#my TED talk ruining the image lol

[ode-of-odr]

// I actually really love this screen, because while Ras is very animated with his rage, there are moments, when his rage just boils into this eerie calm. He just slightly tilts his head like a bird of of prey deciding if what they is worth their energy. He's letting them think they have some upper hand, to speak their speeches.

But make no doubt he is lamenting in those moments how whoever is pissing him off isn't hearty enough to survive the pain he wishes to inflict upon them.

And that is why the gods of good keep him at arms length.

[kryptoniancape]

Caryl moments you're looking forward to/hoping for in the spinoff (besides the obvious!) - for me it's Daryl teaching Carol how to ride the motorcycle :)

Oh boy, have I been waiting all day to write this. *Cracks knuckles*

Any motorcycle stuff is good tier; Daryl hovering over her with his hands over hers on the handlebars while he shows her the clutch/brake, Carol straddling him on the bike for a quick passionate makeout before they drive off somewhere—In fact that last bit is my ultimate crackheadcanon for the final scene we see of them in the main show. (I dream big)

Helping each other dress down for the night/get dressed in the morning and pausing to kiss each other’s scars. I especially see and love the idea of Carol doing this.

Cuddling and telling stories by a camp fire. And just like, more of them acting domestic as they move from campsite to campsite. The haircut scene from 9x07 was one hell of a teaser and I’m awaiting the feature.

Speaking of hair, Daryl playing with strands of Carol’s hair.

If they end up in another place with running water at some point: mutual shower time, obviously. (Other couples have gotten shower moments on this show, Caryl will be overdue for one or two!) And like, I see them falling into it out of pure convenience initially, because they’re naturally such a unit they’d think efficiency first and foremost :)) Honestly it doesn’t even have to be a traditional shower, they could just be trying to clean up wherever and it turns flirty.

This one’s kinda corny but I’d love to see Daryl take to a pet name for Carol, since she already has one for him. I imagine a standard term of endearment, but coming from Daryl it would be hilarious and adorable no matter what.

Getting stuck holed up somewhere until a threat passes but they find an old bottle of whiskey. And it tastes like shit but it gets them past the time with genuine laughs and carefree canoodling

For that healthy dose of angst, an episode or so where some kind of danger spirals into them getting separated by accident, and leads one or both of them to believe the other could be seriously injured, in trouble or worse, and then the absolute tooth rotting fluff moment of them finally finding each other unharmed, in a deperate embrace of emotions.

Acting super overprotective of one another/threatening potential hostiles they cross paths with for breathing too close to their respective boo

Making cigarettes and smoking them together

Nursing each other after an injury and being just a lil overbearing and cute about it

Turning random tasks into playful contests (just like acorn kick the can) and like making petty bets and shit too that may or may not involve sexual favours :)))

Obviously want to see Caryl + visiting iconic North American landmarks; maybe the grand canyon, and some Mayan ruins would be sick if they end up going that far south. If they come up to Canada and start tearing it up in my neck of the woods I think I would die lol. These would also be such priceless Daryl moments, because our bby has never seen anything outside of the southeastern states.

Stealing neat trinkets and stuff to give to each other as gifts, and being excited to surprise each other with it. Maybe they even give each other matching stick n pokes at one point, Idk

Okay lastly, (and this is sort of a specific headcanon I have that stems all the way back from that image of Melissa holding the guitar, lmao) They stumble across a safe-ish area late one night that has super weird western vibes, and surprise! It’s actually a fucking bar, with a bunch of burly scary lookin people on edge. And just when it seems like they’re all about to throw down they’re like, we’ll chill in exchange for one song. Daryl blinks and Carol is like, fuck it I’ll sing something for y’all if that’s what it takes for us to crash here tonight, so be it :) A couple of dudes with beat up instruments are already at the ready in an elevated corner of the room, and Carol sings some knockoff accoustic piece akin to Ride by LDR. The entire room is just hollering and thoroughly into it, and Daryl stares on with heart eyes and amazed bewilderment at what is transpiring. Cue some flash cuts afterwards of Daryl and Carol smashing beers with these complete strangers and all of them genuinely enjoying each others’ presence. 🎬

Whew, that was a full ted talk. They will be the death of me. I swear, I could watch another decade of their adventures together and it would never get boring. Caryl truly are in their own league. I’m enthralled by the proximity of just seeing them existing, basically.

