DANK
In meme culture, dank describes something so absurd, low-quality or stale that it loops back around to being funny — the term "dank memes" arose ironically to label memes that were either especially weird and good, or especially recycled and bad, depending on tone.
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In meme culture, dank describes something so absurd, low-quality or stale that it loops back around to being funny — the term "dank memes" arose ironically to label memes that were either especially weird and good, or especially recycled and bad, depending on tone. Outside memes the word still keeps its older sense of damp, dark or strongly smelling (especially of cannabis).
r/dankmemes has been recycling the same three formats for a month
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