And I Quote...

[butisit-art]

The other day my grandad said "have you heard of GIFs??!!" Me:...yes grandad Him: I read an article about them in the independent. Verrrry interesting Me: ... Him: they are saying that soon they could replace LANGUAGE!!! Me:

[lynnth2014]

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

I’d like to clarify:

dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain. 

dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)

so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.

but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing

in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement. 

so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.

related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this

tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal

[kasael-deactivated20250929]

a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:

you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:

[chrisdornerfanclub]

shitposting is the deconstruction of hegemonic discourse through the use of the absurd and surrealism.

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.

As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.

[sam-keeper]

My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:

and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:

And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.

[mizulyn]

I think you might be onto something…

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Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.

[blackwoolncrown]

This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.

[play-dolls]

Love

[unicornempire]

My grandmother took several classes on Dadaism, and I attended them with her growing up. Then I took plenty of art history when I got my BFA in Illustration.

This post is 100% legit in their observations. I’m seriously impressed.

Duchamp’s Urinal was one of the most famous, well known Dada pieces ever made, and he made it purely to prove that literally anything can be art. It was all about ignoring the Establishment’s rules of what art was and wasn’t, - this is exactly the same thing happening in real time.

[ginocchie]

i love tumblr tbh

[thomasbukoass]

@vogueltalia

[butisit-art]

I just spent ages making this gif

[demegoddess]

[vrueppellii]

I will never not reblog this.

[heyumdonttalktome-deactivated20]

I’d like to add that this is Japan’s infamous “Suicide Forest” this man is standing in and talking about. The same forest that Natalie Dormer’s newest film will involve, which is an insensitive fest of ghouls and gore in the midst of a place of beauty and sadness.

Do not support “The Forest.” It’s nothing but a slap in the face to all those who have died in the real deal.

[dapperdick]

I strongly suggest that those not educated about this forest watch the documentary that this gifset is from. It’s beautiful and tragic and something that I truly believe people need to see in order to understand the grievances against that gross movie.

[sixpenceee]

Self-portraits of William Utermohlen, chronicling the progression of his Alzheimer’s.

[babyknivez]

reblog if you’re part of the holy trinity of unrecognized and dismissed sexualities

bisexual, pansexual, and asexual 

[sleepyreyrey]

Strong words to use on a Resume

If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.

Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down “Have supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.”

I hope this is helpful to you.

[rampyourvoice]

Now this is a great resume list of action words.  I love that it’s broken down by types of jobs.  Saving for future use.

[thewolveswithin]

Take away my sadness Fill my life with gladness Ease my troubles, that’s what you do

Happy birthday to the most amazing actor, musician, producer, director and publisher. To the most humble, sweet, cool, caring, beautiful, precious, inspirational and lovable man of all time. I love you more then words can say. Thank you for existing, what would the world be without you? I hope you have a beautiful day, you deserve it angel (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

[beardyonce]

[128k]

💸👼🏼💕

[officialnaomicampbell]

[comedesgarcons]

delete this

[ineedmorelube]

wakey wakey eggs and bakey

[mermoose]

but I’m a vegan

[ineedmorelube]

wakey wakey vegetables and sadness

[memewhore]

[dennys]

[colddeath-deactivated20190307]

[studyswifts-blog]

Not sure whether to use ‘affect’ or ‘effect’?

Affect is the Action

Effect is the End result

[sometimes-studying-blog]

Reblog to save a life