I guess that would make knowyourmeme the modern Rosetta Stone
If I become rich I will download the entirety of knowyourmeme and engrave it on a giant block of granite or carve it into the side of a mountain. Our descendants will thank me.
I have no idea who the person is or what the context of the photo was, but just the cat + box part tells me all I need to know.
“I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually”
Ha, I only knew the whispered line, never saw the conplete sketch. Brilliant.
Holy shit yeah having context makes it way different
There's gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who's focus is "Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century".
I'd bet money there are already
thesises(??)theses (thanks, atomicorange!) and dissertations on this.A friend of mine wrote a dissertation on surreal memes a few years ago.
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like "Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground".
Once I used a video meme to explain source studies and intertextuality to my students
As long as there are boxes and cats, everyone will know what this means for all time.
I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn't get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said "yeah it's not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean" and I thought that's a stupid ass concept and wtf.
Well, here we are now. It's about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks "English" but it's basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.
Beautiful. You're raising a top tier meme lord. Meme nostalgia is gonna be huge
If cats are still around then, then yes they will.
You see, cats, even over a 1000 years will not evolve, because they are absolutely perfect specimens of life and there is no reason for them to change in any way. The other imperfect beasts around them are always having to evolve.
According to cats.
Its not about the cat its about the reaction image being interpreted without its usual text because many people have seen it so many times that its not needed.
The react text isnt needed because that's cat box face. The free real estate is inherent in the mammalian expression.
I don't get it even now
The face is from the “it’s free real estate” meme, with the unspoken words being the punchline
It's also [the face my cat makes when he's found a good box.
A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’
I Googled this, read about it, and then found a Reddit thread where two historian/Sumerologists get into a discussion about the potential meaning.
Maybe it is we who are the joke.
I just love that "x walks into a bar" is such a universal joke format. Even if we don't know why it was funny.
I think I first heard this from Ea-nāṣir
I absolutely love the idea that hieroglyphics were all just period specific dank memes that we just don't get because we're not in.
That's okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we'll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.
A bit off topic, but I was playing RimWorld and ended up with a colonist nicknamed Real Estate. He got captured during a raid at one point. I kept waiting for the quest to rescue him so I could post this meme, but it never happened...
I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.
If they can read the English of this era and cats are still around, yes they will. The expression is pretty universal as depicting satisfied smugness.
Aha but that would be only partially correct! Theres more to free real estate than smugness.
The fact that the reply used "hieroglyphics" and cats have been pulling this shit longer ago than those were used as written language... And said poster's argument was that "someday" that wouldn't be the case?
Have they met a fucking cat?!
pretty sure it's about the subtitles of the meme missing (it's free real estate)
My day is made every time I see Tim Heidecker. That is all.
If you're not a stoner and a fan of Adult Swim or an internet person: You wouldn't get this meme right fucking now.
You have to have at least seen the clip from Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job to understand it and that is a pretty big ask for a super niche show that doesn't have mainstream appeal. lol
If you wish to know more, search "Tim & Eric free real estate"
Idk why I originally thought this was a schrodinger's cat joke. Thought it was he opened the box and the cat is happy because it's observed to be alive or something like that lol
I don't know what this means today. Just a happy cat?
It's free real estate!
The referenced meme is Free Real Estate
