Close Their Playbook

Because it didn't happen.

The American Revolution didn't happen???

Correct. We destroyed those statues. Try to keep up.

What?

Antithesis? You helped me with one of my first memes a few months ago. Thanks for the pointers. Gotta love your outside-the-box thinking, but we produced a capitalist republic and they produced dictatorships. There must have been something significantly different. Your thoughts?

I did? I'll have to take your word on that, I don't remember at all.

But you're trying to say that the difference is in the end results, not in the m/o that your meme listed.

See, this is the thing: what you're trying to do is take a current movement you don't like and link it to historical events that elicit the emotions you want to saddle on the thing you don't like - so it's almost like you're working backwards from the answer you wanted. You didn't look at the protests and asked how that's going to end - you looked at the revolutions and asked if there was anything you could use to implicate the protests - and in doing so, you came up with a list that could just as easily describe almost ANY political change. I've seen elections for dog catcher that had all five of those things happen.

It's shoddy analysis and your lack of effort shows.

The meme you helped me with contained a scarecrow, Nancy Pelosi and a non sequitur.

I see the logic in your comments and I'm processing the constructive criticism for future memes, but as for your last comment -- don't sugar coat it, tell me how you really feel :-)

Funny, in one day this meme got 170 views and 17 upvotes on imgflip, yet on Facebook it got no feedback at all. Yet I put a very simplified version of the same meme on Facebook and it got all kinds of attention. I guess if a meme is a novel it doesn't work.

Oh, I will never hold back on what I really think on imgflip. If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have another f**king meeting with my boss.

Yes, a meme by definition should be pithy - and the first sign of a bad meme is "too many words". You'll get people accusing you of saying so out of political bias - but the bottom line is that we're memers, not columnists. We're all trying to express something complex, but if you don't say it in simple ways, you lose people, not because they disagree with you but because you took a simple thing that people enjoy in simple ways and made it complicated.

And I hate to trample on your credit, but certain forces on the imgflip user base have figured out how to get the views and upvotes latched on to search engines and reddit feeds - and those certain forces like you and they don't like me, if you get what I'm saying. I used to rack up thousands of views when I posted memes about Kermit the Frog arguing with Roadrunner and stuff like that, but nowadays I consider my memes to have done well if I get six or seven upvotes - because those were six or seven people from the imgflip user base, not because someone cross-posted it to tumblr or whatever.

It's not good or bad either way; nobody decides what you get out of imgflip, just you - but it doesn't surprise me that you got better feedback from Facebook than you did from here.

The American Revolution didn't have this symbol nor Marxism behind it.