Pickle Rick Rolled

I guess this is the new way to get rick-rolled nowadays. For a long time I thought this meme was related to Rick & Morty -- I thought it was poking fun at the show's fans, and overall, of idiots who find "oh so random" humor funny. But the fact of the matter is, there's no point to this meme, other than catching your attention and tricking you into reading through it, while expecting it's something else that has a humorous point to it.

Congratulations, you just got duped. Watch out for these nasty fuckers. They're a waste of everyone's attention and a waste of space.

This Episode of Black Mirror Sucks

Not really an image macro, but it's been shared a lot lately. 

Black Mirror is a sci-fi series, which I'm a big fan of. But this sign, I don't really get, and I can't understand why people find it amusing. I think it's a subgenre of the "the future is now" theme, which need I say is pretty stupid. They show a piece of really cool technology and celebrate that we are already in the "future". No, idiot, are you a time traveler? We're still living in the present. Yeah, some things were predicted to happen in your past, but you have no idea how many more did not play out the way people expected (you can look up retro futurism). We still have no flying cars, for fuck's sake.

I digress, let's get back to the "episode" of Black Mirror that these guys are "experiencing" right now. Why does it suck? Is the plot bad? Is the acting bad? Does it suck because it hurts your feelings? I thought that was the reason that you liked the series - it's often an emotional roller-coaster. So yeah, I don't get it.

Year Personification Memes

Year personification has got to be one of the stupidest trends in memes lately. It can be explained with "agenticity" - the propensity of humans to look for actors that are responsible for things happening around them - the actor here is the year, itself. How much more retarded can one get? Perceiving an arbitrary range of time as an agent.

In this meme, the point is that everyone thought 2016 was "the worst year ever". Very low-effort macro, as anyone could replace any period with an ever worse period from the past. Bonus shit points for using "literally everyone" in the caption - a supposedly funny exaggeration, reminding me of the "No one. Literally no one" memeplague. Of course, many people have it better in 2020, than they did in 2016. I sure do. I'm quite happy with where I'm at right now, and world news and panic can't change my personal inner peace. Try practicing stoicism, you crybabies.

Addressing a year as if it's a person? I know it's supposed to be funny exactly because of this exaggeration, but I can't help but see it as the voice of privileged spoiled young adults. The year "is constantly trying to kill them", they're thinking, while sitting comfortably in their cozy homes, enjoying a warm drink, and listening to their favorite music. And because they're most likely atheists, their primitive brain is still in need of a prayer. So they substitute God with the current year and pray for their anxiety to go away. 

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This is a blog where I will seriously review various memes that I encounter.