courage like feathers

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

well i added my contribution : )

Les sphinx au dictionnaire   -   Francine van Hove

So back in the fifties there was this superhero known as Tomboy, if you are in my circle of the Internet you probably heard about her and how neat she is. She might have been the first girl to be an independent teen superhero, not a sidekick. She appeared in only four stories, each of them a backup comic in another character’s book. She is also in the public domain, and all four of her stories can be found for free online. Here is the first of her stories. I just felt like sharing, I for one had heard of her before but never read her appearances personally. And I do have a fondness for early superheroes, the golden age of comics does have its charms. The only reason I hadn’t read her stories before was because I have a rule about public domain heroes. Don’t dive to deep into their history, or you’ll spend too much time fantasizing about writing your own stories for them.

And now I feel like watching Atop the Fourth Wall’s videos on the first appearances of Namor and the original Human Torch back in Marvel Comics #1. Wonder if he will one day review the story where they fought each other for the first time. Gosh imagine if he ever reviewed the stories of Tomboy, her total “screentime” is like 20 pages long, that’s less than the average modern comic issue. Won’t be impossible at least. There is enough odd art decisions in henchmen to have some fun with it.