I saw that bloody frog on the BBC news page earlier, and I think the noise I made may have been the best tea-pot impression in my life.
As those present for yesterday's ape-jape must've noticed, I haven't got a single clue anymore, and when even a thick bastard like me could see through that nonsense, something has gone terribly wrong. I mean, Lord knows what it means and to whom and where irony and sincerity begins and ends with that whole mess now, but it's a stupid cartoon frog. One that's been used for all sorts of stupid purposes. The Nazis (if that is even what they are) seems to just be another (admittadly unusually tragic) miasma of people. Surely, a global newsgroup with thousands of journalists should have been able to find someone with the vaguest idea of what the hell is going on.
Honestly I'm okay with ridiculous internet memes being vilified.
I'm sort of, too, but I think it's giving them undue importance. But I could just be a bit grumpy because I've lost the entire thread. I mean, last I remember it was about making Sparta remixes and redubbing the Lord of the Rings films and going "o rly?" when possible. That aside, vilifying that rubbish will let the people who really mean it feel like heroes, and feel that the zog-y media is, indeed, repressing them, and they were right all along. It's a warm, fuzzy feeling I don't want them to have.