Don’t Let Your Memes Be Dreams

Came here to attack and I’m honestly having such a good time right now || Header by @toovski || Background by @majuandrad

[enpr-ss]

Bdubs' voice continues to have so much range

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[phantomrose96]

Wayward musing here but I'm thinking about how storage of images is far more expensive than storage of text. And storage of videos is far more expensive than storage of images. And--bringing compute into the mix--the constant churn of AI interaction is likely far far more expensive than managing video.

And financial sense is never ever what drove social media compete, considering their business model is far more to the pattern of lobotomized moths flocking to the same shiny flame. But we ARE being driven to a predominantly short-form-video and AI-generated-content landscape and? Who pays the bills. How do we pay the bills? Because the customers, we, are going to be holding the bag in due time.

The internet hasn't been 'free' in a very very long time, but what are we barreling toward? What advertiser pays enough once Google stops eating the cost of Youtube losses and AI content? What's the subscription price for an internet of slop and short-form content?

[phantomrose96]

Tumblr, sad unprofitable wretch of a website, might be skirting by under-heel as--being a predominantly text-based website--our storage and upkeep costs are negligible on the global social media scale. Even with ~15 years of global content, it's probably an order of magnitude or two beneath the cost of video giants and AI slop factories.

And polite low-maintenance doesn't keep the lights on forever, but it might be what's kept the lights on til now. The storage of every text post I've ever made probably costs a fraction of one Sora2 video.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[daveedmee]

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

[phantomrose96]

Personally? I would never deny Hiromu Arakawa her right to a short bratty braided blond character in a kickass red coat

[phantomrose96]

Invent a look this iconic and I think you should get to use it in every series.

[kibumkim]

[ot3]

no hate to op at all im screenshotting this for the sake of Making My Own Post instead of adding a subjective contradictory opinion to theirs. but i just can not relate to this way of thinking at all. when something everyone has told me is really good turns out to be really good im overjoyed. i think its awesome when things are good and they get attention for being good. the other option is that only bad shit ever gets popular and that would be a dark reality to live in indeed... the joy i get from being a contrarian hater is always a consolation prize for not getting to actually experience something good, which is always my main goal. i consider this an important part of the hater's ethos

[patches-dark-souls]

haterism is basic game theory

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[maxinevee]

Bloom 🌸

[viralfrog]

[littlegingermochipie]

lmao the guys are indonesian so basically what they said throughout the video is "le, le, le! oper, lae!" (le, le, le! pass it to me, lae!) and then "masuk! masuk! masuk!" (get it inside! get it inside! get it inside!)

note: this funny video made by user ahmaddolisir on instagram

[shegs]

I FOUMDH IT

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pmv里的片段