While I'm critiquing facebook shorts
#CONTENT WARNING- Insane man yells at the cloud
vapid umbra
I have so many questions about this meme group my area of interest is postmodern despair,
I model my speech around John Berryman's "The Dream Songs" because I admire its before-its-time postmodern oscillation between modes of diction, swinging between high and low voice and sounding both stream of consciousness and very considered at the same time like someone just barely hanging on to their brain.
Do people actually take memes this seriously? Does anyone actually care?
I thought this was a Doctor Suess book cover
Jbp why you hiding
An architectural diagram made by my insane cousin (men in my family are mentally ill) circled in blue phone sharpie a box that says "WALL MUTILATOR"
The internet will subsume every little niche once the boomers die and we will be like medieval peasants gleaning in the mud, looking up to Roman ruins and lacking the knowledge to rebuild such great things.
What I mean to say was "F***ing furries."
There is no artwork, you idiot. Yes, I understand you think that "AI is just a new tool / paintbrush that artists will use to make things" but it is so far divorced from embodied human expression that it is meaningless. AI art is only art if you think humans exist as minds completely divorced from their bodies OR if you think the value (whatever that is) add from saving time actually creating things is outweighed by the weight of human expression imbued from actually creating said thing.
They're safeguarding their prompts because that's the only thing separating their "artistry" from yours. It makes them more marketable in their sh*tty but probably realistic view of themselves as a resume item "AI Artist who is actually good" compared to your plebian "Hobbyist AI Art Tinkerer"
vapid umbra
No this is a performative flailing in the abyss blog, I don't want to do anything productive.
Lie flat/ Let it rot
No one actually cares my opinion on any of these things.
I have nothing productive to say, which is why I'm saying it. 😄
vapid umbra
There's an ai generated memes section
notice from the Image, I was invited to join but I didn't, but I will still make an impassioned opinion post about it despite my supposed disinterest.
this is very based even though it is wrong
Wúce is truly iconic, isn't he?
My cat always recoils before realizing that I'm going in to pet it,
and I love this cat very much, because she was the runt of the litter and got very sick two years ago and I took care of her and now she loves to be around me,
but part of her recoiling has to be from her always being on the downside of everything and that's how animals learn from the world and it can never be undone,
and at times I get a very mean thought in my mind when she recoils from my pet, what if I actually hurt her instead?
Sorry, took my hand off my phone to pet my cat, anyways, I feel bad I wrote that because I very much like petting my cat, but I wish she would stop subliminally inviting me to hurt her brutally even though I would never do that.
Me laughing at AI "artists" because the coomer "big renaissance tiddies" cooming is enough to actually affect their supposed "Tool" to create art
Haha how r*tarded do you have to be, just paint it yourself, moron. Your paintbrush isn't going to bend away from the canvas and paint naked breasts you didn't mean to paint because it's not beholden to the collective internet consciousness
But AI "Artists" don't want to actually paint themselves because they'd have to negotiate REAL implicit characteristics of their body and soul, like a tremor in their hand or the labor of mixing the exact color they want and learning how pigments don't always reflect light the way they want.
That takes too much time, they say, as they type in "Woman holding a cup AND SHE'S CLOTHED IN RENAISSANCE CLOTHING PLEASE STOP SHOWING ME ANIME GIRLS IN RENAISSANCE CLOTHING WITH BIG BREASTS PLEASE I AM A REAL ARTIST STOP IT"
AI art and digital existence is deeply antihuman, but it is very human to mess around with stuff that hurts humans, so it's pretty human.
Joe Rogan taking a fat blunt hit
"woah guys, maybe if we compress like, years of hatred into one compressed screed of human anger, we can make a thought needle that pierces existence and wounds God"
you, the audience, laughing at funny men on the internet, wanting to hit the like button to let them (the creators) know you like the content but not wanting to give the algorithm more information on your tendendencies even though that's futile because it tracked that you clicked on the video and watched for exactly 5:14.
remote pike
Uh maybe change blog title to have some kind of warning and not have the image predisplayed
vapid umbra
Uh maybe change blog title to have some kind of warning and not have the image p...
how do I do that.
remote pike
Edit blog post
vapid umbra
Insane man yells at cloud (how do I not display this image on the cover)
The first post doesn't matter.
