It’s getting to the point that there should be a Meme University or College program where people have to study some previous pop culture in order to understand modern memes. For people in their 40s (like me), I grew up watching much of these things so they come naturally, people in their 30s have a grasp of them but people in their 20s and younger seem to have to backtrack and almost treat it like history class to make sense of it all.

A few months ago I made a joke with my teenage niece about Star Wars (Star Wars! I thought was more mainstream and more familiar to people than Star Trek) and she politely just said ‘never watched it, I guess I’ll have to watch the movie’ … she had never watched any of them! It’s a good sign that there is no more monopoly on pop culture any more … but it is also making it hard to connect to people outside your own references that you grew up with.

This also doesn’t imply its an ageism thing either … I know lots of people my age who have absolutely no clue what I’m talking about when it comes to memes or Star Trek or pop culture references.

I just think it would be hilarious to see a Meme University started for this reason.