Welcome to the
internet workforce.
“They told us spending all day on the internet would get us nowhere.”
For years, being online was treated like the opposite of being productive. Sitting in front of a computer for hours meant you were wasting your time. Forums, games, chatrooms, stupid pictures, random communities and staying up until 4AM talking to people you had never met weren’t skills.
They definitely weren’t a job.
Back then, having a real job meant having somewhere to go. An office, a store, a factory, a desk. You had a boss, a schedule, a title and something simple to tell people when they asked what you did for a living.
Then the internet grew up.
And so did the people who spent their lives on it.
From wasting time online
to making a living online
The early internet was built by people fucking around.
People spent entire nights on forums. They made terrible images in Microsoft Paint, downloaded music, played games until sunrise, argued with strangers and became experts in completely useless corners of internet culture.
Nobody thought any of it would matter.
But while everyone else thought they were wasting their time, an entire generation was learning how the internet worked.
They learned what made people click. What made people laugh. What made people share something with their friends. They learned the language, the communities, the inside jokes and the unwritten rules that made internet culture different from everything that came before it.
Then the platforms got bigger.
Forums became social networks.
Random accounts became media companies.
Stupid images became memes.
Communities became markets.
People who used to post for fun started building audiences of millions.
And eventually, attention became an economy.
The ability to understand what people care about, what they find funny and what they’re going to talk about tomorrow suddenly had value.
The kid who was “wasting his life on the computer” wasn’t necessarily wasting his time.
He might have just been early.
The internet
became the workplace
Today, internet work doesn’t always look like work.
Someone can spend six hours scrolling a timeline and technically be researching. Someone can make an image in thirty seconds and put it in front of ten million people. Someone can sit in a group chat all night and discover something before the rest of the internet even knows it exists.
People build anonymous accounts bigger than companies.
They create communities without offices. They launch projects with people they’ve never met. They trade narratives, create content, make memes and move millions of people’s attention around the internet without ever leaving their bedroom.
The workplace changed.
But our idea of work never really caught up.
If someone spends eight hours sitting in an office, nobody questions whether they have a job.
If someone spends those same eight hours running accounts, watching markets, making content, talking in group chats and understanding internet culture from their bedroom, eventually someone asks:
“So when are you getting a real job?”
Maybe they already have one.
It just doesn’t look like yours.
Modern setup
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A new kind
of employment
Traditional employment is easy to explain.
Accountant.
Designer.
Developer.
Trader.
Marketer.
The internet created a different type of person.
Someone who might make memes in the morning, trade something in the afternoon, help launch a project at night and spend the rest of their time watching the timeline.
They’re not completely a creator.
They’re not completely a trader.
They’re not completely a marketer.
They’re just extremely fucking online.
And somehow, that became valuable.
The internet created an entire workforce before anyone bothered giving it a job title.
So what do you call someone whose work, money, network, culture and entire career exist inside the internet?
Accountant
Designer
Developer
Trader
Marketer
???
MEMEPLOYED™
005 // DEFINITION
MEMEPLOYED
Making a living by being terminally online.
MEMEPLOYED isn’t about pretending that posting memes is a traditional career.
It’s the opposite.
It’s accepting that the internet created its own economy, its own culture, its own language and eventually its own workforce.
Some people create.
Some trade.
Some build.
Some post.
Some find things before everyone else does.
Most people in the trenches probably do a little bit of everything.
There isn’t always a company.
There isn’t always a boss.
There definitely isn’t always a job title.
But the work exists.
The money exists.
The people exist.
And now the job title does too.
Employment status
Unemployed
Memeployed
The internet
is our office.
The internet didn’t just create new jobs.
It changed what having a job can look like.
You can work with someone you’ve never met, for something that didn’t exist yesterday, inside a market that never closes, surrounded by people your family couldn’t possibly explain at dinner.
It’s chaotic.
It’s unserious.
Sometimes it’s completely fucking stupid.
But that’s the internet.
And for a growing number of people, that’s also work.
The generation that was told to stop wasting its life online ended up building its life online.
Maybe that was always the natural conclusion.
Employment aptitude test
Are you
memeployed?
Question 01 / 10
Which dog breed is the original Doge meme based on?
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Memeployed™
The internet is our office
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All trenches
are memeployed.
Somewhere right now, someone is sitting in a bedroom at 3AM with twelve tabs open, three group chats going, a chart on one monitor and X on another.
To most of the world, they probably look unemployed.
We know better.
Memeployed™ // Internet workforce // 2026