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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 239 points 2 months ago

This is what I hate about the homunculi of twitter company personalities. “Hahaa, did you see the way Walmart clapped back at IBM?“ Humanizing vast, faceless companies puppeted by sociopathic business majors triggers every rage response that my body can muster. Please, shut the fuck up

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 46 points 2 months ago

[Off-topic] Your display name is hilarious. It reminds me old viruses with double extensions, like hotpix.jpg.vbs

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I always hope people get a little giggle out of the momentary confusion. I’m surprised whenever people are legitimately fooled. Just click my name, I’m @gullible, you silly billies!

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I assume its not showing your set name on voyager?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

I don’t want anyone to miss out on the fun. WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works should be what’s visible. Out of curiosity, does voyager offer the ability to change your display name?

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Shows like this on jerboa

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Ok. Thats why I'm not getting it. I just see WolfdadCigarette@threads.net

And thats it.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ah! The threads.net tag, nice.

Doesn’t seem to have the option to change or set one

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You got me last week, I did a double-take.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

If every MBA on the planet were suddenly teleported to Planet MBA....would anyone really miss them?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Make sure not to unknowingly send the telephone cleaners too.

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[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

You could make a religion out of that

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hail LinkedIn, full of grace.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure if typo, but hilariously accurate

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[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

People propagate this though. Company twitter accounts posting derivative meme shit is what people reshare. Most people consider Apple/Tesla/Pelaton/Nintendo to be their buddies and love it when their buddy seems like a down to earth, regular guy. It's cringe.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

unrelated but "the homunculus of Twitter" is a good nickname for Elon

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'll start believing brands are people when they start getting jailed for their (numerous) crimes.

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[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 137 points 2 months ago

But they were all of them deceived, for another meme was made...

spider crab shooting lasers from its eyes captioned "silence brand"

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 73 points 2 months ago

Sorry beforehand for the intrusive politics, but it's kind of unavoidable for me in this case.

This is almost a textbook example of the Marxist concept of alienation. Once a brand takes over a meme, people are alienated from

  • the meme itself - because nobody wants to sound like an ad board
  • from the creative process behind the meme - because creating a new meme gets that sour taste in the mouth, as you feel that corporations might hijack it
  • from human nature and themselves - because memes are a form of self-expression
  • from each other - because memes are intrinsically social and it's yet another social link being removed by the corporation hijacking the meme
[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I'd say the outcome is alienation; the process as the comic demonstrates it is a kind of recuperation, the process through which ideas (especially subversive or dangerous ones) are neutered and commodified.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I swear I can find an applicable Marx excerpt for almost anything. His work has strengthened my anti-capitalist conversations a ton.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, that's what you get when an old style journalist has a knack for philosophy. I heavily recommend his texts, even to non-communists - not as some sort of political proselytism from my part, but because the content is useful/interesting even if you aren't a communist, you know?

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

I went to my city's pride parade 10 years ago and this past year, huge difference. Everything is commercial and expensive now and it's just full of corporate floats

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

Waiting for the CEO of Disney to try to sell the Live Action remake of Coco by exclaiming that "his name Jeff" and then fail to understand why nobody liked that, to which he'll respond by cancelling something popular on Disney+ and greenlighting the worst fucking thing ever to take its place.

(RIP Willow and Acolyte)

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago
[-] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

IT HAS BEEN [ 0 ] DAYS SINCE LAST STAR WARS GREENLIGHT

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 26 points 2 months ago

This makes me wonder: what exactly happened to the Coffin Dance meme, was it assimilated by some brand so to fell in disuse? Did the Coffin Dance guys danced with the Coffin Dance meme's coffin?

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Why do people expect something to be funny forever? Most memes are barely funny in context. Then they are ironically funny, and then they find a place on Facebook where they spend eternity. Why are le rage comic not funny? People loved them. People who post memes now were like 4 when rage comics were cool.

[-] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Same thing that happened to the Harlem shake

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 6 points 2 months ago

Not sure those are one-to-one. I remember just about every local news station doing the Harlem Shake, but as far as I can tell not one has reenacted the coffin dance (but I'd love to be proven wrong).

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It became a Fortnite emote at one point. Or maybe it was PUBG. I forget. But shortly afterwards that was the end of that.

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[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trends in general, be it fashion or hit music or whatever, come and go. It's human nature. Memes follow the same pattern so they fall out of style/out of heavy use after a while.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Then everything dies down ... the corps eventually figure out the no one likes the meme anymore so they toss the meme out too.....

... Time passes ....

.... then someone new finds this old meme again and it reappears as a new meme once again.

Then the cycle starts again.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

If by "time passes" you mean like 100 years, then sure!

!truecomics@midwest.social

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Is email a meme? Was the telephone a meme?

Don't walk away guys! Use that shit, send me more spam! I love spam! Yes I would like a cruise to the Bahamas. Yes I would love to make over 2 million from the comfort of my home while loosing weight using wegovy! Please send me that virus! Oh you wanna serve your own email server to get out of Gmail? Nah, that's impossible! Pay them 15 bucks a month! It's worth it!

RIP email, and part for the soul of the telephone... telephone, we hardly knew you! First with your spin dial. I did 1 call with spin dial. Then your 3inch stroke push buttons, then your 0.01" stroke push buttons, then your virtual capacitance glass buttons...and then puff! He was gone.

I think they died as memes.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Does anyone remember a similar comic about Twitter a decade ago?

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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

Old fags remember rule: don't share memes with normies, it will kill a meme.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

Please, watch out for context.

In 4chan there's context to interpret your usage of "old fag" as "site veteran". But we are not in 4chan - here it's simply a slur targetting a marginalised group of people.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

4 Chan relic

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

cigarettes

or maybe kindling

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nothing, don't worry about it.

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