Truth Seeker ID: ea74f0 What NOT to do July 1, 2020, 3 p.m. No.1790   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A meme like this would probably get your social media account suspended instantly. Why? Because many would consider it offensive.

 

Don't do it.

 

A meme should present information in a way that does not repel the very viewer it’s targeted at. (Corollary: Know what demographic the meme is targeted at; there’s no such thing as a generic meme that’s ideal for every audience.) It should not harass, mock, denigrate, attack, etc. that viewer or their beliefs. Instead, it should present info from their point of view, the way advertisers do. Or it can be purely factual and ask questions. You want the viewer to (1) click the meme and be influenced by it, and (2) ideally forward the meme to others. It’s fine if it’s funny, but I personally have no use for the caricatures that depict people in situations they were not really in, or change the appearance of their face. To me, fake memes are like fake news: bad. It’s a fine gray line between memes that are totally true and those that poke fun through exaggeration or caricature, and each of us has to decide our relationship to that gray line.

It should not contain anything that will get the poster’s social media account banned. For that reason, Nazi symbols and similar things are out. Swear words are generally unacceptable on social media. Even something as innocuous as the “middle finger salute” is considered offensive by many normies. Even our beloved Pepe is considered a 'white supremacy symbol' by normies, even though to us it symbolizes no such thing.

You’re trying to reach normies, so you have to be cognizant of THEIR sensibilities, THEIR symbols, and THEIR ways of expressing themselves.

Just because a meme appears on 8kun does NOT mean it would be acceptable on social media. Each keyboard warrior has to evaluate every meme before tweeting, to select memes that will be effective for YOUR target audience, within a specific context, and not get themself banned.

Repeating from the header of this thread,

I ask all meme makers to think about this: Do you confront and punish, or get inside the viewer's head to tease, delight, or inspire? Does it present an idea from viewer's point of view like marketers do? Does it get deleted and not forwarded because it insults the viewer? What about foul language? There's a time and a place for it…and it's a turnoff for some viewer segments. Will it go viral? Is it funny? Wry? Sarcastic? Surprising? Emotional? Beautiful? Elevating? Memorable? Insulting? Provocative? Boring? What target audience do you have in mind?