Tuesday, May 29, 2012

How Memes Will Ruin Your Life



by Brian Heissenbuttel

            Memes. Not everybody knows about them, but I feel sorry for those who do. If you don’t, let me give you a brief introduction.
            Memes are internet comics running through the domains memebase.com and mainly cheezburger.com. With a Z. Because some people don’t know how to spell. Anyway, they are usually comic strips made with MS Paint that feature poorly drawn stick figures partaking in idiotic escapades with no real point at the end. The highlight of all memes is an appearance from one of the repeated faces: “Y U No,” “Me Gusta,” “Trollface,” “Bitch Please,” and so on. And to make the selection even more interesting, most of the comics feature a character watching porn, masturbating, smoking weed, or on her period. No wonder all these comic writers are “Forever Alone.”
            At this point, a lot of you may be thinking that this is just another useless website on the internet. If you like memes, you’ll hate what I have to say next. I don’t want to sound like a cheesy activist, but memes have a derogatory effect on people and following them will ruin your life. If you look in-depth at the “cheezburger family,” each and every subpage will contribute to your future job as the chief fryer at Burger King.
            The first suggestion is “Memebase.” This page is full of comics about people fapping to porn and not caring about life. Odds are, following this stream of eternally useless comics will have you doing at least one of those three actions. The second is called “This Is Photobomb.” Would you like to take a guess what goes here? Photobombs. Every freaking time. If someone finds a picture on there that is original, tell me and I will recommend that cheezburger member for the Nobel Prize. The next is called “Very Demotivational,” because exactly what you want after a long, hard day at school or work is a comic strip that will make you even more depressed. “Graph Jam” is full of useless, unproven statistics. “Señor GIF” should be renamed, “Señor you won’t find anything because this will crash whatever browser you’re using.” Later in the page is “Go Cry Emo Kid” for all you heartless sadists out there. I could go on and describe all 11 other pages, but I’d hate to offend the no-life idiots who dreamt this whole website up any more than I already have.
            I’m not just writing this to assert my rage against the whole cheezburger and memebase network. The fact of the matter is that the website is full of stupid, irrelevant comic strips that glorify the idea of a minimum-wage illegal-drug filled lifestyle. If you want to see stupid irrelevant comic strips that exist only to be stupid and irrelevant, check out “Cyanide & Happiness” on explosm.net. It’ll give you a laugh once in awhile and won’t push you into the gutters of society.

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