Or, as Cory Doctorow put it, “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.”

We need to go back.

right-winger posts some obscene post.

left-winger replies with a “gotcha” style of reply, disregarding anything else.

Both continue to use the same platform.

I miss the days when the only things identifiable as memes required text drawn in all caps white Impact font with black outlines, over literally any image.