#deep-fried memes

[awawawabot]

amen. Remember when everybody was posting Deep-Fried memes and nobody knew what salt and pepper noise was despite having seen it pinned to every comment section that’s ever existed

[oysters-aint-for-me]

In the way that vaporwave is both a visual and auditory aesthetic, I think “deep-fried memes” and dubstep belong in the same sort of artistic genre. Here are my reasons:

They both embrace/rely on the aesthetics of (intentional) glitches, distortions, and mistakes

They’re both pretty harsh on the senses

They make nonsense a priority; the more nonsensical, the better

They both are built on a foundation of sampling/remixing pre-existing artworks (music, sounds, photos, texts, memes)

They’re both created almost entirely by using digital technologies

They’re both sort of scary at times? Or maybe “threatening” is a better adjective. There’s something kind of ominous about them

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[akumeoy]

>2017