Extra credit: Explain why rage comic faces are bad but wojaks are good.
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I have a powerful sense that wojaks are more mature artform than rage comics, but I can’t articulate it.
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Memetic culture makes progress, but towards what, I don’t know.
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The gods of a new pantheon? Archetypes that Jung only wishes he could dream about? A direct conversation with the collective unconscious?
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It's because you needed Flash installed to see Homestar. I don't think anyone ever converted them to video did they?
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Many of them (at least, many of the sbemails) are on YouTube, and a good portion of those are on the official channel
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Touhou remix effect, i.e., Worse is Better.
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Spongebob has omnipresence and thus assured relatability, and a media empire reinforcing the relevant associations across TV, toy stores, advertising... "Will I have to explain what Spongebob is?" is a question you don't have to ask yourself, even among the less-online
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The sheer lack of Homestar memes is peculiar though. Is it because its tone was already so online-conscious that memeifying it doesn't feel subversive or original?
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