On Reddit's infamous r/teenagers sub, a user offers up a post with the title, "I f****** HATE being 13". They elaborate: "Yesterday my whole class had to stay behind for 30 minutes because some kid kept yelling 'sigma sigma on the wall, who's the skibidiest of them all.'" It would seem that even the first true iPad kid generation is tiring of the language that it has started to speak.
Since its inception, meme culture has often been heavily reliant on language, and at this point, it also feels like the opposite is true. While mainstream culture has always absorbed catchphrases from both popular phenomena and the fringes, memes appear to have accelerated this to unforeseen levels. Social media may have sanded off the rough edges of our now-smooth brains, but it has also made it heavier with the weight of all the slang. Perhaps, though, that is just the way that we like it.
Since its inception, meme culture has often been heavily reliant on language, and at this point, it also feels like the opposite is true. While mainstream culture has always absorbed catchphrases from both popular phenomena and the fringes, memes appear to have accelerated this to unforeseen levels. Social media may have sanded off the rough edges of our now-smooth brains, but it has also made it heavier with the weight of all the slang. Perhaps, though, that is just the way that we like it.
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