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Tag: MemeWars
The War on Happy Holidays
One of my favorite things about Christmastime in recent years is the way that the War on Christmas is in full and shambolic retreat. It’s heartwarming to see so many people treating the fake regard for the imaginary holidays with all the contempt and derision that it has always merited.
[Excessively vulgar derision removed. Sure, it’s funny, but edifying it is not. Any time you can be mistaken for South Park, you’ve gone too far.]
I can’t even imagine what the channers and memelords are going to do to the Diwali festival if anyone tries to shove that one down our throats…
Nuclear Rhetoric
The man who lived by the meme is now dying by it.
It certainly cannot be argued that either the first or the second Trump administration has even begun to make the USA America again, much less make America great again.
This doesn’t mean it was wrong, stupid, or foolish to have had hope. It just means that most men fail in the end, regardless of what their intentions might have been.
Not So Much
Renounce Satan, his servants, and all his pomps. Especially when his servants ask you to endorse them.
Meme of the Week 24
It was a tough competition this week on the Darkstream. For the first time ever, there were FOUR 10/10 memes and most of the other memes were high quality as well. But this one clearly took the prize, as it didn’t require a single word to rhetorically criticize the convergence of ChatGPT.
MemeWars
You know the drill. One meme per customer. Tonight on UATV.
Meme of the Week 23
After a long hiatus, the Meme of the Week returned on last night’s Darkstream. Several strong entries, including two 10/10s. But this deeply sobering meme was clearly the winner:
Weekly Meme Review
You know the drill. One meme per customer. But lay off the memes about the Ukrainian girl murdered by the young man who didn’t do nuffin and was going to be a college student as there are a million of them around now.
Also remember that the paywall is up, so if you haven’t renewed your subscription to UATV yet, you should get that process started so you can take part in the next one.
The Storm in Action
Perhaps it’s not quite as exciting as we anticipated. But it’s definitely working. He’s so deeply inside the Deep State’s OODA loop that he can see their tonsils. Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool…
GaimanGate: The Next Chapter
It appears the next chapter in the ongoing Neil Gaiman sexual assault scandal is about to begin. From r/NeilGaimanUncovered:
This is a heads-up as promised (and the last update) before the long-awaited article. We are only a few days away from publication. The article will be posted in this sub as soon as it’s out and we’ll include trigger warnings so vulnerable members can engage with highly disturbing content on their terms.
Rest assured, the memewarriors at Neil Gaiman Memes are ready and will be memeing up a storm on the basis of the new information once it is revealed. And as can be seen in the meme below, it’s not exactly a mystery as to why Gaiman did what he is accused of doing, why his purported “success” was manufactured for him, or why he has seemingly been protected for so long. As with the British politician mentioned in the prior post, he makes it very clear who and what he serves.
One Gaiman fan on Reddit was skeptical that anyone could possibly have had any idea about Gaiman prior to the allegations going public last year:
Can anyone point me to some threads or posts where people shared their feelings of ick about Gaiman from before the allegations went public? So many people here were feeling the same thing, surely there are documented cases of people speaking out.
Here are three from this blog alone. The posts from 2017 and 2018 are mine, the one from 2013 is from a reviewer I was quoting. But my disdain for Gaiman as a writer and novelist is well-documented, and while I didn’t read enough of his work to be certain that he was a bad person prior to the 2024 allegations of sexual assault, much less the manufactured creature he now appears to be, he was most definitely in the “yeah, this guy is probably off” category after reading American Gods and a few issues of Sandman, after which I stopped reading him. Although, to be fair, it was the mediocrity that was the reason, not the probability that he was what he turned out to be.
- 2018: If you think Neil Gaiman is a great novelist, or even a great SF/F novelist, you are simply wrong. He is a successful, talented and much-loved SF/F author, and understandably so, but he is also little more than a very successful stunt writer with two or three tricks in his bag. There is a reason that all of his notable books involve mythology of one sort or another; his true gift is translating ancient myth into a form that pleases postmodern palates.
- 2017: It is right and proper to judge the artist on the basis of the art. More often than not, the art created by the artist provides relevant insight into his psyche; it is very difficult to write the opposite sex well and it is also very difficult for a man to write characters who are different than his own socio-sexual rank. Read Louis L’Amour and Robert Ludlum. Then read John Scalzi and Neil Gaiman. The difference is readily observable. Then read Piers Anthony and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Notice the creep factor? Exactly. This is one area where you can reliably trust your feelings.
- 2013: Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods and Anansi Boys are written by the exact same man. It’s that Mr. Stock Type shows up for all four, each iteration as dull and insufferable as the last, distinguishable only faintly by his name. Leaving American Gods and Stardust alone for now, this isn’t so much a matter of “oh you could do this to any fantasy book,” itself an asinine proposition, because not all fantasy books feature a timid Londoner devoid of ambition who has relationship troubles with a demanding sweetheart/fiancee. The sweethearts in question(respectively Rosie Noah, Jessica, and Victoria Forrester) are likewise identical: thinly written, demanding, henpecking, and not the brightest. Really Gaiman kind of sucks at writing women, and apart from this one incredibly tertiary character in American Gods I don’t think he’s particularly comfortable with gay men–certainly not enough to write them as protagonists. Similarly, the catalyst to “finding the secret magic world” is always more or less the same: through colliding with one of said secret world’s inhabitants.