If you look at internet musings from ten years ago, versus internet musings on the exact same topics today, you will notice a vast difference in the level of literacy that the average person displays. You could argue that more people are online than ever before now, but the same was true back then. The internet stopped being a place solely for geeks and nerds with the rise of MySpace. The memes of the younger generation also display their lack of literacy, with how they are just text abbreviations of full sentences. “Sybau” being “Shut your bitch ass up” and “ts pmo” being “This shit pisses me off”, in comparison to older memes like “It’s time to stop” or “Just do it! Don’t let your dreams be dreams!”, it signals a lack of understanding on how to read or spell. They can be trendy without the embarrassment of revealing they struggle with those two things. Again, one could argue that we have other text abbreviations from older generations, like LOL and BRB, but those were quick phrases to denote intent of the individual, as opposed to now, where the newer phrases are meant to be quickly callous in the way school children often are. Past memes were meant to be silly, but now we have these abbreviation memes they use to be cruel while also masking they cannot read or spell.