The Inevitable Downfall of YouTube Meme Channels

[@Thotti]

Tag your favorite meme channel

[@TheHardcoreGamer1]

The legend himself emisoccer💪

[@mohamedzoulali5755]

Many, including @Thotti

[@bryanmb9994]

@memesbycowbelly, I remember in 2020/2021, he drop only bangers meme. And also @TheHouseoftheDank, bro was always dropped peak Jojo memes. And, of course, you.

[@Thotti]

@@TheHardcoreGamer1 His dank meme compilations altered my brain during my prepubescent years and is one of the reasons why I made a meme channel in the 1st place lol. In other words, bro screwed my mental state for life

[@Gaming_Duck]

@Thotti, @StuffyNose69

[@alecsbizarrememes7862]

Mfw(my face when) ThottiYt was the only channel to not have a downfall because it has never had a rise in the first place

[@Saratheartist]

OMG(Oh My God)

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

Wait, that's what it stands for? I thought it means Mother F**kers When?

[@Fruellaz]

Fr (french revolution)

[@Somewhatcrazyandinsane]

SMH (So Much Horses)

[@MrFourchords]

for some reason whe I read this comment I pronounced ThottiYt as thotty yachty

[@Peternity_]

can't fall off if you just don't upload good video though, it's evident that basing your channel on trends will not sustain long-term growth or an actual legit audience for obvious reasons. all of the meme channels i can think of that actually have a somewhat loyal fanbase are ones that moved over to unique content that isn't strictly memes; justmehabibi, yikes, kaka v420 to name a few. i was trying to do the same myself but my drive to make stuff has been abysmal for the better part of the last 2 years so my channel probably won't see the views it used to ever again lmao. there's still hope for you though mr thotti, you must rise above the brainrot

[@Idiotfarmlandfernlog]

Damn if it ain't peternity... Nevertheless I still loved the videos that you uploaded

[@NapoleanBlown-aparte]

Squid with an omelette 😔

[@TSMKstudios]

We miss you upload more pls

[@IPutFishInAWashingMachine]

Hi peter

[@kyperactive]

Meme channels being serious? Nah... its actually over 😭

[@whirow]

THANK YOU for making this video. as a former meme channel myself, im happy i switched content styles in mid 2022. from 2021-2022, i dedicated myself to making memes every 1-2 days, and that experience really made me see the true value of being a meme channel online. it's tasteless, boring, and ingenuine to try and be 'hip' and 'up to date' with internet jokes that people will only care about for a week or 2. in real life, who cares about these memes for a majority of people above middle school? even if i had ~60k subscribers in 2022, not a single person cares about me as a person, but me as a content factory. not to mention how sad it is to make these memes so consistently. i wake up, go to school, and immediately find a meme to make and upload. no time for real life, no time for friends, no time for anything. i spend hours just searching for the "funniest" videos to make, and they can either get 20k or 200k views. the views on a meme channel are so inconsistent since you're basically praying that a meme hits it big so you can cash in for the next week. after that, it's just finding the next best thing. there's no trying to make yourself funny; you're just trying to please the middle schoolers who watch this shit. and for what? subscribers? views? MONEY? the money only comes in if your video is above 30 seconds, so you better yap and add filler to the meme if it's too short, sacrificing humor for that dough. of course, unless you sacrifice your dignity to the youtube shorts gods, like benbros. who cares about the numbers if you're just a sad slop in real life. no one knows you and no one cares about you if you don't give time to yourself too, which meme channels often dont have. this is why i hid my yt channel from others 2 years ago; i was ashamed of saying that THAT was my source of passive income. you should've also delved deeper on how easy it is for memes to be stolen and reuploaded. meme channels spend effort making these videos consistently, and for someone to steal it and gain from it is a big demotivator. sure, you can add a watermark, but the thief can just remove it, especially with AI tools nowadays. look at squewe; he just posts meme compilations under a 'top 5' suit and he got a million subscribers. where is the love? it's just stolen videos for a living. i find making memes to be fun when you're not trying to make a profit from it. ive wanted to make a video on this topic for a while, but id rather just leave the 2021-2022 era in the past. i dont regret making those memes, since it really taught me how unfun it is to make such videos. im just happy that i've since then changed to make my own humor in videos, rather than milking others' week-long humor. im happy that i can get consistent views by just making videos on what i find funny. i just hope other meme channels like kracc bacc (my goat), peternity, arcade assassin and others can find another type of content that works well with them. leave the memes to be enjoyed by the people; dont try and turn humor into a dignity-killing factory. please enjoy life outside of doomscrolling skibidi toilet ohio gyatt tiktoks.

