What is the scientific explanation as to why people find this image humorous?

>Maybe this phenomenon is tied to the fact that these people aren't normal at all, they were the quiet kids in school who never really mattered much.

Memes are literally mainstream now, my friend. Perfectly well adjusted people have started posting them.

It is probably humorous when you do not expect it

I'm talking about "dank maymays", and memes are as old humankind. Do you even know what a meme is?

First post best post

It's even worse. It's a stale tumblr meme that spread to Reddit.

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Depends, are you a Meme Bob or a Meme Snob?

every meme is pathetic cringeworthy garbage
Veeky Forums likes to pretend they are any different from reddit
there is difference between dogshit and catshit but at the end of the day its just shit

memes make the world go around

No. The difference is:
"Wew, my lad" - Veeky Forums
"Wew lad amirite guys? lol!" - Reddit

The upvote circlejerk environment allows Reddit to be like that.

>Wew, my lad
yes its better but i still need to wash out the shit taste of my mouth

Another example:
"Thanks Lori" Veeky Forums
"Thanks Lori :^)" Reddit
It's just that Reddit allows users to be "superior" towards new users. Even though they might be a fat machinima neckbeard, or a pop-science journalist.

In Veeky Forums, you will always be anonymous, and attention-whoring is seen as loser behavior.

I tried induction but I couldn't even get the base case right.

Is memetics a real science?

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I like to think that some memes are sent by some government to test how fast the message can reach everybody.

The Instrumentality is near.

It will be in the future, just read this articles on memetics from the theorritical future history sci fi universe Orions Arm:

>The Meme is mightier than the Nuke.
- Finnegan "Jerry" Dann, Interplanetary Age Social Engineer, Avalon Orbital

Memetic engineering is the art, science, and practice of directing the opinions, thoughts, ideologies, traditions, and behaviors of a population through a variety of methods. These methods may include influencing prominent leaders individually, hijacking or subverting existing communications networks, creating new advertising, forming new educational institutions, changing laws, subtly re-organizing social networks, inducing immigration, and possibly other unknown methods.

Transapient sources say that even for them, social engineering is an inexact science, like ecological management or climate engineering. It remains almost impossible to make detailed predictions of a population of sophonts beyond a few months in advance. In addition, the task of social engineering apparently becomes exponentially more complex with S-level. Nevertheless, social/memetic engineering has remained crucial for managing the stability in a vast array of cultures across interplanetary and interstellar distances for much of terregen history. Though governing entities and memegineers may preform a few explicitly stated acts of cultural change, the vast majority of social engineering is reportedly un-noticed and unknown by the affected sophonts at the time.
cont.

Social engineering may require detailed knowledge about local cultures, practices, and even the day-to day lifestyles of individual Sophonts. Adapting an ideology to hundreds of different clades and species will usually require a superb understanding of each clade’s particular socializing practices. Ubiquitous surveillance ,Cliology, and (other intensive anthropological practices) allow detailed knowledge of localized and globalized cultures. Due to the complexity of these tasks of synthesizing and interpreting this information, and the required societal influence/power involved, modosophonts are rarely capable of using anything more than the cruder and more primitive memgeneering methods to much effect. Though highly effective memegeneering does not require a top-down authority according to transapient sources, it does apparently require significant, frequent access to a culture through several decentralized, extremely coordinated sources. For this reason, effective social/ memetic engineering is apparently impractical over interstellar distances without the aid of wormholes and/or local puppet representatives. In addition, since many of the most effective social engineering initiatives require regular access to individuals in the targeted environment, social engineering will usually require decades-long on-the-ground presence within the important social networks.

A second factor in the complete dominance of memetic engineering tradition by figures S1 and above is the transapient ability to produce far more cultural content than a group of modosophonts and to persuade modosophonts to use it through extraordinary mastery of any particular clade’s social skills (usually by way of appropriate eidon/exoself). This productivity can increase exponentially with S-level.

cont.

