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Meme improvement rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

From https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbreadgolem.bsky.social/post/3kj6shj7q3z2r. There's also a blank template there to make your own.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

Nope, I won't be changing your mind because you are correct.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 24 points 1 year ago

This is better

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

(Bluesky post is registration-walled and registration is invite only)

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I didn't realize Bluesky wouldn't show the images to unregistered viewers

[-] dukk@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Some posts work, but you can limit your account visibility to logged in users.

[-] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 23 points 1 year ago

Crowder says stupid words specifically designed to provoke a reaction from people.

196ers react to it.

we had a phrase for how to respond to this type of person/provocation, back in the day. something about food and trolls... but it's long forgotten 😐️

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

I always preferred the "bait" analogy when describing these tactics.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the same analogy originally. The verb "troll" means "To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat".

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago

oh shit I never realised that. I always thought it meant like the ogre kind of troll

[-] quams69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seriously, I grew up on sm forums where people would constantly say don't feed the trolls. Shame society at large didn't get the memo

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I can assure you he has genuine fans who don't see what he does as trolling

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Sold and saved.

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

The original meme was mocking him, but just like the Chuck Norris memes, people will be too stupid to realize that.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of people have no idea who he is. That doesn't make them stupid.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

I, for one, encountered the meme before I learned it was Crowder. Now I'm glad to have a Calvin version.

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They aren’t stupid. The people who think that this meme is pointing out how smart the person sitting at the table are stupid.

[-] quams69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not stupidity though right? It's poes law. People simply can't tell what is or isn't satire; is the funny looking guy at the desk smart? Dumb? Arrogant? There's no way to tell if you don't know who he is (most people don't pay attention to losers like crowder) so people have to make a base assumption based on their already existing perceptions.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

The Chuck Norris memes originated on SomethingAwful as Vin Diesel memes anyway but that was almost twenty years ago so nobody is going to remember that

[-] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Plenty of people have stairs in their house

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Neither does Drake. The Geordie LaForge one is just better, anyway.

[-] BillDaCatt@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

So that's what that guy's name is! Never knew before. Thanks!

Still don't really know who he is. Also don't care.

[-] Mint@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

A piece of shit who's right-wing grifter

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Also abused his ex-wife! Real classy, fella.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

And has come out against the concept of divorce because his wife divorced him

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't this still the meme format? Just without the original picture?

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 year ago

Yes it's an alternative for the same format, just minus Stephen Crowder. The post is saying that Stephen Crowder doesn't deserve to be the meme format and so uses Calvin instead

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Change my mind: $5

[-] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 3 points 1 year ago

Is being a meme template a good thing?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

How’s it feel?

But really: it’ll lead to “origin of [meme]” searches which will lead to some number of people consuming the guy’s content.

[-] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago

Mid tbh.

But really: true. I guess I associate this meme with clowning on him but it doesn't get used that way as much now, and Calvin is probably better because of that.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, let's keep making fun of people for saying stupid shit.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Using it like that will not help.

It gives a different meaning to the original, so it becomes a different meme.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Bill Waterson wouldn't like this so that's a pass from me.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ehhhhhh. I won't follow you there.
A) what he didn't like was crass commercialization, something guaranteed to ultimately subvert his intent and integrity. Nobody's making money off of this and nobody would mistake it for coming from Watterson himself. I'd be against selling this on a t-shirt... but not a single-run personal-use silkscreen.
B) I'm not worried about this hurting his feelings.

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