This is the original, but the “my brother in christ” part was the n word.
Sooo not the original then?
I don’t want to share an image with the n-word in it.
Valid point!
eh, this is the version that went viral
This completely fucks up this painting because it is not a pipe it is an image of a pipe but it is a meme and one that makes me irrationally angry at that.
It’s not a meme, it’s an image of a meme!
Can somone please send me a screenshot of this. Preferably with a red circle so I knlw what to look at.
I gotchu famWay too high resolution and way too little compression… Also who actually crops images perfectly like that? Get a grip…
The jug represents the simple pleasures of youth. Common to households across America, it would regularly be used to store a variety of sweetened beverages, from lemonade to iced tea to concentrated orange juice. The emptiness of the bottle signals the hollowness of nostalgia as we can only cling to the imagery even as we long for the sweetness within.
This meme reminds us that memes themselves are a throwback to a bygone day. In analyzing the symbolism, we seek to recreate the moment of blissful innocence. But we are bound by the chains of memory, able only to see but never touch the essence of the thing before us.
The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.
The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.
Really? I interpreted the text in this meme as a rich commentary on the nature of textual interpretation.
- Consider: “is the glass half full or half empty?” In this image the answer is unclear, obscured by the text.
- In the same way, language interposes itself between us as thinking beings and the objective world.
- Together, these point to the nature of subjectivity in interpretation: is the jug half empty or half full? We cannot even reach the empty/full dichotomy (which is so necessary for the expression of our subjective interpretations) because of the obscuring nature of language.
I bet you excelled in your Literature classes.
Am I right or am I right?
The plastic mug obviously symbolizes a cheap method of gathering stuff together and distributing it around. The plastic itself symbolizes materials which hurt the environment.
We used to call these “image macros.”
Before that these were captions.
there should be a file format for image + overlay text
With the extension .meme of course
pdf
.pdf.exe
To be honest, I’m so sexual-relationsing old that I remember when the word meme actually meant something before it was appropriated and adapted for use to refer to the digital images we share electronically after adding text over them.
I too read the selfish gene back in the days. Not when it was new but before internet memes were a thing
Oh pour it on why don’t you
I get it, the pitcher represents the dichotomy of good and evil!
I get the pitcher!
