If you're a frequent Facebook user over fifty, or are close to one, then you might know these core truths that others simply don't: life was better in the 1970s, cell phones are evil, and being married can be annoying. The previous sentence is kind of a caricature of this zone of the internet, but it holds a few grains of truth.

Not all Facebook memes are cursed. There are a few which approach a sort of dankness that other kinds of memes simply can't. That's what makes /r/terriblefacebookmemes, the subreddit where posters scavenge for Facebook memes and share them with other connoisseurs of Boomer humor, so compelling. These are memes created by people with little to no awareness of the traditions and principles of meme culture as it has been experienced by Generation Z and Millennials. There are glimpses of how internet culture looks if you never knew what "Gangnam Style" was.