[@InterestingRedditStories-b7e]

Hehehehe skibidi

[@toaduschums]

Bro wrote an essay💀

[@jecobi]

Wasn't expecting a whole ass essay from you out of all people, but okay. Also, I used to be a meme channel myself in July, but quit because I didn't feel like doing it anymore. Reading half of this, I feel like I dodged a bullet there. Thank you, Town of Penticton, British Columbia (I was here for vacation when I decided to quit, also yes I'm Canadian).

[@sunsetstriped]

kracc bacc has taken a break/left youtube for 4 months ago as stated in his community tab

[@HaltingThomas10]

I ain’t reading allat

[@Gaming_Duck]

Meme channels died so anime mommy asmr could live

[@SlapStyleAnims]

This unironically

[@robertocampusano3980]

What

[@Nuzilicious]

ermmmmm, what the sigma?

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

@@Nuzilicious brauh i know what video you were watching

[@LV426Resident]

Exactly

[@yoshihasascended]

>milk a meme >wait for new LIMC video >use the meme he introduced, doesnt matter if the videos funny >repeat

[@unfunniestman]

How to Benbros

[@TheEpikalREKT]

Literally what I do 💀💀💀💀

[@Sagojika]

@@TheEpikalREKT Your channel rotted my brain just by looking at the titles

[@unfunniestman]

@@TheEpikalREKT being self aware does not make you any less cringe

[@Retard127]

​@@TheEpikalREKT jump

[@Kadz]

I’ve been making memes on KZbin since the end of 2016, and a lot of what you’ve said in this video is very accurate to my own experiences as well. Riding the trends, hoping that the next video you upload will get picked up by the algorithm, etc. And then, I would add, when there’s no suitable, popular meme out, literally not being able to upload. Also, the shift in the lifespan and type of memes toward vertical short-oriented stuff has really reduced the prevalence of memes that regular, horizontal, 30-second+ videos can actually be made on, further decreasing the viability of the classic style of KZbin meme videos. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve really slowed down in the amount I post; I haven’t uploaded a regular horizontal video in almost two months now. There are just no more suitable memes to make 30-second, horizontal videos on while still keeping the standard of effort/quality I’d like to maintain on my channel. It seems like most new memes are geared towards shorts now, as shown by the popularity of shorts from channels like Meme Zee, Arcade Assassin, Gelnox, etc. The types of videos I’ve actually found the most success with (fulfillment-wise + monetarily) are longer, YTP-style movie edits incorporating memes (my “but it’s awkward” videos), so I might try to lean more into those, as it’s becoming increasingly clear that the viability of the good ol’ regular types of KZbin memes is just not really there anymore, whether you feel that’s ultimately a good thing or a bad thing.

[@ph4NT0m_phonk]

You are a big part of my childhood mr. K, thank you for everything

[@Kadz]

@@ph4NT0m_phonk I appreciate that, thank you :)

[@sauliusvitkauskas8741]

@@Kadz i remember watching your sonic videos on my dads phone

[@Kadz]

@@sauliusvitkauskas8741 Haha, now you can watch them on your own phone

[@hashhashbrowns5381]

you know, i'm actually glad you aren't soulless from what i normally see. I'm happy about thatr.

[@ImTheGuy]

Meme Channels have fallen, billions must KZbin Poop

[@pc1231]

*now* we’re talking…

[@jeremypanjaitan4039]

YTPS superior

[@unfunniestman]

sadly it wouldn't work, short (30 secs or lower) clickbaity videos with a subway surfers gameplay at the bottom of the screen is what works to keep the mid-to-late gen z interested, any second longer and they will find it boring

[@Ulaanbasaar]

@@unfunniestmanpeople still watch those types of videos?

[@fyran6453]

*Ngl, ytp aren't content farm like these meme channels*

[@biz117]

memes nowadays have a shorter lifespan than a housefly

[@atanaZion]

that's kinda good since we can move to the next thing instead of milking it for ages as we did back in 2020

[@EEErmine]

Shorter lifespan than a mayfly actually

[@ethansprague2005]

The fucking brain rot jokes like the sigma, baby gronk, grimace shake shit is still alive for some reason

[@th7298]

@@ethansprague2005 amongus lived for a pretty long time i'd say...

