I think this is also a symptom of powerlessness. When it doesn’t feel like one can do anything to meaningfully change the world around themselves, some people fall back on policing the aesthetics of peers.
Also purple run-on sentence in front of an inexplicably selected portrait of a random person ostensibly meant to associate the problem described with people who look like them is a rather tired format… Would have been cooler as a text post, with punctuation. IMO.
I think it’s a bit assumptive to say the selected image is to “associate the problem described with people who look like [the person in the image]”
I’ve always interpreted the one in the image as the one voicing the problem in memes like this. Like, for all we know, it’s just a selfie of the one who made the meme originally.
It is indeed a bit presumptive. It could be much more well-meaning, or at least not meaning to have that interpretation. But without addressing it, it feels like a big weird elephant in the room.
I think this is also a symptom of powerlessness. When it doesn’t feel like one can do anything to meaningfully change the world around themselves, some people fall back on policing the aesthetics of peers.
Also purple run-on sentence in front of an inexplicably selected portrait of a random person ostensibly meant to associate the problem described with people who look like them is a rather tired format… Would have been cooler as a text post, with punctuation. IMO.
I think it’s a bit assumptive to say the selected image is to “associate the problem described with people who look like [the person in the image]”
I’ve always interpreted the one in the image as the one voicing the problem in memes like this. Like, for all we know, it’s just a selfie of the one who made the meme originally.
It is indeed a bit presumptive. It could be much more well-meaning, or at least not meaning to have that interpretation. But without addressing it, it feels like a big weird elephant in the room.