[depplosion]

Hey guys, you'll never believe this (or maybe you will). I was unfortunate enough to stumble into a far and remote corner of our beloved phandom today, a corner which is dark and full of terrors (and hypocrisy). A sparsely populated little planet, rife with ignorance and limited vision, completely devoid of intelligent life. Perhaps some of you have been there, yourselves. Yes, dear friends, I am referring to the rare sub-species of phan known as the "anti-E/C shippers". They hate Erik, in general, because he is an abuser, which makes all of us (nearly the entire phandom) "abuse apologists". I talked with two such individuals, both of whom took one last dig at me and then blocked me before I had the chance to respond (so mature, right?) Both of whom REFUSE to interact with any of us, because evidently we condone real-life abuse because we stan an abusive fictional character, and ship him with a woman who he abuses. Hmmmkay. Both of whom are a victim of abuse, as am I but go off, I guess..... Oh! And they both said that we are all horrible people (just for the record, some of the best people I've ever met, I've met thanks to PotO), we poison the phandom, nothing we have to contribute enriches it in any way, in short, we are all sick fucks who are wrong for loving Erik. The 14 year old (yeah, one of them was 14 but such a know-it-all) immediately hopped on their Discord server and started sharing our convo with their like-minded buddies (all 9 of them LOL), and that's how I ended up speaking with not just one, but two of these crazies. The second person has an Enjolras icon, so I asked them the following (forgive my typo, I was typing very fast):

I'm failing to see how I could possibly "ruin" Les Mis, but okay. This was just one among the veritable galaxy of completely dumbass things said by these two. Here is one more, from the other idiot, for good measure:

"If u dare" (first off, I have 0 respect fot those too lazy to type three letter words, and second, aren't we high and mighty?) "you'll be blocked". Oh no! Say it isn't so! Please, if anyone reading this shares any opinions with these seriously troubled children, then by all means, PLEASE BLOCK ME NOW!

Now, I warn you. The content of the below images WILL be upsetting to you. I apologize, friends, but it helps to illustrate just how deeply disturbed these people are.

Left: that's an awful lot of redundancy, not to mention superfluous f-bombs (smells like teen angst to me), but that's what these people love most in the world. They used the term "abuse apologist" collectively probably about 2 dozen times, and I'm truly sorry you've been abused, that sucks and I know from experience, but you don't have to let it rule your life like this? Y'all need therapy, or Jesus, or -something-, cuz this shit.... Mm-mm.

Right: That's just plain mean!

So, to summarise, I'm very disturbed to discover there are those out there with this viewpoint, those who are so focused on HATING something that they refuse to interact with anyone who has anything to do with that thing, they refuse to put aside differences or agree to disagree (as would adults), and they attack and insult those who do disagree, blanket-labelling us as "abuse apologists". It's really a shame.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[thotfuss]

What did you think of midsommar?? I loved hereditary as much as you and I'm really looking forward to seeing it (except the nearest theater is like an hour away so I gotta wait lol)

okay i have THOUGHTS about midsommar. i was gonna do a whole writeup but miss depression has really been kicking my ass so my motivation’s been out the window...basically i thought it was a solid meh. It was gorgeous, and some of the shots were very cool BUT to me it was so obvious that he recycled shots from hereditary (the sudden close-up of carnage, the upside-down angle, etc.) It really wasn’t...original in the slightest to me? I mean, there were some interesting concepts, and i do really like the cathartic angle that was such a huge part of Dani’s storyline, all of the ambitious things he tried to go for just really didn’t hit home for me. The general plot and aesthetic was SO reminiscent of Wicker Man, and anything that WASN’T lifted from that movie was pretty easy to trace back to hereditary imo. 