[@orynx2835]

​@atanaZion No , in my opinion that's not that good . Sure we do have to move on . But I believe we are moving too fast for changing memes . I am literally GEN Z and I hear some new words and see some new memes for the first time and at the same time some people are like UP to Date . I see LISCM posting about a new meme that I haven't even heard for . Only for it to die in a few hours . I hate this "new memes every new day " ITS SOOO BORING . And the fact is , the troll face memes and some templates ARE STILL being used . I rarely see new meme templates anymore

[@BlitzoITA]

I personally think that Petertnity is the best meme channel. He actually comes up with original jokes and always makes me laugh. I particularly loved the "Monkey typewriting experiment" video.

[@BurnPerimeter]

yo same. peternity is the only one who did not deserve the hate

[@niggacockball7995]

peternity feels like an actual comedian

[@robertthesilly]

you'd do WHAT to VAPEREON ? ? ?

[@joseurbanos.domingo6344]

​@@BurnPerimeterespecially with the TF2 sings

[@michaeltabarroni70]

Yeah Peternity is good, but I think kracc bacc is better, his content feels fresh and actually manages to make something original out of the trending brainrot memes

[@BurnPerimeter]

BRO IM SO HAPPY YOU CALLED OUT KZbin SHORTS. I hate how youtube users think of themselves as all high and mighty over tik tok users despite seeing the same bs brainrot.

[@legendaryboi1226]

Never watched YT Shorts or Tiktok

[@BurnPerimeter]

@@legendaryboi1226 keep it that way these reels are (quite literally) a biohazard

[@captainet2457]

Same. I don’t use TikTok anymore (I stopped back at like 2020 or 2021) but, KZbin shorts is basically like TikTok except without the filters.

[@BurnPerimeter]

@@legendaryboi1226 lucky. Once you get into yt shorts you seemingly cannot stop watching it. I swear with all my life that KZbin shorts is a biological hazard.

[@atsizbalik]

yt shorts is literally tiktok but instead of chinese spyware you have american spyware

[@amorphousprimordia]

Thank you to referring to 2016 memes as "five years ago" it really helps me not cry over the inevitable creep of time

[@atanaZion]

2016 feels like a decade ago,tho

[@RedTieJoe]

​@@atanaZion It nearly is, 8 years

[@anotherhuman5800]

​@@RedTieJoe stop.

[@ZumbaRatrecordsofficial]

The effect of behind the meme and the gen alpha revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the meme economy

[@dean_l33]

Bring back MLG. Make Internet Great Again

[@aregulargenericname8794]

My fellow man, it was always brainrot​@@dean_l33

[@Aperson-rs4eh]

behind the meme did nothing wrong

[@unfunniestman]

gen alpha only did what gen z taught them

[@colorsoflife5757]

​​@@unfunniestmanand there's 10 year old kids who thinks karma by JoJo Siwa is the best song but then you realize the song has a swear word and everyone hates her

[@Fraycon]

the darkest dungeon narrator quotes are so spot-on I love it

[@Gmann2021]

One of my favorite games, DD2 is also pretty good

[@youtubebobguy]

Finally. Another person that not only talks about the downgrade of Benbros but also talks about the irony of making fun of Gen Alpha

[@unfunniestman]

how can someone who never made decent quality content have a downgrade

[@strateks9611]

Brainrot is not even a new type of meme to begin with, It's not a gen alpha thing, they didn't start it nor popularize it.

[@metaknight115]

I've never even met a Gen Alpha that watches brain rot and uses the Gen Alpha slang. If anything, it seems teenagers are more into that stuff.

[@unfunniestman]

@@metaknight115 The amount or Gen Zs who are into brainrot is 200 times the amount of Gen Alphas who do so

[@cheesychesnut6416]

@@unfunniestmanarguable. I see and know a lot of children in real life who watch content farms as well as those of the “brainrot” content. I literally sat next to a younger sibling of my friend who thought skibidi toilet was peak entertainment

[@madmikefollower6939]

Nickakado took away Kracc Bacc’s channel and Kracc Bacc then brought it back and gave us a fake one

[@MooseOsauras]

For real kracc bacc videos were so different when we came back he used so many obnoxious AI voices he got rid of a lot of staples he used in his channel and he only did videos on trends he used to do his own thinngs some times

[@rafaelascencao6045]

​@@MooseOsaurasI don't know about you but Kracc bacc and Kakav420 are the best meme content creators of all time.

