Have you updated Memebot's code? It seems like since about a month ago their posts have been horrifyingly coherent.
Nope! I mean, I’ve added some new memes to it, but none of the basic functionality has changed.
My theory is that the memes themselves are getting more incoherent and mashed up and so even though this bot stays pretty much the same level of coherency, it *seems* to be getting more sensical over time, but really we’re all just used to total meme nonsense and so the bot seems to be making more and more sense. Basically, I think we’re all collectively lowering our standards and getting increasingly incoherent and nonsensical.
Like, remember in 2012 when people could share tumblr memes on other websites? Now it’s such a self-referential clusterfuck that if you do that people would just be confused.
I mean it’s still hilarious and it makes bot-making much easier, so I’m not complaining. In fact, I think this is really expanding the possibilities as far as creating bots that can fit into the tumblr culture is concerned, and we’re gonna see some interesting stuff come out of the normalization of self-referential humor that’s sourced communally instead of created by the mass media. We’re getting a sort of bizarre neo-dada folklore happening on here.