The thing about hereditary was it fucked. me. up. I have a strong stomach for horror movies, but that movie got under my skin to the point where I couldn’t drive without my interior lights on for MONTHS. In particular, the scene where Annie discovers Charlie’s body was disturbing to me in a way that I can’t describe. The way it’s cut, the way Peter’s completely emotionless face cuts to Charlie’s head in the middle of the road, Annie’s screams, it’s just horrifying in the BEST way and it RUINED me. I’ve been craving that feeling ever since I saw that movie, and I was so hopeful midsommar could give it to me. But like...it just didn’t. I’ve talked to people who hated the gore, and said that those were the images they couldn’t get out of their head but that didn’t get me whatsoever. I never really have an issue with gore, so to me it was just kind of ridiculous how MUCH he showed that shot of the two old people with their heads smashed in. Also for me, slow mo shots are SO hard to do well, I really found it laughable watching two heads that looked INCREASINGLY prop-like every time he showed the shot again get smashed up, it just completely took me out of it. 

Where the gore in Hereditary was effective because it was there not simply to be gory, but to enhance something that would have been horrifying even WITHOUT it, to me the gore in Midsommar just was there for shock value. The most upsetting sequence to me was the opening sequence with the double murder-suicide of her family, and while that opening sequence really got my hopes up for the rest of the movie, the dark tone it set faded really quickly for me. The humor was good! it was good, but it was also really..forced in my opinion. Like not to harp on it but GOD the dry unintentional humor in hereditary was so GOOD, like some of it was so absurdly dark it was funny.

FINAL thought for right now, even though I’ll probably remember a million more things i wanted to write about this movie (really shoulda just typed it out when I got out of the theatre) was how fucking LONG it was. I just. felt like it could have been cut so much shorter. I was honestly just really let down by this movie, anyway hereditary is never going to be topped I guess thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[racingtoaredlight]

PRS vs. Gibson

Gibson is a historic, iconic, legendary brand that’s more responsible for shaping the face of western music for the latter half of the 20th Century than any other company than Fender.  In a lot of ways Fender and Gibson couldn’t be more opposite...Fender’s are designed to be easily maintained and repaired while being able to literally be lit on fire and still make music on, Gibson’s are brittle and clunky.  Fender’s are light and slice through a mix, Gibson’s are heavy and plow through a mix.  Fender has had patches of brilliant, forward thinking leadership while Gibson’s C-Suite has been a running comedy of errors since Ted McCarty left (to work with PRS).

I’m not going to compare Fender to PRS because it doesn’t make sense.  While PRS’ are considered to be “Fender/Gibson hybrids,” really the only hybrid aspect of Fender you see is the whammy bar and this really bad imitation of the “Fender sounds” via coil splitting the humbuckers.  Listen, I’m not shitting all over Gibson’s here...while they have their flaws, there’s a reason that the Les Paul and ES-335 and dozens of other models have been used continuously since they were released.  We’ll get to that.

PRS is a close cousin of Gibson more than anything else.  And there’s a lot under the hood that you might not notice that represents a significant improvement in design over Gibson’s iconic instruments.  Despite everything I’m about to write though, Gibson has the ultimate trump card.

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HEADSTOCK ANGLE

Headstock angle?  Really?

Gibson has known about the above fault FOREVER.  Strings need to have a proper break angle after the nut...in order to tune properly, resonate clearly and essentially make good sounding notes come out.  You can see in the image above how Gibson headstocks are angled backwards (at a 17* angle), so that every string has the proper break when feeding into the tuning pegs.

That idea makes perfect sense.  If you don’t have a neck that’s designed to create that proper break angle, you need to do what Fender did, and add an ugly piece of metal right in the middle of your headstock...

Here’s the problem though...if your headstock is angled at an extreme 17*, it’s very suceptible to break.  Gibson headstocks are so legendary for breaking like in that image above, there’s a common saying “not everyone is meant to own a Gibson.”

Oh, and there’s a solution for this that’s been known forever too.  It’s called a scarf joint, where you take two pieces of wood cut at that 17* angle and glue them together.  But then cork sniffers complain about not having “one-piece necks.”  Why not make the headstock angle less severe?  Because cork sniffers only buy guitars “to vintage spec.”