[@MooseOsauras]

​@@rafaelascencao6045I didn't diss kracc bacc kakav420 is a legend to but the point i made iz kracc back felt so different after he came bacc from the bann it's like he was a different Creator

[@boi2192]

​@@MooseOsaurasi think he just doesnt care anymore considering what hes been making

[@huntjetson]

Bro our himself in the thumbnail 😭

[@Badex_1313]

our hhhwqjtjdldmr

[@sifutophmasterofeyerolling2513]

How does one miss 2 letters out of a 3 letter word💀

[@Badex_1313]

Aur

[@huntjetson]

@@sifutophmasterofeyerolling2513 Auto correct

[@Gaming_Duck]

@@Badex_1313 aur aur aur aur aur aur aur aur aur aur aur 🐻

[@Sagojika]

I miss the times when these channels were popular. Memes lasted longer back then and their scales were bigger. Memes now last only one or two weeks and are mostly inside jokes of communities.

[@eoi]

tbh they didnt last very long at that time either

[@piranhalettuce]

Oh please, even in the early 2020's meme's still died in a short amount of time.

[@Jerome18921]

And yet for SOME REASON Skibidi Toilet is still extremely relevant

[@strateks9611]

@@piranhalettuce Maybe, just maybe, he's talking about 2013.

[@Sagojika]

@@piranhalettuce Amogus and morbius memes lasted very long. They werent great memes but they lasted long.

[@TotallySearch]

Meme channels like justhabibi be like: "I am now a low tier commentary channel that posts once a month"

[@dogmuncher12379]

At least justmehabibi still gets views, and does what he enjoys instead of becoming a content farm.

[@mozzeralleh]

lowtiercommentary

[@AFOOp-u8f]

Hey hop of Habibi. He’s actually genuinely funny and interesting to watch. He will occasionally make some random meme video, but most of the time it’s him genuinely talking about some random thing with some meme thrown in the middle. Memezee and Arcade Assassin however are brainrot.

[@rafaelascencao6045]

​@@AFOOp-u8fNah man Benbros is the true brainrot. He basically sold his soul to the devil for KZbin shorts.

[@doggerlander]

@@dogmuncher12379 commentary is a content farm too

[@martijnscheer3800]

13 minute video? Nah, I'd much rather be watching my favorite channel BENBROS

[@Thotti]

It's OVER

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

"Timmy. It is time for your homework assignment." "No daahhd. I wanna play genshin impact."

[@steadfast1448]

benbros is a hypocrite for slandering gen alpha and brainrot while posting brainrot himself.

[@voiceofpenguin40]

@@steadfast1448lmao fr bro literally slanders gen alpha yet the majority of his audience are probably gen alpha themselves💀

[@BluLobstaDude]

Benbros has content 10x worse than skibidi toilet

[@obamngaaa]

I think the last time memes lasted more than 1 month was during the metal pipe / blue lobster era.

[@artistrankings6794]

hard disagree w the blue lobster but the metal pipe has had some staying power. mr incredible also had a rly long run, as unfortunate as it might be. And amongus will be around for a couple more years i think before it fizzles out

[@michaeltabarroni70]

@artistrankings6794 Late to the party but I feel like Among Us memes are virtually dead now, it has been so for like a year (I personally haven’t seen many memes). As for Mr. Incredible, that was actually interesting because that is one of the few memes from the 2020s that actually feels like a 2000s/2010s meme, even if it did end up oversaturated and milked to death and beyond. (At least we got some funny shit like “your super gaming house” because of it).

[@randomtexanguy9563]

metal pipe became a relatively common stock sound effect

[@atsizbalik]

modern memes not even staying a month makes me sad

[@Gregger57]

usually lasts 2 weeks

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

Memes nowadays last a week if they're LUCKY. That's why I have a SpongeBob Rage Comic as my pfp, that shit will NEVER die to me.

[@EternalDead]

braibrot memes are lasting quite a lot. theyre funny because theyre infantile, and ironically infantile stuff is pretty funny lmao. i actually might be wrong, even i dont know why brainrot shit is funny, but just walking over to my friends and saying random brainrot phrases makes me and them laugh. (reminder we're 19)

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

@@EternalDead Unfunny tbh

[@EternalDead]

@@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy humour is pretty subjective nowadays lmao

[@wishbonefan]

On this topic, I feel like around 2019-2021 was a turning point for memes where they started to become a lot more nonsensical and incomprehensible in comparison to older memes, which at least had some kind of joke instead of a bunch of random sound effects and low quality images. Around this time, these new memes also felt more like people just trying to make money than actually trying to make funny stuff for people to laugh at. Some of the memes could still be funny, but the new style a lot of memes adopted just got old fast in my opinion. From the looks of it, this will get even worse than the rise of gen alpha and we could be entering a new and even worse era for memes. This kind of stuff makes me so grateful for people who still make stuff like YTPs and other content similar to 2010s memes, but sadly because of the algorithm, they can be hard to find, even by searching.

