Bustameme
Memes. You either understand them, or you don't. And, for a time, for those that didn't, there was Behind The Meme, a YouTube channel demystifying memes for the uninitiated. The channel's still there, it just hasn't been updated in a long while.
Apparently, those within the meme culture, or outsiders
,* didn't take too kindly to Behind The Meme letting normies
in on their little secrets. Oh, the poor lambs!
Anyhow, many memes suffer from being done to death or being appropriated by creators
—whether outsiders
or normies
I know not—with limited innate aptitude or actual creativity. Or, even worse, meme generators. But perhaps that's the point of memes in the first place, to regurgitate someone else's original idea and apply it to suit one's own ends. Ne'ermind, a discourse on the cultural value of memes was not the intent of this post.
Hold my beer
is a meme, of sorts. Like most, if not all, memes, some examples are pretty laboured or obscure. But here are a couple of gems.
In the wake of the assault
on Jussie Smollett:
As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex retreat from royal duties, and a frosty relationship with the Cambridges:
* Hmmm, describing those within the meme culture as outsiders
may seem counterintuitive; but they're outsiders to the mainstream, normie
culture. HTH.