why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

I flipped out in my late 20s and tried to conform to a bunch of conventions that I thought would make life better. Now it's, like you say, searching for those saturdays

Well, I'm 56 and I still haven't had one.

Then again, I had a bad illness at 21, so every year is a bonus effectively..

Wait, was I supposed to have one?

They overrated.

So, basically if you get to a certain age, and decide you want a sporty car, that's level one.

A sporty girlfriend, that's level five (two if you're not actually married, etc)

What else?

change career paths when you have a good job, go back to school, change your lifestyle by becoming some crazed marathon runner, become an expat somewhere with a low coat of living, post on craigslist looking for someone interested in cannibalism to eat you

i'm one for five there, and i keep juuuuust missing on the cannibalism partner

keep hustling karl, you'll find that special cannibal one day

the problem is that traditionally, you have to eat others before you are eaten, and that has been an absolute mess to arrange

classic catch-22

when will our poLIEticians wake up and deregulate the cannibal industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B54QkYF_vs
original is from a Moby music video natch

animator is very much a facebook viral artist; this stuff is too obvious even for political cartoons

http://stevecutts.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/santa-fb.jpg
http://www.stevecutts.com/uploads/2/6/3/8/26381140/7987204_orig.jpg
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/modern-world-caricature-illustrations-steve-cutts-6.jpg

Definitely some crossover with the trenchant commentary thread there

really makes u think

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Steve-Cutts-illustrations-3.jpg

Caca Cola

in what universe is acer's brand identity up there with Mcdonalds

why even bother changing spellings if you aren't making a poorly formed joke. i am really hating this artist thing

I call this one "Corp-rophilia"

keeping up on the latest trends is the only thing that fills the void in my soul

if i eat consumer products i'll shit money? goddammit i've been doing this all wrong

Not sure I get the recurrent "trenchant commentary" sarcasm with a lot of this stuff, like these cartoons. Yeah they are simplistic, obvious, etc., but doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging? These cartoons are not at all insightful but they are "accurate" in a broad sense, and evidently in America at least they are not at all obvious to something like 38% of the population.

I don't know, seems like a lot of liberal guilt snobbery at the wrong people but then again I'm "not on Facebook" which is the ultimate snob move

most of the memes on here are neither insightful nor "accurate", reducing complex issues to slogans is a bad thing that makes public discourse worse

I should add that I am grateful to you guys and appreciate all the dirty work as this thread has kept me safe from FB in homeopathic doses

https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i-w600/keep-calm-and-reduce-complex-issues-to-slogans.jpg

Are we doing this in all these threads now

new board description

I agree w/ that in general! Just not convinced it's a worthwhile position in a messaging battle w/ corporate bots. It's gonna take a lot of people some of them not too sharp to get out from under this mess.

doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging?

Depends on who you add, surely. Your FB list is determined by your real life friends and family in a way most social media isn't, if there's an echo chamber there it's gonna translate.

My personal experience is people who tend to post these things also tend not to have friends who disagree with their basic premise, or if they do they know better than to engage with them on it.

Though frankly I don't think it's a valid premise from the get-go to think that anyone in America has never been exposed to messages like "corporations are bad", "money doesn't buy happiness" or "x-mas is too commercial".

I only interact with wins on fb tbh

The trouble is I've never met the type of person these cartoons propose - the totally dumb consumer, someone with a brain covered in NIKE ticks, sucking shit out of a pipe. I know the cartoons are exaggerated, but they're still saying that a type of person or a type of consciousness exists and I'm still not sure it does

Like I think the vulgarity of marketing today is definitely worth noting, crass adverts squirting out of your phone and fridge and toaster and watch, targeted to the absolute lowest common denominator ... but the cartoons seem to think this LCD person actually exists and needs to be woken up.

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Jeez

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18838849_10154671444413379_2154816818744377490_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=9a898080f1a1246f780df71d6a9028a0&oe=59A1B265

You can buy these

love too pedant

problem is that after you use them for long enough they start to provide only some of the possible options. suddenly there's only two & too. if this pencilmaker wants to invent a time machine so that i can go back and see what the rest of the pencil used to say, i might be interested

dislike/angry face, downvote, switch to separate account, downvote again

do it kingfish

load them all

suddenly there's only two & too.

As well, 'colons are underrated', which is just simply not true.

http://i.imgur.com/jbJo1tZ.png

tl;dr

99% sure it's fake but whoever made it was impressively in full metal jacket character

thats a famous reddit reply that got meme'd

I don't know what gorilla warfare is but I bet it involves feces

you're confusing gorillas with reddit

that's got to be the greatest reddit comment of all time

certainly the most "effortlessly sums up the spirit of"

in response, the receiver of that attack solemnly downvoted

inscribe that on an obelisk and let it be mankind's epitaph imo

(not mick foley's, to be clear)

I think that post predates Reddit. Probably a 4chan thing, and probably a joke to begin with.

that is extremely me, on the internet