The Left Can't Meme (Liberals Worry that Right-Wing Groups are Winning the Meme Wars)

Mother Jones ^ | 04/02/2019 | STEPHANIE MENCIMER MARK HELENOWSKI

[PGalt]

HOORAY memes!! (Whatever it takes)

[KC_Lion]

Thanks!

At least the Right is ahead on somethings in Internet culture.

[ClearCase_guy]

Exactly right. The Left has anger and hatred. They may try to tell jokes, but all their jokes are basically: “I hate f******* Republicans!!!”

And that joke isn’t really funny.

[nascarnation]

Sometime the meme makes itself...

[lurk]

A leftist called me a stupid head the other day. I replied, asking whether that is worse than being called a poopie head. No response.

[NobleFree]

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s just too easy.

[Chode]

the right/pol/ is doing quite alright without needing to take classes in memeing thank you very much...

[Fiddlstix]

[KC_Lion]

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When not straight-up hate-filled, their attempts at humor are dour and preachy. They really have no sense of absurdity and fun.

[Vince Ferrer]

Liberal memes just don't go viral. Conservative memes do. This worries libs greatly.

As democrats learned in the last election, you can't have your information go viral if your Twitter followers are fake and only there to bump up your numbers. Trump's supporters were real.

[lightman]

The libtards take themselves too seriously.

An overinflated sense of self-importance is easily punctured.

Their problem is, that like the mentally ill, they don’t like having their delusions challenged, much less ridiculed.

[lightman]

Ping.

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[Caipirabob]

"If there was a Conservative version of Saturday Night Live it would dominate times 20."

If there was a Conservative version of Saturday Night Live, the left would formulate policy based on the jokes.

[PeterPrinciple]

Media Matters’ Carusone says people on the left are more concerned with nuanced facts and gray areas that can’t always be boiled down accurately into a photo with a caption. On the left, he says, “every meme has to have a million qualifiers, so that it’s no longer a meme. It’s a Medium post.” Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to communicate their ideas “in ways that are very reductionist. They’re also much more comfortable lying, and their audiences are much more likely to accept it.”

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Agree/Disagree?

[Stepan12]

Ridicule has to be funny and the lib/commies often times are not. Is Samnatha Bee funny? Revor Noah?

[dead]

I don’t disagree with that statement, but only when it comes to memes. The gag is all that matters, accuracy is secondary. Of course, if there isn’t a very solid level of underlying truth to the meme, it’s not memorable. The meme medium is all about reductionism - it’s the whole point.