Happiness is dumb and everyone should be miserable as me. But nobody should be more miserable, because then that would make feel bad
This is how we get a Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy watch party going on CyTube.
Because people should be angry about climate change at all times like I am.
I've been really angry this week about the Alabama voting rights case. God I hate those 5.5 assholes. I got slightly distracted by the Newcastle win against Everton.
The only sins wholesome memes commit is that they tend to be not very funny (although that is subjective and you could argue that they are not meant to be funny), and also they remind me of the long motivational speeches my high school physics teacher forced my class to listen to.
I don't think they're inherently bad but the term "wholesome" has become diluted to the point of just some aesthetic markers. Like I saw a thing about "cops and black people should try to get along :)" as a wholesome meme completely flattening and ignoring the... everything. And incest on "wholesome" hentai because they were smiling I guess
Yeah, "wholesome" without an ability to criticize and acknowledge reality leads to being incredibly uninformed and driven almost entirely by propaganda.
Like not thinking about the "problematic" or "difficult" aspects of the civil rights movement and instead focusing on a "wholesome" picture of a cop hugging a black person or something.
It can absolutely create people who want to avoid the contradictions instead of confronting them because they themselves are moderately comfortable.
That being said, wholesome stuff in general can be good. It's just also a very useful propaganda tool (see dogswithjobs and copaganda)
can't remember the dude but i was looking at a profile for someone who was basically calling for glassing china and they were a regular /r/wholesomememes poster :so-true:
reddit wholesomeness is definitely more cynical than people just wanting to have a good time. it feels like a lot of it is them trying to convince themselves things aren't as bad as they are, not exactly a bad thing, but it makes it feel inauthentic.
because if you don't respond to them you're a bad person and it makes you feel worse
I went against the way and scrolled plebbit just to get the context, r/wholesomememes rn is just a bunch of "happy" family/friendship memes, only like 5% cringe in the form of trivializing mental health issues and unironically using the white supremacist Yes Chad, both probably unintentional because plebbitors are idiots.
Its basically cope for the alienations normies feel and the general misery of living under capitalism, there is nothing wrong with it that I can see.