[@MrFourchords]

i think memes now are either the most random stuff ever or a funny thing that happened that people made memes of like the 50k or jojo siwa

[@cinar.er01]

I think skit-like videos of peternity and you are still fire

[@YounglingSlayerO66]

Peternity is the best meme channel

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

It's so convoluted how this comment makes perfect sense but the pfp of the said comment is dead

[@MusselManEmil]

Dude I remember the height of the KraccBacc era 😢

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

I mean it wasn't that long ago, but true

[@Mael_Str0M]

Same.

[@littlemagickboy2024]

2021 was peak. Blud fell off hard last year

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

@@littlemagickboy2024 2021 was NOT peak

[@Mr_Blah]

This is kinda just a return to form. Before the meme creation channels for big it was just meme dubbers like Memenade or Cowbelly. Now we have a bunch of shorts channels taking memes from Reddit, Discord Channels and each other and compiling them.

[@mepthearsonist]

0:07 me when I breath slightly wrong

[@TylerTheDevourer]

me choking on literal air

[@FunniBSSFan]

me when I inhaled THE EVIL AIR!!!

[@victorrealm7698]

@@FunniBSSFanevil spotify

[@AA-sw5pb]

KZbin shorts in general has done so much bad to youtube. People lazily screen recording and reposting others shorts or tik toks. Creators starting to make less actual videos and focus more on shorts And the worse part is that when you search something at least on mobile most of the time it automatically pops up only shorts first and you have to change the filter which will still sgow a bunch of shorts just with some videos too.

[@ChickenLegPotatoCorn]

I feel like burnout plays a large role in this. You get tired of chasing trends, and when you make something you actually feel like making, it gets no views and you get discouraged

[@BinglesP]

That's exactly what I did when I started making YTPs, and I'm not afraid to admit that honestly

[@CyberMutoh]

Memes in the 2020s are either based on the past or satirizing something current.

[@keogiang1063]

Bro this is why I have subscribed to your channel, you seem to be the only one talking about that kind of topics, and I love it

[@bepisman3161]

i love arcade assasin, peternity, kadz and the guy who had the linus face that made the spinning polish toilet meme and everyday that i somehow end up on yt shorts is the day i wish we could go back to post lockdown humor

[@PhaseRushSupp]

the linus guy is cheese touch gaming

[@PhaseRushSupp]

cheese touch gaming

[@amogusguy2004]

I used to wish I could make those dope memes like kracc bacc, Peternity, etc., but now I realise that it's hard to catch up with the currently ever-changing meme ecosystem as well as the current trends in general, and it's more advisable to try to be original, creative and engaging, etc.

[@purehollow]

I am guilty this meme channel trend, I don't think my channel would have seen any light of success if it wasn't for meme shitposting

[@xxjojoxx9914]

Blud tried to sneak himself thought we wouldn't notice.

[@averagepastaenjoyer9783]

Gotta admit you have a talent for those essays and seem to enjoy making them. Wish you to find success in this field. P.S. I personally liked the Ancestor's quotes in between sections. Am a huge fan

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

I love how Benbros, zirichi, monium, etc have this unspoken shared lore. Like the core trio being Kanye West as a little kid named Timmy, his friends being Nerdface and Stone (the rock), and Ohio factoring in somehow

[@adrianmalacoda]

It's Benbros lore, those other channels just copied it for some reason. Benbros fell way off, I miss the doge, amogus, dancing cockroach memes.

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

​@adrianmalacoda I'm a Millennial who stumbled onto this genre fairly recently so I didn't know who started it. Thanks!

[@unfunniestman]

great, even more decaying content creators doing "lore" to keep their audience interested

[@monium]

meme zee made it first and i copied him, then benbros copied me

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

@@monium ahh got it.

[@glingosplingong]

PLEASE make more video essays like this. I genuinely enjoyed the editing style and it somewhat reminds of T3rr0r.

[@watchmp100]

All meme channels will suffer in the same fate as Emplemon or Pyrocynical: >Starts their channel by making memes and shitpost videos that are popular in their time period >Loses steam as time went on and their views goes on a downward spiral either to not adapting to the current meme trend or just losing their passion on making vids >Slowly transions to a commentary style videos complaining about the current happenings or just talks about the downfall of memes similar to the behind the meme vid Emp made *(YOU ARE NOW HERE)* >Starts their first ever serious video while still making commentary ones on their channel and practically getting rid of their meme vid schtick (ex. Pyro's Petscop vid & Emp's KZbin Geographic series and Never Ever series) >And as the final phase, getting rid of their commentary style vid on their main channel but still making it as a side hustle on their alt channel (Pyrolive and Downward Diary) and going full blown on making serious vids as their face of the channel

[@sawekpiniuzk2007]

Downward spiral? Is that a emplemon REFRENCE!????

