The. Left. Can’t. Meme.
This is basically a scientific fact at this point.
And it’s ok, it’s how it goes – not everyone was meant to meme.
*snickers*
If Noah Smith was trying to prove himself wrong by writing an entire thread about how it’s the Right who can’t meme he succeeded. Imagine if he had just, you know, created a meme? But they can’t because it A) takes a sense of humor and B) needs to be short and (not) sweet.
We hope he was trolling …
The reason people on the Right say "the Left can't meme" is that the Left, like most human beings, uses memes for humor, while the online Right uses memes for tribal signaling.
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) August 9, 2022
Tribal signaling?
Yeah, every time we see a meme of two cats fighting with light sabers we’re like WHOA, that’s a tribal signal right there.
Rightists will spend 6 hours making a meme of a frog stabbing Nancy Pelosi, and they'll high five each other and say "Yeah, we got em!"
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) August 9, 2022
We have yet to see a meme with a frog stabbing Nancy Pelosi.
Really, dude?
Leftists, like most people, simply use memes as the native language of the internet, while for online rightists they became a form of protest art. That is the difference.
Of course my opinion is that that art is lame and bad, but as we all know, taste is subjective! ๐
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) August 9, 2022
Leftists use memes as the native language of the internet?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
OOOOMG.
Protest art?
I will say this, many online rightists do, or at least did, have legitimate artistic skill (which will of course never be recognized by normie libs, because politics).
What they utterly lack is a sense of humor, because their whole movement, culture and ethos is based on fear.
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) August 9, 2022
*sigh*
And he thinks this is smart stuff to tweet.
Online rightists were just channers who didn't get any of the jokes but got deeply into the trappings and motifs.
— Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@Noahpinion) August 9, 2022
Woof, right?
— taco belle (@fancythis) August 9, 2022
THERE IT IS.
Perfection.
See, Noah, THAT’S how you meme.
๐๐ pic.twitter.com/7QUSW9m8GZ
— Gato (@Gato_parodia) August 9, 2022
The left canโt rationalize worth a damn either.
๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
— Ultra Nuclear Calvin ๐บ๐ธ๐ถ๐ ๐ถโข๏ธ (@shoveitjack) August 9, 2022
Oh I don't know, Noah. Sometimes your guys publish memes featuring the president with Nazi imagery, like the deputy press secretary did here.https://t.co/yj8692T0zb
— Chris (@chriswithans) August 9, 2022
Right? Those Nazi ‘Dark Brandon’ memes were really disconcerting.
Humor requires truth.
Truth is not a value of the left.
— C/SAR Diver ๐บ๐ธ๐ปโ (@rstemler1) August 9, 2022
Honestly, this entire thread could've been a simple meme, yet we all know you can't do that.
— theRoddick (@OriginalRoddick) August 9, 2022
You got it exactly backwards.
The reason the Left canโt meme is you treat memes like a vehicle and cram as many bumper sticker ideas onto it as you can fit.— Gitabushi (@Gitabushi) August 9, 2022
Leftist: *uses six tweet tweet thread to just say โyes the left canโt memeโ*
me: uTtErLy sHoCKeD— ๐ธ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ช (@AwwSilverback) August 9, 2022
sUpEr ShOcKeD.
Tbh after a certain point sometimes the horseshoe does come back around pic.twitter.com/VDeaeujpP0
— TheOmniZaddy ๐น๐ฐ๐ (@TheOmniZaddy) August 9, 2022
Maybe Noah needs to spend a little more time actually looking at the crazy, boring, and nonsensical the Left memes. Trust us, they’re not the funny ones.
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