Will memes ever be taken seriously as means of art?

Will memes ever be taken seriously as means of art?

I'd say memes has had a bigger impact on our society and culture than most modern art nowadays

This is what I think too. Smartphones and accessibility of the internet really has changed society now.

art a always been a meme.

I can't believe Pynchon finally posted on Veeky Forums

"Memes" are much more than just the modern definition of "those funny pictures the kids like." Memes are more of an idea that passes through a group.

He's a big guy

bugs... easy on the carrot

Lay off the carrots bugs, jeez

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Memetic art and its effects on the early-mid 21st Century will likely be deciphered by historians in the future. It will likely be seen as a form of individual propaganda that people used to court or repel others from a specific ideology.

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He did?

bugs... take it easy

Bugs.. Take it easy on the carrots..

memes are just a modern, specific word for a timeless phenomenon.

recursive imagery and formats with ever-mutating meanings, contexts and iterations, the meme isn't a social gene but a cultural-linguistic one.

memes ARE a form of art user

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OH BUG :DDDDDD EASY ON THE CARRODS :DDDDD

Memes are the real modern art.

They're already taken seriously by shitheaps who take them out of the internet and use them unironically for socio-political commentary and by shitheaps who take them seriously, sensationalize them, and present them as a political group in mainstream media.

Normies were a mistake.

You meant they aren't art right now?

Give me a link right now

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