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This meme shows Rick from “Rick and Morty” pulling up the wallpaper to expose something behind it. There has been a lot of controversy about public figures, including President Trump, using language like “Chinese virus” to describe the Coronavirus. Some people don’t find this kind of phrasing dangerous or harmful to Asian American’s despite increasing numbers of racially motivated attacks against Asian Americans.
This meme features the painting “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” with Donald Trump/ Putin’s face. This meme is meant to comment on Trump’s proposed border wall as well as his notorious relationship with Putin. The border wall and his relationship with Putin are two issues highly covered by the media, so I thought they would be an effective way to comment on American politics.
This meme is from the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” which is ironic considering Debord’s description of the spectacle and the way it forces us to compare ourselves against the backdrop of society’s valuation of status, money, etc. "Debord describes the spectacle as capitalism’s instrument for distracting and pacifying the masses...It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser...The spectacle reduces reality to an endless supply of commodifiable fragments, while encouraging us to focus on appearances. For Debord, this constituted an unacceptable “degradation” of our lives” (Morgan and Purje).
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Question about “Internet Memes: What if we’re not just Gags”
Do you think that for a meme to be most effective, the image should be widely recognizable? In other words, should the viewer already have a preexisting opinion/ exposure to that image?
Question about “Keywords in Remix Studies”
In the reading, the authors point out that a meme can be read in multiple ways and understood differently depending on the viewer. Can it be dangerous or damaging if these memes are then used as political or social tools for harmful ideologies like xenophobia, homophobia, etc?