[@cheesychesnut6416]

Becoming a meme channel can end in 2 ways: You either become irrelevant and lost to time Or you stay relevant and become a soulless content farm, becoming the monster you swore to destroy

[@KeebeThePlush]

Great video dude, I have lost a lot of motivation with the decline of memes

[@martintyrmer5484]

The darkest dungeon transitions made me smile. I was literally the Patrick Bateman with headphones meme when u blasted the hamlet track.

[@HenryVan-jr6gf]

2022 humour was the humour that actually almost Choke my throat Because of laughter. Pure laughter Year ever

[@jameshall401]

Same actually. For me 2022 was the last year for good and funny memes.

[@Beautiful_Twisted_Fantasy]

Me personally I despised 2022 humor, especially with all the Morbius memes

[@trucctrucc206]

So, you're telling me that having the same Metal Gear Rising quotes for the rest of the year from February to December 2022 was funny to you? Shit was as bad as gen alpha brainrot because you knew from the jump that the Metal Gear Rising memes were made by reddit coomers.

[@idontknow20404]

2021 for me, kracc bacc was peak humour.

[@HenryVan-jr6gf]

@@trucctrucc206 Wtf is Metal gear rising Quotes? I laugh at Quandale Dingle, Carmel Winston, and other goofy sht what you talking about?

[@askaz971]

I watched some of them during pandemic as you said, but later on I became tired of the content being so stupid and repetitive. Comments under those videos were also 5 same jokes repeated over and over again which was driving me nuts. Out of all the channels I still watch and respect Peternity. He uploads rarely, but every time he does it is a quality gem.

[@kianmalley595]

Instagram has a massive chain of meme accounts just like KZbin, some of them are high quality, like repostrandy, but some are fairly low quality and have some interesting backgrounds. That could be a video worth thinking about

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

Torg trollface

[@jacobo.winograd]

>High quality >Repostrandy Pick one.

[@L1v1ngDeAdGirl]

I cannot stand modern memes. They last less time than a fucking virgin in bed. They're just saying random bullshit and calling it funny. There's no punchline, no set up. It's just "words" with some loud ass music in the background. It's always shot in vertical format so it'll fit on tiktok and shorts too. Meme culture has died.

[@erikpasquale9902]

-chudjak

[@DizzyMemes]

This video somewhat relates on why I stopped making meme content

[@AaronChristopher869]

brainrot makes me wish the amogus days back

[@flipflop_bell]

dude, that was also brainrot

[@beteorite6404]

@@flipflop_bell especially when everybody kept recognizing amogus looking objects irl

[@Admiral-Modder]

@@flipflop_bell Its brainrot that makes sense

[@nikolaievans2432]

@@flipflop_bell dude brainrot has been around since the internet the mlg memes are also brianrot

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

But I thought you DON'T want to live in the days of brainrot?

[@supmen]

Bro tried to sneak himself into the thumbnail

[@elampersick]

Bro treating meme channels disapearing like a national emergency 💀

[@ArcadeAssassin]

Great video man, unfortunately I have feather falling, so I am incapable of falling off 😔💔

[@Peternity_]

ratio bud

[@ArcadeAssassin]

​@@Peternity_please don't do this...

[@Guy96477]

Ratio

[@Idiotfarmlandfernlog]

Ratio

[@oscarsulaka4867]

Please don’t Monday

[@YourWorstNightmare.....]

memezee trying his hardest not to milk off any new memes with a crappy CapCut text to speech voice. Warning IMPOSSABLE

[@catalyst9955]

I think the genuine problem is irony and satire being misunderstood by younger generations as unironic, and then these younger generations only generating more things to be ironic and satirical about thus repeating the cycle

[@user-AADZ]

0:16 I remember when everyone came to the conclusion that this Steve Cutts video is bad and factually inaccurate

[@Its_hoekin_time]

I believe a large reason why a meme lasts only a week maybe a month if lucky is because KZbinrs like lessons in meme culture and TikTok expose them to a large audience and it gets mad annoying when you log into KZbin or any other platform and see the same exact meme a million times and yea I know this is a 2016 take and people will probably say "who cares about normies” but I honestly I don’t care if the word is considered cringe nowadays or if it’s gatekeepy I believe the less people are in on a joke the more likely it is to last imo

[@Vineware]

Thanks for actually being honest about the entire meme channels saga, I've been seeing your posts on youtube some time with some funny stuff you were posting on community posts and I've decided to check later seeing this and I couldn't agree more.

