> A hundred or so years ago we had Picasso. Now we have LOLCats.
Survivorship bias. We just forgot about all the crap back then because nobody bothered to save many copies of it and the bad works have been forgotten, if not lost.
LOLCats will probably go the way of AYBABTU and Chuck Norris jokes one of these days. And later people will look back and only remember things like the Grey Album instead.
That's the same way people nowadays look back at 60s music with so much nostalgia, thinking of the Beatles and not, for example, "They're Coming to Take Me Away" by Napoleon the IV.
Survivorship bias. We just forgot about all the crap back then because nobody bothered to save many copies of it and the bad works have been forgotten, if not lost.
LOLCats will probably go the way of AYBABTU and Chuck Norris jokes one of these days. And later people will look back and only remember things like the Grey Album instead.
That's the same way people nowadays look back at 60s music with so much nostalgia, thinking of the Beatles and not, for example, "They're Coming to Take Me Away" by Napoleon the IV.