This is more for older people, I'm 18 and idk if it's meme culture or if it's always been like this, but if I were to categorize my voluntary conversations in the last month, 80 percent of them would be people taking turns shitting on each other.

I'm generally pretty witty, and I love a well placed joke, but a lot of my friends like to repeat the same. damn. jokes. Over and over. Insiders from 5 months ago that no one remembers how they started.

I'm not Mr. Serious, but sometimes I just want to talk without fear of some dumb joke coming at me. The joke itself doesn't rattle me but the conversation usually details at that point.

So my question is, is everyone trying to be a comedian these days or am I just extrapolating?