Life of a meme - Alex Krokus

This is what I hate about the homunculi of twitter company personalities. “Hahaa, did you see the way Walmart clapped back at IBM?“ Humanizing vast, faceless companies puppeted by sociopathic business majors triggers every rage response that my body can muster. Please, shut the fuck up

[Off-topic] Your display name is hilarious. It reminds me old viruses with double extensions, like hotpix.jpg.vbs

Thanks, I always hope people get a little giggle out of the momentary confusion. I’m surprised whenever people are legitimately fooled. Just click my name, I’m @gullible, you silly billies!

I assume its not showing your set name on voyager?

You got me last week, I did a double-take.

Damn, that got me! I was about to comment being like “woah! We get threads here?” when I finally noticed.

I think Boobzilla is an excellent one

If every MBA on the planet were suddenly teleported to Planet MBA…would anyone really miss them?

Make sure not to unknowingly send the telephone cleaners too.

There goes the planet…

Or the advertising account executives.

You could make a religion out of that

Hail LinkedIn, full of grace.

unrelated but “the homunculus of Twitter” is a good nickname for Elon

Now I’m having visions of the high priestess X’twitterquatl sacrificing Mayan children on a pyramid as lightning flashes in an attempt to animate their engine of destruction; The Homonculus of X’twitter.

People propagate this though. Company twitter accounts posting derivative meme shit is what people reshare. Most people consider Apple/Tesla/Pelaton/Nintendo to be their buddies and love it when their buddy seems like a down to earth, regular guy. It’s cringe.

I’ll start believing brands are people when they start getting jailed for their (numerous) crimes.

i wish they would all act like the faceless industrial complexes out there

you don’t see this from stuff like Caterpillar

Why are you on Twitter?

I’m allowed to hate things I’m not part of. My silent malice does little to dissuade folks from posting examples to lemmy

Show me where Walmart hurt you.

Points to the desolate wasteland of dead small businesses and underpaid workers subsisting on welfare unable to even afford shopping at walmart

You guys really need to have some effective government that will enact normal minimal wage and anti monopoly laws. But I wonder if the most people are poor then why they don’t vote for a party that represents them and wants to raise or set minimum wage (whichever applies)?

The logic says that everyone should vote for someone that will better their conditions and yet it looks like there’s some weird shit going on where only well off, rich people vote left (whatever left means in the specific county). It’s completely backwards

I vote left too and classic example of this and honestly I think I won’t next time cause it is not in my interest. Though centrist party here would probably be something like warren in USA

Actually I remember now why I find these comments jarring is because I don’t live in the USA so I don’t have this inherent hate for capitalism but it is understandable in that context or anywhere where people are stuck in quasi democratic situation of permanent superliberal gov thanks to two party system

But they were all of them deceived, for another meme was made…

Sorry beforehand for the intrusive politics, but it’s kind of unavoidable for me in this case.

This is almost a textbook example of the Marxist concept of alienation. Once a brand takes over a meme, people are alienated from

the meme itself - because nobody wants to sound like an ad board
from the creative process behind the meme - because creating a new meme gets that sour taste in the mouth, as you feel that corporations might hijack it
from human nature and themselves - because memes are a form of self-expression
from each other - because memes are intrinsically social and it’s yet another social link being removed by the corporation hijacking the meme

I’d say the outcome is alienation; the process as the comic demonstrates it is a kind of recuperation, the process through which ideas (especially subversive or dangerous ones) are neutered and commodified.

I swear I can find an applicable Marx excerpt for almost anything. His work has strengthened my anti-capitalist conversations a ton.

Well, that’s what you get when an old style journalist has a knack for philosophy. I heavily recommend his texts, even to non-communists - not as some sort of political proselytism from my part, but because the content is useful/interesting even if you aren’t a communist, you know?

Maybe because people keep attributing concepts that have been around for thousands of years to him lol

Multiple people can have their own variations of a critique. Crisis Theory is a good example.

You…think Marx invented the concept of alienation?

Yes! He also invented airplanes, internet shitposting, Santa Klaus, and Brezeln.

I’m joking of course. No, he didn’t invent the concept, he took it from Hegel. However that specific usage of the concept is the one from Marxism.

The fact that the word “alienation” already existed doesn’t mean Marx didn’t have a specific theory about alienation in specific contexts that ended being pretty influential for philosophy. Like, holy shit, Marx’s theory of alienation isn’t obscure. Do a minimum of research before spouting ignorant bullshit.

I went to my city’s pride parade 10 years ago and this past year, huge difference. Everything is commercial and expensive now and it’s just full of corporate floats

This makes me wonder: what exactly happened to the Coffin Dance meme, was it assimilated by some brand so to fell in disuse? Did the Coffin Dance guys danced with the Coffin Dance meme’s coffin?

Why do people expect something to be funny forever? Most memes are barely funny in context. Then they are ironically funny, and then they find a place on Facebook where they spend eternity. Why are le rage comic not funny? People loved them. People who post memes now were like 4 when rage comics were cool.

Same thing that happened to the Harlem shake

Not sure those are one-to-one. I remember just about every local news station doing the Harlem Shake, but as far as I can tell not one has reenacted the coffin dance (but I’d love to be proven wrong).

It became a Fortnite emote at one point. Or maybe it was PUBG. I forget. But shortly afterwards that was the end of that.

Wasn’t Mr Peanut killed for that and was a huge thing? https://media.tenor.com/RK_kAumki6YAAAAC/dance-coffin.gif

Trends in general, be it fashion or hit music or whatever, come and go. It’s human nature. Memes follow the same pattern so they fall out of style/out of heavy use after a while.

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