https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/memes-are-becoming-harder-to-monetize/561578/
The biggest threat to meme-focused e-commerce businesses,
according to those in the field, is the rate at which people today
consume memes.
“One of the biggest factors in a meme dying is if a meme gets overused,” says Jason Wong, the founder and CEO of a meme-focused e-commerce business called Dank Tank that sells merchandise like Tide Pod socks.
“People today are consuming more memes than ever. The expiration date
for them has shortened more since even last year. Memes used to last for
two to three weeks, but recently we’ve noticed they die after just a
few days.”
Social media and
photo-editing apps have also affected the way people interact with
memes. “We don’t just look at memes, laugh, and pass them on,” says
McKean. “Now we want to incorporate their language into our daily
speech, we want to manipulate them for our own meaning on Twitter.”
When
most people see the “distracted boyfriend” meme, for instance, their
first inclination is not to run out and buy a mug with it. Its humor
lies in the endless, real-time, personalized manipulations of the image.
Even the photographer who took the photo and Shutterstock, which owns
it, weren’t able to make any meaningful revenue off the meme’s virality.
I hate memes but I can't stop viewing them. Sure as fuck not spending money on any. Well maybe gondola stuff.
This is evident with advertising too and it's great. Remember Wendy's trying it on with 'the memer' 'like a boss' advert and it blowing up in their faces?
This is how we win the meme wars
speaks volume about the quality of today's memes: forgettable and disposable
Is this how we can defeat capitalism once and for all?
All hail targeted shirts.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/6bede951-eaf1-4538-a554-66b83571fe83/-q6i87d6ZwBtjgIM-I-Gjr1Dd5omB9nv4engQf1tTR0[1].jpg
Always makes me cringe a bit when I see brick n mortars selling keep calm and X. Like for some reason they really really really liked that meme to the point where I even saw it in some of the shops in Boston on my trip last weekend. Also, they like to put a damn paragraph in place of the bottom text.
meme-focused e-commerce businesses
I think this might be worse than trying to monetise blockchains.
i will elbow drop from the top of the cage any bourgeois who dares try to monetize memes
Good.
Take back the memes of production
good.
Even if memes moved at a more reasonable speed, how could you even monetize shit like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ami0UD2AU
So basically, memes are inherently a socialist form of communication
Trying to monetize memes is like trying to monetize a fart; you can only appreciate first passing before it becomes stale and people cringe being near it.
Just another nail in the coffin for that meme restaurant Kickstarter.
e-commerce
one might even say... E-commerce
Not like old memes were anything special. The ones like shoop da whoop, pool's closed and over 9000 got old fast but stuck around for years. We at least have some variety now
Any shit can be a meme now if some idiots try hard enough. Good memes stick and it shows.
I found this t-shirt at thinkgeek
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132473/edb6b594-6b67-4114-9feb-161d51659f8b/E2F183A3-F797-4974-A99C-B62D23236B7A.jpeg
I wouldn't buy the shirt, but I bought the button with that printed on it.
damn, there goes my investments in rare pepes
The best part is the few memes that just don't seem to go away (loss probably being the worst offender at this point, that fucking comic is at least a decade old isn't it?) are usually the stuff advertisers will never understand enough to market
I'm still witnessing the fidget spinner aftermath. Good riddance for people trying to capitalize on something as unstable as memes.
We might be underground long before the day people in power finds true profit out of said social images and have to hire meme connoisseurs to ensure quality for its citizens.