The main character, SpongeBob Square Pants, has become a figure immediately recognizable by both adults and children. Facebook’s design features a slightly open mouth, as if sighing. Conveys various pleasant feelings, including contentment, calm, peace, and relief. May also convey feelings of happiness or good-natured humor more generally. Marceline the Vampire Queen-Adventure Time Google and Microsoft previously included. Gumball Watterson-The Amazing World of Gumballĭarwin Watterson-The Amazing World of GumballĪnais Watterson-The Amazing World of Gumballįrankie Foster-Foster's Home for Imaginary Friendsįlapjack-The Marvelous Misadventures of FlapjackĬaptain K'nuckles-The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack phew synonyms, phew pronunciation, phew translation, English dictionary definition of phew. Used to express relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust. Tiger Maremela: A meme is any viral cultural idea or symbol that people share between each other.īlack Twitter aka black people who use Twitter have made it popular 2 me … but what exactly is a meme? Youlendree Appasamy: So, bbz - memes are these things we seem to use a lot online.SpongeBob Squarepants-SpongeBob SquarepantsĪgain, I don't own any of these characters nor do I own the concept of such a meme.Īmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. In, like, the context of the internet, it’s any image, GIF, video or phrase that people use. 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. Seriously, meme culture is ever evolving and is the primary way us youths in South Africa communicate things online.
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