• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    Lord, I actually googled that to see if it was real. These are the times in which we live.

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    My uncle is worried that us vaccinated people are going to spread something to him. Like something about the vaccine makes you dangerous.

    I don’t know I don’t even care to be honest.

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      The vaccine spreads our liberal spider attraction. It makes spiders look all spider in their spider way. I mean spiders spider so spiders, you spider? Spider spider spider.

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        I see your point, but I don’t fully spider where you’re getting your spider spider.

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      I’ve had the vaccine, and I can conform it does in fact make you dangerous.

      The vaccine has made me punch several anti-vaxxers in the genitalia.

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    Just saying: the use of even sexier would imply that spiders are already sexy lol

    Come on baby, shake that web weaver!

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      Finding spiders sexy: That’s fine. Wanting spiders to be more sexy: YOU SLUT

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      I mean, if you don’t like that, then the op should post the image and caption without the fan fiction about your uncle too. I’m not sure the meme format is adding anything to the picture and half a meme format isn’t adding half as much when it was already adding nothing.

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          A meme is greater than the sum of its parts. If we don’t like the delivery mechanism the meme provides then I don’t see why we would pick and choose parts of the meme. If we remove the hypothetical big red circle, the meme is a different greater whole. Possibly a different flavor of the same meme, but possibly a different meme entirely.

          For me personally, the meme seems to be evoking the image of a family Christmas dinner, whose awkward silence is broken by your Uncle. It’s an interesting delivery mechanism for the image of Hannity with the caption. As I already said, I’m not sure all of this scene building really does anything to add to an already absurd image. If anything I was inclined to believe that it was purely a parody, instead of a thing he actually said, until I read a comment that explained they googled it and he did actually say it.

          I wouldn’t say removing the big red circle breaks the image, but I would say that if you’re going to the trouble of removing the big red circle why not grab the even larger clown hair why you’re at it. edit: typos

          edit: Looks like it was a fake according to Reuters.

          https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2PC1WI/

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            I’m not sure all of this scene building really does anything to add to already absurd image.

            Almost never.

            Which is why the high-minded gestalt theory faff about this JPEG is really missing the point.

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              Almost never.

              Then what would removing one part of the meme accomplish? Better to just post the image, saves time and doesn’t bring any unnecessary imagery along with it. What is the remaining part of the meme getting us if we leave your Uncle in?

              Which is why the high-minded gestalt theory faff about this JPEG is really missing the point.

              No, I think it gets exactly at the point. The real question is does the meme as a whole succeed as a delivery mechanism for content, since the “nobody” part does have meaning.

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                ‘Why’d you stick an ugly spoiler on your car?’

                ‘Well otherwise it’s just be the wheels.’

                since the “nobody” part does have meaning.

                It really doesn’t.

                It adds almost nothing.

                That’s how useless it is, basically all of the time.

                It’s a frustratingly overused bit of fluff, as distinct from the highly specific context that always comes after it.

                This is the same shit the internet went through when all image macros apparently had to be demotivational posters, or advice animals, or rage comics. Like we couldn’t imagine a punchline without repeating the same setup. Some people just thought that’s what images are. It comes in a rectangle, it appears on your screen, and it begins with “le me.”

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                  It really doesn’t.

                  It does the same kind of scene building as your Uncle.

                  It adds almost nothing.

                  That’s how useless it is, basically all of the time.

                  It’s a frustratingly overused bit of fluff, as distinct from the highly specific context that always comes after it.

                  This is the same shit the internet went through when all image macros apparently had to be demotivational posters, or advice animals, or rage comics. Like we couldn’t imagine a punchline without repeating the same setup. Some people just thought that’s what images are. It comes in a rectangle, it appears on your screen, and it begins with “le me.”

                  How does this reasoning not apply to the your Uncle portion of the meme? That wasn’t a rhetorical question by the way.

                  Shitposts are meme plus content. Without content, the shitpost is a meme template. Without a meme, the content isn’t necessarily as funny as it could have been. In this case the content is already a screenshot with a fake quote. It didn’t need the extra dressing before it that the meme provided. The best shitposts blend content and meme together, so they can’t really be separated. The image already does this so posting the image by itself would have stood on its own two legs in this case. I think I would have still come to the same conclusion, that it was fake, barring misleading comments of course.

                  I think we largely agree on this. But were we seem to differ is where to cut the line so to speak. I think your argument is suggesting the nobody portion, because its ineffectiveness at delivering content, I want to remove the entire meme because of its ineffectiveness at delivering content and only post the content. edit: typo

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    Look, all I’m saying is that if we have to have spiders, why not make them sexy??

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      11 months ago

      🔊 🎸🎵🎶🎼

      Hey hey we’re the liberals,

      And people say we liberal around,

      But we’re too busy <s>singin’</s> upholding human rights

      To put anybody down

      🔊 🎸🎵🎶🎼

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        Yea fuck liberals in the political sense outside of america (since they basicalky use it to say leftist). Liberalism is capitalism. Anarcho communism is where it’s at

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Would smash Arachne, if she were DTF.

    Between myths of Arachne and Medusa, Athena seems to be a bitch and not very wise at all. I suspect there’s actually some context going on.

    Though in Medusa’s case, she was a gorgon before her human origin during the New 52s, and the Gorgoneion that adorns Aegis predates the whole Perseus thing. (Gorgoneions were a ward against evil from times immemorial before the oceans drank Atlantis and Poseidon was the all-father dude).