In just the couple days spent creating this Twitter has changed to "X", making this video dated before it's even been released💀 Impossible keeping up with Elon's endless fiddling; next recording if I refer to "X" by the time the video's out he'll have changed it to QuasiPure and they sell soaps now.
“It’s like a political cartoon, except it’s meant to be funny rather than depressing.” It was the best explanation that I could come up with that did not require a game of 20 questions.
I think this works for a while until the memes get too dank, at which point you just have to say "we laugh at this because it makes exactly zero sense"
when I was 14 I was showing my mom a meme, and I tried to explain it as a ‘digital joke’ and of course she didn’t get it and it turned into a 30 minute lecture about how the internet is affecting me 💀
When I was young I made the mistake of showing my mum a meme that vaguely referenced the Vietnam War, and she told me for 2 hours about why war is bad as if I was suddenly pro-war
Our school once had one of those lecture days where you waste a few hours in writing on a poster how we make class fun and then talk about it in front of the class. I wrote "more memes". When our poster was being talked about our teacher stood in front of the class and said: "Oke first thing to make class a fun place we need less mèmès". And then she asked: "Wait... wat are mèmès?" It was funny but i also felt both disrespected and disappointed at the same time. Not just because she said "memes" wrong but because she said less instead of more which i wrote! 😓
My gran does understand memes, though not ones that require pop culture context. The problem is, she tends to read them out loud, which is a problem when you cause a 70 year old mild mannered woman to say, "zero f*cks given."
When I first explained memes to my mom, she thought any image with text on it was a meme, so she started sending me “memes” that were actually inspirational quotes.
I have two friends in their 20s. I'm almost twice their age. I save memes and send them to our group chat, except sometimes I've also mixed wholesome quotes or pretty pictures in with the rest. I wonder if they think "oh this person doesn't understand what a meme is"
Matt's voice saying "meme grandma" had me imagining a little old lady dabbing away into the sunset on a hoverboard. Will provide artist's depiction for one corn chip.
I sent my mum a meme once while I was out with my mates. It was a cat sat in the middle of a pile of fish with the caption “how it feels working at a bank”. She called me up, and gave me a 30 minute long lecture OVER THE PHONE about food hygiene and the danger of cats having fleas. Concluded by telling me I should not eat the fish at any costs, and I should report it and leave a bad review. Only later did I realise that she had assumed that we were at a restaurant and I had taken the photo 😂 Edit: This was all on speakerphone, btw, and my friends were almost pissing themselves with laughter
@@cricketandgraham8644 sounds awesome, all my mom ever sends us is cat gifs that usually indicates she wants something. I gave up tryna make her understand PLS MOM I DON'T SPEAK CAT GIF WHAT ARE YOU TRYNA SAYYYUHH cos then ik the response will be like *gif of crying cat* *gif of angry murder cat* *gif of cat riding a dinosaur*
I’m so lucky to have a mom who not only understands memes but sends them to me on a regular basis, and we have the same humor so I always find them funny
same! I have always sent random shit to my mum and she gets it (majority of the time). I don't send her the more internet specific stuff, but stuff that I think she'd get or find funny too. I assume she enjoys it. even if she doesn't I'm not stopping.
I don't think I've ever been able to show my parents anything funny I found on the internet without them asking if it was me or one of my friends in the picture/video.
And you just know that they’re waiting for you to say you don’t know them personally so they can jump into a 20 minute lecture on staying safe on the internet. Like, that has nothing to do with the meme😂
My aunt set up a family group chat, and I immediately decided to post the most incomprehensible meme I could find on it. Everyone wanted to know what it meant, so I made up a rambling explanation about how it was a metaphor for government control. My grandma replied with "So my confusion is not related to dementia after all!!" which gave me more mental whiplash than I'm sure the meme gave her.
My dad understands some memes, like rickrolling.. but my mom doesn't.. one time when was small tried to rickroll them and my dad got it but my mom just sat there and was like "why are you trying to take it away I'm watching your video"
Relatable. I used to have breakfast with my mom while watching memerman's and unusualvideos' compilations, but she got a morning job. And unusualvideos' channel dissapered :(
I showed my mom a stick fight animation because I thought it was cool and halfway through she paused the video and said “you don’t beat other kids like that do you?”
I sent my parents "animation vs maths" video and dad thought it was amazing and mum spent the entire time being like "...okay? ok? cool... ? I.. don't get it"
@@xoxablade8345 it's literally just other combinations of words that have the same rhyme and rhythm of "livin' on a prayer". It's an example of "lol random" humour
This depends on the parents, for sure. I have to explain memes to my parents (65 and 55) but they get the general idea of what it is and don't do this to me every time lol
I was at a restaurant recently with my family, and my mom was checking up on the wait time after about 20ish mins. The waiter she was speaking with looked a bit nervous as there were a LOT of people there waiting for a table. My mom says "I'm sorry, I know you're busy, and I don't want to be a Karen." The waiter bursts out laughing and covers his mouth in shock. He turns to his co-worker and says "She knows the meme!" And for that EXACT reaction, is why I told my mom what that meme is.
