memeception

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

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I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

This works better than I thought it would.

This was in my senior project

I’m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO

FATALITY

We have officially created a new language 

I just had to do it to em

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?

You know I had to

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

THIRTEEN!?

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

well i added my contribution : )

why—

IM SCREAMING

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”

One does not simply explain this

Edit:

Another freaking layer!!!

16 motherfucking layers

In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words

if i ever get the virus one of you just inject this thread into my vein and i’ll be fine

*That is really quite interesting.  It’s so recursive.  It really is like the development of some ideogram-based language.

This thread i swear to Hesh

this belongs here

i apologise that your Quality Blog™ has been tainted with this

since when was this a quality blog

since it’s inception

this is a gimmick blog themed gimmick blog. it is gimmick inception

and yet it’s quality nonetheless

I never thought I would actually see this post again

Not even outside of tumblr did I expect to see this again

I thought the only time I would ever see this post in the history of forever was one late night on a random youtube channel

But here it is

On my dash

:O

The original?! On my dash?!

Wow

Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM

GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO

is there like….a way to check how to do that for procreate?

cause I’ve noticed the same thing so I’ve just been eye picking colors for like…two years now

THERE IS!

ive been noticing the EXACT SAME PROBLEM whenever i would export an image from procreate and it drove me CRAZY that my art would desaturate all the time. anyway, if you're in a canvas, go to settings > canvas > canvas information > color profile

once youre in color profile, if your current color profile is display P3, CHANGE IT!!!!!! it is desaturating your colors. you're gonna want to change it to sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 instead

if you're starting a new canvas, you can just go to color profile and change it that way. im SO grateful for this post for giving me the push i needed to experiment with procreate files and finally see what was changing my art to be so desaturated

like LOOK at this!!!!

anyway yeah. tldr if youre using procreate, make sure your color profile is sRBG IEC6 1966-2.1

is this a problem on ibis paint?

OH THATS WHY. I USE PROCREATE. THIS IS SO USEFUL

[boy who has been poking his incision wounds with his tongue all day voice] why does my mouth taste like blood

this was about my wisdom teeth surgery

im offended this still only has 108 notes.

please dont bring this back

stan needs to get this kid some boxing lessons

God hold on its literally 11pm but where is my journal 3 . Hold on.

No further comment

SORRY I JUST LOVE THE TAGS ON BOTH OF THESE. HOW COULD YOU HIDE THESE. AAAUGH.

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

How am I only just learning this!?

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Wait

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I've been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham...

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Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

They were just kids.

stuck in a timeloop called i just have to get through this week

stuck in a timeloop called i just have to get through this week

mabel pov (she’s a millimeter taller)

☆ Caryn lies. Lies all day long, about any comfort to a heartbroken soul chirping on the other side of the line, for a few cents that can turn into a new shirt on Stanley. Yes, the spirits and the cards and the oil puddles in front of their house say the woman's husband will change his mind. It's wrong. Stanley smiles and asks how does the new shirt look on him.

☆ Caryn lies, but every once in a while, between a drink and bed, she would look at Stanley, and his hair would be shorter. Grey. She limits the booze to one drink per night.

☆ Sometimes, she would have so many calls, and after leaving the room she'd find her sons standing in the living room, bickering about TV as usual. They are inches apart, but miles away from each other. If she blinks, Stanford is in a dark coat far too big for him. When she blinks again, the coat is gone. Blue aura around both boys unsettling. She pours another bottle down the sink.

☆ Once in a while, when the summer storms are particularly heavy and Filbrick finally spends more time in the pawnshop, she skims through photo albums. Always trying to look away from the ones where Stanford's eyes look different.

☆ She wakes Stanley up in the middle of the night, terrified. He looks scared and confused. She asks if his shoulder blade burns. He asks why. She pushes him over, tugging on his shirt until she can see that there is nothing there. He comforts her about nightmares, and she stops drinking altogether.

☆ When Stanley is gone from the house and Stanford goes quiet for a very long time, Caryn is in the pawnshop. The argument she has with Filbrick later is hell, but worth it. The antique clock sits broken on the garbage bags, two perfectly even halves of a triangle

☆ Years later, it's just her and Shermie. Shermie tells Caryn that Stanford is in Oregon, and Stanley in Mexico. She nods as she listens. It doesn't matter now. The twins are in the kitchen, young and old at the same time - Stanley's hair past his upper back, and Stanford looks worn. They are dripping ocean water onto her carpet, but that is okay. They are laughing. They are happy. Doesn't matter when.

the pines family would have a "how fucked are we" scale depending on who's crying

-soos is crying: honestly that might just be his burrito exploding in the microwave, you're fine

-mabel's crying: could be a pretty bad situation if mabel isn't being optimistic or trying to fix it

-dipper's crying: again, dipper would rather fix the problem than cry, but he might if it's severe and unfixable enough

-stan's crying: if stan is crying and it isn't over a movie or something, we've officially crossed into "oh fuck" territory. the situation is BAD

-ford's crying:

SOMEONE HAS FUCKING DIED AND/OR WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE

why does this have 700 notes

why does this have 800* notes

*ahem*

why does this have 900* notes

haha. hey guys. it has come to my attention that this post has surpassed one thousand notes. but ive made the joke THREE TIMES IT ISNT GONNA BE FUCKING FUNN-

why does this have 1,000* notes

OKAY

WHY DOES THIS HAVE

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*deep breath*

why does this have 2,000 notes.

hehe

hi uh this is just a psa

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Please do this

ISAT au where the only difference is that siffrin is a magical girl