• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    24 hours ago

    geniva_covienence has a perfectly smooth and round brain that spins frictionlessly in his skull like a ball bearing.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      9·
      23 hours ago

      They (the people funding this stuff, I think) don’t particularly care between Cuomo or Sliwa. They will continue to make money hand over fist with either one of them. But Zohran will represent a genuine issue for them, especially if other people see his success and it starts to spread.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      24·
      1 day ago

      Cuomo probably.

      These tankies are either controlled opposition or useful idiots. They fight against progressive candidates for not being far enough left, so that the right can take the easy W.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    402·
    1 day ago

    So the thing that brought me back to this to post it is this: Look at the production value on this meme. Speech bubbles drawn with a tablet, partial transparency, professional font but well-chosen so that it can be clear and readable but still condensed to take up minimal space. Look at the composition. Someone sat down with a tablet and made this up, and this wasn’t their first time doing graphic design.

    @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml Where did you find this meme? I am curious now

    Edit: Also. You know what isn’t professional about it? The English grammar. “Remind me” and “oriental” aren’t phrasings that I think a native speaker would choose. Why is that part sloppy, when everything else is incredibly painstakingly polished? “Oriental” could maybe be a deliberately weird / wrong word choice as an offbeat joke, I guess, but why “remind me” instead of “reminds me” which is clearly what was intended?

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      28·
      1 day ago

      @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml Where did you find this meme? I am curious now

      They literally tell you in the post. It was found on this Twitter thread.

      It’s a stupid meme even in context, because it’s literally in response to Mamdani calling out the genocide using that word. And frankly considering we’re talking about a guy in the running to be mayor of a city, not any sort of position with foreign policy power or even power to regulate the industries profiting from this, I’m not sure what more you can ask for.

    • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
      201·
      1 day ago

      It’s almost like it was hand crafted at great expense by someone for whom English isn’t their first language.

      • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        I mean, IDK if it was great expense, but I do think it was done by either someone who decided to make this one fairly dumb point into a true labor of love to make the most polished meme I’ve seen all year for it (unlikely), or by someone who does a ton of graphic design (whether for memes or no) to the point that making stuff that looks polished like this isn’t a big deal for them. The second seems more likely, although I guess who knows.

        I am really curious where it came from. Tineye returns 0 results.

        • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
          English
          7·
          1 day ago

          true labour of love to make the most polished meme

          Making this meme is relatively simple even if you have minimal skills in graphic design (the pitch is IMO also pretty straightforward). The hardest part (on a relative basis) is finding the image.

          I think you over-estimate how difficult it would be to make this meme, it’s 5-10 minutes tops if you already have the image.

          • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Sure. Want to make one that has this level of polish, to demonstrate how easy it is? The subject matter can be how PhilipTheBucket is a big dummy.

            • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
              English
              2·
              21 hours ago

              I am not going to do that. That’s not even a good theme for a meme in this context.

              A better one would be that meme image of the grandma by the computer saying something like “those must be the memes my granddaughter was talking about! What polish! They even have transparency!” And then you see the OP meme.

              Honestly you don’t have to believe me. I am not a graphic designer, but I regularly make similar stuff for slide decks as highlight for text content.

              Complex visualisations (not to mention the actual data analysis, validation etc) takes far more time and effort.