Making Memes for the Global “Oat Milk Élite” | the New Yorker
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
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emblems of a culture saturated with personal branding
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
On TikTok, you can find montages of hipster imagery under the hashtag #2010snostalgia, including one eulogizing summer, 2012, “when life felt like an indie movie.” The images are all heavily filtered, as on early Instagram, and everyone in them has bangs. One TikTok simply features a series of yellow-tinted photos taken at Starbucks in 2010; it has... See more