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I don't make memes, I just find high quality copies of them or remake them if there is none available.
While I do have a small hope that people choose those to share instead of the typical jpegified version that most OPs usually spread, I am also somewhat pessimistic of that being the case because I often get downvotes and/or people commenting that they can't tell the difference.
Memes are like fine wine
They get more and more compressed as they age but that's what makes them special
A meme having lots of compression artifacts means it has been shared over multiple platforms, had a long life, traveled the world.
I cannot disagree more.
They only get that way because people are unaware and careless, or even worse it could be that someone was trying to remove the author's credit.
The more quality that is lost means the more detached it is from the creator and literally the more difficult it is to read. Many memes stem from an artist's work, like a comic or photograph, the rest are a majority text.
Sure, for some memes, it really doesn't matter and just adds to the character. Those are generally shitposts anyway. But for the ones based around people's art it shows a lack of respect to the artist because their name has been stripped off and shitty watermarks slathered over it. Then for the other side, it shows disrespect to the people you share it with because you are not showing care for their ability to see the artwork or even know where that art came from. While the text portions are more and more difficult to read, which just sucks in general, and can sometimes mean you are left out entirely for people with visual disabilities.
I understand your desire to try to characterize it as 'age' or some sort of growth of character, but that ultimately dismisses the carelessness involved which does have a negative impact for both the creators and the viewers.
You, my good matey feller, are 100% correct. I shall, from now on, do my due diligence and carefully research memes and their history and influences before passing them along, making sure to include bibliography alongside it. I shall also attempt to find and share only the highest image quality versions, recreating them myself pixel by pixel if needed. No longer shall I run memes through my jpegpilled compressionmaxxing pipeline before sharing them. Low quality arc shall now come to an end
Okay, buddy.