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Una hora señor

>>19047199
All four of em

>>8595333
cool thoughts, checked and you get a rare pepe.

no one else save it this pepe is for this anon only

To answer as to whether memes have reached post-irony, the question must be asked:
What is the primary function of a meme? Is it to be an inside-joke, or an easily understandable joke?

Thinking on the more earlier memes out there, I would think that memes were to be the latter.
However as time went on, it became more unpopular for something to be labelled as a meme. So, in turn, memes reflected that. Memes deviated in their style so they would be able to constantly evade the dreaded title of 'meme', for to be labelled a meme was to be the death of that meme. As of right now, with memes in general having begun entering moreso into mainstream society, now memes are wanting the label of 'meme', but in a different fashion. Instead, the label of 'meme' for memes nowadays is one purely ironic. They want to be labelled as a meme for the sheer irony of it.

Look at Pepe. At first it was a meme unto its own. A classic, pre-ironic meme. As time went on, as memes became ironic, Pepe was hated as a forebearer of the label of 'meme'. Memes had to deviate from 'memes' like Pepe. Then /r9k/ and /pol/ came along and spruced it up tensfold. It was something within itself, its classic display subverted into one of violence, gore, profanity, and arcane magic, and that very subversion became a meme. The subversion which created despise against Pepe was then subverted, as Pepe became embraced as a meme, a subversion unto its subversion.

Frankly, I myself am having trouble following along with what I just wrote. So to put it like this:
pre-ironic meme (classic use of Pepe) --> irony (hatred of Pepe) --> post-ironic (PRAISE KEK, PEE PEE POO POO, NORMIES GET OUT REEE)

So, in conclusion, it would be safe to say that memes have reached at least post-irony.