This week has been a slow meme week. Everyone is languishing. Maybe they’re saving their best work for post-Trump arrest (which as of 10:30 pm EST has not happened.) Maybe we need to spring-clean our brains. Maybe we all need to log off and go for a walk to really get the juices flowing. I think of my best tweets when my phone isn’t in my hands. Regardless, Twitter has been boring both discourse and meme-wise, and my TikTok has been inundated with South Park clips with Chinese subtitles superimposed over iPhone games that involve cleaning teeth and chopping wood, so it’s nearly impossible to watch without getting further sucked into the world of Kyle, Stan, Cartman, Kenny, and Co.
What’s been on your For You page lately?
Joe Biden Getting Off the Plane
What is there to say? This is the best we could come up with this week. Just a picture of Joe Biden that looks kind of weird. What is he doing with his feet? We have a couple of opinions but none are that good. I believe we can all do better. This would be more interesting if we were firing on all cylinders and this was part of a plethora of memes this week but that's all that's going on. We have this and sex scene discourse. God, I miss the Oscars. At least then we had something to fight about.
TikTok
Wow That’s Awesome
A sound for expressing the childlike wonder we lost along the way. This sound attempts to capture the feeling of being a kid and being fascinated by the world. Anything and everything there was to know, we wanted to know and once we learned it, we were satisfied and overjoyed to have learned something new about the wonderful world we lived in. Unfortunately, as we age, this feeling is impossible to get back. Sure there is always the joy of learning but it’s more complicated now. Often the more we learn about the world, the less we like it and the less happy we are. This sound captures a feeling I can’t make myself feel anymore. I’ve learned too much. I’ve said that’s awesome one too many times and followed my curiosity too far. Now I can’t go back.
My Blicky
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At least there’s a dance. If nothing else, the one consistent creative outlet on the For You page is this song and this dance. Although the dance isn’t ever that consistent. Every time I watch it, it’s a little bit different. It’s fun and despite evidence to the contrary, I don’t hate fun. The song is not the most enjoyable to listen to as a background pop song, which is the fate of every mega-popular TikTok song. It’s no Boys a Liar pt. 2. We need to be more careful which songs we make viral. Not only do they accompany dance videos but anyone worth their virality knows they need to soundtrack their random videos with a trending song. I’m just asking for a little more pop sensibility so there are fun lyrics to go with the videos of making tomatillo ranch.