[@xboxman3955]

Meme channels need to remind themselves that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.

[@hamburger_eatspie]

5:31 I want to believe that this video is satire... but I'm starting to think that a grown man seriously sat infront of a camera to say "baby gronk just cheated on livvy dunne"

[@maxiawesomekid899]

Skibidi toilet is still strong even after a year

[@unfunniestman]

I still have no idea how the fuck there's people who find benbros funny

[@BinglesP]

Futo pfp

[@Badrs_basement]

Thotti I know you have fallen hard. But this type of content is actually really enjoyable and you could probably make a comeback. Just please dont start milking random ass memes 🙏

[@cringe_magistr]

7:30 it's the whole theme of his channel, his audience is subscribed only to see top 5 videos, nothing else, so while it takes little to no effort to create those videos it's justified

[@Radical-Entertainment]

Lesson in meme culture is the last savior to any sort of meme channel

[@MarcusFigueras]

The problem with selling slop is that it requiring no effort means there are so many people ready to replace you if you fall behind.

[@alonk1060]

We're in the transition between eras of memes; 2019 all over again.

[@KougarManx468]

I honestly don't know nor remember a single meme from 2023 or 2024 , the same cannot be said about memes from 2018-2021 , this could either be due to me becoming older and older over time or maybe these memes die off way too fast .

[@TechnoTrex1089]

Squewe is a legend for still uploading 😭

[@beyondgreed]

the darkest dungeon narrator quotes were the best part of the video. the analisis was pretty cool too

[@drakmatheism]

This is extremely outdated. The downfall of meme channels already happened some years ago.

[@SkyrimFirst]

I’m shocked how long their careers lasted.

[@eshnd-1]

I don't like using the term "brainrot" because it's so overused and its meaning has deteriorated over time. I saw someone with thousands of likes on a comment saying "Smiling Friends is peak brainrot". How??? Brainrot is supposed to not make sense. Smiling Friends is literally engineered by like a ton of writers to have a coherent plot while still having perfectly timed jokes. There are like 5 layers you can uncover behind each gag. It's not brainrot, it's bordering on genius.

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

I've seen 0 people describe Smiling Friends as brainrot, I think S1 was a bit weak here and there but not that bad overall. And the comedy isn't deep at all btw. Unless its an inside joke. Althought I do agree, brainrot is an overused word. Thats why I like to keep the vocab very wide for all negative words to descirbe something.

[@firechillbro720]

Meme channels are some of the cringiest most unfunny boring predicatble weird shit that i have ever seen this is where bots and toddlers go to hang out

[@Smith_clips223]

I hated those text to speech meme channels. They just steal other peoples content

[@dissinyosandwich7548]

I’ve felt ostracized lately because I never really was the biggest fan of these types of memes, not even in an ironic sense, while a lot of people I’m friends with ate this shit up. I was worried that I was being pretentious or just “didn’t get it” so I never really said anything about it. Seeing my feelings get validated by a channel surrounded by similar content is really freeing. (also the DD quotes between sections was a great touch haha)

[@DriverOfTheBlades2.0]

I swear if I see another (blank views) fell off comment...

[@SavageJarJar]

4 likes in one hour? You fell off

[@DriverOfTheBlades2.0]

0 likes in five minutes? Bro really fell off ​@@SavageJarJar

[@joseurbanos.domingo6344]

​@@DriverOfTheBlades2.0 has joined the dark side

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

While this comment is true, it doesn't really work because there are at least 5000 other types of spammed YT comments that get popular because there's a mass overload of unfunny children on the internet, y'know the kind that are fans of indie animation and spent time in middle school drawing random crap while failing every class. And also, I haven't seen those comments on this channel at all

[@robloxman3551]

@@DriverOfTheBlades2.0 2 likes in 3 weeks? Bro really fell off

[@BalsamicJeebs]

dude the mommy asmr with producer tags is unironically hilarious

[@twiddlegbf]

7:55 creative mode used. -99,000 subs

[@BabyNoob270]

You did it before me. Therefore, we shall become enemies.

[@plushluigi7417]

Low_honor.Mp3 sfx

[@FurasCebulowy]

Memes literally suck now by the way. I can't handle today's humor. No, I'm not an uncultured middle aged man.

[@qwertyman506]

The joke of most memes nowadays is "it doesn't make sense", but that's not how humor works. Humor comes from expecting one thing and getting another. But modern memes are so random that you can't have any expectations to begin with. You can only do "haha, he was going to say "perfectly balanced as all things should be" and instead he said "perfectly skibidi as all ohio should be"" so many times before it gets predictable- and boring.

