Meme culture coupled with gold fish like attention spans are ruining nuanced and contextualized entertainment. The sheer lack of a bandwidth to read but a few lines and turn it into a joke is eroding the importance of context in conversation. 

It is appalling just how horrid the proverbial streets of social media are. Littered with quick one liners and a stretch of satire that the humor falls short, we’ve created a toxic environment where nuances are stripped and every comment is a punch line. 

One might argue that this can only be a result of faceless villains hiding being the anonymity of social media but I believe it goes further. It goes past just being vile because there’s a platform to shelter such degeneracy to a point of sheer lackluster participation. 

Emotions feel baseless, no real substance behind them as faceless individuals rip themselves to shred in the comment sections of hopecore videos. A video promoting kindness in humanity receives the opposite in its own comment section. 

With restricted word counts we are forced to say more with less, way less. We long for passion but we ourselves are less passionate because to express emotion would be a hanging sentence on the virtual streets of the internet. It would be cringe to care so instead let’s turn everything we can’t mourn into a joke. 

Let’s shut the door to sincerity and passion but leave the ones to dark humor and satire wide open. Make no mistake this post isn’t about not being to make jokes it’s knowing when that joke goes too far. When it’s no longer funny and the laughter dies on our tongue. 

Because once we can’t laugh what we’re left with is the cruel reality of the world we live in. We are left to confront the harsh feelings that force us to think, to feel and to empathize not because it could be us but because it’s currently someone’s reality. 

It’s not that we are dead to our emotions, like anti depressants we’ve substituted with irony to shield us from what is clearly in front of us and the brain rot settles in.

When every conversation lacks context, we strip it of its true meaning, making a meme out of it. Everyone laughs but society mourns for a few laughs never stopped the horrors ahead.