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.









1 comment:
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.
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