Karen is a tough one to explain to someone in that age group, too, without making them feel insulted somehow, so good work! She seems to have understood perfectly that it describes a type of behavior and doesn't necessarily associate it with all female members of a generation.
For those having trouble explaining what a meme is to their parents, this might help: The word “meme” comes from the greek word “Mimeme,” which means “That which is imitated.” It’s also, I believe, related to the word “memetics,” which is the study of shared and imitated ideas in groups of people. So essentially, a meme is just a globe-spanning inside joke. This information came from the internet, so naturally, take it with a grain of salt. 😅
I think the English word "meme" was originally a technical term for "a concept that sticks in the brain" (etymologically related to "memory"), which doesn't seem related on surface level, but if you think about it, it just describes the reason certain images or videos become popular while others don't: they stick in our brains and cause a large number of people to relate to them and share them. Still not a great explanation, but interesting to consider.
If I said this to my grandma she'd never listen to another word I said again. (Not like she does anyways lol.) Honestly is this how you explain things to your parents?😅
Yes, the word meme originated in the study of memetics, which is like the study of genetics, but the thing being translated is culture instead of biology. A meme is defined as a unit of culture (such as a song, an idea, or a word). At some point in the late 2000s, a particular kind of meme, that of a photo with accompanying text that create a nihilistic joke, came into existence and spread across the internet. Not having a word for it, some people simply referred it as a meme, implying it was a generic meme that had no specific name. Others, not knowing the meaning of the word, started referring to it purely as a meme and the name has stuck ever since.
@@devononair This is a great explanation of the origin of the term, but I would replace "purely" with "exclusively" to imply that they didn't refer to anything _else_ as a meme.
If you’d told someone 50 years ago that in the future humour would be conveyed through surreal metaphors, they would’ve looked at you like you had two heads. I wonder what humour will be like 50 years from now… telepathy maybe? Or maybe we’ve been laughing at dumb stuff for the past thousand years and now it’s only changed mediums
A great deal of translated graffiti on ancient Roman walls and in Pompeii consists of dick jokes, gay jokes, drawings of dicks, and general silliness, so I'd have to say it's just the medium that changes.
@@naan000 Strict parents aren't normal, it's weird that they're strict, like, what I mean with normal people is, well, I can't really explain it, although joudkahwaji6369 kind of understands what I mean, although not fully either, like, if you where a parent, would you be strict like how your parents are?
I was very lucky with my parents, they actually knew what a meme was before I did (I'm 20 now and probably learned about them around 8 or 9, whenever they were still all made with all caps Impact font). They aren't exactly well-versed on recent meme culture, but it's often easy to explain a new meme to them. It occurred to me recently that might come from the fact that they are always making pop culture references and running jokes within the family, kinda verbal memes I guess. Recently I've been having fun sending my mom random "gen z humor" memes just to see her start to figure it out, and she's done pretty well picking up on it lol.
@@harshmnr difference being that stuff like thanos was plastered everywhere in irl theaters and on the internet when infinity war + endgame was happening and roughly two years after so it's a little weird to have them be complete clueless who the purple guy is
Once I forwarded my mum a meme from Pinterest of a guy talking to a wall with the caption to the effect of "Talking to your parents be like". However, when I forwarded it, I didn't remove the automated caption that appears when I sent it which read "What do you think?" Unbeknownst to me, my parents were in the middle of redecorating my room at the time as I was out the country for the week. And when my mum saw the meme, she for some reason thought I was asking for brick wall wallpaper despite not even knowing that they were redecorating my room. So, when I came home, my room was layered with brick wallpaper on three sides
The weirdest thing is how frequently the "parent" generation thtis is about try to concernedly analyse how that meme relates to you on a psychological level, but have no idea what it actually means, so they end up going on a five minute tangent on what problems of your soul they see reflected in it while missing the mark on 96% of the whole goddamn thing. Like "Oh. this shows the confusion you are experiencing at school" but then it's actually about the subconscious expression of the desire for community, but you can't tell them that because it would make things even more weird, so you just get caught up in an odd web of vague corrections and countercorrections.... The more lighthearted kind of this is when they ask: "Who is this? Do you know this person?" as if they would have never looked at a magazine cutout or cartoon image that didn't reference someone they personally knew.
i'm scared to show my parents any memes because they'll either not understand it at all or they'll get suspicious about my internet activity for no reason
Idk I always mentally prepare myself before showing a meme to my mom, and when she finally understands it after some explanations... it's honestly such a great feeling
Oh, don't worry. You'll become the older generation soon enough, and then you'll understand their difficulty on understanding younger generations. I will as well, probably.
