "Wednesday" is a vastly popular one, maybe the unrealistic-ness of anime will aid it! Maybe? Please? Nope. Surreal memes are the absolute peak of randomness, one type that follows no restrictions, allowing it to roam freely and enter the "humor zone" easily. Most animes however all seem to have one thing in common: willpower? Wait, no, friendship? Also maybe romance? As you can see, these limit the possibilities of surreal memes to such a small area that they lose their surrealism. Not relatable nor surreal, anime is in a horrendous spot for humor.
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