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[–] [email protected] 137 points 8 months ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

cigarettes

or maybe kindling

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 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.

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[–] [email protected] 239 points 8 months ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Make sure not to unknowingly send the telephone cleaners too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You could make a religion out of that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hail LinkedIn, full of grace.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I’m allowed to hate things I’m not part of. My silent malice does little to dissuade folks from posting examples to lemmy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I assume its not showing your set name on voyager?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Ok. Thats why I'm not getting it. I just see [email protected]

And thats it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Ah! The threads.net tag, nice.

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Shows like this on jerboa

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