Meme Report 3/5
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Twitter
JD Vance
Last week, I talked about Trump’s imagery and how his lack of defining facial features makes him a bad cartoon, despite everything else about him. JD Vance, however, has the perfect bone structure to be the ideal model for every feature on FaceApp. So much so that when I saw him on the presidential address to Congress (why is it called that now), I realized he’s better-looking than I remembered. I like when theres a narrative and not someone just fucking around with the settings. I prefer the tweets with the propeller hat and the little kid speech impediment. I think it helps to illustrate how pathetic he is. I don’t feel giving him curly hair and putting his eyes far apart does anything for anyone but shows off that you’re paying for Faceapp pro.
The Boycott
Oh, the boycott! We sured show them! Who and for what reasons remain unclear. This was a pitiful showing on everyone’s part. We’re all banned from Instagram story organizing until further notice. What happened to volunteering? What happened to knowing your rights? What happened to learning how to do this right? I need everyone to go back to the drawing board and use their critical thinking skills to learn AND determine what meaningful action is. We’ll get ‘em next time.
TikTok
McDonald’s in The Pentagon
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Bush-era satire is back, baby!! I mean, not really, not yet. But we’re getting there. In the second trump administration, we’ve lost the war on woke, and so while we’re trying to figure out the right tone to strike this time around, anything goes. McDonald’s in the Pentagon is obviously a political song. It’s just not hitting you over the head with it. For the first time, someone on TikTok trusted their audience. We’ve all done this before, so maybe it’s time to start trusting each other and believe that we’ve all done at least some of the reading.
Anxiety
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DOECHII WATCH CONTINUES!! Last week I talked about how the public at large is struggling to have an angle on Doechii besides talented genius, which is a great angle but won’t last forever. This trend doesn’t help or hurt. It’s a good old-fashioned TikTok dance. It’s doable. It’s another notch in Doechii’s belt. We like he,r and we want more of her anyway we can get it.
Fuck Yeah
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We’re kind of in a renaissance of female rappers. Obviously, if you pay attention to the rap world, you’d have more interesting and nuanced opinions on this, but from the angle that is popularity on TikTok, which is one of the only ways people experience culture that is not handpicked for them, there’s more going on there than there has been previously. This is the third Glo Rilla song to go viral and be a part of a TikTok trend in 6 months. I do hate watching this trend, and it barely makes sense, but it’s another point for Glo Rilla.
Millennial Burger
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Gen Z’s first observational humor. Listen, we all hate these burger places, but when was the last time a new one opened? Maybe I’m too much of a city slicker with a disconnect from real America, but this is an old observation, kids. We know. We’ve known. There was a tweet about it a couple of years ago. This has caused a lot of hipster discourse, which I don’t care for. There are people who have since lost their Twitter blue checks who were there, and we’re pretending we have to recreate this history from memories of our childhood. Even if we had to, some of you just had the internet, and the rest of us lived in college towns that were the pipeline to the major cities. You learned about hipster culture from Portlandia, its satire resonated with me. You adopted Put a Bird on It after the fact. I was born putting a bird on it.