But what u n I find funny (memes about doggos in precarious situations or about laughing at your trauma as a way of coping and scary spongebob) is not what everyone finds funny.
TM: Like, memes can be violent AF and this humour element that’s so NB to memes almost seems like a cloak for darker stuff? Like, more often I see memes poking “fun” at women’s clothes and plain malicious shit about differently abled/disabled folks. YA: Even times when we’re laughing at The Pots (which has been reworked into ‘Where is your bae?’) … what are we laughing at? I’m 100% sure some people laugh at the so-called improper English use there. TM: Yeah, like, I think a lot of mainstream humour revolves around punching down at people and, like, specifically making fun of people? So it makes sense how this would translate on to the internet - one of the most unsafe spaces if you’re an “other”. So, like The Pots meme: Are we laughing at the fact the person couldn’t make the pots and didn’t communicate this fact (their dodgy work ethic) or are we laughing at their accent or use of English? I think The Pots went viral because of a very sinister, classist motive. Laughing at other people is so much easier to do when all you need to do is click “Publish”. YA: Yeah, n people used the image outta its original meaning to voice alotta other things. TM: Lmao, I feel triggered, because I have no bae. In a sense doe, I like how people, like, rework and remix memes to be more aligned with, like, their own thoughts n opinions. TM: Honestly, I just want to go around shouting that The Pots meme is anti-black. But what you’re saying about reworking and remixing is actually a really cool part about memes. The way you can add your opinion or your politic to a viral cultural symbol is a cool way of subverting things. Look at how poor Pepe the Frog was co-opted.
Mat: I think it's about time a pair of doofuses team up to overanalyze the crap out of why memes about an 18-year-old Nickelodeon cartoon are so popular, don't you? Is there something bigger than just Bikini Bottom here? Digg editors Mat and Joey discuss: But long before these two hit memes captured our imaginations and racked up retweets, a whole host of "SpongeBob" jokes have peppered the greater arc of internet humor in a way that may or may not show where millennial humor is headed.Seriously, meme culture is ever evolving and is the primary way us youths in South Africa communicate things online. What did we do to be so blessed as to receive such beautiful and creative SpongeBob memes as often as we do? Like, there are more SpongeBob memes than memes from anywhere else, right? 1 Am I crazy or does it feel that way? Joey: There is literally nothing I'd rather do.
#Phew meme spongebob tv#
Mat: As someone who generally stays away from any meme or shitposting groups, it certainly feels like SpongeBob stuff hits the mainstream more consistently than other cartoons and TV shows. I think we'll get into how "SpongeBob SquarePants" is ripe with meme fodder, but on a surface level it feels like the show's peak in popularity came at the right time for perpetually-online folks in their twenties. Kids who're about to graduate high school now weren't even born when the show premiered! The timing has to explain some of this. The last thing I was doing before obsessively trolling gaming forums and obsessively AIMing my friends dumb links was obsessively watching "SpongeBob." Maybe that's just the natural progression of the Online Millennial: step 1) Watch and internalize "SpongeBob " 2) immerse oneself in the weird and absurd humor of the internet 3) apply that deep-seated "SpongeBob" knowledge to said weird and absurd humor. The date for each meme is the start of the week Google searches for it trended the highest.
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