Racing Turtles

she code on my geass till i lelouch

see now this shit pisses me off. i didn't just post this because it was the name of an anime. this specific phrase was kicking around in my head for days and i decided ultimately to post it because it works and creates an interesting experience for the reader. "code" works because it's a verb, but it's a extremely different activity from sex which creates for an amusing contrast. "geass" is a nice ambiguous disyllabic noun, vaguely reminiscent of "penis", which makes it a good stand in. and "lelouch" sounds like it could be an onomatopoeia for ejaculation, which makes it a good punchline especially as it's the main character's name.

which of these features does "she neon on my genesis until I evangelion" have? do "neon" or "evangelion" work remotely as verbs? do they evoke any kind of image at all? and referring to your penis as a "genesis" is just muddled, because if anything it has vaginal associations. so when you comment this kind of thing on my post it makes it blatantly obvious you think i'm just throwing stuff at the wall, and are failing to appreciate any of the thought that goes into my posts.

no

maze bean

#this joke has a high barrier to entry#like there is a specific person for whom it is funny#and it offers no satisfaction for the rest of the audience apart from it seeming surreal and disjointed#To appreciate this joke you must be able to recognize mitochondria.#you must also be familiar with a common phrase coined to describe them in the 1950s.#this phrase is commonly taught in American schools.#this phrase became popular on tumblr #in 2013#you must have been exposed to the resulting memes.#you must be able to complete the poem.#and then you must also appreciate Maze Bean #and you must find it all funny#we live in strange times #how do you translate this??? (via elodieunderglass)

a good evolution

Memes have become so heavily context-dependent that they briefly spawned a side-phenomenon of corporations mistakenly assuming that the image combinations are simply random, and that “randomness” is what the new generation finds humorous, and then deliberately creating nonsense ads in a desperate attempt to appeal to the youth, which went on for several years before they finally started hiring younger social media managers.

The “Me, an Intellectual” meme is literally just the Joseph Ducreux meme born again 

you: me, an intellectual me, an intellectual: joseph ducreux 👉

I don’t think it’s exactly the same. Part of the Me, an Intellectual meme is trying to word the thing as absurdly overtalked as possible, so it actually skewers the “intellectual” in that it’s obvious they’re just pretentiously using big words for the sake of using big words, not because they really understand how to use them well. Joseph Decreux was 1)only about rap lyrics and 2)trying to rephrase them in what sounded like an appropriately 17-18th century English way.

So, yeah, they’re both jokes about how English speech is marked, but they’re “marking” different things, and while one is a meta joke about how the “intellectual” isn’t what they say they are, the other’s played straight.