@@legendgames128 There's not understanding the younger generations' humor and then there's not being able to differentiate a crudely made meme from a photo of yourself. Some of these people sound like the turn of the century moviegoers jumping out of the way of the "speeding train"
When I was a kid I tried showing my dad a meme about how anti vaxxers were idiots and somehow he interpreted it as me being anti vax, so he yelled at me about how anti vaxxers are idiots
I periodically send a fish meme saying "wahoo... wahoo" to my mother whenever she does something nice and I'm not sure if she gets it or not but she enjoys it.
My mom recently discovered the gif section of her iPhone texts. The memes and gifs she has sent to our FAMILY GROUP CHAT leave me, my sister, and her boyfriend rolling on the floor from how inappropriate or random they are as a response while our grandma just hearts them because she understands it even less. I have never loved actually participating in our group chat more😂
You are the only RUclipsr I know that, within seconds of any video, even the AD, can make everyone in the room start staring at me being like "is she okay? why the heck is she laughing so hard?!"
I understand that It may be different because my mom is only 43 and probably younger than most of these parents, but she usually understands memes, often laughs at them, and sometimes even knows where they originated. I'm fifteen, so this definitely makes it easier for me to have stupid gen-z humor.
my dad is 53 and still sends banger memes in our family discord sometimes he's a bit behind on terminology but he does not reside in real time communication areas as much as i do
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
i once showed my mum a meme, you know that breakfast one? yeah. she got mad at me because its “making fun of people with disabilities”. i got a 1 hour lecture, and my phone taken off of me 💀
To be fair, there are memes that go too far with that kind of “making fun of certain people”. It’s just hard to find which one those are Still, that doesn’t excuse your mother’s apparent lack of pop culture knowledge
Years ago, when the internet was just a twinkle in Sir Tim's eye, my grandmother saw an ad on the telly where a dog wagged its tail in time to the music. I have no memory of what the ad was for, but what I do remember is that my grandmother couldn't get over 'how they trained the dog to wag its tail like that'. Even in my extreme youth I understood that it didn't work like that, but I didn't know how to explain it 🤷
so glad that Matt explained that Snape on a vape one bc I was coming up with Snape on a lightsaber and I knew I was wrong but I couldn't get what it was supposed to be
This reminds me of the time my mom thought someone was making inappropriate jokes about their wife's recent passing. She called us to her all upset, and we had to explain the websites like the click hole and onion are not real sources.
Do you all know this Winnie Pooh Meme, where he puts on his glasses and tries really hard to read something and above that stands something like "My mom everytime I show her picture"? I showed this to my mom and she did exactly that, it took her a while but she understood it later This is the only meme she ever understood and thought was at least somehow a tiny bit funny Progress
This reminds me of when I sent a meme about passwords to my aunt; she then proceeded to bombard my notifications with 20+ cyber-security articles, and told my parents to “teach [me] about the importance of keeping passwords safe”…😀… Best part is: I also sent the meme to my grandma, (She’s also my aunt’s mum), and she understood it instantly💀
In just the couple days spent creating this Twitter has changed to "X", making this video dated before it's even been released💀 Impossible keeping up with Elon's endless fiddling; next recording if I refer to "X" by the time the video's out he'll have changed it to QuasiPure and they sell soaps now.
I hope Matt sees this because I’d love to see “Twitter’s/Reddit’s strangest talents”
Oop
SKULL EMOJI 💀💀
Skull emoji moment
Exactly what I said 💀
“It’s like a political cartoon, except it’s meant to be funny rather than depressing.” It was the best explanation that I could come up with that did not require a game of 20 questions.
Is it an animal vegetable mineral or other
@pyramidteam9961 …Yes
@@pyramidteam9961 It's a mineral, but sometimes includes animals and vegetables. Displayed on more minerals.
That's honestly a pretty good explanation!
I think this works for a while until the memes get too dank, at which point you just have to say "we laugh at this because it makes exactly zero sense"
What do you mean Grandma doesn't know how memes work? She clearly does. She just made one on the spot. She truly is the Meme Grandma.
The.
@@althealligator1467 *you're
@@ColonelKlink1965 My friend made a gif of Raiden from MGRR slashing open the MG Ray with this as the caption lmao
Agree, she knew exactly what she was doing
Im glad my grandma enjoys memes
"MEME GRANDMA" is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs
Grandma understands memes perfectly. She didn't want to send a meme.
She wanted to become one.
Yes
Yes
@@nickklavdianos5136yes
We must turn this into a meme
when I was 14 I was showing my mom a meme, and I tried to explain it as a ‘digital joke’ and of course she didn’t get it and it turned into a 30 minute lecture about how the internet is affecting me 💀
same but i asked my mom if “beanos” was a slur 😭
parents are very good at turning things into lectures 😭
When I was young I made the mistake of showing my mum a meme that vaguely referenced the Vietnam War, and she told me for 2 hours about why war is bad as if I was suddenly pro-war
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That’s my mom
Sometimes I feel like this man is a living text to speech.
