#wojak is okay

[the-fruit-tea-devil]

[alfredosauce50]

Alfredosauce I have a confession…

I’ve read some of your stuff to the boyf (he lets me gush about what I like) BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD HIM IT’S HETALIA FANFICTION WE’VE BEEN READING THIS ENTIRE TIME 💀

Me asf 🙏

I took out the cringe of Hetalia and replaced it with my own cringe. You’re welcome

[tomatoluvr69]

Soup season this spooky season that. When will you people call it like it IS!!!!! Sufjan season

[skymantle]

there is no way you are putting wojak icons on my dash and then saying "omg i had no idea they were a fash:-((((((" hello.

[danketsuround]

i have a lot of analysis posts in mind. but it's like (comprehensive thoughts) in my brain and then when i actually go to sit down and type it im like uhhhh uhhhhh and because uhhhhhhhhhh.........

[princessrockclub]

i was at a dinner party with friends yesterday and a piece of the ceiling tile fell on an old man

[syrinq]

terms for generations are so fucking stupid. oh you're a millenial? count to 1,000 real quick. who's after generation alpha. beta? with the alpha/beta/omega shit going on? what are you, past the times? i'm generation ZNORRKKKKKKK MIMIMIMIMIMI

[boof-chamber]

aww, what’s the matter, snowflake? did your tear response get TRIGGERED by the release of volatile syn-propanethial-S-oxide vapors?

[play-now-my-lord]

ME: so this is the 21st century CAVEMAN: i don't know what either of those words mean but okay ME: it'd take a while to explain. we've solved many problems that used to consume a lot of your time CAVEMAN: oh, so you've figured out why we're all here and what it all means and you've got nothing left to do but watch the sun go down and go back up again like a corpse ME: god no. We don't know any of that shit and we have like an average of half an hour of free time per day and we spend most of it worrying about shit other people say about us CAVEMAN: I'm going to draw you as a notoriously stupid animal on the wall of a cave ME: We have that too. It's called wojaks

[radfem-polls]

What's your opinion on wojak comics? I was thinking about making some feminist wojak comics/memes, but they originate from alt right spaces and I'm afraid it might be a bad idea for feminists to interact with them. So please give me your opinions!

Wojaks are kinda hard to explain, so if you dont know what they are please look them up <3

1. Wojak memes are bad (at they core they reinforce fash ideas and you can't get rid of that essence) and you shouldn't use them

2. They're not inherently bad, but (due to their association with alt right) they're bad optics to use (aka it makes feminists look bad)

3. They're ok to use, but your own art would be better

4. They're ok to use, but you could use (put meme template in tags? Maybe) instead

5. Go make feminist wojaks asap

6. Nuance? Secret 6th option??

7. Not rad/bald

Thank you for making the poll! And thanks to everyone giving feedback!

-🐌

[coldasyou]

People who get mad when u say you probably should stop using wojaks as memes bc most of them have extremely racist and misogynistic origins are so wild to me like okay…the hill u want to die on is ur ability to use an ugly drawing of a white man to make a point in internet arguments??? Sure

[groggygrimalkin]

Okay tbh I've never been a person to critique like idk companies much until recently and holy shit people losing their minds over company's shitty fucking fursona's did my fucking head in and still does. The company only cares about your money wake the fuck up they aren't "owo" cutesy poo entities they want your god damn money i hate when larger companies try to be quirky to appeal to people and act like real people shut the fuck up and be a cold entity go back to being an emotionless cog in the consumer machine I don't wanna hear you try and appeal to me. They have these people rolling over like fucking lap dogs for their fake personas it's crazy. Same with Discord shut the fuck up we just wanna talk to eachother "Heehee look we made a wojak!!!!!Aren't we cool!!!" You will all be replaced one day by better software.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 09/11/2023

Remember when this song was the one related to toilets?

Season 7 Featured on: PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection

Ripped by DonnieTheGuy

Unfortunately, due to both real-life circumstances and managing this blog, I haven't been able to keep too up to date with this year's halloween event, The Cult of Proto storyline. Althesame, a new album is a new album, and immediately on release I downloaded it to see what fun stuff I'd missed out on. I had seen some stuff from it here and there already, like Bloody Freddy - which, fun fact, recently became the first rip on the blog to have its tentative name changed to an official one thanks to this album release! But Remember when this song was the one related to toilets? was REALLY the one that got me in going through the album, an endeavor so perfect yet one I never could've foreseen.

