This meme assignment instructed students to take any photo featured on the Boston Globe page, The Big Picture, and create a meme, transforming the meaning of the picture. I chose a picture of a nursing graduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As soon as I saw the photo, I was struck by the graduate’s emotions. I could almost feel her relief and happiness that she had overcome one of the major hurdles of life. As a student myself and as an employee working with students daily, I understand the struggle and determination it takes to make it to graduation. At the same time though, I thought, “Now she is going to have to pay back her student loans!” We all know the state of student loan debt in the U.S. is bad: Forbes.com cites that as 2019, about 44 million people in the U.S. as a whole owe a staggering $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. It is a serious issue that we all have to contemplate, but as with all overwhelming issues, why not laugh a little about it? To create this meme, I copied the picture in Word, saved it as a picture, and uploaded it to Meme Generator. I added my text and took a screenshot, edited the screenshot in Word, cut out the annoying logo, and saved it as a picture to upload into WordPress Media Library.
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This demotivational message took me a long time to create. I don’t typically view many memes (with the exception of Office Space memes, which if you understand the context are the most accurate I have run across) and those aren’t usually demotivational in nature. I believe that when you view a multitude of memes, like my daughters do on a daily basis, they are easier to design. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to create this meme with an image that I had taken versus an image bank. Therefore, this meme was created from a two year old picture of my daughter Cara, who is standing in front of a Justice League movie promotional cutout inside the Saco Cinemagic lobby. Just as a reference point, each member of our family had a picture taken with the cutouts separately, posing seriously and heroically as if we were a team member of the Justice League. However, when it was time to take Cara’s picture, she decided that her fragrant, buttery popcorn was more interesting than any superhero pact. Who can resist freshly made popcorn?
That is what made this image stand apart for me and it makes me laugh every time.
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DS106: What’s the meme?
I was in search for an amazing image for the meme project, so I started my task by scrolling through the picture library of my iPhone. Then I found it…the picture that resulted from a hilarious moment that I had almost forgotten. My family and I had just finished watching an evening movie last summer at Cinemagic. We were walking through the parking lot when we spotted this van with a plethora of bumper stickers. In our neighborhood you might see someone that has a conservative amount of bumper stickers, maybe 2-3 at the most, but never over 10. At that amount, it is as if the driver is sharing his/her values to the world via a megaphone. I will say that at first we were speechless, viewing the sheer amount of bumper stickers that plastered the back. After only a few seconds, we collectively embarked upon the guilty pleasure of trying to read them all. My husband and I, true Gen X-ers, greedily spotted all of the snarky pearls of wisdom and appreciated the obvious display of Ghostbusters, Big Lebowski, LOTR and Futurama fandom. Chrissy and Cara, our daughters, also caught most of the sarcasm, but I feel it was most appreciated by a member of Gen X. I remember taking the picture and then regaling it to my friends and co-workers the next day because it was so strikingly amusing. I realized that this morning that it was a great meme option to share with everyone.
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