Can you imagine if he voiced a sat nav "you've missed your turning SKULL EMOJIIIII"
@@0bookhoarder096 Okay but imagine if Matt voiced the Tube for like April Fools or something
One to rival the AI named Jerma985
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually the voice provider of a tts
I get Grandma's knock knock joke.
She assumes "meme" is pronounced "me me" so she's saying "me, me grandma!"
That was literally me when I first saw the word "meme". It was from the DS game The World Ends With You. 😂
Actually pretty funny
Its funny either way
Our school once had one of those lecture days where you waste a few hours in writing on a poster how we make class fun and then talk about it in front of the class. I wrote "more memes". When our poster was being talked about our teacher stood in front of the class and said: "Oke first thing to make class a fun place we need less mèmès". And then she asked: "Wait... wat are mèmès?" It was funny but i also felt both disrespected and disappointed at the same time. Not just because she said "memes" wrong but because she said less instead of more which i wrote! 😓
memetic grandmother
Meme Grandma knows exactly what she's doing and is killing it
meme grandma is so good at memes that she turned into one
Who? Is she MURDERING somebody???
My gran does understand memes, though not ones that require pop culture context. The problem is, she tends to read them out loud, which is a problem when you cause a 70 year old mild mannered woman to say, "zero f*cks given."
Lol
What do you mean that's not a problem at all lol
Show her a greentext
You've been hit by, you've been struck by, Meme Grandma
I love this.
@@xoxablade8345 I hate how it actually works.
Granny are you okay? Granny are you okay? Are you okay, Granny?
When I first explained memes to my mom, she thought any image with text on it was a meme, so she started sending me “memes” that were actually inspirational quotes.
now that's just adorable
I have two friends in their 20s. I'm almost twice their age. I save memes and send them to our group chat, except sometimes I've also mixed wholesome quotes or pretty pictures in with the rest. I wonder if they think "oh this person doesn't understand what a meme is"
she’s trying
They were originally
Okay, but "You misspelled...almost everything" is way funnier than the actual meme.
Vegetales
angrey vegetals 😡@@areallybigannoyingorangefa6562
✨️A N G E R Y V E G E T A L✨️
i literally got secondhand embarrassment like why would you ever send that to anyone who was less than 20 layers deep in meme familiarity
Tbf that meme was from 2016 or so
Matt's voice saying "meme grandma" had me imagining a little old lady dabbing away into the sunset on a hoverboard. Will provide artist's depiction for one corn chip.
I shall provide **a single corn chip**
You've got your corn chip. Let's see the depiction.
@@alexhollinghurst3945 unexpected snag: how do I show y'all the artist's depiction?
Post the image as a video on your channel?
youtube video@@NekoChanSenpai
I sent my mum a meme once while I was out with my mates. It was a cat sat in the middle of a pile of fish with the caption “how it feels working at a bank”. She called me up, and gave me a 30 minute long lecture OVER THE PHONE about food hygiene and the danger of cats having fleas. Concluded by telling me I should not eat the fish at any costs, and I should report it and leave a bad review. Only later did I realise that she had assumed that we were at a restaurant and I had taken the photo 😂
Edit: This was all on speakerphone, btw, and my friends were almost pissing themselves with laughter
Your mom sounds awesome
DONT EAT THEFCUKI G FISH
LMAO
Well at least she had a valid reason for the 30 minute lecture lol.
this perfectly sums up every reaction my mom has ever had to every meme i've ever sent her 💀
And eventually it will be us not understanding
Is your mom in this video
My mom has sent me and my brothers memes, some of which are worryingly recent memes.
@@cricketandgraham8644
sounds awesome, all my mom ever sends us is cat gifs that usually indicates she wants something. I gave up tryna make her understand PLS MOM I DON'T SPEAK CAT GIF WHAT ARE YOU TRYNA SAYYYUHH cos then ik the response will be like
*gif of crying cat*
*gif of angry murder cat*
*gif of cat riding a dinosaur*
i sent my grandpa a dog bonk meme before and he told me he was disappointed in me for having an "animal abused phototherapy" on my phone.
"The current generation is so soft"
@@mallermart I know LOL
@@mallermart "kids these days think they have it rough"
Props to your grandpa for being against animal abuse. Shame he doesn't get the joke though
"This generation is wimpy" - My abuelo, 2015.
I’m so lucky to have a mom who not only understands memes but sends them to me on a regular basis, and we have the same humor so I always find them funny
You are the luckiest man alive
Praise be the all-father
same! I have always sent random shit to my mum and she gets it (majority of the time). I don't send her the more internet specific stuff, but stuff that I think she'd get or find funny too. I assume she enjoys it. even if she doesn't I'm not stopping.