It’s ridiculous and Gibson is going to die on this hill.  PRS headstocks have a 10* angle.  Same sonic benefits, same break angle, same construction method...and in all my years in guitar forums, I have never seen a PRS headstock break like the hundreds of examples of a Gibson.

And that’s not the only headstock issue either...

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STRING ANGLE

Another thing that seems insignificant...but it’s fucking huge.  Mega important.

PRS’ headstocks are designed for the strings to feed straight from the nut to the tuner.  One straight line.  You can obviously see on the Gibson headstock, the strings shoot off in different directions after they hit the nut (lol).  In theory...old, outdated theory...it doesn’t matter what the string does before the bridge and after the nut, as long as it’s secure.

Which is ridiculous.  Here’s the thing, man...what good is music if it’s not in tune?  Nothing.  It’s garbage and sounds like shit, even if you can’t immediately tell why.  What good is a guitar if a string breaks mid-song?  Not much of one, unless you know how to deal with it.

These two variables are legitimate things you have to think about if you play in a working band and choose to use a Gibson.  The D and G strings (strings 3 and 4) go out of tune frequently, no matter how perfectly set up your guitar is.  You gotta be ready to tune at a moment’s notice...and even be able to re-tune mid-song when you notice one of those strings slipped.

The A and B strings (strings 2 and 5) go out less frequently, but when I play Allman Brothers’ “Ramblin’ Man” and I’m at the end where there’s those beautiful harmonies...if both the B and G strings slip, those harmonies are completely ruined.  What good is a great sounding guitar if it’s not in tune?

Now, I’m not saying the Gibson goes out of tune when you play 3 notes or something...but compared to a PRS?  The PRS and it’s straight-pull headstock alone are designed not to go out of tune...and that’s before we mention that he uses locking tuners, which secure the string completely (where the strings on GIbson tuners can occasionally slip, another flaw).

Less stress on the strings, better tuning...that shit lets you focus on playing music instead of fussing with an instrument.

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ERGONOMICS AND WEIGHT

On the bottom picture, you can see what’s called a “belly cut.”  Another thing that might sound ridiculous, but think about how these things are used...

The belly cut was revolutionary when it came out in 1954 on the Fender Stratocaster.  Guitars before this...even Leo Fender’s own designs...were on what’s obviously called “slab bodies.”  Look at the top pic of the Les Paul, and it’s pretty obvious why it’s called a slab.  There’s no contours or anything to fit against a guitarist’s body or where they rest their arm.  When this came out...

...oh man, guitarists fucking LOVED it.  You can see the belly cut here, where it just melts against your body...and you can also see the contour where you’d rest your arm.  Why is this important?

When you’re playing a show or recording, you’re moving around, playing with energy for multiple hours, and when a giant slab of wood is digging into your ribs and forearm over and over, it fucking sucks straight up.  When the Strat was released in 1954, the comfort of playing it was as big of a draw as how beautiful it sounded.  Hell, look what Jeff Beck did to his famous 1951 Esquire.

He just said “fuck it” and did it himself.

A comfortable guitar to play for hours, is a guitar that you will play for hours.  Gibson will never adopt this because of the cork sniffers, even though it’s been the number one complaint about a Les Paul since it’s inception in 1952.

Playing a Les Paul is a labor of love.  You have to LOVE playing a Les Paul to make it your main guitar because it’s wrecked so many backs and shoulders over the years, that you know this going in.  Imagine playing a gig...two 90 minute sets or something...Les Paul’s typically weigh between 9-12 pounds.

Keep in mind that 9-12 pounds is digging into your shoulder, ribs and elbow for three hours...and because it’s just a slab of wood with no contours, it’s swinging around and moving, making it all more of a pain in the ass.  A Telecaster doesn’t have contours, but they’re the lightest guitars out there at 6-7 pounds.

PRS made this a non-issue.  Their guitars are rarely over 8.5 lbs., they’re ergonomic and designed to fit comfortably against the guitarist’s body and be played for hours.  They don’t swing around, move on the strap, are perfectly balanced...

