THE PIT (Fortuna Discussion Topic)

I actually avoid memes as much as possible unless they're subtle. Going full meme is easily the best way for me to reject a suggestion.

Memes are funny because they're inside jokes that the world knows. The issue with this is that in a few years, most of the world has moved on from the meme and no longer cares about it, meaning the context for the meme is no longer easy to find for those who have never heard of it.

This makes for very bad reading later on and is overall just not very funny. "In house memes", though I don't like calling them memes they're just jokes and call backs on the other hand tend to be much better. Things like "Delicious pesticides" from notail quest or "I absolutely know how to read a simple X (She did not know how to read a simple X.)" are better cause the context of the original joke is within the comic itself. (I would mention better jokes but I can't think of them right now.)


Plot > Comedy = Cool > Random >>> Do it for the Meme, aka "YOLO"

Comedy does not equal meme, but meme can be comedy.

Edit: Even though I say this please suggest whatever you wish. Suggestions don't always or even mainly have to be super serious and always trying to forward our motives. As long as you're having fun that's all that matters, and like I said before these aren't hard and fast rules they're just very loose ones. I'm sure I've picked up one or two meme suggestions in the past despite this. Like the fact that Nicko likes bowling.