Memes that won't actually be that hard for historians to understand

04/05/2022

This image is humorous meta-commentary about 4chan and its contemporary posting culture. On the website's non-p**nographic boards (as implied by the image's cyan background), threads seemingly made to ask innocent questions or spark genuine discussion are created with an unrelated s*xually exciting image. The image's level of eroticism ranging from normal photographs of attractive women, to explicit po*******hy, though most commonly used are "cropped p**n reaction images" (See the relevant entry for more info). Most user of 4chan view these threads negatively, believing that the creators are acting in bad faith, and simply want to spam the board with low quality threads (which, due to the way 4chan functions, flushes out older, possibly high quality, threads), or simply start arguments artificially (See: Flamewars). As expected, these threads usually devolve into commentary about the image, rather than on-topic discussion, with a common response being the one shown in this image. "Built for BBC" is a phrased used on 4chan in response to images, s*xual or not, of non-black women (and, to a lesser extent, men), signifying the poster's belief that they were born for the purpose of having s*x with black men. Due to the anonymous nature of 4chan, it is hard to tell for certain where this phrase is used in earnest, though it is reasonable to assume it is used almost exclusively in an ironic manner, as it serves a similar function to the off-topic p**nographic images, in that it will often derail a thread into discussions of po*******hy and race. For a clarification on the darker skin tone of the commenter, see: "Mutt's Law".

20/04/2022

In the original picture, the circle shaped character replies to the triangle shaped character with "That's how I roll", providing a very harmless (that is to say, not 'edgy') joke. The meme replaces the circle's expected and tacky response with an instance of "IP-posting". Originating in mid 2021, the meme involves posting a string of numbers meant to resemble an IP address, make it seem as if the character in the image is claiming to know the IP address of the other character in the image (or even of the reader themselves), and thus where they live (See: "DOXXing" and "gangstalking"). As exemplified in this image, IP-posting is usually used in response to very minor banter or inconveniences, creating a humorous shock factor.

18/04/2022

This image references the public panic from the 5th generation broadband cellular network, known commonly as "5G", which launched in 2019. The new system was feared by many people, who believed its radiation posed health risks, or that it was to be used as part of a worldwide conspiracy to control or harm the population in some manner. The creator of the image takes this fear, as well as the general lack of understanding of the technology among the public, to a comical extreme, showing a (very outdated) cellular phone transmitting harmful radiation, turning humans into dogs.

14/04/2022

This meme serves to mock the aesthetic movement of "Fashwave". A derivative of the ironic usage of Vaporwave of the late 10's, Fashwave, as the name suggests, combines the glitchy Vaporwave aesthetic with Fascist and White Supremacist imagery. A common trope in Fashwave artwork is superimposing vaguely (or directly) threatening quotes alluding to some sort of violent action. The point of the meme is that said quote, along with many other claims about white supremacy, can be interpreted as being both "pro-white( supremacy)" or "anti-white( supremacy)", depending on the position and identity of the person making said claim. The bottom Fashwave image is put in contrast to the top image, meant to allude to art style popular on websites considered to be extremely liberal among the white supremacist community, particularly Twitter and Tumblr.
It can be reasonably assumed that this meme originates from a Facebook group or page, primarily due to the self-censorship of the word "white", and the fact that the character being mocked is a modified Soyjak, rather than the more canonic "Chud" archetype used on 4chan. (For further reading, see "inter-4chan political rivalry between /int/ and /pol/").

Is this how it works

12/04/2022

This meme is a reference to the infamous "bowling gifs", spread on twitter in early April of 2022. The pair of gifs show a bowling ball preforming graphic s*xual acts on a bowling pin, in a visual style meant to mimic and/or mock the low quality CG animations that are commonly used in bowling alleys displays.

25/03/2022

The usage of "-ussy" as a suffix dates back to as early as the 1980's LGBT community, using the term "bussy" ("boy"+"pussy") to refer to the male a**s in s*xual terms. In late 2021, the suffix gained sudden memetic status as a way to describe any sort of small hole in any object or being, with or without s*xual connotations.

25/03/2022

The sudden surge in the use of "my brother in christ" as a form of address in early 2022 can be seen as a sort of memetic synchronization between the trend of semi-ironic christian radicalism/nationalism from the start of the decade, and the need to self-censor the usage of certain terms (in this case, the AAVE usage of the N-word as a form of address) to avoid automatic bans from social media platforms (see: "getting zucced").

Mocking men by claiming that they do not have any female companions is a form of insult far older than the internet, and perhaps as old as human culture. The specific phrasing of "maidenless", however, comes from the popular 2022 video game "Elden Ring", which features a character who calls the player by such name, and became a short-lived meme.

25/03/2022

This tweet is a parody of the common relationship advice format posted on twitter: "Get you(rself) a man/woman/friend/etc". Instead of giving advice on a obtaining a partner, it gives advice on obtaining a "goon", with a comical allusion to the clichéd archetype of petty criminals and their mafioso bosses in early-to-mid 20th century American cinema.

25/03/2022

This meme does not refer to a popularization of the 3rd century Roman statesman during its creating, but rather alludes to the idea of "Hyperfixation". While Hyperfixation is a real psychiatric condition, this meme should be viewed in the context of the trend, originating in the mid 10's on tumblr before its internetwide spread, of self-diagnosis of psychological conditions, and medicalization of social media discourse. Common variants of this meme have the female character thank the POV reader for not bringing up various historical figures, or seemingly childish topics of interest, such as dinosaurs or trains. It's difficult to determine whether this meme is made to mock the previously mentioned medicalized discourse, or whether it's meant to partake in it, as the distinction is unclear and non-binary.
Due to the correlation between Hyperfixation and sc**zophrenia (both by medical professionals and by laypeople), this meme can be viewed in the context of the "Schizoposting" genre, especially its more political variant, where the female character thanks the POV reader for not bringing up ideological positions that are considered "sc**zo", such as support for the Unabomber, or fear of an ambigious and sinister secret world order (See: "I HATE THE ANTICHRIST"/"Trollge").

23/03/2022

At the height of the Islamic State's (Also known as ISIS) activity in the mid 10's, the organization was known to hack western websites and turn them into propaganda pages as part of their psychological warfare efforts. While the organizations primary targets were official websites of government organizations or large public companies, many minor and seemingly unimportant websites were also taken over. Nearly a decade after the fact, the loss of these small websites was something that could be looked back at as a humorous anecdote, rather than a worrying current event.

23/03/2022

This tweet satirizes the usage of therapy animals in American colleges in the late 10's and early 20's, which was seen by many conservatives as one of many ways in which the institutions coddle the students to an unhealthy degree. The humor in this joke comes from the idea of using a Goose, an incredibly violent animal that would be stressful to be around, as a "de-stressing" therapy animal.

23/03/2022

In the early 2020's, fears of a dystopic corpocratic future where all facets of life are controlled by one's employer were a common trend among the younger generation (See: "Zoomers"), an already existing dread that was pushed further into the mainstream by the COVID19 pandemic, the climate crisis, as well as global economic plans such as "The Great Reset". This meme acts as an example of the right-wing perspective of this fear, with issues such as the banning of animal products, the replacement of physical intimacy with excessive po*******hy, and the use of psychiatric drugs to emotionally control the population.

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