edit: now it’s a meme and we can all hug in the comments.
Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.
I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.
Totally irrelevant to your comment, keep up the strike and hold the line! Assuming you’re the real Margot Robbie and have a prolific platform. I know it’s not fair, especially to the less recognizable members but a lot of other people who are thinking about unionizing are watching the WGA and SAG strikes to see if labour can still win. It’s not just you guys, we’re all with you. Even if they’re too stupid to realize this strike is more important than a new season of NCIS. Labour winning this strike proves that labour isn’t out of the fight and capital hasn’t completely won. Stay strong! Hold the line!
Thank you.
I’d like to think even as a jaded adult this isn’t just an impersonation.
And I assume the Ken dance off scene is an allegory to the obliteration of the ego resulting in self reflection?
Ok if you had the opportunity to make Ryan Gosling do a dumb song and dance number you would have done the same thing.
It’s funny for actors to play against type because it’s unexpected. Like Leslie Nielsen in “Airplane!”, for example.
I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.
But I think it’s important that we don’t let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.
What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own “weird barbies”?
The difference is that you should enjoy things not because nothing matters in this world (that would be hedonism.), but because the world matters to you, and you will fight to make it better.
There comes a point in everybody’s life where they are faced with their own mortality and finally figure out what they are meant to do. None of us will be here forever, so, I think we should use our short time on this Earth to fight for a world where everyone is free to find their way in life, and be themselves again.
Kinda vague, but everyone is different, so, everyone will have to figure it out on their own.
I really like your first sentence. Great take, thanks for sharing.
Not funny.
Not a meme.
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Approximately 99% of stuff that gets posted here are not memes. I think you’re fighting a losing battle here.
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You know I was looking at some of the architecture down town today and thought to myself, “just think, none of this would be possible if there wasn’t someone critiquing mud huts 10000 years ago.”
Can we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their un-funny, non-memes and screenshots and whatever little harmless things in which they’ve managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
FINE.
What are the essential criteria of a meme in your view?
I would say a Twitter post isn’t one. At least scribble on an image of some.kind.
Okay, I’ve edited it so we should all be happy now
👍
Whew! All clear, it’s a meme. Pack it up, people.👮♂️👮♀️
IMHO an idea that spreads person to person, not just PSAs that are unlikely to be shared further.
So the avocado face on the bottom right of this image IS a meme. And if this Tweet turns into a copypasta, then it’s a meme.
I’ve seen this particular tweet like a dozen times now, so it’s definitely spread far and wide. Some people only think of image macros as memes, but yes the broader definition I’ve seen is essentially a viral concept.
Could we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have… whatever little harmless things in which they’ve managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
It’s being spread through communication - It’s a meme. Memes don’t have to be funny.
Did you even SEE the avocado with a face? Meme.
/s if needed…
Reminds me of where I used to live, Reddit.
You’re 100% right. But I’ve seen comics and tweets do well here, so this post isn’t going against the norm
Yep. Came for the memes. Unsubscribed for the other shit.
If there was some other place to post that would get the same traction I’d gladly put it there. But its not really that big of a deal at the end of the day
That’s what I expect a pumpkin spice in September enjoyer to say.
Sips apple cider
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All hail the meme god! Decider of what is and isn’t a meme!
yes I posted stuff that doesn’t fit the community but everyone else is doing it
The community of users collectively decides what does and doesn’t belong here
It’s called “Memes” dude, you post memes here.
You’re a Reddit refugee aren’t you
If I hear Christmas music before at least November, I will go nuclear
completely agree. people can have their decorations whenever and whatever else their heart desires, but i draw the line at christmas music
I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me
Last year local Home Depot started clearancing out Halloween decorations to make room for Christmas stuff in September.
Halloween is the only good holiday. It is the only one that maintains any connection to it’s pre modern roots. It is about giving candy to children for free fuck capitlaism. It is about enjoying everything society says is wrong. It requires some creativity in ways most people don’t get to experience the rest of the year. It invites experimentation and self expression.
Have you just never been to a club on halloween? Halloween is, by no stretch of the imagination, free from capitalist endeavors.