Yeah that’s my dad
Same here, although it's more puns and jokes than memes. Still a few memes, though.
i would pay for a 4 hour long movie of matt just saying "SKU-HULL EMOJIIII" and random keyboard smashes and watch every second of it without blinking.
💀
"10 hours of silence randomly broken up by Matt Rose screaming skull emoji"
He probably has a playlist of his videos just watch that.
@@zachb555 YES I'D PAY £99,000 FOR THAT
@@bigfudge2031 nah bc i just want the "SKU-HULL EMOJIII" and keyboard smashes
I don't think I've ever been able to show my parents anything funny I found on the internet without them asking if it was me or one of my friends in the picture/video.
And you just know that they’re waiting for you to say you don’t know them personally so they can jump into a 20 minute lecture on staying safe on the internet. Like, that has nothing to do with the meme😂
My aunt set up a family group chat, and I immediately decided to post the most incomprehensible meme I could find on it. Everyone wanted to know what it meant, so I made up a rambling explanation about how it was a metaphor for government control. My grandma replied with "So my confusion is not related to dementia after all!!" which gave me more mental whiplash than I'm sure the meme gave her.
You brainwashed your entire family. Terrifying yet impressive.
Lol
Your grandma understood the meme
She was having fun with it
She trolled the troll FTW
When I sent my mom a rickroll, she watched it and asked: "Do you like this boy?"
💀
My dad understands some memes, like rickrolling.. but my mom doesn't.. one time when was small tried to rickroll them and my dad got it but my mom just sat there and was like "why are you trying to take it away I'm watching your video"
@@BaconNuke 😭
yes mom, i do love rick ashley
*SKULLLLL EMOJIIIIIIIII!!*
Rick is your husband now
The "Meme Grandma" one at the end is so oddly wholesome. I love it.
At least she was trying lol
all hail meme grandma
IKR! It's almost too perfect.
Almost.
I've said almost 3 times now.
I appreciate my mom so much, who actually understand and loves memes. They’re an important part of our lives and we like to look at them together :)
Relatable. I used to have breakfast with my mom while watching memerman's and unusualvideos' compilations, but she got a morning job. And unusualvideos' channel dissapered :(
I showed my mom a stick fight animation because I thought it was cool and halfway through she paused the video and said “you don’t beat other kids like that do you?”
Skull emoji
omg 😂
Do you
@@pyramidteam9961yes
I sent my parents "animation vs maths" video and dad thought it was amazing and mum spent the entire time being like "...okay? ok? cool... ? I.. don't get it"
Parents not understanding memes is un-ironically the funniest thing to me
Quite ironic huh
2:25 I’m honestly disappointed Matt didn’t just scream “PIGEON ON A CHAIRR”
The silence says enough really
That was him holding the microphone out to the audience. I for one sang that at the top of my lungs.
I sadly do not know this memeeee...! Someone explainnn. I have failed my life.
@@xoxablade8345 it's literally just other combinations of words that have the same rhyme and rhythm of "livin' on a prayer". It's an example of "lol random" humour
@@RaunienTheFirst ah okay thank you for the explanation.
I like how grandmas come in two flavors
1. Sweet but oblivious
And
2. Meme grandma
There is also the type that will go on an hour long rant/lecture over the smallest shit
usually the moms or maybe dads do that from what I've heard. @@supotter377
We need a full video of parents/grandparents thinking AI photos are real.
Yes
Agreed
I swear to God they can't catch a fucking break.
We stan meme grandma.
i’m not gonna lie, i think a guy named “pee” holding a knife and sneaking into a bedroom would probably be a valid reason to leave a cozy bed
Yes! That's exactly what it takes - woke up from a dream where I was urinating just last night.
Thankfully everything was dry 😂😂
I am so blessed for my younger parents who literally send me memes
me too
@cartooncatisthebest I'm Glad To Hear It
My dad emails me animal videos
my dad just sends dad memes
Don't ever show your parents memes if you don't want a talk about life lasting several hours
This depends on the parents, for sure. I have to explain memes to my parents (65 and 55) but they get the general idea of what it is and don't do this to me every time lol
Meme Grandma is an unstoppable force.
I was at a restaurant recently with my family, and my mom was checking up on the wait time after about 20ish mins. The waiter she was speaking with looked a bit nervous as there were a LOT of people there waiting for a table. My mom says "I'm sorry, I know you're busy, and I don't want to be a Karen." The waiter bursts out laughing and covers his mouth in shock. He turns to his co-worker and says "She knows the meme!" And for that EXACT reaction, is why I told my mom what that meme is.
Karen is a tough one to explain to someone in that age group, too, without making them feel insulted somehow, so good work! She seems to have understood perfectly that it describes a type of behavior and doesn't necessarily associate it with all female members of a generation.
Matt is the cool internet dad we all needed in our lives
That last one is just adorable. Looks like something my own grandmother would do.
