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That time a cashier at Safeway told me memes were 'just jokes' and couldn't start a real movement
I was buying snacks in Portland last spring and noticed the checkout guy had a familiar Pepe sticker on his apron. When I mentioned how that meme got co-opted by different groups online, he got real serious and said 'memes are just jokes, they don't actually change anything in the real world.' I told him about the 2020 TikTok teens who organized a rally using only edited clips and he just shrugged. Has anyone else run into people who think internet humor has zero effect on politics?
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