Ehhhhhh. I won’t follow you there.
A) what he didn’t like was crass commercialization, something guaranteed to ultimately subvert his intent and integrity. Nobody’s making money off of this and nobody would mistake it for coming from Watterson himself. I’d be against selling this on a t-shirt… but not a single-run personal-use silkscreen.
B) I’m not worried about this hurting his feelings.
Yes it’s an alternative for the same format, just minus Stephen Crowder. The post is saying that Stephen Crowder doesn’t deserve to be the meme format and so uses Calvin instead
The title of the post is “Meme improvement rule,” which implies that this format is improved when Crowder is replaced by Calvin. The OP also provides a template for the Calvin version of the meme.
This leads me to believe that the post is saying that this version is not Stephen Crowser’s meme format. Stephen Crowder may have pioneered the format, but it has been reclaimed by Calvin, and this specific meme format with Calvin is no longer Stephen Crowder’s
I understand what the meme is trying to say. I’m saying that I don’t think it succeeded. I don’t think this is different enough to not still be the Stephen Crowder format.
Well, a lot of the commenters here didn’t even know his name. I read about him once but all my brain registered is “the change my mind guy is an asshole”, his actual name flew out of my mind almost immediately.
I think the people calling it “the Stephen Crowder meme format” are in the absolute minority.
But really: true. I guess I associate this meme with clowning on him but it doesn’t get used that way as much now, and Calvin is probably better because of that.
The Chuck Norris memes originated on SomethingAwful as Vin Diesel memes anyway but that was almost twenty years ago so nobody is going to remember that
Exactly. I read this meme and thought “who the fuck is he” googled his name, and saw the meme template I have seen million times without ever even stopping to think who the guy is
It’s not stupidity though right? It’s poes law. People simply can’t tell what is or isn’t satire; is the funny looking guy at the desk smart? Dumb? Arrogant? There’s no way to tell if you don’t know who he is (most people don’t pay attention to losers like crowder) so people have to make a base assumption based on their already existing perceptions.
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