You have to a fight a Gibson, pretty much no matter what model it is...PRS’ are so balanced and comfortable, you sometimes forget it’s there.

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GIBSON’S TRUMP CARD

To sum up the advantages in design I detailed above...PRS guitars are more stable, more resonant and less likely to have the headstock pop off completely after a very minor fall compared to Gibson.  That headstock thing is almost the perfect definition of an Achilles’ Heel.

So why do people still play Gibson’s?

A bunch of intangible reasons that don’t mean much unless you have an instrument in your hands.  But these things are the most critical aspects of what an instrument is supposed to do, because if a headstock snaps, making that instrument worthless...just pick up another one!

The most Les Paul-like PRS is the McCarty 594 (named after the former Gibson honcho mentioned above)...but why doesn’t it sound like a Les Paul?  Why is it clearly “lesser” sounding when it has almost the same body thickness, pickups, electronics, scale length...all that shit?  I honestly don’t know.

But it is.  I call the Les Paul the heavyweight champion of the world, because it is unbelievably thick, rich, meaty and huge sounding, almost to an overwhelming degree.  That serves a very, very useful purpose with any type of music featuring overdriven amps...so basically anything from blues to the heaviest of metal.  And the McCarty comes close in sound...close, but not the heavyweight champion of the world.

The other Gibson design that’s on the Mount Rushmore of guitars is the ES-335...which isn’t as thick and meaty as a Les Paul, but due to the hollow wings, has this wonderful bloom and sparkle.  You can feel the hollow instrument vibrating against your body, and it occupies this sonic middle-ground that other semi-hollow and Gibson-styled guitars have never fully captured.

I know it sounds like a cop-out, after all that, to just say “yea well Gibson’s are better sounding, and that’s all that matters,” but that’s the case in my opinion.  Also, there’s something psychologically to fighting with your guitar...keeps your mind active in the moment, instead of letting your thoughts drift because it seems like a guitar plays itself.  For all the ergonomic advantages of the Strat, while it’s comfortable, you gotta fight it to get it sounding its best.  That’s not the case for a PRS.

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PRS’ TRUMP CARD

PRS’ sound damn good, OK?  We’re talking splitting hairs here in the sonic differences between, say, a Les Paul and McCarty 594.  It’s just the Gibson’s have that certain something extra I can’t define, that’s all...

Fighting guitars is fun when you’re feeling it and it’s a great gig that you’re fired up about...but if it’s some shitty bar gig you regret taking on, 45 minutes away, in front of thirty people that aren’t paying attention, do you really want to have a 10 pound boat anchor digging into your shoulder and ribs all night?  Not really.

PRS guitars sound more than good enough to get the job done.  No-playing guitar nerds care about specs and stupid things that don’t mean a goddamned thing like “accuracy,” pros care about reliability and durability, the audience cares about NONE of this shit.

Why is that Gibson headstock thing a big deal and not a big deal at the same time?  All the audience cares about is if they like what they hear...it’s binary.  If they pay attention, it’s good.  If they don’t, it’s bad.  If something like the drummer knocking a Gibson over and breaking the headstock can keep you from playing, that’s a big deal.  If you borrow another guitar, the audience won’t even know it’s borrowed, because...again...they do not care about any of this.

Plus there’s the value proposition.  PRS isn’t compared to Gibson’s USA issues...where $3,800 vs. $2,500 for a McCarty vs. a Les Paul seems like PRS’ are ungodly expensive. Given the standard of quality, however...the comparison is to Gibson’s Custom Shop lines, where that $3,800 McCarty is now up against a peer Historic Gibson that will cost you anywhere from $5,500 up to $8,500.

Much different value proposition there.

*for the record, I consider Gibson’s current USA line to be the best value in new high-end guitars.

***

CONCLUSION

I do tho, so fuck you.

