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
Why are you on Twitter?
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.
If by “time passes” you mean like 100 years, then sure!
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
I swear I can find an applicable Marx excerpt for almost anything. His work has strengthened my anti-capitalist conversations a ton.
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?
But they were all of them deceived, for another meme was made…
Old fags remember rule: don’t share memes with normies, it will kill a meme.
Old what now?
For context, “fag” is used as a form of endearment on 4Chan, instead of a slur. It’s not meant to be hateful in this context.
I thought everything about 4chan was meant to be hateful.
Seriously, after the whole Pizzagate thing, that site became such a shitshow I never went back.
