The Great Meme Reset: My Thoughts
If you were around during late 2025, you might have heard something be touted around: The Great Meme Reset. What exactly does this meme reset mean?
The Great Meme Reset was a whole Internet campaign that originiated within TikTok in which during the beginning of 2026, the Internet would post nothing but old memes. I'm talking memes like "This is Sparta", "Keyboard Cat" "Doge", "MLG", and "Ugandan Knuckles". Why were people posting about the Great Meme Reset? This has to do with the amount of brainrot or "forced memes" that were made during 2025, sometimes referred to as the "Meme Drought". A lot of people were bitching about kids saying 67 and wishing they could go back to the old days of memes.
Now, let me give my thoughts on these memes nowadays: I really don't care about those modern memes/brainrot/gen alpha stuff. 67 doesn't really annoy me (I watched Numberjacks as a kid, I'm immune to number jokes). I used to be annoyed with Ohio and Grimace Shake back in 2023, but now I have warmed up to Ohio. And Quandale Dingle, Property in Egypt, and gegagadigadago is pretty funny. The only memes from the modern age I don't like is Italian Brainrot/any AI-generated memes, those ones suck ass, but the others? I'm okay with it.
Back on the subject of the Meme Reset: I understand being frustrated, annoyed, or upset with the current state of memes, and I am all for wanting to bring back old memes, but forcing memes upon others without context isn't really the best idea. Especially considering that there were a lot of old memes that were offensive. Don't even get me started on the memes that had slurs in them or something. If you really wanted to post old memes, go for it, but you can't expect the whole Internet to go through it. Memes change and die all the time, what may be funny one day won't be in another. It may sound harsh, but that's how social media works nowadays.
I'm just going to drop this little nugget of wisdom. If you come across a meme you don't like, just block the user, blacklist the tags, or mute. Yeah, this meme might be everywhere, but learning to curate your online experience can make your meme viewing experience a lot easier.
Oh yeah, the Great Meme Reset failed, who knew that making an Internet campaign that involves forcing old memes upon others would fail? Anyways, feel free to post those old memes, I don't care if a meme is dead or not, cringe culture is dead, go crazy.