The Andrew Cuomo situation is not a meme, it is just a news item everyone is talking about. Everyone is being very funny and he is so easy to make fun of. He is both cartoonishly Italian and cartoonishly inept, a dangerous combination. If we get a solid meme from this whole scenario I will gladly review it but right now there’s too much fodder for regular jokes that people don’t really need a lot of help from Memes. Not to say that a memes are a crutch but there’s simply too much Cuomo content to parse through right now. I’m predicting that by end of the day Late Thursday we’ll have the definitive Cuomo meme. I pray to god it’s not the Neolib Rupaul meme. If your favorite things are Rupaul and Politics, reconsider…. Everything.
So my Grindr Date Took Me On His Boat To This Little Island
Gay meme! It’s time for a gay meme! The meme didn’t necessarily outdo the original post. Just pictures of islands. It felt obligatory. We can let this person get away with this. It should go without saying but don’t get on your grindr dates boat. If one is too stupid to not get on a boat on a date, we as a community have to make fun of them. But of course our hearts weren’t really in it. It did not gain traction and all of the likes were tossed off and given freely, rather than earned. We were on autopilot but gave it all we could, which was not much.
Horse
While the story itself about the Olympic Horse freakout is sad for multiple reasons, the picture of the horse is so funny. I feel like it all evens out and I don't feel bad for laughing. It’s another one that I don’t think is getting our full attention but for this one that's a shame. I want to see that horse everywhere. It’s similar to a lot of existing memes and I would like to see it replace another format. If in the future, you are making a meme about your poor spending habits, I beg you to consider the olympic horse meme. Add it to the repertoire, the canon if you will. It does not have to be at the height of its popularity now, I can wait. I can bide my time until everyone is ready to rejoice in the horse meme.
Tiktok
Tiktok’s greatest asset has always been its ability to give us a front row seat to other people’s lives. Lives that we could never even begin to imagine. BamaRushTok, as it has come to be known, lets us live vicariously through these girls. The only theory about womanhood or whatever that I’m willing to stand behind is that we would all kill to be these girls. Maybe not forever and maybe not anymore. But I think for one day we would all like to be the typical Bama sorority girl. A white, blonde, rich, hot, republican doing what you’re supposed to do, participate in a sorority. All the things you’ve been trying to overcome or deal with your whole life, suddenly gone. Of course there is no such person who actually lives this life we’ve been taught to idolize and everyone’s lives come with struggles but when you’re watching them all try on their rush outfits, it doesn’t seem possible. Even from an anthropological standpoint, I would want to live their life to know how different it really is. Whether they know it or not, something about these girls is captivating. We are drawn to them whether out of jealousy or out of a need to gawk at someone whos life is so different from your own. The other part of this that is so fascinating is that it’s rush and we’re getting it from both sides. We see the girls in the houses and the freshman trying so hard to get in. Now, greek life is fucked up in a lot of ways but there are more benefits than people are willing to admit and having friends in these organizations has led to me to have a more nuanced view of it than I did before but I still believe that there a major changes that need to be taken. That being said I believe that you could get the most die hard sorority girl to disavow the whole system during rush, a painful and punishing weeks long process that makes everyone involved feel crazy. From what I can tell we are just at the beginning and I’m excited with everyone else to have a front row seat to all this and see how it all pans out. Both content wise from the actual girls rushing and from the others watching this unfold.
For those of you who don’t know MordeTwi is the ship name for Mordecai from Regular Show and Pinky Pie from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. In 2012 someone made fan art of the two of them singing Airplanes by B.o.B and for some reason it got a revival in 2021. Here’s my problem with this meme. All of you are being disingenuous. There is a weird phenoniminan that because of the internet we all know about a bunch of fetishes and sexual interests (I don’t really know what the correct phrase for this is) that we don’t personally have and because of sex positivity and BDSM nerds we all have to pretend to be nice about this when we’re actually making fun of these people. The new way to say you think having a piss kink is weird is to pretend you have one and talk about it all the time. While most of the time the line is blurred and it’s hard to tell who is making of the kink and who actually has the kink, this example of a person who is horny for MordeTwi is purely all people making fun of the original idea. There is not one person currently making MordeTwi content who actually cares about this or ships these characters or whatever. I’m convinced the first person to make this was also joking so now there’s hundreds of pieces of content about this weird ship that not one person actually ships. You’re all making fun of a type of person that doesn't exist. There’s also no leg to stand on when you do shitty Twilight sparkle makeup to duet a video of someone who is doing shitty Mordecai makeup. At that point, who are you making fun of and why do you think you’re any better?
This meme was originally very genuine and was femme girls putting on a wife beater and doing no makeup make up and calling themselve masc. Now it’s getting fun and funny. Masc girls putting on a dress that barely fits themselves and not doing their hair and claiming to be femme as a joke is a fun twist. It also finally a meme about being a wlw (woman loving woman) that isn’t incredibly corny or nerdy. Lesbians and Bi girls get a bad rap for not being funny and too sensitive and that’s mostly because a lot of them are not funny and too sensitive. This is good. Simple. Easy execution. As long as no one is too precious and self serious it’s a good funny meme. I also haven’t seen any other community try to copy it, which is good because community memes should probably stay in the community they originate from.
I really want this one to catch on. It's a great blend of IRL and memes. Go to the nearest historical figures grave and sing the hit Soulja Boy song “Rick and Morty” at it. The song itself is better than it needs to be. A song about Rick and Morty from the great Soulja Boy would have meme potential any way but it's also an enjoyable listen.
White women are being annoying about weed again. I can’t even begin to talk about this in a nice way. Stop being annoying. Hit the bong and shut up. I don’t know what wave of feminism we’re on and what wave we need to be on for this to stop but oh my god. I’m a girl and I smoke weed is the weirdest place for your activism to take hold in regard to both feminism and activism around weed. Maybe it’s confirmation bias but more female stoners is not a real problem that needs to be addressed. Especially not on tiktok where most comments in regards to people doing drugs recreationally is “umm what if we didn’t do drugs in the first place?”.
I love Family Guy. It’s good. Free yourself and admit that you like it too. This meme is great for someone like me who loves Family Guy. I can watch a clip from one of my favorite shows and I can see a well reasoned argument from someone. This clip is the opposite of No Nuance November. You have to present your argument and unpopular opinion and respond to criticism. It’s criticism that you come up with yourself but it’s a start. Hopefully this kicks off a trend where we all learn to argue better and respond to criticism with well thought out rebuttals. I know we won’t but a girl can dream.