Cruizer wrote:
Traditional I'm not a big user of meme's and didn't really understand their appeal. A meme is a picture with words underneath - if a picture paints a thousand words, how much more can 7 words under a picture add? (Answer: 7 words totaling 1007 words) - but I'm starting to think they allow us to see deeply into the psyche of humanity.
- Quite an interesting article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the ... 11fc5c38b5
- it interesting as then the same as today cats are unvoluntering political commentors in the human theatre. I dislike the one with the cat "demanding the right to vote" not because animals voting and women voting are false equivalence - but it does show human attitude to animals being given the most-basic democratic rights hasn't progressed much today then from 100 years ago when a horse trampled a suffraget to death for horse's right to vote. Also this form of sexism paved the way for more modern sexism (which I eluded to in bullet-point 2)
- I dislike Minion meme's which seemed to be everywhere a few years ago. Our father's generation had the smurfs as go-to images to express any point about anything; we get the Minions. The Minion's are basically like emoji's, in that they customizable enough to project any message (i.e. where people might use Garfield to say "I hate Monday's" - there's no skill in using a minion). Also basically nice people used to forward innocent "cute" Minion meme's on social media - but ass-holes picked up on this and tried to subvert it by using Meme's in horrible ironic-but-basically-as-harmful-as-actual-sincere-sexism, which isn't very nice.
- I quite enjoyed The meme's created by the TSF in the OP some were quite funny. But it's inteesting that these meme's in this time of selfies and where we're quite inwardly focussed featured pictures of their faces or avartar. Compare this with man's earliest meme - the cave painting, which showed animal life in motion realistically and were more focussed with the sky, nature and the world around them wasn't really interested in showing images of themselves. I think this says something about our time and being alive in this age.......but I'm not sure what.
reading this made me want to punch through my computer screen multiple times
nice one m8
Statistics: Posted by Vtheyoshi — Tue Jan 03, 2017 12:36 am