Meme Grandma, the long-awaited sequel to "I AM GRANDMA"
Hell yeah
I think that "meme grandma" certainly gets it, she's just too ahead of the curve for us all
For those having trouble explaining what a meme is to their parents, this might help: The word “meme” comes from the greek word “Mimeme,” which means “That which is imitated.” It’s also, I believe, related to the word “memetics,” which is the study of shared and imitated ideas in groups of people. So essentially, a meme is just a globe-spanning inside joke. This information came from the internet, so naturally, take it with a grain of salt. 😅
Yeah but that explains its etymology more than its meaning
Still kinda interesting tho
I think the English word "meme" was originally a technical term for "a concept that sticks in the brain" (etymologically related to "memory"), which doesn't seem related on surface level, but if you think about it, it just describes the reason certain images or videos become popular while others don't: they stick in our brains and cause a large number of people to relate to them and share them. Still not a great explanation, but interesting to consider.
If I said this to my grandma she'd never listen to another word I said again. (Not like she does anyways lol.)
Honestly is this how you explain things to your parents?😅
Yes, the word meme originated in the study of memetics, which is like the study of genetics, but the thing being translated is culture instead of biology. A meme is defined as a unit of culture (such as a song, an idea, or a word). At some point in the late 2000s, a particular kind of meme, that of a photo with accompanying text that create a nihilistic joke, came into existence and spread across the internet. Not having a word for it, some people simply referred it as a meme, implying it was a generic meme that had no specific name. Others, not knowing the meaning of the word, started referring to it purely as a meme and the name has stuck ever since.
@@devononair This is a great explanation of the origin of the term, but I would replace "purely" with "exclusively" to imply that they didn't refer to anything _else_ as a meme.
2:34 Snaps on a Vaps
If you’d told someone 50 years ago that in the future humour would be conveyed through surreal metaphors, they would’ve looked at you like you had two heads. I wonder what humour will be like 50 years from now… telepathy maybe?
Or maybe we’ve been laughing at dumb stuff for the past thousand years and now it’s only changed mediums
A great deal of translated graffiti on ancient Roman walls and in Pompeii consists of dick jokes, gay jokes, drawings of dicks, and general silliness, so I'd have to say it's just the medium that changes.
Remembering when I had to explain to my therapist the *”really? Right in front of my salad”* meme..
It must’ve been really awkward.
Reminds me of the "did I come at a bad time" one 😂
as someone with strict parents, I absolutely cannot fathom people being able to send memes to their parents and their parents being cool with it
Those are quite weird parents then, aren't most parents just normal people?
@@voidbite wdym most parents are normal??
@@naan000They mean most parents are people you can send memes and jokes and stuff to
@@FloatingErgonautstrict parents don't want to be treated as friends.
@@naan000 Strict parents aren't normal, it's weird that they're strict, like, what I mean with normal people is, well, I can't really explain it, although joudkahwaji6369 kind of understands what I mean, although not fully either, like, if you where a parent, would you be strict like how your parents are?
I was very lucky with my parents, they actually knew what a meme was before I did (I'm 20 now and probably learned about them around 8 or 9, whenever they were still all made with all caps Impact font). They aren't exactly well-versed on recent meme culture, but it's often easy to explain a new meme to them. It occurred to me recently that might come from the fact that they are always making pop culture references and running jokes within the family, kinda verbal memes I guess. Recently I've been having fun sending my mom random "gen z humor" memes just to see her start to figure it out, and she's done pretty well picking up on it lol.
Not understanding the meme itself is one thing, but the parents’ lack of knowledge of the pop culture context is super agonizing! 😭
Do you understand pop culture from their generation though? Sometimes it's just hard for people to keep up.
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@@harshmnr difference being that stuff like thanos was plastered everywhere in irl theaters and on the internet when infinity war + endgame was happening and roughly two years after so it's a little weird to have them be complete clueless who the purple guy is
I love anime and my daughter thinks it's the dumbest shit ever 😭
@@kaym.5058To be fair, Pokemon anime was what taught me how to draw character expressions 😄
Lack of pop culture knowledge is pretty based
Once I forwarded my mum a meme from Pinterest of a guy talking to a wall with the caption to the effect of "Talking to your parents be like". However, when I forwarded it, I didn't remove the automated caption that appears when I sent it which read "What do you think?"
Unbeknownst to me, my parents were in the middle of redecorating my room at the time as I was out the country for the week. And when my mum saw the meme, she for some reason thought I was asking for brick wall wallpaper despite not even knowing that they were redecorating my room. So, when I came home, my room was layered with brick wallpaper on three sides
this is one of the funniest things ive ever read
why is this comment so underrated
@@swaggyhotdog this is the best compliment I have ever received. Thank you swaggyhotdog
The weirdest thing is how frequently the "parent" generation thtis is about try to concernedly analyse how that meme relates to you on a psychological level, but have no idea what it actually means, so they end up going on a five minute tangent on what problems of your soul they see reflected in it while missing the mark on 96% of the whole goddamn thing. Like "Oh. this shows the confusion you are experiencing at school" but then it's actually about the subconscious expression of the desire for community, but you can't tell them that because it would make things even more weird, so you just get caught up in an odd web of vague corrections and countercorrections....
