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The Year Is 2016 And You Are Laughing At The Pictures Online

The Year Is 2016 And You Are Laughing At The Pictures Online

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About

The Year Is 2016 And You Are Laughing At The Pictures Online refers to a bleak copypasta about memes and isolation. It has appeared in various jokes since first being posted in 2016.

Origin

On July 25th, 2016, Google Plus[1] user Tigerlily Maynard posted the earliest known version of the copypasta to her account, they note the text was "originally posted by ****." The text reads:

The year is 2016 and you are laughing at the pictures online.
The pictures are funny because you understand the contextual foundation of the jokes. This understanding makes you feel included, as if you're part of an inside-joke.
You look to your left, then to your right. You're actually alone.
You've felt alone for years, but the pictures online help you to forget that. The pictures online make you feel like you're having genuine shared experience.
You know deep down the experience is not genuine, because there is a void in your heart that even the freshest meme could never fill.

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On August 12th, 2016,[4] an upload of a picture featuring a hamster running across a keyboard in one frame and the copypasta in another frame was uploaded to Imgur (shown below).


The year is 2016 and you are laughing at the pictures online. The pictures are funny because you understand the contextual foundation of the jokes. This understanding makes you feel included, as if you're part of an inside-joke. You look to your left, then to your right. You're actually alone. You've felt alone for years, but the pictures online help you to forget that. The pictures online make you feel like you're having genuine shared experience You know deep down the experience is not genuine, because there is a voicd in your heart that even the freshest meme could never fill. Oh i wonder what my hamster will type

On August 19th, 2016, the text was shared to /r/copypasta.[2] It was shared in a humorous green text story on 4chan on the 22nd.[3] On February 1st, 2017, the copypasta was posted to /r/forsen and was edited to be Twitch based.[9] It was posted to FIFA forums by user vLaDz[6] on the 23rd. On May 7th, 2017, an edit to the copypasta featuring a dog was uploaded to meirl (shown below)[5].


Bork Info the Void The year is 2017 and you are laughing at the pictures online. The pictures are funny because you understand the contextual foundation of the jokes. This understanding makes you feel included, as if you're part of an inside joke. You look to your left, then to your right. You're actually alone. You've felt alone for years, but the pictures online help you forget that. The pictures online make you feel like you're having a genuine shared experience. But you know deep down the experience is not genuine, because there is a void in your heart that even the dankest meme could never fill.

On October 30th, 2017, the hamster image was posted to /r/me_irl,[7] where it gained over 1,600 points. The following day, the copypasta was posted in 4chan's /bant/ board.[8]

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External References

[1] Google Plus – Tigerlily Maynard

[2] /r/copypasta – The year is 2016 and you are laughing at the pictures online

[3] /s4s/ – when the year is 2016…

[4] Imgur – Hamster Upload

[5] /r/meirl- Dog Upload

[6] FIFA Forums – vLaDz

[7] Reddit – /r/me_irl

[8] 4chan – /bant/

[9] Reddit – /r/forsen

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I've been seeing a rise in overt nihilistic, self-destructive, and depressing context to spreading memes. As if they are some sort of therapeutic mechanism to deal with some serious problems. I would like to think that it is irony, or sarcasm, but given that I am seeing so much of the millennial generation utterly lost without any kind of clear guidance, meaning, that it is becoming increasingly clear to me that these memes are in fact coping mechanisms.

And the irony I feel is that the levels of isolation that come with, and from that are a probably from spending way too much damn time online, rather than going out and doing something useful.

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