Apparently the booty warrior from the Boondocks was a real guy and it made me dive into a rabbit hole about him because he has so many interviews about the men he raped and what not. This might be the scariest interview I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKzsMCzng4U
I saw a thing on TikTok with him a few months ago where he said he regrets being so open about fucking men behind bars. He never thought about people recognizing him on the outside.
>>152151140https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiCWWjsNLQ
>>152151140A lot of the Boondocks was basically taking 2000's viral clips and making characters out of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqOgnQyXp4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9Zy2-C_lYIt's funny because at the time it did feel like it was a little long to reference older clips, but still relevant enough. Now things move too fast for something to even work.But on the other hand, the boondocks stuff is funny even if you don't know the origins.
>>152152936That's the key thing, it should still work in a vacuum, but it's enhanced by further knowledge.
>>152152936It's not about speed, it's about quantity and algorithms. There's a reason "informational noise" is a popular state propaganda tactic to hide leaked information and algorithms are heavily utilized to steer conversation. That also effects memes, even if unintentionally. Whatever gems that would have gone viral naturally back in the day and reached almost everyone transcending online communities through sharing, so becoming part of internet culture, now go unnoticed. Instead we are inundated with waves and waves of shit that make it almost impossible to find something good by chance and those who try and look get burned out. Meanwhile the few who do find gems now can't spread them, because the algorithm buries them in favor of paid, literally random or botted shit. Barring a few memes that get incredibly lucky or have a huge influencer behind them, the most a meme can naturally reach now is community meme status, but not internet culture.