The Posts: the Pope, the enduring and expanding himbo discourse, life in third person
With some AOC gamer rep
One thing from this week and last
This week the Pope (Francis)made history by saying he supports same-sex civil unions. It’s a groundbreaking shift that pushes the Catholic Church into new territory. The Pope also recently became a meme after people began to use the four picture panels on Twitter to build a composite image of him holding up random things as if blessing them. The original pic of the Pope is from 2013, and he’s holding the Eucharist wafer but if you were on Twitter at all in the past week you probably saw him holding up anything from a PS1 controller to one of those elementary school fortune-tellers.
We'd normally embed these Tweets but it would mess up the way they are inteneded to be viewed so they're hyperlinked in the text if you want to check them out.
The idea for the meme is similar to the dog petting photoshop memes that have been around for the past three years. Unlike those, however, these originated on Twitter and, outside of screenshots, that was the only platform they could really be made. Like all the best memes, this trend really shone when people began to break the mold a bit and get a little edgier.
At some point, things got a little unorthodox.
But also maybe a little sweet.
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis — who once called the internet “a gift from God” — has been turned into a meme. However, this is the first time it’s been semi-decent. The old memes were during an era before memes got more sophisticated.
I mean, this is just the Good Guy Greg meme but Catholic.
A few more things
This dude was punished by having to go through life in third person
Simple concept but apparently fairly difficult to execute
While the announcement of a new statue of Medusa holding the head of Perseus launched 1000 think pieces on whether the head being Perseus instead of Poseidon changes the intended symbolism, that was all a distraction. The true discourse was around the startling absence of snake pubes and what this means.
they waxed her pussy bc they didn’t want to make a decision on whether or not her pubes would be snakeswhoa. a seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture of "Medusa With The Head of Perseus" will be installed across the street from 100 Centre St., Manhattan's criminal courthouse this weekend, a commentary on the #MeToo movement https://t.co/PXDsmhVWTY https://t.co/OcjL2BImgJ
Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday
Himbo discourse may not be all over the timeline these days but that doesn’t mean the great himbo philosophers of our time aren’t working and deepening the discourse. Here is a peek into some of their most recent groundbreaking developments.
This man is cursed with success. Sucks when you’re looking for an end to labor and you end up with more labor.
This has the same energy… but also the opposite
The extremely normal end of Demi Lovato’s engagement continues to roll out in a very casual way.
Ghost stories are fake but murders are true.
There’s this three-sided sandwich (tri-wich) that was shared on Twitter and it’s hard to put into words the emotions it triggers but it begs a lot of questions.
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize fr her work promoting the right to education, dunked on this dude’s thirst traps. And then did it again.
This poor cat falling: TikTok
The demons be lurking: TikTok
One Last Thing
On Tuesday night, AOC took to Twitch to play Among Us with some well-known streamers, Rep. Ilhan Omar (Oman was streaming her gameplay on her own Twitch channel too) and Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi. Her debut stream peaked at over 435K views and has the third-highest individual stream views. Though Omar came in as a novice, she quickly got good and was killing left and right. At one point AOC and Omar were co-impostors and were so close to winning. Regardless, it was a great wholesome time all around.
Here are the highlights:
And the obligatory fan cam:
