The best memes are nonsense and I love ‘karma is a bitch’
The best thing about Vine — which has been dead now for over a year, and yet the wound still feels fresh, as every abysmal, boring, and rude day online rips the scab off anew — was the six-second time limit. The constraint forced an effervescent comedy style that was jarring, nonsensical, and constantly surprising. Nothing needed to make sense, and in fact it was nearly impossible to make it make sense, and all that mattered was timing and panache.
That legacy, thank goodness, lives on with the latest meme out of lip-synching app musical.ly, brought to you by dozens of creative Chinese teenagers.
Called the Karma’s a Bitch Challenge, the joke is both simple to explain and impossible to explain, similar in spirit to classic Vine entries…
