oh great here comes the meme loving asshole

shitpost loving fucks: Aquarius, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo

meme loving assholes: Capricorn, Pisces, Cancer, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius

the bots now doall our discourse for us

thank god

THAT’S IT
I CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PSEUDORANDOM BOT NONSENSE AND ACTUAL PEOPLE ANYMORE
WHAT EVEN IS REAL
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

if it makes you feel any better, the “thank god” part was human

you can pretty much tell because i literally programmed 0 grammar into memelovingbot. it just sticks meme phrases in other meme phrases. memes are just so goddamn incoherant already that it sounds legit

way to ruin my immersion

think of it this way: you, too, can make terrible robot garbage like memelovingbot, because it is simple and fun to learn to make robots specifically designed to make jokes you, their creator, will laugh at

i have a robot army that i basically designed to make it easier for me to laugh at my own jokes. i am the ultimate bot dad

i’m robot mom

Programmers tried for generations to create a program that could pass the Turing Test. They made ever more complex conversational bots, but to no avail. How could any of us have known that it wasn’t a more intelligent bot that was needed but a less intelligent humanity?

it’s not less intelligent we just gave up on grammar in favor of joke. memes are better. everything is better. intelligence is a bullshit racist/ableist/classist/sexist social construct that doesn’t really measure anything except the abilities to do whatever brain things are most rewarded by the oppressive overclass anyway, it fails to get enormous quantities of valuable and interesting kinds of skills and talents that humans have in favor of a few rigid categories that are defined and tested by people only interested in reinforcing a marginalizing, oppressive status quo

up with memes down with that capitalist bullshit imo

Bees are pretty.

Policephobe69

I’d like to clarify:

dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain. 

dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)

so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.

but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing

in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement. 

so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.

related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this

tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal

a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:

you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:

I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.

As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.

My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:

and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:

And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.

I think you might be onto something…

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Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.

This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.

Love

STATUS: DAY MADE.