captainsnoop:

“online” is a constant race to the bottom of the barrel, desperately scraping and digging further down in an eternal contest to create things utterly worthless and devoid of meaning. in a world that desperately wants us to be obsessed with material wealth and intellectual properties, we delight in covering ourselves in dirt and garbage. 

“deep fried memes” are an example of this. as corporations became aware of online spaces and tried to integrate themselves in to internet culture, internet culture responded by destroying everything that represented itself. we now value things that have been ruined beyond recognition. 

we now adore jpeg compression, improper grammar, and comic sans not because these things are aesthetically pleasing or meaningful, but because they’re ugly and worthless. they’re broken and dirty and and improper devoid of meaning. all of the flaws inherent to the digital medium coming together to create the ultimate representation of “online.” 

we don’t like these things for any reason other than the fact that they’re incomprehensible to people that don’t already “get it.” except there’s nothing to “get.” the joke is that there is no joke, the joke is that it’s incomprehensible and there’s nothing to get. that’s why we laugh at shit like “hey ?️eter” or pictures of old sofas or “cursed images” like grainy photographs of vases full of spaghetti. because they’re utterly worthless and meaningless and stupid and they’ll exist forever. that’s what “online” is. eternally preserved worthless garbage.