The more lighthearted kind of this is when they ask: "Who is this? Do you know this person?" as if they would have never looked at a magazine cutout or cartoon image that didn't reference someone they personally knew.
2:43 ANGERY VEGETAL
I think at 3:35 the other guy was trying to elongate “PAIN” into “PARACETAMOL/IBUPROFEN” wow what a great abbreviation
i believe they were suggesting types of painkillers.
Matt just brightens my day with these videos, just my kind of humor! 😂
OH MY GOD THANKS FOR THE HEART!!
Someone should make a compilation of Matt screaming "SKULL EMOJI💀"
There are some out there in RUclips already! 💀💀💀💀💀
@@Matt_Rose SKULL EMOJIIIIII
i'm scared to show my parents any memes because they'll either not understand it at all or they'll get suspicious about my internet activity for no reason
I think that grandma knows EXACTLY how memes work.
honestly watching Matt spiral into an insane rage every time he sees a skull emoji is making me cry and laugh at the same time
3:26 BUT WHAT IF I AM ED SHEERAN
he's my brother basically he just doesn't know it yet
@@mazzeyyhmm
@@mazzeyyis that…IS THAT REAL PHILLIP!???
@@GorillaWithACellphone well technically William S. Hamilton but since they have no photo of Philip Hamilton yes its the real philip 😎😎😎😎
@@mazzeyy dude was the little brother phillip finally got
This is too relatable! I’m not a parent myself, but I’m on the autism spectrum, and it’s sometimes hard for me to understand jokes/memes.
Idk I always mentally prepare myself before showing a meme to my mom, and when she finally understands it after some explanations... it's honestly such a great feeling
3:59 that ai predicted the future
Not yet, but soon
@@Ben-yz7sxhe’s a politician, he’s never going to jail with that much money
@@Xp366 only time will tell
When the dad said “who’s pee,” I slammed my head down and then the video went bonk. Perfect.
1:09 ngl i wouldnt even be worried about the not understanding of the meme, she said you "were" cute 😅
3:16
Well, they provided a nice proof!
This video has convinced me more than anything that older generations were absolutely destroyed by leaded gasoline and paint
Oh, don't worry. You'll become the older generation soon enough, and then you'll understand their difficulty on understanding younger generations. I will as well, probably.
@@legendgames128 There's not understanding the younger generations' humor and then there's not being able to differentiate a crudely made meme from a photo of yourself. Some of these people sound like the turn of the century moviegoers jumping out of the way of the "speeding train"
Last time I sent my parents a meme they went through my camera roll 💀
Huh? 😭 Damn...
When I was a kid I tried showing my dad a meme about how anti vaxxers were idiots and somehow he interpreted it as me being anti vax, so he yelled at me about how anti vaxxers are idiots
hey, at least he's anti anti-vaxx
whose down to make meme grandma a real meme like a grandma who doesn’t bake cookies she just bakes memes
ok ima make this a real meme
Meme Grandma, deep fryer of memes
@@StuffandThings_yes
1:36 Either Carol accidentally liked the picture and had just enough pride to not admit it but not enough to double down...
Or she's a comedy genius.
i’m not good with rappers but i got the Wednesday part
nice meme
I once sent my sister some mom memes. She proceeded to send every single one to my mother. I was told she sobbed.
holy shit
3:10 this one is so popular
LOL HI BENTHEMAN I ACTUALLY FOUND YOU
@@trexthe49 ok?
@Troy.Miller hi
Hi
LMAOO
this made me laugh 4:18
Same
*m e m e g r a n d m a*
*_meme grandma_*
I periodically send a fish meme saying "wahoo... wahoo" to my mother whenever she does something nice and I'm not sure if she gets it or not but she enjoys it.
You're training her to expect wahoo fish meme whenever she's nice to you.. keep it up
@@chillcreep4926 I think she already expects it, especially when food is involved.
Imagine how great grandparents would react to the “bro, I’m dead.” Meme.
"you aren't dead you're texting me"
They would probably die
Easy just translate it into "Brethren, I am deceased." 😂
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My mom recently discovered the gif section of her iPhone texts. The memes and gifs she has sent to our FAMILY GROUP CHAT leave me, my sister, and her boyfriend rolling on the floor from how inappropriate or random they are as a response while our grandma just hearts them because she understands it even less. I have never loved actually participating in our group chat more😂
"Meme grandma" best words speaken in history
I never have and never will try and show my parents any memes because I know it will go exactly like this (they are both over 70 for reference)
“Does your stomach hurt, come home” sounds so awfully sweet, brought a tear to ny eyes 😢
2:09
“My mom like’s drinking.”
