Christmas Pre-Record ｜ Meme Review 2024
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Summary
In this episode, I review the meme game of the decade of '2021, and talk about the most ridiculous memes and viral moments of the year, and how they reflect the world on us, and the people who find them funny.
Transcript
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all right folks so if there's one thing about internet culture that we all know
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it's that it produces a lot of memes a lot of memes which are of varying quality and exist
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within different varying spheres of influence as well and i decided to check out the meme game
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that was 2024 and do a little review uh because we live in a meme because i wanted to start off
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by pointing out that diversity hire kentanji brown jackson do you remember her diversity
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hire on the supreme court unfortunately yes devaluing the most important institution in
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the united states obviously devaluing it she's made her a broadway debut of course she has in
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why not why not juliet a queer twist on romeo and juliet so whatever memes produce whatever memes
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make fun of or mark or however they reflect the world on us nothing could be as ridiculous as
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real life because just watch this just i'll play i'm sorry to do this to you though just know i
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consider you a friend and i respect you so i'm sorry to have to do this female empowerment
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i think what i like about it is that i am having a very strongly negative reaction to it
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like i hate it which makes me think it must be brilliant
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i'm gonna because it's got copyright music i hate millennials i hate millennial writing you can
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you just know that some neurotic anxious millennial wrote that dialogue right where everything's just
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a little bit over over explicit a little bit nervous in saying it but you're going to say it
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anyway because you just can't help but splurge everything i want this writing to die
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and writing the word like in the dialogue um and this is about just to urinate all over um
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all over shakespeare's legacy sure yeah doesn't mean anything to them does it doesn't mean anything
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it it certainly does not but this is about her speed though isn't it this is what she really should be
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just just uh we're in the theater kid dictatorship just a vacuous theater kid we've got the theater
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kids literally infiltrating the supreme court at this point so that's that's a fun one no meme could
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really top that but i thought i'd look at some of the memes anyway so real life as a meme i'm giving a
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a zero out of ten in terms of humor because it's just not funny it's just not funny anymore can we stop
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can things go back to normal no no they can't so i thought i'd take a look at um what the normies looking
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at what what what do normies find funny when they're scrolling through facebook when they're
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looking at their uh social media and i've i've got to say it's cancer it's it's absolute cancer like
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what i'll just scroll this is a rolling stone article 29 best memes and biggest viral moments of 2024
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rolling stone very prestigious reputable faithful trustworthy publication known for its sense of humor
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so are you joking because some of those words are correct and others are no i don't completely i
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mean it is old yeah used to be reputable but is sort of in recent years has revealed itself
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ridiculously woke sometimes and i think in the 19 i think in 1978 you know they um published in a review
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of the the queen album jazz you know the one that's got um i think it's don't stop me now on it
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right um where the reviewer called it a musical fascism what so even going back then there was
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still a ridiculous publication queen of all bands musical fascists there's no qualitative difference
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between freddie mercury and an auschwitz guard basically no i think freddie penned erica himself
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so that's a very interesting little factoid for you all out there so this is the sorts of things that
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normies are supposedly laughing at which is um is that i i think it's a man in a dress
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i think i think it's a man in a dress saying megami protect queer art this was from january do you
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remember this hit meme in january no no thank god uh the willy wonka ai immersive experience is this
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real this never heard of that either no me neither i mean it's our job to watch the news cycle nearly
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every day of our lives we miss all of these things miss that and thank god mj from the traitors i
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remember this one i remember that people were worried about where kate middleton was and there
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was a lot of conspiracy theories going around about it did you do a piece saying will would
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blow her head off with a shotgun i what i didn't do anything like that that sounds like a dan segment
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oh maybe it's dan sorry it's a dance no you're right it was a dance segment of course it was a dance
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segment the queen of melrose in march it's going month by month this this woman who looks really
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sad if if you're watching this right now and recognize any of these memes like what what what
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are they about what's going on that woman and and you can infer her spouse they're the people that
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read rolling stone anymore and watch these memes we're talking about yeah just a washed out boomer who
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are these people i mean i can understand kind of why this popcorn bucket might become a meme because
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it's a little bit suspicious looking it doesn't look like it was originally designed as a popcorn bucket
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so i can understand that but i don't see that how many memes that you can get out of this
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you just kind of look at it and you say that's funny well i understand the word meme yeah the whole
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point of what's a meme supposed to be a meme the concept originally come up with was it richard
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dawkins who originally came up with it the idea of a uh a uh an idea that spreads through society
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like a lot of things like even the word woke it's mostly changed it's definitely changed over time
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hasn't it yeah i think different people mean different things at different times when they
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use the word meme but but they're supposed to be funny and they're supposed to be shared around
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a lot so here's one hawk tour i remember this i never watched it still never seen the original
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clip thank god um she's uh i've seen the original clip i'm sorry but talk about making a mountain
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out of a molehill she got a podcast for that i have seen her talk for like a few little twitter
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clips once or twice you know she's a crypto scammer now well what i gathered within a minute or two
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of listening to her speak is that she's just a complete mediocrity and i don't mean that in a
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particularly nasty way she's a completely normal person with nothing of any true value or interest
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to say so why and again i don't mean that to be unnecessarily nasty yeah i don't but like what
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i remember this one you think you just fell out of a coconut tree the groipers fell hard for this one
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kamal harris this was actually a 2023 statement that she made but apparently in the run-up for her
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uh incredibly successful most successful democratic uh presidential run ever um this this was brought
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back out it was reheated resurrected from the dead i mean i remember this these this one's okay this was
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the uh the olympic shooters where i think this was the a like japanese girl is it korean korean girl with
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all of the high-tech gear gets first place but she's obviously she's basically like a cyborg with all the
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gear that she's got and then random turk gets second place just pulling a pistol and eyeball
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and get a bit that was a funny one that was a decent one but most of these are awful what was
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that about saddam well i mean saddam's always in fashion they're saying he wasn't no saddam hussein
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hiding it's it's the it's the old graphic of him hiding with the air tube underneath to make sure that
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he can breathe that one just comes back every so often okay but most of these i've seen mudang
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he's just like a little hippo who looks scared at things most of quite cute it's aggressive
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but yet cute it is cute but again the vast majority awful absolutely awful and then it ends at wicked
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and it just brings to mind one of my favorite memes of all time scrolling through this uh this
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this classic clip right here because democracy basically means
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that's funny i've seen that one before a few times yeah well when does a meme become a vine
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what you know vines vines are dead aren't aren't vines just tick tocks now
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yeah when does a vine become a tick tick tock when does a meme transform into a vine become
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a tick tock i know i'm younger than you but i'm not that much younger than you okay i'm near
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i'm beginning to near 30 i'm closer to 30 than i am 20.