Those between 18 and 34 participate at the highest rate, and they end up spending the most on their costumes (capitalism).
You can like Halloween all you want, don’t kid yourself into believing that it’s somehow “pure”
Halloween is still pretty capitalistic. You have to buy the candy you are handing out, and are encouraged to purchase decorations and make your home thematic to the season
But it is still less bad than other holidays.
Letting go of the part of you that judges other people is important. It hurts, because that is one of the few avenues of control we can experience in our lives alienated by capitlaism.
Letting your self be free of those childish emotions and learning to replace them with love for your fellows is the path towards true happiness however. That is one of those weird tricks the government doesn’t want you to know. Except it is real and it works. The more negative you are about other people the more negativity you experience and the more treats you need to buy to survive. The heart of every true revolutionary is full of love.
I am judging the fuck out of nazis though and I will not stop
Tolerance for everything but the intolerant.
Yeah, you got me there that one is valid. After the revolution when all the hungry are fed and the cold are warm, then we can spend the time trying to help them grow and overcome whatever caused this. Until then however
Blown away by a message like this coming from a hexbearian.
Good message, just an odd source.
I don’t criticize people for enjoying those things, I criticize the corporations for relentlessly monetizing those things, making them insufferable and sucking all the enjoyment out of them for money.
Let people not like things.
You’re welcome to dislike something, but that doesn’t mean you need to discourage someone else from liking that thing. You can share an opinion without making it sound like it’s a sin against nature to disagree with that opinion.
Then how else am I supposed to feel superior compared to everyone else if I don’t impose my standards on them? I’m just trying to help them. It’s like you want to live in a world where people don’t know they’re loosers. That’s dumb, you’re dumb. /s
That’s quite literally sounds like a close family member.
I can discourage or encourage whatever I want. I didn’t elect you king of the discourse or agree to your rules
Criticizing things is fine but there is in fact a line where you become the asshole for doing it too hard or in a bad faith way. Or targeting individual people (particularly minors). The PSL thing is a good example because while we can criticize the comedication of it, some of the discourse around it is really misogynistic.
I literally don’t care about being an asshole, that’s fine. I can criticize whatever I want
You should probably care about things like misogyny and harassing minors lol. Which is what my post was about.
Making up something I’m not doing to get mad about
I wasn’t accusing you of it. We aren’t in DMs right now. It was a general statement about something I think is true, that people can use "criticizing things’ as a guise for assholishness and even bigotry. Not saying you’re doing that.
Nor did I elect you king of what I’m allowed to enjoy. Go ahead and police people’s thoughts if you insist, but don’t expect to be included by people you willfully offend.
“Discourage” and “disallow” are two different things.
Go ahead and police people’s thoughts if you insist, but don’t expect to be included by people you willfully offend.
I will, and you can’t exclude me lmao. Deal with it, you have to deal with critiques and disagreements, how terrible for you
people you willfully offend.
Lmao anyone offended because someone criticised their latest marvel slop or videogame deserves to be their head shoved in a toilet.
If intolerant bigots could read that they’d be very upset
Edit: and here they come to out themselves
bigotry and intolerance are when you criticize my treats
These people want a perfect protected treat echo chamber where they can consoom disney shit endlessly without anyone troubling them with “critiques” or “disagreement”
Jokes on you. I think Disney is releasing shit after shit release
And you should be able to say that as loudly and as often as you like!
Eh that depends. The reactionary ragebait Youtubers who do this should all be thrown into a pit together and I’m suspicious of anyone echoing certain talking points about certain media because of them.
Wow why you yukking Disney’s yum?
Sorry but I like [thing] and therefore [thing] must be held inviolate from even the mildest criticism.
What criticism even is there against PSLs and Halloween decorations??
PSLs are gross, overly sugarladen drinks and emblematic of both crass consumerism and America’s obsession with unhealthy food. Halloween decorations are gaudy and an eyesore and also emblematic of crass consumerism, while also representing a non-trivial amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste that just winds up buried in landfills every year.
Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America’s crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.
PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.
lattes are french and therefore bourgeois, real proles drink black coffee or take trucker pills.
No, not flavored coffee. PSLs. Different things. It’s like saying “pork sandwiches” when someone brings up the McRib. It’s not that simple. Food has a cultural component tied to its manufacture and identification. And, similar to the McRib, Starbucks style PSLs are food that probably shouldn’t exist and which only does as a byproduct of market capitalism. They’re the Lacanian ‘object a’ - an empty, manufactured falseness. We don’t desire the thing itself, but the thing whose absence it symbolizes. What you’re really consuming when you drink a PSL or a McRib is its innate mechanical predictability.
Have you considered the possibility that some people like the taste of pumpkin spice lattes? Or do you just get to dismiss everything you personally dislike as “The Lacanian ‘object a?’” You could substitute literally any food or drink for PSLs in what you said, it’s completely meaningless.
It’s just empty words and phrases for you to feel superior to others based on what treats you enjoy or don’t enjoy.
But what about the shriveled flower of joy I get from shitting on their happiness
Suffer.
We already are…that’s kinda the point.
It is a lie. Reject false happiness. Enjoy the community of helping your fellow worker.
I mean a lot of hexbear, and Lemmy in general, is like that. Just shitting on other people’s happiness over the most trivial of things, bringing out 500 reasons why thing sucks. And it’s done in a hypocritical manner too, if you were to apply their own logic to things they liked and criticise it, they’d get really angry or give you that fake “I don’t care” attitude that everyone can see through. This happens with every discussion about “treats” on hexbear in particular.
a little meme
Me shitting on other people’s “treats”
Other people shitting on my “treats”What treats do you have in mind?
Sigh
I’ll go set up the trolley. You wait for me by the track switcher.
Ill tie up some bystanders I guess…
I just want to end misspelling “avocado” .
It’s like “Gandhi”. Seems like freaking no one on the internet knows how to spell that name.
Ghandi?
Gone-dee
I once turned in a project on that very individual at secondary school in which I had his name misspelled the entire way through.
It did not go well.
The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.
It’s incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn’t going anywhere.
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You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don’t take away my joy. That does.
Also harm isn’t why people care. Its the erosion of well defined seasons in order to push corporate products on us and in the end we get fucked up melding of events like remembrance day while people are preoccupied trying to get Christmas shopping in.
It turns what was once cultural events into corporate buy shit quarters. Because its easier for Walmart to sell Christmas stuff in October then wait until it’s the season.
Its a loss and erosion of an important shared culture in favor of only corporate sponsored ones.
This is the reason. It’s all just so commercial now and it never ends!
How does me putting an inflatable grim reaper in my yard in February take away your joy?
Nfi but this comment just brought me great joy. I’m grinning.
If just one person does it, it doesn’t. But there are always more.
Wild how happiness only seems to exist in commodities
Exactly my thoughts: work, consume, die.
What a fucking miserable fate for a human life.
At the end of the day, we’re still animals that like to fancy ourselves smart.
Exactly. It’s the animal parts of our nature that we should be relentlessly chasing.
Love, sex, dancing, laughing. To see the sun rise and watch it set again on a cool autumn day. To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Wow, that devolved quickly.
Many of you can’t recite the 1982 masterpiece Conan the Barbarian by heart and it shows.
This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️
The drug cartels receive a substantial amount of money from avocado production (weird but apparently true)
Cinnamon is carcinogenic
Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)
Halloween is a celebration of consumerism, microplastics and diabetes.
I’m sure there’s a dark side to d&d but I can’t think of it right now.
You’re welcome
I’m sure there’s a dark side to d&d but I can’t think of it right now.
It’s satan.
Source: I grew up in the 80s.
Praise satan!
Cinnamon is carcinogenic??? You know what, I don’t care. I love cinnamon, and this propaganda won’t change my mind. I’m going to plug my ears and go “lalalalalala”
As far as I can tell, there isn’t any evidence for this in humans. Enjoy your cinnamon.
oh is it one of those “feed a mouse ungodly amounts of the substance to see if it causes cancer” studies?
