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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are shockingly bad! It’s a bunch of “memes” they created themselves by putting some text on top of stock photos from Getty Images, but they really just seem more like normal captions or descriptions for the photos. Then it’s all presented as a BuzzFeed/Bored Panda-style listicle. It’s almost an anti-meme, like an anti-joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In a "Bone Hurting Juice" way or a "Facebook mother's group" kinda way?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d say Facebook mothers group; a lot of the things they’re trying to illustrate seem like they’d only need a very minimal re-write to be placed on a picture of Minions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Most of them are attempts to pat themselves on the back for being so funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would have saved time to just click the darn link...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm literally here to waste time. All the better if I can also waste yours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That’s how I make my memes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Won't catch me going there,

I thought I'd be a lifelong subscriber from the 90s, but early 2000's they became a lot less reader focused and a lot more spiritual focused. Haven't picked one up in over 20 years, sure as hell not going to their website