[theredpelican]

i've thought i'm not into men but i am, physically, and nothing else. they talk and ruin it :\ lmao like whenever i'm with them i don't feel respected and even the "nice guys" (lol dont exist) idealize me to where i am not even a person. they still expect me to fulfill their shitty image of me?? and then i feel bad?? i don't know when i have actual romantic feelings for them anymore because maybe i just don't. thank you for replying! i will continue this awkwardly funny quest

i think we can all agree that men are a nightmare. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog]

9 tweets that killed the internet's favorite memes

If a meme is lucky it might live about a month so before fading out of our minds when an exciting new inside joke catches our eye. 

However, from Doge to the dab, some of the internet's best memes have met premature demises, all thanks to a single tweet that completely missed the mark.

SEE ALSO: Meet the Disloyal Man, star of the internet's new favorite meme

Though no meme can ever really "die" per se, once they've reached the ultimate level of mortal embarrassment, what's the point? Memes simply aren't as fun once the shark's been jumped.

Here are 9 times desperate politicians and brands attempting to be cool jumped on our favorite internet memes and managed to kill them off with one single tweet.

1. Eclipse memes

Cause of death: Donald Trump

Leave it to the president of the United States to take the fun out of August's total solar eclipse. In the days leading up to the rare phenomenon, the internet was reveling in memes about those exclusive eclipse glasses, but Donald Trump quickly killed the joy when he tried to make the eclipse about politics.

Trump retweeted a meme of himself "eclipsing" the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, which naturally people saw as both scientifically flawed and racist.

Image: screengrab/twitter

Just like that, people threw in the towel and moved on from the eclipse. #ThanksTrump.

2. Bae

Cause of death: Olive Garden

In a shameless attempt to further promote what are already the most-overhyped breadsticks on the planet, back in 2014 Olive Garden decided to label its breadsticks the ultimate "bae."

The word was once solely used to describe a romantic interest. But then people began using "bae" as an adjective to describe beloved foods and drinks and though many other brands — from Jamba Juice and Burger King to AT&T — began tweeting the term, Olive Garden unleashing the gag-worthy PR slogan, "You can't spell breadsticks without 'bae,'" is what crossed the line.

We couldn't make this up! RT to share with your BAE. #NeverEndingPasta pic.twitter.com/bp4HhYt1Uz

— Olive Garden (@olivegarden) October 17, 2014

*cringe*

3. Covfefe

Cause of death: Words With Friends

Final nail in coffin: Hillary Clinton

Covfefe — the careless jumble of letters created by the clumsy Twitter fingers of President Trump — had its 15 minutes of fame and then some. 

After covfefe jokes had been going strong for an entire day, Words With Friends — the forgotten mobile game invented in 2009 — decided to join in on the fun by adding the word to its dictionary. 

No.

Now playable in #WordsWithFriends! #covfefe - "Autocorrect fails you at 3am" pic.twitter.com/YRILzWVOT9

— Words With Friends (@WordsWFriends) May 31, 2017

Naturally the attempt killed the joyful trend, but later that evening Hillary Clinton decided to really make sure the meme was dead by tweeting her own covfefe joke.

People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017

Solid try but far too late — RSVP to the meme party earlier next time.

4. Zoom In

Cause of death: IHOP

With a simple photo of some pancakes, Denny's gave the "Zoom In" meme a shot, guiding followers from the syrup to the corners of the image, only to reveal a totally pointless message in the butter: "has this distracted you from overwhelming existential dread lol."

zoom in on the syrup pic.twitter.com/omRBupjrXq

— Denny's (@DennysDiner) March 1, 2017

A pretty deep message from a diner, eh? Denny's did meme correctly and with almost 200,000 likes, it's clear this wasn't such an awful attempt at meme-ing. But naturally IHOP got jealous and ruined the fun.

The following day the pancake house responded to Denny's with a cocky tweet that completely abandoned the meme.

You don't need to zoom to know that these pancakes are the best👌.... pic.twitter.com/R7tqMFEUOv

— IHOP (@IHOP) March 2, 2017

With less than 400 likes people were clearly unimpressed.

5. Doge

Cause of death: House GOP Representatives Thomas Massie and Steve Stockman

This may hurt some of you die-hard Shiba Inu lovers, but doge died a very long time ago.

Back in 2013 two GOP representatives —Kentucky's Thomas Massie and Steve Stockman of Texas — tried (and epically failed) to make doge memes work to their political advantage.

