I can tell the cookout memes work because I sent the LotR one to an old roommate and an old coworker and immediately got counter-memes without either skipping a beat
anyways forced memes really only made sense in like, a vintage 4chan or somethingawful context and I think getting into the weeds of that term in this day and age is usually moot
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Genuine, non-rhetorical questions, because I've always found the concept of a "forced meme" a little hard to parse
In which way is this a) a meme and b) forced? I made one really stupid joke, I had a good enough time with my very stupid joke that I iterated on it a couple of times, and then other people started having their own fun with it. Is ANY time people riff on the same style of joke a meme? Where's the coercion coming it, and who from, and via what mechanism, and to what end? What makes an organic meme?
To me "forced meme" has always read a bit like "a meme I don't personally think is funny, with this little patina of some vague violation of an objective order," I've never really understood the intended framing I don't think
A good joke flows naturally. Sometimes you come up with a pun off the top of your head in response to something that someone else said, and everyone gets a laugh out of it because everyone was surprised (even you)!
The "forced" element of a forced meme is losing that element of natural flow. In a forced meme you set out to deploy it and damn whether it's actually funny or not, you're going to say the thing.
For a relatively contemporary example, compare speedrunners at GDQ who are legitimately surprised by the game pulling some bullshit on them (like a hard crash or a heretofore undiscovered physics glitch) and saying "That's never happened before..." before they know what's coming out of their mouth, to the ones who miss a jump and say "That's never happened before!! " because they really, really want to say it and will take any excuse.
In that light (the definition as it exists in my head), I don't think this cook out thing is forced. It fell out of the conversation and now everyone's riffing on it. If we get someone throwing cook out memes into other contexts trying to make it something outside of this moment, then there's a chance it'll be forced.
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Hot dogs and sausages are vital components of any cookout, so this is possibly the first forcemeat forced meme.
Second one is definitely Mei; two of her legs had issues as a puppy (along with being the only survivor of her litter) and they were worried she wouldn’t make it; they think introducing Tsukushi and Mugi to her, which helped her to play and be more active, might have helped to save her life
so i was watching some flight of the conchords stuff based on how the cook out posts made me think of them, and i came across an interview with Jemaine from the Moana publicity. I didn't know he was Maori! But he is, and the interview was about how being a fair skinned Maori effected his life and his outlook and how he interfaced with racism. It was really good.
Anyway, that's your flight of the conchords minute from me, cursedking.
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Pretty fucked up to imply it ever made sense
Maybe they could hang out with some friends and grill some hot dogs or burgers.
Yeah, potlucks rule
Potlucks: the Cookout’s more anxious sibling
Wouldn’t a potluck be the opposite of a cook out? Instead of a bunch of people gathering to cook; it’s a bunch of people cooking to gather.
Both are still communal food gatherings, you’ll cook for the gathering but the potluck is itself the gathering rather than the cooking
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anyways forced memes really only made sense in like, a vintage 4chan or somethingawful context and I think getting into the weeds of that term in this day and age is usually moot
A good joke flows naturally. Sometimes you come up with a pun off the top of your head in response to something that someone else said, and everyone gets a laugh out of it because everyone was surprised (even you)!
The "forced" element of a forced meme is losing that element of natural flow. In a forced meme you set out to deploy it and damn whether it's actually funny or not, you're going to say the thing.
For a relatively contemporary example, compare speedrunners at GDQ who are legitimately surprised by the game pulling some bullshit on them (like a hard crash or a heretofore undiscovered physics glitch) and saying "That's never happened before..." before they know what's coming out of their mouth, to the ones who miss a jump and say "That's never happened before!!
In that light (the definition as it exists in my head), I don't think this cook out thing is forced. It fell out of the conversation and now everyone's riffing on it. If we get someone throwing cook out memes into other contexts trying to make it something outside of this moment, then there's a chance it'll be forced.
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Second one is definitely Mei; two of her legs had issues as a puppy (along with being the only survivor of her litter) and they were worried she wouldn’t make it; they think introducing Tsukushi and Mugi to her, which helped her to play and be more active, might have helped to save her life
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.. a cookout?
YES!
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Anyway, that's your flight of the conchords minute from me, cursedking.