LOLSheviks Make Me Hate Myself
Posted by John Brownlee
We all know how I feel about LOL Whatever memes. You’re all idiots. I just hate and I hate and I hate as you type out verbatim the same spelling mistakes, the same bad grammar, and then slap it in a Something Awful font on a picture of surprised looking kitty cat with the smug satisfaction of Jacques Barzun finally settling upon le mot juste to sum up the cultural impact of Moliere. Stop. Stop.
The other day, someone I knew came up to me on the streets and said, “Oh, hi!” But from the smile on her face, I knew that, deep in the jelly of her brains, she had mnemonically spelled it as “O HAI!” Consequently, I have spent most of the morning scraping that brain jelly in little squidges from underneath my fingernails, which was the unfortunate natural result of pushing my thumbs through her eye sockets.
That all being said… hey, check out this cool LOL meme, LOLSheviks! I post really for the fantastic Soviet art and the crazy commie font. But for one brief moment, I was just like you, reading “I Can Haz A Reign Of Terror?” and giggling idiotically like a thorazine addict staring at a spinning pinwheel. Gabba Gabba! One of us!
LOL Sheviks [Flickr] : Laughing Squid : Mike Monteiro and Matt Haughey
Categories: Art, Communism, Kill Me, LOL Memes, USSR
Posted at 6:44 am on December 5, 2007
7 Comments -
Damn your dirty ways, spreading out this filth till we are all corrupted. In a vain attempt to remain rational, coherent and intellectually superior to the majority of the Internet I shall hereby claim that the brilliance of these (as opposed to so many LOLMemes) is the knowing use of the soviet style, as in the Winter Palace ( http://flickr.com/photos/mccreath/2087338058/in/pool-lolsheviks/ ). It’s not just blindly slathering the same pictures with more Impact faux-witticisms, it’s done with a wink and a smile to all the glorious propoganda art and style that suffused those delightful 20th century dictatorships. It was ever a tragedy that my aesthetic sense was best fulfilled by raving madmen and secret police types.
Comment by Matt Dovey — December 5, 2007 @ 9:22 am
Communists? I heard someone a-callin’…
Comment by camillo miller — December 5, 2007 @ 10:23 am
I think I’ve figured out why this LOLmeme ascends above other LOLmemes. It doesn’t seem strange to see broken English when it’s in a Soviet Russian context. My mind does not hear the captions in an obnoxious, valley-girl accent (e.g. LOLcats), but in a thick Russian accent.
Comment by Robert — December 5, 2007 @ 11:51 am
We accept you, John. One of us! One of us!
(though LOLcats are terribly passe, and also LOLtrek remains the highest form of the meme, period.)
Comment by chesh — December 5, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
The phrase “Gabba Gabba One Of Us” brings back terrible memories of Joey Ramone’s “Freaks”.
Nightmares tonight!
Comment by V. Blame — December 5, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
‘One of us’ reminds me of ‘Lost Boys’.
And some other equally terrible school memories. Aw fuck.
Comment by optical — December 6, 2007 @ 2:45 am
you know, the WORD lolcats was invented by the cancer (that is killing……).
Image macros have been around for a LONG time.. Maybe the people who think lolcats are funny should see what image macros are all about!
I has a shuvel, anyone?
Comment by flashywordz — December 10, 2007 @ 2:01 am