The Life, Death, and Future of Memes

[Blind Hemingway]

Memes are viruses. In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined the term as a "unit of cultural transmission" that will "literally parasitize" the brain, "turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation." The same is true of internet memes. The online inside jokes have a way of sticking in our heads like stubborn colds.

 

[Windsong]

RULES OF NATURE, JACK.

 

[foodforpigs]

"Ebola-chan" is the literal representation of this thinking.

I honestly wish everyone that joked about ebola got a taste of it, just to know how it feels to actually suffer. This goes for all suffering made light on the internet by trolls. I get that comedy is supposed to be a play on the human condition, which includes suffering. Here's the thing. Memes aren't funny; nothing about it is ironic, though trolls might claim it to be. It's all bandwagon bullshit.

 

[Windsong]

Oh man, Ebola-chan. I think it's pretty common-place for people to attribute cutesy and adorable things with some vile and terrible. Take @foodforpigs avatar for instance. Christ its ugly. But I think that's the point.

NOW PC-SENPAI ON THE OTHER HAND