Responses
Interesting! I’ve never really minded these memes, as I found most of them funny. I remember, there was this one manga where the sidenotes (translator notes on the side of the page, ifykyk) and they were just being plain rude. Everybody complained about it in the comments as well. I think it stopped? Not sure though. Otherwise, I get what you are saying.
Now i know we’re all thankful to the translators & uploaders. I’m disabled & sometimes have to spend all my time in bed, so i’m super thankful. But what the hell is with the onslaught of memes & the meme recounts of the uploaders experiences while reading. It’s gotten to annoy me enough that i now feel compelled to share my thoughts on the memes & they have less to do with sense of humour, & more to do with over saturation.
If a meme is truely funny you only need one, the humour is more strongly felt by the reader & the reader is less likely to skip reading it. Adding so many extra, to me, makes it look like your not fully confident the humour of your memes so your just adding as many as u can hoping one will amuse the reader, but instead what happens is none of them get read because the reader found out last chapter that they were kinda stupid & doesn’t wanna waste time reading ten stupid memes for the possibility of maybe one good one.
Then there’s those that re-use the same memes a lot, they can get super annoying after seeing the same unfunny side glance for the hundredth time.
then there are those “me when i read this” accompanied by a picture of someone or thing doing a side glance, crying, etc. While i’ll probably never fully understand the narcissism of needing to give a play by play of how you felt while reading every chapter & thinking that everyone else wants to know. Even when you actually have amusing input it’s given at the end of the chapter & sometimes i’m like “oh yeah, i kinda felt that way back then” but i’m already past it. or i think “did that happen? i think i remember reading that near the start maybe?”. If u need to share it’s better in the translation notes, plus it’s shorter, & to the point. I have yet to see a personal reaction meme that i have found funny, but i have read some personal reaction translator notes that have made me laugh.
In saying that, a few of the memes are really funny, it’s just a huge shame that they are lost in a huge sea of ‘meh’