So, memes are actually a pretty important part of Dark Souls. Well, they’re an important aspect of Dark Souls as a cohesive entity. You see, the concept of the meme lends itself well to an interrogation of Dark Souls as an of allegory for humanity. All the bad stuff that Dark Souls says about humans is proven wrong by how funny we are. Seriously. The Redditor who discovered that if you typed out “Sif,” but moved every letter one key to the right, you would type “Dog” is one of the many unsung heroes of our time. This is important work.
From the bastardized “git gud,” to the stock memes we see every day, Dark Souls memes have enjoyed longevity to a surprising degree. However, this isn’t purely down to the craftiness of the memelords, nor is it because the memes are comedic gold?which they are, by the way, but there’s more to them than just that. Nope. Dark Souls memes are important because they satirize all the parts of Dark Souls that critique the world in which the memes are created. Michel Foucault, the French philosopher, designed the concept of Heterotopias in order to describe worlds within worlds which impose a sort of invisible influence on what is external to them. Let’s call Dark Souls a Heterotopia, a world within our world. Now, Dark Souls is pretty on the nose when it comes to commenting on the futility of humanity. We humans are, eh, the Abyss. Pretty shitty, useless, parasitic entit...