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Barbie She’s Everything He’s Just Ken Joke Roundup
A new poster for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie created a hilarious new meme format with the phrase, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.” Like, that literally describes Katniss and Gale from The Hunger Games.
“I Feel Personally Attacked By This Meme”: 40 Random Funny Memes That Hit Too Close To Home
Certain things make us cringe because our minds can’t help but imagine ourselves in a similar situation. Similarly, we can internalize songs, statements, and even memes if they manage to ring true enough. And because we aren’t exactly perfect, more often than not the truth will be something we would prefer to avoid.
The “I Feel Personally Attacked By This Meme” Facebook page manages to perfectly encapsulate its core ethos. These images manage to be funny, relatable, and somewhat painful in a way that only the truth can manage. So scroll down, get comfortable, and be sure to upvote the memes that attacked you directly, and comment on your favorites.
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Not to spoil the magic behind the scenes, but meme creators have mastered the art of making things so relatable they almost feel personal. After all, the word meme itself refers to a commonality shared by a group. If you peruse the internet, you’ll find meme pages devoted to almost any fandom and topic. Sometimes competing meme pages, where some slight difference has split the fanbase into two warring factions. As the webcomic XKCD once said “Human subcultures are nested fractally. There is no bottom.” In other words, we often set aside the 99% we have in common to battle over the 1% that differs. Now that is a personal attack.
We tend to enjoy content when we believe it’s directly related to us and our experiences. Fortune tellers, horoscope writers, and even personality tests use this concept, often referred to as the Barnum effect, to keep us engaged. The name comes from the famous/infamous American showman and businessman P. T. Barnum. While not exclusive to him, he did utilize the physiology of this effect to keep audiences engaged and entertained. Or distracted, you be the judge.
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But wait, there’s more! Meme creators will also rely on meme-like structures to breed familiarity. You have likely encountered hundreds if not thousands of examples of ‘x is the new y,’ without thinking about it. This kind of structure is called a snowclone, referring to the often-cited idea that the Inuit peoples have hundreds of words for snow. This idea is actually misleading but serves its purpose here to explain this phenomenon. And now that you know what it is, you’ll never be able to unsee it.
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More flexible than a traditional cliche, a snowclone can be bent and adjusted easily, while still maintaining an understandable frame of reference for the reader or viewer. Other more common variants include “the mother of all x,” which is attributed to none other than Saddam Hussein, or at least an Iraqi government Command Council. Others are easier to attribute, such as “to x or not to x?” and the wonderfully old-fashioned “have x, will travel,” for which we can thank the talented Bob Hope.
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Memes like this help bridge our common humanity, as most of the ideas are quite relatable and we can see, from the likes, comments, and shares, that others feel similarly. This can be comforting in a world that often does seem polarized and where it can seem difficult to find common ground. Even outside of memes, research suggests that we aren’t as different as we might sometimes feel. Over 82% of respondents indicated similar emotional responses toward the beauty of nature in one study of relatability among groups.
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These studies argue that, below the surface, we do share a lot of social connectedness that gets drowned out by specific differences. The aforementioned piece of research focused on nature in particular, but it postulates that it could also show up in everything from hobbies, religion, and even places of birth. To extrapolate these ideas to memes that personally attack you, they can help us see universal or near-universal experiences that are shared with others. So even if you feel attacked, know that you are not alone.
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Samuel L Jackson ditches Rangers for Celtic as Hollywood icon flashes famous smile with Gianni Capaldi – Daily Record
Samuel L Jackson might know what makes a tasty burger – but it seems he can’t decide which of the Glasgow giants to cheer on.
One week on from being pictured holding a Rangers jersey, the Pulp Fiction star has now crossed the divide to don Celtic colours. The Hollywood behemoth is filming his latest project in Scotland right now, a movie titled Damaged. It’s about a serial killer terrorising the nation and also stars Westworld’s Vincent Cassel and Scottish actor Gianni Capaldi.
