Here's the funniest one:
The text that's been removed from the original meme -- which is not actually a soyjak but a caricature of British activist Richard Murphy -- is "your daughter was raped by a retarded cannibal." Good thing it was ethically modified so the reader wouldn't be exposed to such shocking language!
Here's a Baudrillardian analysis of this particular meme, from /pol/:
This next one is even more puzzling, as no offensive text has been removed. Rather, completely unnecessary (but admittedly funny) captions have been added. I guess just the fact that the pictures are "schematic" rather than being photos makes it all less offensive? Or maybe it's that the nature of the 2020s "social unrest" is no longer explicit? Anyway, the deliberate awkwardness of it all does make it considerably funnier than the original.
Needless to say, /pol/ is having a lot of fun with this new "ethically modified" format. I think it's going to be the next big thing in memetics.
The question is how people like Sarah Rodriguez-Louette will report on this next generation of memes. How do they ethically modify what's already been ethically modified? I'm sure they'll find a way.
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this is amazing. great meta development. i indeed don't visit or even really understand the chan, so thanks for sharing. otherwise i'd get this very late.
Your ethically modified reality temple meme instantly reminded me of the sketch of the doors of Durin. Clean and simple lines, text bracketed by two columns, a crown, and heavenly fixtures (albeit sun and moon vs stars). And a password in both cases that triggers passage through
Speak, [text removed], and enter.
This is genuinely funny. It's very seldom I am so trendily informed as to hear about this kind of thing within a week of origin!
This post is of course one of William's humorous outings, yet one can't help but wonder if any of it transcends mere grins and constitutes a sync an sich. Leo's discernment that the "schematically reconstructed" reality temple bears striking comparison with Tolkien's doorway into Moria, is, I believe, one such. Here, rather than the Arnold Schwarzenegger character skedaddling out of the temple after having done his infamous deed, we see a pudgy NPC running away-- presumably he did not "speak, friend. and enter."
Is this a message unto ourselves? We have, after all, seen both a white hart and a black dog, two signs according to Wendy Berg's book, that a portal to another world is open. It's also been speculated that this other world is one without divine mercy. Does that not mean that there is no need for same? Is such a world not the telos for...?
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