#memeufacturing

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Me, used to this, having seen the rise and fall of pizza, sixpenceee, memeufacturing, fishingboatproceeds, iamfish, etc:

And I responded saying "unless they were from the U.K. and used to watch The Fast Show". And talked about how they famously liked to do quick-cut comedy, and some of the sketches were less than ten seconds long, none over three minutes.

And like they never replied to me personally, but like not long after I posted that response they made a post saying "Why do English people constantly ruin my life?" or something.

They were 15, the people who wrote the callout about them were 14-16 and admitted to making most of it up - it was a big intragroup blowup between a bunch of kids that happened to spread all over the internet because the person at the center of it was famous.

I remember when I was 15 and I had a fight with two close friends at the time, complete with exaggerated claims of what each side had done and one of my texts being taken out of context and posted to social media. But since none of us were famous, it wasn’t deeply scarring for any of us - I made up with both of them separately later in high school, and I’m friends with both of them today.

But memeufacturing had the misfortune of being good at tumblr, and so their intragroup drama became a spectacle for an entire corner of the internet to opine on, and years later it still shapes public perception of them

Anyway, here’s August’s side of the story: https://pastebin.com/ViF9KZ1q