Meme Report 4/27
This Week's Twitter Section Is In Praise Of Our New Overlord, Emperor Musk
Tinx, a Tik Toker, got cancelled for old tweets but that’s a toss up on where to cover it so we’ll split the difference and say it’s this weeks sunday edition. Now, on to new business.
Elon Musk
The real life supervillain of Twitter bought Twitter this week. A lot of people had a lot to say. Reading the timeline was similar to the vibe the day after Trump got elected except the only people it would affect are weirdos on twitter. It’s kind of like he elected himself the warden of a prison we all elected to go to and can leave at any time. Everyone was having a meltdown about how bad things were going to get and several people threatened to leave. We’ll see how this plays out but I’m about to utter the famous last words, How bad could it be? Worst case scenario, the website stops being functional. We’d all probably be better off in the long run. Who knows what will happen next but from what I know about Elon and his skills as both a manager and engineer, I’m sure we’ll be fine. It's a shame we now longer post under the leadership of benevolent king, Jack Dorsey but I’m sure we’ll survive.
Ezra Miller
Another week, Another Ezra Miller attack in Hawaii. Haven’t the people of Hawaii had enough bullshit from people coming to their islands and violently terrorizing the people that live there? This week there wasn’t really a new attack but we circled back and focused on the two previous ones. We needed to let the ridiculousness of the story marinate before we got our jokes in. We really nailed it this week. We got all our jokes out and they were pretty good. Good job everyone. Now, we better not have a repeat of this next week. I don’t want to hear more about Ezra Miller until the next attack. It’s not a matter of if but when, so no false alarms. When the real stories are crazy enough there’s no need to embellish
Funny Girl
This week Twitter became Sardi’s after the show when the reviews come in. Something I didn’t think we’d ever experience as it is mostly a classless website. However, we haven't had the Tonys in two years so everyone really needs to be catty about musical theater right now to get it out of their system before the big night. In certain corners of the internet,all anyone can talk about is this: Feldstein flops as Funny Fanny! As sad as it is to see one of my favorite actresses be revealed to be less talented than we all originally thought, I can’t stop laughing about the whole situation. It feels like an episode of Mad Men. We’re back to a time when everyone went to the theater, from the girl at the sandwich cart to the president of the company. Maybe the general public is so invested in this production is because of Lea Michele. The girl who’s been angling to play Fanny Brice since she was 8 years old. Will she make Beanie’s PR nightmare her dream? Or is her public (and private) persona so tarnished that she’ll never bounce back. Well, she can always try for the National Touring company.
TikTok
We love an easy target. This one feels like a writing exercise that you’re not excited about but do anyway because you have to do something. Practicing the craft is as important as perfecting it. Nothing being said is particularly funny or clever. This guy isn’t famous and there’s no reason for this mockery other than the fact that he’s a meathead. Everyone is throwing out something because it’s not about the actual content, it’s about making content every day. I get that. I’m not going to look the other way or say this one is good but I’ll grade it on a curve. It’s not unwatchable. Sometimes they even elicit a light chuckle.
If Imma Be Sad, Imma Do It With Pizazz
Now I’m not a licensed therapist by any means and I can barely cope with the world on my own but this seems like a step forward. A baby step but still a step. Instead of romanticizing depression or one's own sadness we’re coping. We’re finding a thing that makes us happy to help us get through. If we’re going to be sad, we’ll do it with pizzazz, whatever that pizzazz may be. We’re not focusing on the cause of the misery. We’re not making content about all of the bad things in our lives or our ever changing emotional states. We’re making the content about the pizzazz. The focus is not necessarily on the positive but on something good. Something that gives life the ol razzle dazzle, which we all need more of.
Ah booktok. Videos about books for people who make reading their whole personality even though everything they consume is essentially written for middle schoolers. That’s not fair. Some of them are more advanced readers who recommend a wide variety of books on all sorts of topics. Others are aesthetic readers and recommend the same five books in every video. It is this group who has created the Sad Girl Book Summer Reading collection. If you’re a white woman between 16 and 25 who has read one book, I’m sure you can guess what this list is. If not it’s this: My Year of Rest and Relaxation, The Idiot, Conversations with Friends, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Queenie, and of course, the Holy Bible for this demographic: The Bell Jar. What’s fun about this trend is that these girls have been recommending these books for about three years straight now and no one ever stops to think their content is neither new nor interesting. In fact, quite the opposite. There’s now shelves in stores dedicated to this trend as if it is somehow new information. I, for one, am sick of it. I will only be reading books about war and sports in protest. My beach read this year will be Empire of Pain, about the opioid crisis. I don’t need some other sad girls meandering monologue in my head. I already have my own, thank you.
An incredible meme. A meme that really resonates with me as someone who has been (and still is) looking for a job suited to my talents and skills. The amount of advice we have been given by our boomer relatives who know nothing about our field is staggering. I frequently have to explain to my mom why the jobs at Netflix posted on Linkedin are not real. That applying to them would have the same effect as banging my head against the wall and saying I want to work for Netflix. We talk about this a lot on Twitter but we finally have a TikTok meme for it. It’s that pre post grad anxiety really manifesting itself on the FYP. Don’t worry everyone. I graduated in 2019 (One Coachella Ago) and it all worked out for me, sort of. Not really. But it will eventually!
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