How do memes function today?

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Glitched Compass🧭
A pink heart-shaped meme photo of Trump and Mamdani that reads: "Memes no longer function as critique. Instead, they are the audience's contribution to the political pantomime; we are entertained and impotent. Yet unlike a pantomime, where our voice is a staged repetition, the voice of the meme is more ambiguous. Today, when we share a meme, we do not really know if we do so ironically, or if part of us identifies with its perverse imagery."

We are certainly entertained

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Memes exist to make me laugh and escape reality for 5 seconds. This meme exists to make me think :(

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Glitched Compass🧭 OP

These are my favorite though—the ones that provoke enjoyment but it in a rather more seriously disturbing way. But is the disturbing element a good or evil feature of the conceptual meme?🤔

Does it politically motivate us? Or pacify?

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