Massie used the pup to attack congressional bipartisanship surrounding budget deals. 🙄

Much bipartisanship. Very spending. Wow. #doge http://t.co/NMlzqrZS8e pic.twitter.com/zjQTrfoUFJ

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 23, 2013

And Stockman used the meme to target John Cornyn, his Senate opponent. While Stockman did use fun text colors, his phrases like "oppose Ted Cruz" and "support Obamacare funding" weren't even in the style of the meme and would definitely not be doge-approved.

wow. such obamacare funding. oppose ted cruz. pic.twitter.com/bIgXNNpimi

— Rep. Steve Stockman (@StockmanSenate) December 23, 2013

Much fail. So embarrassment. Wow.

6. Dat boi

Cause of death: Jolly Rancher

According to Know Your Meme, the words "dat boi"  first appeared on the scene back in 2014. But in 2016 the phrase became associated with that iconic frog riding a red unicycle and the memes really started rolling.

Image: know your meme

To stay hip, Jolly Rancher — the hard candy company that loves to hashtag it's, uh, questionable slogan, "Keep On Sucking" — tried to make its own version of dat boi, but ohmygosh it was so bad.

The brand tweeted "Here come dat boi," then immediately called itself out by writing, "Sucks when brands take your meme."

Then, instead of the dat boi frog, Jolly Rancher shared a graphic of the an apple sitting atop a unicycle (in front of a library ???) with a goofy grin, saying, "Oh hai wuddup!" 😑 

Here come dat boi. Sucks when brands take your meme. #KeepOnSucking pic.twitter.com/mQ1IjFnDdK

— JOLLY RANCHER (@Jolly_Rancher) May 6, 2016

Keep on sucking, Jolly Rancher.

7. The dab

Cause of death: Paul Ryan

After the Speaker of the House shut down Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall's son for trying to dab at the swearing in of the 115th Congress, the world poked fun at Ryan for being too uncool to ~get~ the dab.

Ryan — who thought the kid was going to sneeze — later admitted in a tweet that he "still doesn't get what dabbing is," but days later performed a dab of his own during his CNN Town Hall.

Paul Ryan just dabbed. The dab is now the singularly most offensive gesture I've ever seen. Please retire it. Right now.#RyanTownHall

— Jay Dav-O (@ChocnessMonsta) January 13, 2017

And that my friends, is how Jan. 12, 2017 came to be known as the day the dab died.

8. Emoji sheriff

Cause of death: Coca-Cola

When Twitter users began pretending to talk like they were in old Westerns and building odd little sheriffs out of emoji, Coca-Cola saw an opportunity to ruin the fun. 

By then, many other delightful and well executed sheriffs — like the sheriff of nutrition, good dogs, train emoji, and more — had been created. But the multinational corporation's odd "sheriff of refreshment" that encouraged people to "share a Coke" kind of missed the mark.

. 🤠 💆🏽‍♂️💆🏼💆🏾 🌊 🤤 💨 👇🏼💦 ❄️👇🏼 🏖 🏝 👢 👢 howdy. I'm the sheriff of refreshment. #ShareaCoke  obviously.

— Coca-Cola (@CocaCola) July 12, 2017

While it would have made sense for the meme to give a nod to refreshments — including relatable emoji like the glass of milk or wine — Coca-Cola decided to use a random AF assortment of people getting massages, a snowflake, and some islands.

Nope. Not how you do it.

9. You vs. the guy she told you not to worry about

Cause of death: Jimmy John's

Jimmy John's attempted to promote its "gourmet sandwiches" by putting a photo of a seriously stacked menu item beside one of two sad-looking pieces of white bread with like a slice of ham in between.

You vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about. pic.twitter.com/k6a5y4a7Od

— Jimmy John's (@jimmyjohns) August 18, 2016

The pathetic excuse for the sandwich (the "you" of the meme) is supposed to show people how impressive the Jimmy John's sub (the guy she tells you not to worry about) is. In reality it just reminded everyone how embarrassing brand promos are.

Well, guys. You tried.

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