Tuesday, March 29, 2022

The Force of Internet Memes

Wow, that was intense. If you were anywhere near the American internet for the last 36 hours, you probably felt it too. 

If only, as a species, we could mobilize so efficiently around literally anything else.


[3-panel comic, loosely drawn and colored, illustrating the visual analogy of an internet algorithm as a force of nature, liken to a big, unstoppable wave. In panel 1, a wide shot of a big wave approaching land. Speech text reads, "Get out of the way! Hurry, run!" A small figure is trying to escape the path of the wave, yells, "Nooooo!" Panel 2 is a close up shot of a girl with a bun, eyes bulging and frantic, with the wave looming directly above her. In panel 3, the girl has face-planted on the beach, immobilized, as the first wave temporarily retreats. A beat, then she says, "I'll just wait it out." Title of cartoon reads, "The Crushing, Inescapable Force of Useless Internet Memes." Web comic strip by Connie Sun, cartoonconnie, 2022.]
3-panel comic, loosely drawn and colored, illustrating the visual analogy of an internet algorithm as a force of nature, liken to a big, unstoppable wave. In panel 1, a wide shot of a big wave approaching land. Speech text reads, "Get out of the way! Hurry, run!" A small figure is trying to escape the path of the wave, yells, "Nooooo!" Panel 2 is a close up shot of a girl with a bun, eyes bulging and frantic, with the wave looming directly above her. In panel 3, the girl has face-planted on the beach, immobilized, as the first wave temporarily retreats. A beat, then she says, "I'll just wait it out." Title of cartoon reads, "The Crushing, Inescapable Force of Useless Internet Memes." Web comic strip by Connie Sun, cartoonconnie, 2022.


2 comments:

Bookworm said...

You must be referring to the slap heard 'round the world. Yes, so many things are more worthy of such attention.

anna in spain said...

I have to agree with Daniel Radcliffe, who when asked on a talk show where he had gone to talk about his own work, said he was "dramatically bored" by the over the top reaction. Here in Europe there's a rumor that it was all a publicity stunt. Oscar Wilde said there's no such thing as bad publicity, as long as they spell your name right. Of course this was before memes...