I am starting with a special section on a meme that has multiple moving parts so I’m going to review all of them. (I know I did dream Blunt Rotation last week but it has expanded to both tiktok and twitter. It has created several alternate versions that exist on both apps)
Dream Blunt Rotation
This is a constant meme that resurfaces a lot and the central premise is of course wouldn’t it be cool to smoke weed with your favorite celebrity. Everyone is allowed to have their fantasy but it feels weird that every time this meme goes around we don’t make the fun of the people who do it. It’s made by stoners, they’re famously easy to make fun of and have a good sense of humor about themselves.
Nightmare Blunt Rotation
Any blunt rotation with strangers or more than four people is nightmare blunt rotation. I don’t want to smoke weed with anyone but my friends. Would I party with these people? Maybe. But I don't want to sit in someone's backyard or basement and smoke a blunt with eight celebrities I’ve never met before.
Dream Socratic Seminar
Ok. we get it. You don’t smoke weed. You’re sixteen and you love doing your homework. You want to participate but you have to let people know you don’t smoke weed. I need you to chill out. There’s no reason for this meme to exist except for teenagers to get into debates about sobriety. If you have the urge to create school related memes when people are talking about drugs I want you to know that you don’t have to do that. This meme is just people you want hang out with. You can say “Dream blunt rotation” even if you don’t smoke. No one will care. Just lie. Lying is cool.
Nightmare Socratic Seminar
Sometimes two bad things together make a good thing. I do not love this on it’s own but if we have to have the other three, this is the best version of the four. The Waluigi, the reflection of the reflection. There is something incredible about the idea of making Ben Shapiro, Lena Dunham, Mitch McConnel, and Cardi B have to duke it out in a high school english class. If we have to have the school version of this meme, we should make the people involved suffer. It’s genius.
Twitter
No good Grammys memes. Dua Lipa being hot is not a meme. Harry Styles dressing bad is not a meme.
Joe and Kamala Walking
My field reporter Brad has been on this beat for a while and everyone is circling around it like vultures, hoping to make their frustration funny. Here’s the thing, it’s annoying that they post themselves walking but that annoyance does not a meme make. A good meme has yet to arrive. The anger seeps through and it’s not funny.
Damn Shawty AGAIN
I think people are confused and think just because one literary reference is funny all literary references are funny. I shouldn’t have to explain why getting your bottom half being eaten by a whale is funny and why any other thing from a book is not inherently funny. Great Gatsby is a fun prom theme, any other book from the junior year English curriculum is not. Book people, at it again.
Pipeline Jokes
Annoying kids grow up to be annoying adults… and are we really using “school to prison pipeline” as a format for memes. Especially from “former gifted kids” who should..... know better? Feels bad. How about the thinking about your actions to shutting the fuck up pipeline.
Tony Soprano crying to songs.
We get it. You watch the sopranos. You listen to phoebe bridgers, you like culturally recognized good things. What you need to start doing is liking things that NPR has not yet designated as cool. These people are my enemy. Mostly because I am one of them for the most part and it drives me crazy that the “subculture” I’m apart of is so boring and so unoriginal and getting less and less so by the day. That’s why I got acrylic nails and started listening to Ska. It’s like I always say, become interesting. Start listening to a new genre of music. Develop a healthy appreciation for spaghetti westerns. Deprogram yourself from the oat-milk-Alison-Roman-the-Daily-Doc-Martens world you live in. By stepping outside of the DNC approved definition of cool you will actually become more interesting. Enough with the Tony Soprano. Enough with calling yourself Pharbz.
“Deep fakes”
It’s kind of incredible that a song that was popular on tiktok a few weeks ago and now the people who think they’re too good for tiktok have taken to Chug Jug with you. You look like fools. idiots. morons. The train of what is popular is moving forward and you are being left behind. It’s lame to pretend you don’t care about culture when you have a few thousand followers and an active twitter account where you participate in the discourse of the day. Also as far as tiktok goes it is one of the easiest apps to use, it shows what is popular. The For You page is an incredible development in social media and makes it SO easy to use and understand.
I Would Come Out to Her
No wild cards here. Gays love the same type of woman and they insist on repeating this as if it is new or interesting information.
Direct Deposit: $1400
Love. Love Love Love. Any joke that’s about pretending to be very rich is so funny. Someone said it normalizes $1400 as a lot of money and that is the point. It’s obviously not a lot of money that why it’s funny to say you want the whale when you go to Red Lobster! Also we have so little right now let us laugh!!
The Oprah meme
We should have known Oprah would outlast all other things. It’s fine. It’s the Drake meme again, and nothing beats the Drake meme.
Tiktok
Tiktok has been lagging lately. Is it because everybody is vaccinated? Are all the kids taking midterms? What’s going on? It’s mid march, you should be making content not enjoying your life.
It’s like drugs, It’s better than drugs
It’s not better than drugs. So rarely is it better than drugs. Most things people are talking about aren’t even better than ibuprofen.
Waking up in the Morning Thinking about so Many Things
Good cringe. Fun. Don’t have much to say about this one.
Which Minecraft Player are You
I think people are really running with this meme in a way that is bad. I’ve seen multiple people do examples where everyone involved is a racist and I think it’s reductive to paint your favs as not racist and then one member of their group as “the racist”. As a sound itself it’s really funny though and we should always call out racism in the Minecraft gaming community when we see it.
Always in My Face, Talking This and That
Seems like you all are having a lot of fun.
Caillou Ni Hao
Another sound where people give little details about their lives that then leads people to ask for a story time and people with no experience storytelling create three part story times that do not get to the point. Or people just straight up lie and they’re usually not good liars
thank you for always calling out racism in the minecraft gaming community 💕
YESSSSS some classic well-reasoned viciousness