“I bought an entire house just by exploiting my body!* Yet rather than society excluding them, it was they who refused to be a part of society. In a world where it’s impossible to compete, the nice girls chase after hot guys and neckbeards are left without girlfriends. Its constituents worshipped the Joker, believing they too embodied the misunderstood, highly intelligent social outcast, driven to villainy by the amorality of society. We live in a society where an educated man marries an uneducated women but an educated woman doesn't marry an undeucated man 👍 The DC supervillain has long been connected to the gamer identity, and following the release of The Dark Knight in 2008, it became a sort of figurehead for an entire incel community. As of a couple of months ago, the meme had garnered upwards of 38,600 points and 520 comments on 9gag, with much of the engagement boosted by ironic trolls wanting to make sure this meme became the absolute epitome of the meme site. This meme is just pure sardonicism: channelling the Joker to symbolise a higher than average IQ, and then misspelling “patience”. The joke wrote itself. Similar to the ‘get a load of this society’ meme, the meme is stopped in nerdily-tinted misogyny that’s commonplace in brocialist circles. Firstly, the whole “nice guys finish last” gamer/incel superiority complex has long been a running joke in the commentary of 9gag. This particular meme struck gold for a few reasons. This is in the form of an image macro of the Joker, accompanied by the caption: “When the nice guy loses his patiance (sic) / the devil shivers.”
So where does “we live in a society” meme come from? The earliest trace of its origins can be found on Hong Kong-based meme site 9gag in April 2015. DoktorDare ~Depressive Demon Nightmare Enby~ October 24, 2020 Millennial and zoomer humour is a lot of meme-style jokes – absurdist and dadaist style stuff and also a lot of jokes about mental health and nihilism. In one way or another, each of them use absurdist humour to unpack existential angst by speculating about ‘society’, if things were changed. It’s similar to the ‘society if meme’, ‘did you know meme’, ‘they live meme’, ‘get real meme’, ‘e meme’, ‘come on man meme’ and ‘i see you meme’.
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