GYSO Reviews Part 17 - Memes

Published: 2023-07-02

The Good

Thor: Honestly, memes are pretty funny. They’re all bound up in funny pop-culture moments and important events. The “we’re doing it live” guy, among the myriad of live event fails that end up being iconic memes. Not to mention the epidemic of compilations of “livestream fails”. My best moments in friend groups are when the shared experience of in-jokes and local group culture memes create meaningful moments and bring us closer together.

Tim: mfw when there’s a gyso your skills on post. I’m going to make a bunch of memes and Thor is going to say unrelated things because this post is less collaborated than normal because I’m playing Lethal League Blaze with a friend and it’s been like years since I’ve done that so yeah I’ll make memes tomorrow and that’ll be my obligated effort for this post.

Thor: Also I have to go to bed now, so this works out quite nice.

Tim: Comnunism has failed every time is was tried.

Tim: And jeopordize the integrity of the hull.

The Bad

Thor: Honestly, memes aren’t even that funny. They’re all bound to their culture, their time and their place. How is anyone on the outside group supposed to gently come into the inner circle when everything reads like, or is spoken like, GYSO Reviews Part 4. The early days stuff is so vague and generalized that I guess most people can catch on. Scumbag Steve, Socially Awkward Penguin, Neon Cat, etc. But even some modern meme ideas like Karen. While these every day memes surely end up contributing to a large portion of the total memes in use, the really interesting stuff is when someone cracks an in-joke that keeps spiraling through time within a group. Eventually, a single word, or a picture with no byline can be sent and the group will still understand, and bond over the shared experience.

The Everything Else

Thor: I’m too old to know what “smh” means so I just make an exhaling noise and pretend I didn’t read it and pray to a random diety that it’s not important for the context. Fortunately for me, it’s not important for the context the vast majority of times.

{tim make a meme that asks a question that makes this answer funny or something}

Thor: Oh that’s easy, soggy potatoes.

The Conclusions

Thor: If we were to take everything we’ve learnt today I would say the conclusions is that it’s all the children’s fault. No one has been around to teach them other ways of interacting, so they’re all teaching each other on a global scale. This results in a sort of language that is impenetrable to those that haven’t been fostered in that environment, or been around since it’s inception. Though that power does give the opportunity for any single person to strongly shape any group in a beautiful and democratic way.