anthology of meme theory and criticism, 3 ed.

if i knew i was having company i would have set out the nice linens. 28, she/her.

[valtsv]

if you ever disagree with anything i say online just remember that i'm a pretentious faux intellectual and a pointless animal who should be shot every time i post

[memetheoryandcriticism]

nude pork dicks are the champs

[memetheoryandcriticism]

[astralprogesterone]

if there was a band called the beach boys now theyd have a female bassist or theyd be called beach bikini girls and itd be one or two men with beards and laptops . or theyd be called the beach boys and one of them would transition and theyd change their name to TBB

[vgadvisor]

[oleskyfm]

This is a worker’s reprieve checkpoint. I only want you to engage with this post if you’re shirking your duties on the clock right now. We are going to make it. We are going to text and scroll on company time. We are going to find a corner or bathroom to linger in while something needs doing. Get some!

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Hardcore Band Encourages Fans to Remove Man’s Banana Costume, Fan Responds

A man in banana costume was striped by concertgoers after...

This has been somewhat of a firestorm on social media for a couple days now. People are being ridiculous about it. Some are saying he completely deserved it for being an annoying dumbass. Others are comparing the band and crowd to rapists. But I think the most important thing to discuss is how this stems from the recently-exploding capital H Hardcore scene, which punk rock fans have mostly sneered at for decades now due to its heavy basis on corny macho bullshit. We are in a period of extremely conservative gender politics. Masculinity in particular is going through a kind of rebirth right now and the popularity of this "tough guy" hardcore is an example of that. This is just what you get out of playing into so-called traditional masculinity, or, what I think is more accurately called patriarchal masculinity. It's expressed in the major shifts in broader moshing culture that accompanied the rise of this scene in the last several years. Moshing becomes more about a chance to hurt people. Crowdkilling has been majorly recuperated. Violence affirms masculinity. Here, we see the leader of a band in this scene explicitly inciting what is undeniably an act of violence -- granted, a restrained one -- because he felt the seriousness of his tough-guy band, and, by extension, his masculinity challenged by a guy in a stupid outfit. And if you're a masculine tough guy, you mediate conflict through violence. Because this is all about stupid macho bullshit. And it's way more popular now than ever because we live in a depravedly gendered shithole of a civilization.

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

[charseraph]

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

Legendary Ford and Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, the man responsible for the Ford Mustang, Pinto, Chrysler K-Car, and the entire concept of the minivan, used twitter for 34 minutes on April 30, 2009 and decided it was too much for him.

[coughloop]

I'm on the information superhighway getting road head

[william-s-churros]

i think i saw a movie like this once

[maidslime]

Ok I needed to know the story and

Guy makes a really stupid decision and gets in a car accident -> no real damage from accident but insurance goes up -> starts beating himself up over his stupid decision -> gets depressed -> starts to realize he's single and had crash been worse he'd die alone -> realizes he's never had a relationship or even a crush and starts wondering what he'd want out of a relationship -> starts to realize he doesn't really like girls so he thinks he must be gay -> realizes he likes girls and boys about the same amount, so he must be bi -> later realizes that "same amount" is none at all -> he's ace

[captain-price-returns]

He’s in league with the Thalmor

[memetheoryandcriticism]

One thousand generations giant motherfucking salad

[scavengedluxury]

Cigarette packing machine, Pécs Tobacco Factory, 1980. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[piratelordtoga]

[contextfreepatentart]

[gameover03909987-deactivated202]

what am i looking at

[duncebento]

well it’s covered up

[powerburial]

seal her into the heart of the mountain