If you expect normies to use context clues to sus out the true meaning of your memes you aren't going to reach them, they're just going to interpret it through the dominant ideology and reach right-wing conclusions. They'll conclude that it's unfair that veterans get to have benefits and think we should take those benefits away from them or that everyone should be forced to serve in the military so that they can all get healthcare. They aren't going to make a leftist critique and jump to the idea that everyone could have healthcare, they're just going to feed their brainworms and metabolize this meme from the right.

That doesn't mean we need our memes to be 4-page commie blocks of text, we just need to be careful is all I'm saying.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you expect normies to use context clues to sus out the true meaning of your memes you aren’t going to reach them, they’re just going to interpret it through the dominant ideology and reach right-wing conclusions. They’ll conclude that it’s unfair that veterans get to have benefits and think we should take those benefits away from them or that everyone should be forced to serve in the military so that they can all get healthcare.

That isn't really what has happened on the page though. Instead people look at the meme, invest further or get curious on the page and learn more about what the meaning actually is. People don't take one look at this meme and start metabolizing Starship Troopers or neoliberal austerity as their ideology. It's appealing to nostalgia.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Can you explain what you mean by "the page" actually? Is that whatever leftistgamermemes is? I'm just speculating based on pessimism and vibes, maybe this performs better in the real world than I expect.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's leftistgamermemes on both fedbook and fedgram. Not sure if they are on other platforms but I mentioned it in the description.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess if this is posted to a lefty meme page it's going to have the intended reception.

I'll just say I do not think this would work the same if it was posted outside of an explicitly left space.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago

sure, to you, because it's not playing on your nostalgia. Works just fine on their own however.