This is about how corporations steal anything interesting from the public sphere, co-opt it, and make it a shell of what it was, to shill their products. This goes for things like Random Acts of Pizza, but it also goes for memes.
The second corporations start using memes as an ad to sell shit, the meme is effectively dead, because who fucking cares about what some bullshit ass marketing team thinks about it?
Another way to describe it is Capitalistic Recuperation. From Wikipedia:
In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture.
If there is one thing capitalism excels at, it's taking ideas from the public and claiming them as their own, twisting them to their own ends.
What’s up fellow youths?
What's up, fellow pineapple heads? Look at me, I'm doing it too!
Nah there's always a sunlbset of normies who laugh anyway, even at the cringiest shit
When dae le wholesome chungus corporate mascot Twitter accounts regurgitate memes
Ok..... now this is totaly epic style B)
Can someone explain for an outcast?
In 2010, reddit had a popular sub called Random Acts of Pizza that had people being kind to one another and donating an ordered pizza to a stranger. Here's a news article about it: https://abcnews.go.com/US/random-acts-pizza-donate/story?id=13950694
The next year, Mars chocolate filed for a trademark on a new ad campaign "Random Acts of Chocolate" aiming to convince people to "buy an extra pack of chocolate for a friend." Here's an article about it: http://www.oneincomedollar.com/2011/04/mars-random-acts-of-chocolate-campaign_01.html
This is about how corporations steal anything interesting from the public sphere, co-opt it, and make it a shell of what it was, to shill their products. This goes for things like Random Acts of Pizza, but it also goes for memes.
The second corporations start using memes as an ad to sell shit, the meme is effectively dead, because who fucking cares about what some bullshit ass marketing team thinks about it?
Another way to describe it is Capitalistic Recuperation. From Wikipedia:
If there is one thing capitalism excels at, it's taking ideas from the public and claiming them as their own, twisting them to their own ends.
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Corporations ruin everything
People meme to say something (usually illustrated by the meme format).
Brands meme to sell us something (typically their product, irrespective of the meme format.)
aww they just wanna be friends /s
Good comic