memes

I guess that would make knowyourmeme the modern Rosetta Stone

I have no idea who the person is or what the context of the photo was, but just the cat + box part tells me all I need to know.

It's free real estate.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

There's gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who's focus is "Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century".

As long as there are boxes and cats, everyone will know what this means for all time.

I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn't get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said "yeah it's not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean" and I thought that's a stupid ass concept and wtf.

Well, here we are now. It's about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks "English" but it's basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.

I don't get it even now

A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’

I absolutely love the idea that hieroglyphics were all just period specific dank memes that we just don't get because we're not in.

That's okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we'll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.

I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.

If they can read the English of this era and cats are still around, yes they will. The expression is pretty universal as depicting satisfied smugness.