#meme lore

THIS ONE RIGHT HERE?

YEAH.

I WENT DOWN A RABBIT HOLE.

THIS ART IS INTENTIONALLY HOMOEROTIC.

THE ARTIST IS THIS QUEER GUY (and WWII soldier) BY THE PSEUDONYM TOM OF FINLAND.

HE LIVED FROM 1920-1991, AND HIS AWAKENING AND INSPIRATION DRAWS FROM STRONG MEN, ESPECIALLY FROM THE GERMAN SOLDIERS (The German Wehrmacht) THAT OCCUPIED FINLAND AT THE TIME, AND THEIR UNIFORMS, EVENTUALLY DEVELOPING FETISHISTIC (/neu?) INTEREST IN THEM.

In 1940 he joined WWII and was put into the finnish army and served as an anti-aircraft officer, in which he held 2nd lieutenant rank. He attributed his uniformed men fetish as a result of this, but it is said specifically in his wikipedia article that it was the Wehrmacht ESPECIALLY.

To set the record straight, he explicitly stated that he did not align himself with the Nazi ideologies, he just really liked how the men looked in uniform.

as a result, HE MADE THIS STYLISTIC EROTIC ART OF THESE BUFF GAY MEN AND IT WAS BASICALLY SUPPOSED TO SHOW THAT "HEY! NOT ALL GAY MEN ARE FEMININE-PRESENTING!"

Along the way his artwork became a sort of symbol & motivation(???) for gay reform laws, and is often coincided with the success of these laws! So money up! Bromance wins!

His artwork was so impactful that he was dubbed "Most influential gay pornographic creator in history."

So yeah! Along with touching tips, he touched hearts and minds and made the world a better place with his big gay buff men. Feel free to read more, and take a peek at some of his artworks! For the safety of my account, I will only put this epic christmas postcard

So my friends and I discovered through KnowYourMeme.com that the animation for Horse Plinko our beloved came from a technical demonstration of animation in this video with a small handful of views:

[Image ID starts] First screenshot is of the title slide of a presentation reading “ADMM Projective Dynamics: Fast Simulation of General Constitutive Models” with author credits to Rahul Narain, Matthew Overby, and George E. Brown, University of Minnesota in black text. The University of Minnesota logo is displayed in the bottom left corner, and the logo for a symposium on computer animation in the bottom right corner. The video is posted by user Rahul Narain and has 5,550 views. Second screenshot is further into the YouTube video and displays the horse plinko gif. [Image ID ends]

And apparently, people commented on the original video enough that the creator became aware and responded! (The original MEME with horse plinko was a video set to heavy metal but that’s irrelevant)

[Image ID starts] YouTube screenshot showing a comment section. User Rahul Narain, flagged as original poster in comments: “Remember kids, stay in school and go into academic research, and maybe someday you too can find that a goofy video you made to demonstrate your technical contributions got turned into a meme when you weren’t looking (All credit to my students George and Matt Overby, especially George who spent multiple tries getting the horse to fall in an interesting way down the plinko machine)” Another comment below from user Kindle reads: “Does Rahul know what he’s done?” to which user and original poster Rahul Narain replied: “I do now! Hahaha this is hilarious” [Image ID ends]

Meme: The worth of someone isn’t always so obvious. Sometimes, you think you were meant to do one thing, when really, it’s something else entirely. You can’t just fail at one thing and decide that you are worthless… You could just be on the wrong path!

And maybe that’s been it all along… All my life, I’ve been caged and controlled. Set on a path I’d never chosen. I’ve never had a say in anything. But now, for the first time, I’m free to do as I like instead of someone telling me where to go–to make my own way… and choose my OWN path!