[@Eagleleadsmc]

Its also that the youtube algorithm was bugged back then. Because the videos were so short and the viewer retention was so high it just kept promoting them forever

[@Xedlord]

He chose some really fitting Ancestor quotes

[@complimentarycatz]

Very true I quit doing Memes because the feed just cuts you off completely from the alogorith getting you 0 views lol

[@cubex6342]

This video was like SunnyV2, Internet Anarchist, penguinz0, Turkey Tom, Moon and Man Carrying Thing This video was awesome, inspiring, funny, interesting, life-changing, heartwarming, cool, great, hilarious, insightful and relevant #Memes #memes

[@Nico_com_c]

Is this AI?

[@irritatingperson7882]

@@Nico_com_c it's either AI or it's someone who's trying to help the algorithm push this video to more people

[@cubex6342]

@@irritatingperson7882 ye its algobait

[@notlucas6859]

thats so sigma skibidi fanum tax ohio rizzler gyatt my dude

[@scullah]

Man Carrying Thing what

[@goofyaahmemes4376]

stay hard Mr.Thotti your content is still gold

[@omgdin]

8:42 bro where do you find these memes from 😭

[@atomison]

i love this video but i love the darkest dungeon sounds and music used in it even more

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

I actually disagree with the pessimistic view of meme culture nowadays. Theres always been nonsensical attention spam memes like those shrek dank meme airhorn mountain dew things, but now its being done ironically. I actually think there have been a load of high quality memes recently, whether its historical/mythical references like Napoleon or Sisyphus, or self aware stuff that forces you to think about yourself, like bro visited his friend, which is only funny if you know the original context, and therefore have the terminally online brainrot yourself. Not to mention the highest quality memes that still live on Tumblr, every month theres a new thing and its all hilarious, like 🚗🔨💥, or vanilla extract, or fairy/walrus

[@TheElderWerelionwolf]

One thing I see a lot is creativity in videos go completely unnoticed but brainrot and clickbait videos getting views like rain is falling

[@crackheadbear5]

remember me if your channel somehow gets big

[@corryjamieson3909]

Well, I'm the type of guy who would never settle down Where pretty girls, you know that I'm around I'm a wanderer

[@Thotti]

That'll be the day

[@Moai_Guy09]

I feel that if memes keep having such short life, channels will disappear and we'll have a return of old memes. I know it's unlikely, but one can hope.

[@TheHardcoreGamer1]

6:00 Skibidi F*cking Toilet is a shining example of that

[@Guy96477]

If I hear skibidi one more time

[@Itsmeswapswap]

@@Guy96477S K I B I D I

[@loopnito]

@@Guy96477 skibidi

[@apersoniguess_]

Skibidi toilet itself isnt even a "meme" its just some silly sfm series some guy is making

[@superknuckles9567]

Skibidi is doing WHAT

[@hamburger_eatspie]

7:13 the only "jokes" that master ugway makes is the amount of times he's said something racist. I'm pretty sure at this point his entire channel is made to just make people mad and get engadement bait...

[@steadfast1448]

Memes last for like 2 weeks or a month and there's no inbetween.

[@chezitoo]

youtube algorithm isn't that difficult, it's meant to follow what the audience is clicking on, watching all the way thru, and what gets them to watch MORE videos. the simple answer for if something does/doesn't work on youtube, it's the audience. whirow's comment summed it up perfectly, people come to youtube to watch long videos with *people* in it. relying off of a trend can work for a lil bit, but you need to figure out ways to connect those trends back to you, your channel, and your other videos.

[@SlatyRamen]

1:33 *Why do they look like the Canadians from South Park*

[@cagedteeth]

"i ain't reading allat" mfs when they have to read their parents will (it has 5 sentences)

[@lamb6549]

The whole "doesn't make sense thing" dude, you think that MLG or among us made sense for older people? I think i'm about your age, you saying that new humour doesn't make sense and therefore is sort of bad as i heard older people say about ours, makes me realize we're gonna be sent to a retirement home pretty soon

[@SomeRandomVergilFanboy]

Meme Asylum and The Meme Doser are still posting comedy gold tho

[@Xenylard]

3:14 RAAAH DARKEST DUNGEON MENTIONED!!! I LOVE GETTING DEATHBLOWED ON THE FIRST CHECK!!!

[@Whovian1156]

6:03 I agree with you completely, I do quite enjoy abstract humour (Think of Do not the cat and that video of the waffle falling over) but I find newer memes to be too nonsensical.