I remember this album from when it came out, but I first heard this song again about a month ago. It encapsulates y feelings about the Gaza war, and how the more I learn, the more I feel like there are very few moral choices one can make.
AYBABTU. It was one of the first “real” memes that grew organically. If youtube had existed back then, the creators would probably have been set for life off the views from that one video alone.
Somehow this is the first time I’ve ever seen, “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” shortened that way and it left me thinking it was something even more arcane 😂
Pepe frog memes. It was originally a “sad” frog meme used by cut-me-own wrist R9k users but Hillary’s hillariously inept interns claimed that it was a dogwhistle for Nazis becase Le 4chan bad. That made 4channers mad and you don’t want underwater basketweaving forum enthusiasts to get mad at you. They then used meme magic to get Trump to win.
this is a very trumper take on that. firstly, 4chan’s full of nazis, was then, is now. secondly, nazis absolutely had appropriated and spammed pepe widely before that statement. thirdly the underwater basket weaving meme is an old right wing joke making fun of art degrees. fourth, i’ve never seen the meme magic shit said by anyone who wasn’t a trumper.
I sometimes think back to when Loss was first posted. I was a teenager hanging out on Shacknews and Somethingawful. The memes started pouring out, people couldn’t stop mocking it. Seemed kinda cruel to me, obviously the author was trying to share something personal and painful with his audience. But the internet was a cruel place. People just didn’t give a fuck.
I remember thinking it’ll blow over before too long. Boy howdy did I underestimate the internet.
I agree the internet is a cruel place but it’s also an extremely human response to react to tragedy with comedy. If the comic didn’t strike a chord with people in a very real way, I’m not sure people would still be finding ways to laugh at it. I mean, look at how many people cope with/joke about depression through memes. I don’t think it’s meant to be cruel, it’s just a natural human reaction to hardship and the reason it’s still around is because people do, in fact, give a very sad fuck.
To be honest i discovered this meme no so long ago, but i feel like the message and resilience of it is kind of universal. Everyone understand whats’s its essence, everyone can relate. I never though i would be the one to bring it up anywhere, but here i am, posting it, years after the original. And its still relevant!
I’d say their main goal is to keep managers busy with something to prevent them from hindering work that needs to be done to keep the place running. ;)
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