• Dampyr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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    Call me edgy, but even at the phase between the brands using it and the normal use of the meme there’s the period when the meme is overused and kinda obnoxious (like the pickle Rick meme).

    Then sometimes the template becomes deep fried or somewhat distorted and it gets funny again ahah

      • @Gullible
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        Reminds me of the always sunny interview where an audience member shouted “shut up, bird.” Kinda missed the point there.

        • Ech
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          Unfortunately there’s a lot of people who love IASIP because they find the shitty, terrible characters relatable.

    • @boeman
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      911 months ago

      That’s the point people your parents age become aware of the meme. Brands usually jump on when they know it’s safe, and grandma sharing it on Facebook shows it’s safe.

    • @Phlogiston
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      411 months ago

      yeah, the second frame could show at least one person being obviously “over it” already

    • @Korne127
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      411 months ago

      If you stop liking something because many people like it, you’re just as dependent on the mainstream as if you only like something if many people like it.
      I just like stuff independently on whether other people like it. If many agree and use it, that’s cool.

      • @jablaxlgargl
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        311 months ago

        I don’t think they meant they dislike it because a lot of people like it. A joke can just get stale when you see it too often.

        Sometimes it doesn’t imo tho, I don’t know jokes are weird and

    • @Korne127
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      If you stop liking something because many people like it, you’re just as dependent on the mainstream as if you only like something if many people like it.
      I just like stuff independently on whether other people like it. If many agree and use it, that’s cool.

  • Cool Beance
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    11 months ago

    god I remember when big brands first started using memes to relate to their customers. Cringe warning

  • @[email protected]
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    Seriously, social media brand accounts are always a huge turn off regardless how hard they try to be relatable or “funny”.

        • Margot Robbie
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          I. am. inevitable.

          Also, I have a name, you know.

            • Margot Robbie
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              1111 months ago

              Apparently my branding isn’t strong to have you spell my name right. (It’s literally right there!). So for my next movie after the strike, there’s going to be twice the organic marketing on Lemmy now.

              Also, that’s Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

              (Make the laser pink and sparkly please. 💖)

    • @[email protected]
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      I always imagine, the poor social media person’s wage directly depends on how many viral posts they’ve made. And so they try and they try again, hoping that one day, one of their sterile brand-safe posts will somehow hit a nerve and make it big time.

      Unfortunately, that still does not make these forced jokes any funnier.

  • candyman337
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    1611 months ago

    Don’t you just hate it when the brand become swingers

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    Why were the blue people so unhappy when the fat red people showed up at the swingers party?

  • @atticus88th
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    711 months ago

    Is this in response to the BBC going mastadon?

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        If you mean the typo, I’ve seen lots of people mistype it like that, who were new to the whole Fediverse.

        …which could’ve made it a meme. So, I don’t know. 🙃

    • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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      911 months ago

      I hope not.

      News organisations maintaining their own forums (in this case, a Mastodon instance) for journalism and related activities is a good thing.

  • HiramFromTheChi
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    511 months ago

    Remember when brands went all in on “wagmi”? 🤢