I think, though, we’ve come to understand a meme as any image that either goes viral or even any image that is attached to a funny caption on social media. So think of the phrase “That escalated very quickly’’, or even the white blinking man GIF. Lmao, even your selfie could be used as a meme if it went viral. There’s always an undercurrent of humour doe. 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. And Spongebob - and the characters on Spongebob - are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says.Seriously, meme culture is ever evolving and is the primary way us youths in South Africa communicate things online. “Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. Schimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular - nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. “You can compare him to things like The Simpsons, or Shrek, or the Marvel movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.”
“Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes.
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To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in 276 images, and The Simpsons, which has 1,116 images. On Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, Spongebob Squarepants memes currently accounts for 4,635 images.
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