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[–]astronautrob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Usually love your stuff Jason but lately have not been using these memes right my friend.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

How so? The more specific the better.

It's a new phase I'm going trying out. I admit it's often hit or miss, trying to be funny/witty/edgy/relevant/topical/concise, and make it all look good is tricky. And often it's at the end of a day when I'm tired and not at my sharpest. But ultimately, despite some of the duds, I'm much happier creating my own memes with intentions than just sharing random stuff I find along the way.

I welcome critical feedback. Even if I may not agree, I am willing to adjust my tone, to better reach more people. If I get no feedback I have no way to know which way the public sentiment wind is blowing. If enough folks dislike I can certainly stop.

Also, on another note, astronautrob, I'm a huge fan of space exploration, though in this new year I haven't been keeping up, in part because I was working on getting a first draft of my hard-sci-fi story, Bittersweet Seed, finished to share for feedback (the last Act 3A takes place in space with my entirely unique pipe dream of what really could potentially and practically be if we legit serious about space) - and in part because I was distracted by this corona thing and pulled back into these addictive SaidIt social media interactions. In May I intend to pull back and do more for the SaidIt and WikiSpooks communities, rather than keep up on the lates, and of course return to writing the most important and epic cautionary tale I can must (whether actually it is or not remains to be seen).

Also, I appreciate the love. It's nice to hear I'm not wasting my time.

[–]astronautrob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I'm glad it came off as love cause that's how it was intended. Also, memes can be w.e they want a suppose so what I'm about to say probably isn't even right. But when I see memes they usually are with a certain cadence or set up line, if you will. For instance take the LOTR meme you posted here with Boromir. So in the movie Boromir's line is "One does not simply walk in to Mordor", something to that effect. So the cadence for the set up line for this meme is usually "one does not simply...." Then the punch line.

So something like "one does not simply...eat only one lays chip", terrible and not funny but you get the idea. Most memes have this same type of construction. Picture that is associated to some line/saying, usually the set up line or w.e, then you add your joke. Not all memes have the exact same structure or even have a "set up line" but they do generally follow some sort of similar way of being presented.

Another example would be the most interesting man meme I saw you post the other day. Usually with that meme it follows the commercial that it comes from. So commercial goes, "I don't always drink beer but when I do it's dosexecies" or however it's spelled. So set up line is "I don't always do X but when I do it's Y". So again something like "I don't always debate progressives but when I do I always throw up a little in my mouth", again terrible but hope you get the idea.

Just my strategy when it comes to memes is I'll try to Google image search the meme first. Usually it will come up with pics of the meme obviously but they will also be all similar and from that I can figure out the set up line or how the meme is "supposed" to go. I hate saying supposed to do anything so again these can be w.e. In fact don't even listen to me keep doing what you do I'm enjoying the originality.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Paint a picture. It'll last longer.

tHe LeFt KAnt mEme

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The guy on guitar behind him looks a lot like a young Mike Oldfield, before this one with a different haircut:

https://saidit.net/s/MusicVideos/comments/3dds/mike_oldfield_five_miles_out_1982/

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I try to assume the best intentions in this limited medium. And it becomes more and more clear to me that people who avoid dragging down conversations rarely appear to lose their standing, even if a few rare adversaries manage to get a few witty jibes in. (The majority of jibes and insults are so utterly lacking in imagination or creativity that their banality ruins for all what could potentially be an interesting exercise in verbal sparring.) With my chronic manic-depression I find my attempts to focus on elevated discourse (for the most part) to be and almost Zen-like meditation of sorts. But I digress...

Ah, I see what you're saying. I'm not following the unspoken conformist meme rules of the game. I'm not against them, but I do what feels right. And I'd argue that in some cases I have reasonably conformed - for your consideration:

/s/memes/comments/44ln/the_1/
/s/memes/comments/44as/biden_2020/
/s/memes/comments/44le/naïve_public/
/s/memes/comments/4460/boner_density/
/s/memes/comments/44kb/corporatocracies_of_the_world/
/s/memes/comments/44kd/zionist_leaders_tyrannical_powers/

Your advice is well taken, has given me food for thought, and I assure you now, that I will check if common threads occur over other memes, before I chose to conform or not, depending largely if I come with a preconceived idea or just riff on what pops up.

I like that Dos Equis set up and payoff thing! I might revisit that.

Thanks for the ideas.