The only way to actually kill Harambe as a meme is to get 13 year old girls into it
I saw someone argue that the reason the Harambe meme has stayed so strong that it's just too weird and tasteless to be coopted by #brands, and I think there's some truth to that.
honestly for me it isn't even really funny because of what happened to the gorilla, it's more just because of the blatant absurdity of the idea of whipping one's genitalia out as an act of remembrance
it is pretty crass and I understand why the general consensus here seems to be that we're ready for the meme to die off, but at the same time I can also get why it became a thing in the first place
It's really, really odd. Like, setting aside the fact that it's a musical, which is baffling enough, it's just a shade off what one might expect in so many little ways that make it kind of low-grade subversive. And apparently it gets just blatantly subversive later as the heroine begins to show some real agency, but I only got so far as her starting to go, "What the fuck is going on?"
And you mention these things.
I downloaded this for whenever, much like the entirety of Hype la Hype (please don't get angry, I only ever mean this tongue-in-cheek).
honestly for me it isn't even really funny because of what happened to the gorilla, it's more just because of the blatant absurdity of the idea of whipping one's genitalia out as an act of remembrance
it is pretty crass and I understand why the general consensus here seems to be that we're ready for the meme to die off, but at the same time I can also get why it became a thing in the first place
do ppl not realize that "dicks out" refers to banana clips, not your actual penis
So I've been reading DC's Bombshells comic and it's actually really amazing, guys. I don't much care for the whole girl-power angle (not hostile towards it and if you are, I understand why and that's fine) but goddamn does this comic know how to capture Silver Age fun.
You know, I'm totally on the "entertainment for children doesn't need to be idiotic" train, but the amount of anger people direct at stuff for literal babies is confusing to me.
"His shows do not assist children in learning to deal with negative feelings and emotions. As one commentator puts it, the real danger from Barney is 'denial: the refusal to recognize the existence of unpleasant realities. For along with his steady diet of giggles and unconditional love, Barney offers our children a one-dimensional world where everyone must be happy and everything must be resolved right away.
Like, Barney exists as a pleasing rounded shape that says reassuring things and tells little toddlers whose brains can only conceptualize so much that he loves them, and also picking up your room and sharing your things is good.
You could ask for a less one-dimensional world, but the target audience literally can't deal with it yet, they do not actually have the necessary brain development. When they get older they can move on to more subtle and complex things
Only entertainment aimed at that young an age group that I actively dislike, that I can remember offhand, is Teletubbies. And more because wow is it uncomfortable to look at.
So I've been reading DC's Bombshells comic and it's actually really amazing, guys. I don't much care for the whole girl-power angle (not hostile towards it and if you are, I understand why and that's fine) but goddamn does this comic know how to capture Silver Age fun.
I think that's something which caught my interest some time back.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I am never buying a Honda until they stop using that "Honda, I like it!" jingle.
I refuse to give money to businesses that adapt pop songs for advertising
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helps that I have a day off tomorrow.
What will you do with your day off?
also, finish the low percent run of AM2R that I started.
hell, it may be the second best 2-D Metroid, after Super.
I whip my dick out let's keep it a secre-e-e-t
it's better this way
I refuse to give money to businesses that adapt pop songs for advertising