Okay, so, where to start with the backstory for this...there's a very particular YouTube series going around by voice actor and animator RainingKetchup, which voice acts, animates, and generally spoofs/pokes fun at the Omori Boy webcomic series - the predecessor to hit indie RPG Omori. One thing led to another, and suddenly a segment in one of these videos - of Mr Omoriboy himself singing a mocking Redditor anthem along with an army of wojaks (dont worry about it) - took off en masse in certain circles on Twitter. It was a perfect shitposting storm, from the pure absurdity of the clip out of context, to making fun of redditor/incel culture, to the endearingly sketchy animation-style - and, on top of it all, being a genuinely really fun tune to listen to with stupidly well-done vocals.

It's the kind of clip that I immediately expected to blow up in terms of getting edits, much like the recent influx of Jay Eazy Mega Man shitposts, yet its been bizarrely...low on output. Part of that, as I understand it, is that the song was simply pretty hard to work with before its stems were released (at which point the meme was unfortunately on its way out). But another part of it, at least to me, seemed to be that the concept for edits almost "plateaued" immediately, with the debut of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ - a YTPMV of a song from the Baby Felix Halloween Game Boy Color game, that has somehow reached HALF A MILLION views, almost doubling the video its source comes from. Its creator is UUN4, a frequent SiIvaGunner contributor behind rips such as Plains of Des-passing-to, and Baby Felix Halloween (and Felix the Cat in general) were already long-cemeted parts of SiIvaGunner history. With all that said, it's no wonder the meme ended up taking refuge under SiIvaGunner - though often times, like with Remember when this song was the one related to toilets?, it's entirely disconnected from its original spike in popularity as an Omoriboy YTPMV.

With ALL that backstor out of the way...the rip's just fuckin' funny. I've made no secret that I hold very dear affection for Paralyzer as a meme, and basically dedicated the entire post of YACKER TOILET just toward gushing over its place as a relic of old-internet and as a genuinely distinct and fun piece of music on its own. Remember when this song was the one related to toilets? is as straightforward of a concept as you get - it's a YTPMV of Paralyzer into the tune of the aforementioned Baby Felix Halloween song, Pirate Island, made to quite clearly evoke the spirit of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️. Through that, it sort of calls back to the past and present internet age all at once, althewhile being genuinely very funny. I think its the vocals that sell it - sentence mixed almost exactly like the vocals in OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ whilst still containing most of the words in Paralyzer's chorus.

Simple, effective, yet required two paragraphs of lore-dumping on the origins and spread of OMORIBOY the PIRATE!!!☠️☠️☠️ - and even then I didn't even get into Felix the Cat's notoriety on SiIvaGunner since way back in 2016. It's funny how much there can be to these immensely silly rips sometimes, huh?

[comradeupdog]

Okay so i rewatched some of the creationist propaganda I was made to watch as a child for old times sake and the the mfer did a early 2000s Chad /soy wojak set. Wtf?!?

Literally, soy “I believe in the Big Bang” vs. Chad “I believe in intelligent design” in 2000

[criminal-sen]

Ppl are like 'texting gives me so much anxiety'

And then u start a convo with them and right away u see the 'this person is typing😀' dots and yr like

Okay sorry i have a folder for reaction pics but theres only like ten things in there. And this fuckin.. wojak. is the closest thing i could find. But uhhh moral of the story: go into settings and toggle all of that shit OFF, don't let them see shit! I've even heard the 'oh but then they'll wonder why I turned it off' no fuck em! Turn it off! Unless yr in an abusive environment where doing so would be dangerous, you have NO reason to add even more anxiety to an already anxiety-inducing activity! Signed: a very nervous guy whose text app just updated to this new shit and IMMEDIATELY turned all the shit off. bc I'd rather someone watch me take an actual literal dump than have them be aware of how long it takes me to text them:D

[juniepops]

i think my main continuing and unsolvable issue with ai image generation technology is like, most of its early rise in popularity was from the type of hypercapitalist techbro who shills crypto and NFTS and shit, and then everyone else just was like oh but i like it so it's okay. like i understand that it isn't actually meaningfully more consumptive of water than any other online usage that requires cooling for large/many servers, i respect that people who are actually interested in making art for the sake of making art can learn how to work with the technology, but i don't respect that it's the equivalent to how wojak and virgin/chad memes first blew up in usage among people whose main political stance is they should be allowed to call other people slurs and then mainstream meme culture just forgot about all that and adopted both of them