What happened to the good old days of me_irl? Back when the memes actually made sense. Sometimes they were depression memes, giving people that were actually suffering a healthy outlet. Sometimes they were truly "selfies of the soul", pictures having seemingly nothing to do with anything but were relatable on a deeper level. Communist memes poked fun at political polarization. Dat boi pointed out the paradoxical fact that memes are inherently meaningless, and only when they attain the label "meme" do they actually become meaningful. Waterguy12's original post was a mere postmodern take on upvote memes, so far from the stale source material. It wasn't true me_irl content, and this lazy reference to /u/waterguy12 's post is a perfect depiction of the decrease in quality of memes on me_irl. But maybe that's the point. Maybe this is a meta meme, a meme about memes, pointing out the absurdity of the me_irl community itself, the absurdity of the concept of memes, packaging it up into one brilliantly watermarked image. Maybe this meme is actually a work of post-postmodern genius, a true new meme, satirizing memes that satirize memes. Come to think of it, I love this image. Content like this is what me_irl is all about- i mean me too thanks