Stolen Pixels #13: HypoCRITICAL

[shMerker]

I like the motivational poster format for a gag, but you have to have something witheringly cynical, preferably about the corporate world, which spawned those stupid posters in the first place.

But most of the time it's like:

[http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/shmerker/?action=view&current=motivator1291811.jpg]

And maybe the image was funny on it's own, but the text never helps at all, and sometimes even distracts from something that could have been good on it's own. It's like they don't even understand why the original demotivators [http://www.despair.com] were funny in the first place. And that's ultimately what this comes down to. Telling stupid people not to recycle jokes they don't even understand isn't going to stop them from being stupid. They're going to find some way to be totally inane whether you like it or not.

 

[josh797]

wow i quite liked the song your wrote. nice job on that. also i liked the comic and i agree, memes suck, for the most part. most of them are born in the unholy hellfires of 4chan and the rest are ripoffs of truly funny jokes. thank you shamus for putting a comic to my thoughts

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Such an awesome song but I'm a little hesitant on clicking those links though...

 

[Virgil]

Very clever! I look forward to these every week.

Do I detect a double hypocrisy as the Escapist puts you on probation for posting memes?

Don't worry, he's on double secret probation.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I like the motivational poster format for a gag, but you have to have something witheringly cynical, preferably about the corporate world, which spawned those stupid posters in the first place.

[http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn9/Sableagle/Detritus/?action=view&current=Crap.png]

 

[ghostrider409895]

I have recently started going through all of the old content on the Escapist that I missed, and I have to say that this comic showed me a lot of stuff I did not know about.
I just went through all of the different links that were in the description, and while it took a while, I now get some references I have seen around the internet. I already knew some of the references, like Jib Jab, Ultimate Showdown, and Tom Cruise Crazy, but now I get where who the red guy (Strong Bad) is and I know what Gram or Paul was singing (Chocolate Rain) in the Unskippable Vampire Rain. Am I better off now? I am unsure. However, now I know references I can recognize, and am able to explain them to others when they do not recognize them.