You are the only RUclipsr I know that, within seconds of any video, even the AD, can make everyone in the room start staring at me being like "is she okay? why the heck is she laughing so hard?!"
I understand that It may be different because my mom is only 43 and probably younger than most of these parents, but she usually understands memes, often laughs at them, and sometimes even knows where they originated. I'm fifteen, so this definitely makes it easier for me to have stupid gen-z humor.
Nice pfp
my mom is also 43
Mine is 44
Why is everybody telling me their moms' age?
@@RickAstley-qd8bn cuz my mom is the same age lol
your videos randomly started being recommended to me. i started watching them. they are the funny thing i needed
2:18 that question makes me so annoyed!
If looked at the picture she would've understood the joke
Mom in thumbnail: "pretty sure I'm not a bald purple dude"
4:05 nope, grandma understands memes perfectly, in fact, her humor is ahead of our own.
It takes a LOT to make me laugh out loud. I don’t laugh even if I think something is hilarious. This one did it. New favorite. PLEASE MAKE MORE MATT.
The worst thing is when your parents are looking at a meme you’re showing them and next thing you know they’re swiping onto other things
Rookie mistake, never have your memes and your furry hentai in the same folder
oh i think that grandma understood perfectly
2:51 I only had the "3 smoakes" part of that picture. I was curious as to what the context was. Thank you, I've found the rest of the meme.
Where can I find the 3 smoakes help 😭 😭
my dad is 53 and still sends banger memes in our family discord
sometimes he's a bit behind on terminology but he does not reside in real time communication areas as much as i do
Family discord what ? the meme where the guy instantly ages into old man is me when i read your comment :D
"Family Discord" was not the thing I was expecting to find today
@@Konpekikaminari i use discord as my all purpose social media platform as i do not use any other regularly besides youtube which barely qualifies
Family Discord damn, you're living in the future (no, I'm the one that's old)
I love how Matt passively-aggressively calls out all the grammar mistakes in these posts
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
Matt rose honestly deserves at least 10 million subs. His videos are always so funny and make my day and many others better. W matt
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@@Matt_RoseNO WAY MATT USED SOMETHING OTHER THEN A SKULL EMOJI 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😇😜😇🥰🥸😋😇🤩😌😎😉😞😍😌😌🤨😙😚🙁😔😚🤪😏🥺😭🤪😜
Ngl the “who did that” on the pumpkin pie is understandable
i once showed my mum a meme, you know that breakfast one? yeah. she got mad at me because its “making fun of people with disabilities”.
i got a 1 hour lecture, and my phone taken off of me 💀
To be fair, there are memes that go too far with that kind of “making fun of certain people”. It’s just hard to find which one those are
Still, that doesn’t excuse your mother’s apparent lack of pop culture knowledge
@@princesspixel3151 yeah, thats also true
but thats just a meme, not making fun of certain people lol
Years ago, when the internet was just a twinkle in Sir Tim's eye, my grandmother saw an ad on the telly where a dog wagged its tail in time to the music. I have no memory of what the ad was for, but what I do remember is that my grandmother couldn't get over 'how they trained the dog to wag its tail like that'. Even in my extreme youth I understood that it didn't work like that, but I didn't know how to explain it 🤷
I'm assuming you're British based on the vocabulary you're using lol
@@goobner420hello
It's ok if she doesn't understand, it's her first day on the planet.
@@Lunaticdoesdumstuff hello
@@goobner420"my extreme youth" dude wears those long ass pajamas with the long hat and holds a candle to bed
so glad that Matt explained that Snape on a vape one bc I was coming up with Snape on a lightsaber and I knew I was wrong but I couldn't get what it was supposed to be
This reminds me of the time my mom thought someone was making inappropriate jokes about their wife's recent passing. She called us to her all upset, and we had to explain the websites like the click hole and onion are not real sources.
these videos make me glad my mom is 38 and sends ME memes along with her other four kids. it's great i love her
The last one is unironically hilarious
Do you all know this Winnie Pooh Meme, where he puts on his glasses and tries really hard to read something and above that stands something like "My mom everytime I show her picture"?
I showed this to my mom and she did exactly that, it took her a while but she understood it later
This is the only meme she ever understood and thought was at least somehow a tiny bit funny
Progress
Ngl I'd rather have a confused mom than a mom who doesn't like my memes and critizes them meanwhile her memes are stuck in the early 2000's era
This reminds me of when I sent a meme about passwords to my aunt; she then proceeded to bombard my notifications with 20+ cyber-security articles, and told my parents to “teach [me] about the importance of keeping passwords safe”…😀…
Best part is: I also sent the meme to my grandma, (She’s also my aunt’s mum), and she understood it instantly💀