There ARE original memes, they just tend to be buried underneath all the things mentioned here, it also doesn't help that people have a tendency to only upvote memes made by their favorite creators
AI feeds off everything on the internet, but since the internet is so full of AI slop, it feeds off of itself, so when the AI is learning from already flawed images and misinformation that it previously said, it just slowly gets worse, which is why when everybody was "ghiblifying" images, everything AI made had a yellow tint, so hopefully it becomes so unusable because of this it forces people to think for their selves again!
"Like and Subscriiiiiiibe, or this spider will be in your bed toniiiight" every video "explaining" why we shouldn't _______ at 3 am always had to throw that in
RedLegoMonkey essentially said most of the things, but a few extra things not mentioned, if you want good items you can intentionally lag behind, in first you will mostly get coins, shells, and bananas, which really only offer green and red shell protection, in 2nd place you have a 70% chance of getting a red shell, and in (I think at least) 3rd to 5th place you have high mushroom odds, and at the start you can intentionally stay at the back (called bagging) where you get the best items, allowing you to chain them into more good items as you go to the front, and if done right you now have a star in first place, just for it to get taken by a boo