None of them really matter.
"Original Message was Deleted" is a far more marketable and intruiging aesthetic.
I join witchy magic groups just to pick fights with insane wiccan women who think drawing a sigil in sharpie on their arm will change their futures, and end up complimenting them at the end of the argument because I don't want to make them feel bad about themselves (they are grown up versions of emo wristcutters) but I just wanted to let them know they are stupid.
Yall ever have one of those days where your brain is moving at 6 billion words per minute but you can only type so fast and no one wants to listen to you anyways so you just pick a place and write it (haha that's you) even though you're going to be horribly embarassed about it later and even though people might say it's cool, it's really not because people aren't stupid and they remember things about you, but that's a dumb assumption because you're assuming you mean enough to them to even think of you as a person and not an internet name and remember you're doing this because because you think what you have to say is important even though you know deep down it's not and it all looks futile from up here out of the frame.
And all doge meme can say is "woah, cringe alert"
Or shrek taking a picture saying "Yep, that's going in my cringe collection"
Because the state of online existence means your superego has to account for not just how some nebulous "society" views your personhood. Your conception of yourself is explicitly tied to viewer reactions and how people will "engage" with your words.
Derealization be like : da ting go skrrpap
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Oh you puts my hands on my hips and looks down in a condescending way
This isn't very relateable, causing a scene won't help you, and it's still cringe when you step out of frame!
It's a meme!
I ate a very good burger yesterday. It was a farm raised cow with farm grown garlic, with farm made cheese, supermarket tomato and lettuce slices, and a bakery made bun. I desecrated it with some Heinz ketchup and Heinz relish and I still feel bad that I did not enjoy that burger in the creator's original vision, but I am glad I got to glean some of the greatness glimpsed by the creator.
movie shot of an open door
you can see the typical asian mooks that get beaten up by the hero in a kung fu movie, all in ready stances, shifting their weight from foot to foot. The hero is obscured by the wall (you can only see through the door) , but one of them lets out a battle cry and they all begin attacking the obscured hero. Blood splatters appear on the wall where it is visible as the mooks fall, but the door frustratingly swings shut before you can envision the exact choreography going on in that room. Before the door shuts, the Monty Python guy's face peeks out from behind the door and smiles "Take care, dear viewer - It's far more bloody in here." as the door shuts
You are now looking at a straight shot of a grey door and a grey wall, and all you hear are muffled sounds of battle.
Terry or whatever his name was
vapid umbra
cat crying at empty bowl meme
Jesus christ cat food tastes like Shiiiiii
why do you make me eat off this disgusting bowl on the floor
why can't I eat what you eat
why don't I have thumbs
why do you keep me alive even though I'm suffering
why is it EMPTY
remote pike
Cats will not eat food at the edge of the bowl because it seems easier to wait for a human to add more food to the middle or push it out from the edges
vapid umbra
Never understood that meme tbh
I have four cats and the bowls are always licked clean
fat bastards, all of them
except the skinny ones.
If only humans behaved like the meme, it'd stop the fat people from scraping the last of the corn syrup barbeque sauce from the sides of the crappy plastic container with the last scrap of their french fries because you obviously needed those calories you useless lump
remote pike
It is a human thing I'm sorta skinny and do the same thing
vapid umbra
fat bastards, all of them
even the skinny ones
who know who their dad is.
vapid umbra
The reflection of the ring light in her eyes really sells how much of a wound we are on the face of God.
vapid umbra
The light up ring female influences get to evenly light their face to obscure facial contours and give them the glowy instagram face we are algorithmically being programmed to find attractive.
vapid umbra
Seeing the reflection of this is someone's eyes is probably the mark of the beast but idk there's other things contending for that spot.
It's like an evolution of the fluoride stare meme
remote pike
Good to enjoy hobbies and such
vapid umbra
It's not a hobby, it's like self harm for the human race.
