you may spank it… once still remains the funniest image ever created on this bitch of an earth

like how do u top this in terms of pure comedic value. donkey kong’s ass. the suspense. the mere implication that donkey kong nasty. him looking out to sea like he’s making the hardest decision of his life. its so fucking good

Watching this latest political campaign and, more than ever, watching youth internet memes be a part of the narratives of the campaign, not just on tumblr, but in the news and in the campaigns itself is really interesting. 

Mostly it’s really interesting watching candidates try to take control of the memes, try to make their own memes, and so on. And not understanding why it doesn’t work. 

Bernie Sanders gets a fun bird meme while Tud Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. Why? I mean, is it just down to luck. Would anyone have gotten disney princess and chosen one jokes if a bird had landed on their podium? Did these inexplicable millennials just pick a candidate at random to call the Zodiac Killer and it stuck?

And the fundamental mistake I see being made about millennials, and the youth vote, and memes, over and over, is one of causality. 

This isn’t just true in the recent political campaign, by the way, it’s also true in corporate marketing and so on. 

They seem to think the causality is that a great meme creates a narrative which creates youth opinion and youth vote. That the kids see a meme, they laugh at the meme, and from that meme they form their opinion. 

Where the real causality is that the kids have an opinion and then they create the memes themselves around what they already think.

So the trick isn’t to get the memes on your side and then you’ll get the youth on your side. The trick is to treat the youth like intelligent humans with real concerns and stakes and listen to them and then when you get the youth on your side they’ll make memes for you.

Earlier today I made a reference to “Backstroke of the West”, and when I looked it up I saw that the original post was made in 2005, which means that a good chunk of people on here might be too young to remember it. So consider this post a public service. 

The following was originally posted here: 

6.07.2005

episode iii, the backstroke of the west

i saw revenge of the sith last weekend at a local theater with my friend joe who was in town on business. it was much better than the first two movies and a fitting end (err.. middle) to the star wars saga.

the next day i was walking past my friendly dvd salesperson and decided to check out revenge of the sith. i was assured the quality was good and for 7rmb why not give it a shot.

aside from the counters on the top of the screen and a distorted perspective it was ok- not high quality but watchable. the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being ‘far far away’….

amazingly enough, the beginning scroll is mistranslated even though the words are right there on the screen.

star war (just one)

‘the backstroke of the west’ is the english translation of the chinese title.

anakin: “this is where the fun begins”

obi wan: “let them pass between us”

anonymous doomed fighter pilot: “they’re all over me”

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Very important fandom history.

I’m CRYING. I’d never seen this before. According to @persian-slipper‘s tags, this is the origin of “do not want”.

THE ACTUAL ORIGIN OF DO NOT WANT!!