At the broadest levels of sephirotic society, transapient sources report that archilects utilize social engineering within the capacity of Noetics - managing the generalized noosphere of the planets, orbital habitats, and megastructures. This may actually mean that many archilects manage only the broadest levels of communication and leave the details to their subsidiary elements or leave the actual governing to the modosophonts themselves. It may instead mean that some archilects manage the cultural content down to the very level of billions of sophont minds through brute force methods (though this is would be rare).

In order to alter particular targeted individuals, social engineers may require the technique of actually altering brain chemistry or convincing small groups to adopt particular body changes. More subtle methods may include slightly altering the minds, memories, or even brains of particular crucial individuals within an organization, if necessary.

The line between psychological engineering and memetic engineering is blurry and many techniques of convincing populations to change themselves apply to individuals as well, only on a smaller, and usually more specific scale. Techniques may range from cult-like admission practices to physical augmentation.

These methods are technically not classed under social engineering, and regarded as more of a related sub-discipline, like metallurgy and cement mixing is to bridge engineering. More often, however, non-intrusive means are apparently sufficient for altering opinions. These techniques may include alterations to urban planning, introduced technologies, customized search results, ads, stories, virches, laws, and ideological tracts.

cont.

In addition, powerful social engineering groups may act as particularly charismatic exoselves, avatars, or even entirely new sophonts as tactical seeds or cultural leaders within a population. The time that these organizational changes will take to make effect may range from months to decades.

Once these ideologies have percolated into a population, the growing changes will entrench themselves in ever more solid institutions through architecture, laws, body modifications, and traditions in a matter of time ranging from months to decades.

Memetics uses a variety of approaches to change or stabilize the cultures of the Terragen Sphere. Some social engineers will first gather anthropological information about the given population, then use a combination of further research and brainstorming to arrive at potential design solutions and appropriately viral ideologies. After some refinement through a repeated prototyping process among a small set of test populations (either virtual or real), the social innovator implements the practices/ meme complexes/ ideologies/ or urban planning concepts as seeds in the appropriate populations . These initial seed populations, which may range from hundreds to billions in number, will then independently spread the new culture and adapt it appropriately through mass media, word of mouth, and other transmission methods.

cont.

Social engineers can also spread a seed population through a wide variety of methods. There are rumors through history, (rarely confirmed) that social engineers use immigration as a tactic. Although significant portions of modosophont interplanetary and interstellar travel can be explained by the usual causes of commerce, travel, and expansion, sophontologists/ historians speculate that a significant, undisclosed percentage of this may also in fact be directed inoculations of seed populations to increase diversity and/or strategically place particular cultural groups where they might have the most influence.

Though unsophisticated social engineering in general has existed since the information age in the form of advertising, marketing, and top-down government social engineering programs, the recognizably sophisticated form of memetics emerged by the late interplanetary age. Those who developed it resurrected an older term, referring to the viral appearance of ideas in a very literal sense, that had been popular for a while in the 1st century AT. Memetics as known from the Nanotech Age through to the present day relates to the older idea/concept more or less in the way that chemistry relates to the agricultural age idea of alchemy. The re-use of the term still bothers a few purists with a historical bent but it became well entrenched over the course of the Nanotech Age and has been used in Anglic-derived languages ever since.

So yeah. This "article" takes place like 14000 years in teh future so this kind of stuff is far off but it shows you what might come to be.

Dat bio isn't a dank meme, its a nigger facebook meme. gondola is the essence of a dank meme, pepe was at one time and in many respects still is a dank meme, but dat boi is for niggers.

Could there be a connection?

Half of all memes were ever funny and not just some random bullshit. Dat boi has completely removed all traces of reference to external sources meaning anybody can get it, not just those who understand what the in-joke is referring to. It is literally a pure meme only funny if you acknowledge it as such. It's not a more advanced form of humor, its humor dumbed down to the point no actual effort is required to elicit a reaction allowing the mind to focus on other things such as music. It's efficient and its the future of memes and only traditionalists like you fail to see that. You are what's holding memes back.