The devil loves parodying the divine, and it's so funny that a ring light looks like a Halo.
vapid umbra
Us, it all. The internet is really not good for humanity.
It's really that mirror that looks back at you can changes what you see in it to match what you want.
blissful rampart
you seem to be overthinking things a bit, is everything alright?
robust vale
Us, it all. The internet is really not good for humanity.
What the hell is the point of all this?
vapid umbra
Insane man yells at the cloud, it's what it says on the tin.
JEH smith wrote a very good book on it calles "The Internet is Not what you Think it is."
though I subscribe more readily to his essay in 2018? 2017? It's all Over and use that as a jumping off point.
His problem is that he is not a digital native, and so he doesn't really get what it's like to be awash in the internet
but digital natives don't get what life was like before it all.
So it's sort of weird to be half in half out watching my own cognition break down.
I suppose the wikipedia definition of metamodernism "being free to oscillate between all periods of time" phrases it well, and I'm compiling a lot of little things like songs and literature that capture that feeling
It's really quite a lot.
Why does there have to be a point to it all?
blissful rampart
because it doesnt seem very healthy, at least the moment, been there you know
that's what you said it yourself, cognition breaking and such, language breaking is also a sign of schizophrenia ((am guilty
i really recommend this lecture https://youtu.be/nEnklxGAmak?t=1583 actually ive been thinking of making a thread just to watch this course (Human Behaviour Biology)
vapid umbra
I'm not schizophrenic visibly sweating and tugging at the collar
this is performative, I already couched it in performativity, this is all just a long-form interactive meme.
I think I watched that and forgot it in Sophmore year of college. I think I watched the whole series (listened to it in the background) while cutting copper.
This is supposed to be mildly funny.
So what's the deal with those guys who swallow grapes whole? Frickin' psychos, I tell yah, they just pop the grape in their mouth and swallow it like a pill! I know you're thinkin' "Gee, people actually do that?", but now you've thought of it, so they exist now.
I mean,if you were me imagining the mind of a zoomer, the holocaust happened so we could make funny memes about it in 2022.
& that's clearly wrong, and wrong to say, but it's very fun to have that mindset for a moment before reclarifying.
remote pike
I like the book The World Beyond Your Head: on becoming an individual in an age of distraction, and Why Fish Don't Exist, they both kind of embody a constructive response to the kind of nihilism or emptiness that people can feel due to postmodernism
Imo
vapid umbra
I like the book The World Beyond Your Head: on becoming an individual in an age ...
I'll write those down on a piece of paper next to me so I remember.
Though I don't need help becoming an individual because I live a life of practiced luddism broken up by reckless digital self indulgence.
remote pike
It's also just generally fun
blissful rampart
humans when technology: 🙂
also humans when technology: ☹️
remote pike
There's a part at the beginning that compares the internet and the instant gratification oriented media that it incentivizes, and people's response to that, to air dropping cheetos on the savanna iirc
Kind of a fun silly metaphor
vapid umbra
Though I do think we're all working on this giant corpus of a project and the job of artists is to distill and distill and distill it all down into this concentrated chemical mixture of hatred and awe and love that we can stick in the chest of God's corpse like an epinepherine shot to wake him up and actually start doing stuff again, great floods and freezes and fires & stuff.
And it may be working, looking how things are going.
Finally look up from our phones and run for our lives for once.
I think the most fun you can have is being a worker in the UPS or FedEx warehouses. You clock in and you start stacking boxes in "Walls, as they call them and throw the small boxes behind your "Wall" as "backfill". And if you don't lift 350 packages an hour, you get talked to.
You don't talk to anyone, you do nothing but hang up your coat and lift packages for 6 to 10 hours at a hurried pace, in freezing cold or stinky, sweaty hotness.
I liked to imagine we were building a giant tower of Babel out of Amazon packages.
And you're doing it just because mommy wants her baby formula delivered within two day shipping.
Every weightlifting set your order online is pre-used btw
analog umbra
vapid umbra
Not really.
blissful rampart
dude you deleted the op because it was cursed
vapid umbra
It was cringe yeah.
echo fern
This is lovely
blissful rampart
necro 💀