At the end of last month, Rangers fans were left tickled when Jackson took time out from shooting to pose with this season’s first-team jersey in his trailer. Signed by the Hollywood A-lister himself, the shirt sported the number 23, which currently belongs to Ibrox frontman Scott Wright. But huge Celtic fan and fellow Damaged star Capaldi seemingly wasn’t having that – and got Jackson to switch allegiances.
Ahead of the Scottish Premiership showdown at Celtic Park, Capaldi shared a picture of him and Star Wars actor Jackson both wearing training tracksuits of the Parkhead giants. He wrote: “Unleash the FURY. Cmon @CelticFC. Big love from @OfficialGianni & a Jedi from the set of #Damaged.” One Hoops fan replied to Capaldi: “Gianni, the big man he was running about with their top on. Can’t be having that.”
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Texas Mom Pens Funny Absence Note To Daughter’s Teacher For Taylor Swift Show
One mom from Austin was celebrated on social media for the creative email she sent her daughter’s teacher to say she’d be missing school for one of Taylor Swift’s upcoming concerts.
Rather than send a simple email to say her daughter would be absent April 24 after attending one of the Houston dates on Swift’s Eras Tour, Karen Vladeck opted to lean into her inner Swiftie and pen a note laden with references to the singer’s discography.
Vladeck, 38, tells TODAY.com that since it was the first time that her daughter, who is in first grade, would be pulled out of school for something “fun,” instead of for a sick day, she wanted to find a clever way to share the news with her teacher.
“At first, it was going to be one sentence long and then I got into it and I just kept pulling different titles out,” she says.
The lawyer and legal recruiter shared the clever email she sent to her daughter’s teacher on Twitter, adding the message, “Here’s hoping my daughter’s 1st grade teacher is a Swiftie.”
After the “Anti-Hero” themed-subject line “It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem, It’s Me,” Vladeck started the email off strong with another “Midnights” reference, writing, “Dear Reader [Ms. Parks], I’m writing to let you know that Maddie won’t be in school on 4/24 because she is going to the Taylor Swift concert in Houston.”
“I hope missing school doesn’t ruin her otherwise stellar Reputation, but she begged me to go and maybe I Should Have Said No but I didn’t want to be Mean,” Vladeck continued, before fitting in another Swift reference. “So It Goes…”
Vladeck added, “Anyway, I hope this doesn’t leave any Bad Blood between you and Maddie and that things for the rest of the year are not Treacherous.”
“I know I Did Something Bad and I promise this will be The Last Time she has an unexcused absence before the Cruel Summer starts,” she said, before signing her email, “Forever & Always, Karen Vladeck.”
“I sent it without asking my husband, even though I copied him on it,” Vladeck explains to TODAY.com. “When he saw it, he was like, ‘What are you thinking?’ But then the teacher wrote back immediately and she absolutely loved it.”
Vladeck says Ms. Parks, who has two teenage daughters of her own, thought the email was “hilarious.”
On Twitter, she also shared Ms. Parks’ formal reply to the Swift-themed email, which read in all capital letters, “THIS MADE MY ENTIRE DAY.”
“MS PARKS GETS IT,” Vladeck wrote in the tweet.
Vladeck says the response to the email has been overwhelmingly positive and a welcome break from the negativity on social media.
“There’s so much bad news right now, we can spend a couple of minutes just enjoying that someone wrote a funny note to their teacher and it doesn’t have to be that serious,” she explains.
Vladeck, a longtime fan of Swift, is excited to be attending the concert with her daughter. She shares that it will be Maddie’s first concert ever, calling the moment a “big deal.”
“Parents now always talk about those core memories, but I do really hope in 20 years, she’s sitting around with her friends saying, ‘Oh, what was your first concert?’ and she says, ‘My mom took me to The Eras Tour when I was 7,'” Vladeck says.
In addition to getting to create memories with her daughter, Vladeck also celebrates the message Swift has conveyed through the tour.
“I absolutely love the message of what The Eras Tour represents, which is that you as a woman can be constantly reinventing yourself if you want to,” she says. “I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift since ‘Tim McGraw’ came out and the fact that she’s still here and is still so incredibly relevant — even more so than when she was 18 — that’s just an amazing message for little girls to see.”