Welcome to the Post-Text Future
- 6 years ago
Welcome to the Post-Text Future
The political meme — text over an image, sometimes short videos or digital clip art meant to spread
and be imitated — is often a guttural, simple message couched in humor, like the doctored video from September of Hillary Clinton being hit with his golf ball.
President Trump has frequently retweeted his fans’ meme work, #MeToo jumped from social media to every workplace,
and political campaigns started to invest in the form more seriously.
By Nellie Bowles FEB. 9, 2018
Political memes have gone mainstream as the distance between the White House and subcultures like 4Chan has closed.
The political meme — text over an image, sometimes short videos or digital clip art meant to spread
and be imitated — is often a guttural, simple message couched in humor, like the doctored video from September of Hillary Clinton being hit with his golf ball.
President Trump has frequently retweeted his fans’ meme work, #MeToo jumped from social media to every workplace,
and political campaigns started to invest in the form more seriously.
By Nellie Bowles FEB. 9, 2018
Political memes have gone mainstream as the distance between the White House and subcultures like 4Chan has closed.