Hey, that's how I find out the world news nowadays. Submarine implosion, armed rebellion, mysterious plane crash, those all came through.
When I worked at Google I would literally check the internal meme site to see if there was an outage. It was at least as reliable as the official channels.
Nah, they were considered confidential, and for the most part they were inside jokes anyway.
Off the top of my head, I remember a lot based on Scumbag Steve, the Socially Awkward Penguin, Skeptical African Kid, Woody Harrelson wiping away tears with money, "So I've got that going for me, which is nice" from Caddyshack, "I'm the captain now", "That's a bold move, Cotton", and whatever this is. Mostly it was the same stuff the rest of the internet uses with a few that were pretty obscure outside Google. Oh and way more animated gifs than you see elsewhere.
Highly recommend to do "news breaks".
I really feel better since I started avoiding the news. I just read the headlines of some notifications on my phone and it's enough for me.
I feel almost as great as when I ditched Facebook a long time ago.
Makes you realize how heavy the news can be to moral.
Like the recent headlines about subsidized oil being very much a thing now. This is so very deeply disturbing I just can't handle it. And I just read the headline I can't even imagine reading a full article explaining to me that we are getting worse for climate change. We indeed are accelerating toward the cliff.
Still, I feel still so much more relaxed not watching the news on any kind of video platform.
Try it.
While I agree that getting bullied in the news cycle is not healthy, I feel like getting the information about what's going on around you from memes is also not good. It lacks context and details to enable the user from processing the news with critical thinking. I don't know what the answer is, but for people who exercise their power of a vote, I feel like they need to be as knowledgeable about the issues as possible.
OP make so many memes that they are clearly the making the news
If you live in a country where the government bribes all the media, this and Twitter(/Xcrement) or whatever you can find on Mastodon is basically all you can find
And the bots in the Tech comm - one fetches 👽🤢 trending news articles, and the TLDR one bypasses the paywall 🏴☠️😎
