Why are memes so retarded now or am I just getting old?

[Deleted member 19642]

memes when I was young:

Memes now:

 

[JBcollector]

Lol
Well laughed

 

[Deleted member 4362]

U old

 

[Gargantuan]

Other way round.

Memes are great now but were shit 10 years ago.

So zoomers at least achieved something

 

[cvzvvc]

It's a combination of both. Memes are getting more extreme because a simple picture of a cat with "I can haz whatever the fuck" years ago was like weed and now your brain want the meme equivalent of a designer drug made in a lab in order to experience the same dopamine hit