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so old man robinson old man robinson here so i cannot answer these questions for you these are
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just as much a mystery to me as they are to you i think don't me can't isn't it just a meme is
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basically anything that's shared about a lot and people find funny and tick tocks can start off as
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just tick tocks and become memes and that was the same as it was for vines and vine spread its own
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memes and sadly gave us the paul brothers you can have just a still image as a meme as well though
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right well it's just a yeah yeah just a jpeg for instance as well right for instance wife jack
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zero out of ten zero out of ten when this was in the cycle when we were even making content about
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it i just completely ignored it i'm not interested i don't really want to know what it's about or
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what the i just i just not just could not be less interested i mean the the the discourse around
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it alone was cancer so and it's not going then what was it what was the deal i'm not going to
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i'm not going to i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine zero out of ten next meme right okay but my favorite one
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that still goes around this year as ever is nothing ever happens don't make me tap the sign yeah let's
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let's let's see what time is it it's nothing ever happens time here he is teaching at a school
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this is this is one of my favorites just because it's so applicable to everything
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and it always annoys people because people are desperate for something to happen and let's be
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honest there are always things happening right but it's always things that make it worse whatever the
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situation is whatever is going on in the world will become worse and things will then just kind of
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carry on as normal so mr chud here who presents nothing ever happens is almost always right and you can
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see here my this is my actual favorite ever use of the of the wife jack mean which is chud wife
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being asked being asked by her little girl will will anything ever happen no no it will not
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nothing will ever happen uh well right i was gonna say um i feel like the maybe i'm not getting it on the
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meta level or the irony or whatever but um i think the absolute opposite is true no everything is always
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happening everything is always happening i don't mean exactly but the idea that nothing ever happens
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you couldn't be more wrong though the world is of course it's always in flux in it to to dare to
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explain the joke for a moment there are a number of different layers of iron i know i do have wrapped
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back around here i know that's that's all right because uh yeah you may get nuked but guess what
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nothing ever happened right yeah you would be in fallout and the uh the the narration would be but
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nothing nothing ever happens james webb has visualized the oldest stars the first stars in the cosmos but
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nothing ever happens nothing ever happens no and here you can see speaking of james webb and science
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chud's laws of happening the first law is nothing ever happens the second law is percentage of progress
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towards a major happening shall always increase closer to but never reach 100 at which point
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something would happen but by the first law nothing ever happens so these these are funny these are two
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weak info intervals and as you can see here you always get close but it never happens it's like
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reaching the speed of light yeah you've got mass you can get very very very close but you'll never
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actually never actually reach it exactly this graph if to be expanded would expand on into
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infinity and you'd be able to zoom out and you wouldn't be able to see the difference but you'd
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see there is if you zoomed in no things happening but the problem is as you've pointed out which is
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that actually you know like even just recently over the past few weeks quite a lot of things have
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happened if if we'd had the asada who must go prophecy uh fulfilled again then maybe we could say
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that nothing had happened but sadly he is now going to be an eye doctor in moscow again so uh that's
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that's what asada had happened to him so we must say that on a global scale something has happened
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and here we can see the child chad that's quite yeah chud chud senior with chud jr holding his
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his squirrel jack his red squirrel because we're going to reconquista the red squirrels
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being told his bedtime story that something did finally happen that's full of rome in the background
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isn't it yes so painting is i'm going to just say nothing ever happens has so many different
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applications across so many different places and times and situations i give it a 10 out of 10 i think
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it's hilarious all of these all of these save for maybe one or two normie memes cancer absolute
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cancer zero out of 10 except for this one it's kind of funny but they've only got a limited shelf life
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so that's my very limited meme review for this year i hope you enjoyed it folks post your favorite
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