• Binturong@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      I’ll assume you don’t know cause it’s a common format and was very popular for years, but it depicts a guy who made a fortune going to college campuses to demand people change his mind on topics in bad faith so he could berate and harass college students and espouse bigoted viewpoints as an allegedly intellectual adult man. He also was abusive toward his pregnant wife and is a nepo-baby who flaunts his privilege explicitly to troll. If this is someone you knowingly want to bring attention to I advise you reflect on your own beliefs and understanding of what society is because he’s wrong and an asshole.

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        3 hours ago

        That guy gains nothing by people using the meme template. Most memers don’t even know about the controversy. So why is it bad to use the template when it’s so detached from the original dude?

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          Attention economy, man. Being recognizable is an asset, this furthers recognizability for that piece of shit.

        • Binturong@lemmy.ca
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          How tf is it detached when it’s showing his smug face? Why it is bad is that you are giving him attention through its use when there’s literally millions of other memes that would actually make you point better, free from the context associated with that guy, why are you defending it so hard? MANY PEOPLE DO know who he is, but you are for some reason only talking about those who don’t? Weird.