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Sometimes I think the deepest, most absurdist corners of the internet are its last bastion of humanity. Where the memes are fueled by people's desire to be so i
by _bxg1 8y ago
Sometimes I think the deepest, most absurdist corners of the internet are its last bastion of humanity. Where the memes are fueled by people's desire to be so incredibly nonsensical and inscrutable as to defy marketability. Of course, if you look at recent trends in corporate Twitter accounts you can see companies doing their very best to appropriate even that.
- freeone3000 8y agoHow many levels of irony are you on, my dude?
- jhoh 8y agoE
- trophycase 8y agoEven commercials are tapping into absurdist themes. I can remember a few asian ones I've seen but a recent one that comes to mind is the newest Sprite commercial where the kid is running around the house yelling about how they are out of sprite.
- flanbiscuit 8y agoHaven't commercials been doing absurdism for a while? Speaking of Asian ones, it's been known that Japanese commercials can be weird AF (to the western mind) that it was made fun of in the Simpsons with the Me Sparkle episode back in the early 90s. US has also been creating absurdist commercials pre-internet for a while now as well
- elboru 8y agoSo they aren't weird for the Asian mind? I doubt it.
- flanbiscuit 8y agoOh, I put that caveat in there because I am not Asian so I did not want to speak on behalf of Asians. Sorry if that wasn't clear. My assumption is that it is weird for everybody but maybe there were some cultural things I could have been missing.
- _bxg1 8y agoYeah, although part of meme culture is to continue moving on and on to the next thing faster than things can become normalized, to the point where a meme "expires" after as little as a couple of days
- tjr225 8y agoThe more and more I read the comments on public forums(popular ones, such as this one and Reddit)- the more I ask myself "why am I doing this to myself?" I think there may be something to taking a step back from knowing what hundreds, thousands of strangers think about a given thing at a given point in time.
- JTbane 8y ago>Sometimes I think the deepest, most absurdist corners of the internet are its last bastion of humanity. You might have overdosed on memes, my dude.