every time i find more of my memes or screencap art cross-posted to pinterest without any acknowledgement of who made them (me) or where they came from (my blog), it just reinforces for me how little respect or appreciation fandom broadly has for the people out here making the stuff that they like.
this may come as a shock to you, but there is a surprising degree of forethought and work that goes into making every single one of the stupid shitpost memes i post to this blog. i don’t just slap a random text post arbitrarily across a character screenshot chosen at random. the text post has to say something thematically relevant to the character or characters i’m applying it to. the scene the characters are in has to be relevant, or subverting the text post in an interesting way. the reaction images i choose in the second or third panels have to keep that conversation going in an interesting way to make the joke land the way i want it to. i will sometimes spend upwards of an hour on one meme, okay, or i will rewatch an entire fucking arc of a show just to grab the right screenshot showcasing the right expression at the right time.
tl;dr it takes work. the result may be silly clownery shenanigans that make you laugh, but that is the whole fucking point. i made it because i wanted to make you laugh, and you did. mission accomplished. it may not be viewed as “real” art the way fanart and fic are, but disrespectfully, fuck you if you feel that way.
“ray, anyone could make these memes” sure. you didn’t, tho. i did. so did other people who put in the work to make the stuff that makes you laugh in fandom.