Oh those are my favorite. “We gave a mouse 3x it’s body weight in this substance and it got cancer. This must be carcinogenic!”
Thank you, I will!
So I had to look that up and ask a friend versed in nutrition. Apparently no adverse findings wrt Ceylon cinnamon yet.
That’s why your body rejects eating a spoon full of cinnamon as seen in that stupid challenge a few years ago.
WEF tried to depopulate the western countries with that viral meme
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My uncle roger keeps thwarting them though
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You forgot the sugar levels of pumpkin spice, which make Mountain Dew look like a health drink.
So i can enjoy one guilt free?
Pocket sand, you’ve been upgraded to pocket cinnamon
Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)
Huh?
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Rofl. I’m so relieved. I thought this was going to e akin to “teletubbies are infecting our children with a gay agenda!”
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Halloween is my favorite time of the year!
My first thought was “It’s never too early for Halloween”. I can understand hating early Christmas decorations, because Christmas is an all-out capitalist fuckfest with irritating jingles. But who hates Halloween?
Honestly it’s probably in part BECAUSE OF the damn early Christmas decorations that Halloween stuff has been expanding earlier into the fall/summer. Because by mid October you have to wade through a sea of holly jolly bullshit to get to it. Anyone with an issue with the early Halloween stuff, go take it up with Christmas for trying to annex October and not staying on their fucking side of the 31st.
people like christmas and november sucks. Christmas has expanded because everyone wanted it to. Halloween sucks as a holiday and frankly October would be better if it was Christmas
Halloween sucks as a holiday
I’ve never seen such a bad opinion from a Hexbear user.
I guess this is one of those YMMW situations. I’m sure Halloween can be fun and cool in America but outside of America it really sucks.
Where I’m from Halloween was not a thing until ten or fifteen years ago when toy stores decided they wanted to use the opportunity to market ugly plastic decorations and shitty costumes. There’s none of the cultural background that gives celebrations like this meaning and it all feels fake, like people are pretending to be Americans rather than taking part in a genuine celebration.
Celebrating Halloween as a non-American also has a tiresome aspect of cultural imperialism in it. Adopting stuff from other cultures is fine but why does it have to be stuff from burgerland every single time? Why can’t we do Dias de los muertos or Chinese New year instead?
Ah, yeah, I should say my opinion is entirely based around my experience as an American. It’s pretty deeply ingrained here- I mean imagine telling an American that they have to tolerate children running around at 9pm in the dark, they can’t drive their cars around because the streets are clogged with those children and furthermore, they need to stock up on candy because they will be giving it away to the kids.
And there is a culture tradition of vandalizing the homes of people who are stingy about the candy.
If it were new here it’d never even catch on, just like public libraries.
yeah, new wrecker just dropped
it’s just a bit underwhelming. Kids knock on your door and you watch a scary movie. You don’t even get a day off and it’s not an all day thing it’s just early night
Yeah but you get to dress your kid up as a velociraptor or a ghost buster or something and then interact with people who live near you in a friendly way which doesn’t exist outside of Halloween in this atomized hellscape. Plus it’s way more than one day, I’m putting giant spiders all over my place for at least a month. The webs are hell to take down so I might even leave em up through November out of laziness lol
that is true I just wish we culturally made more of a thing of it. If we are to treat it seriously as a holiday it should involve days off work and events
I mean you’re entitled to your opinion but surely this whole thread is evidence to the fact that people also enjoy Halloween. Halloween extending earlier doesn’t really affect anything, there’s not much in the way of holidays in September or hell, even August. Nobody is gonna claim pumpkins and candy are ruining Labor Day. Whereas beyond a certain point, Christmas starts to steamroll other holidays like some sort of tinsel covered Akira. I don’t think it’s unfair to want to enjoy Halloween on it’s own without being inundated with Mariah Carey.
Also we gotta put the line somewhere before it just invades the whole bloody year. You’ve got most of two freaking months already.
fuck christmas it’s a waste of fucking time
fuck santa he’s just out to get your dime
gasp how dare you
All 3 months of it
