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hello phoneperson uploading 4chan images.

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>In 1965, Henry Harris and John Watkins created the first human-animal hybrid by fusing HeLa cells with mouse embryo cells.

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I say that

gemerino

bumping this gem

This is a quite reasonable depiction of, I think he's called "meme man".

Meme Man is a shitty 3d rendering of a grey-skinned human male where the artist did not remember that the skull protrudes backwards, in addition to forwards, from the neck. The eyes are too small, they are set too high on the face, and the sockets are too shallow. There are no ears. The facial expression is stiff and wooden in character. The whole thing is not quite right, in a way that is discomforting but not immediately obvious.

Meme Man is pleasing to look at despite the fact that it ought to be ugly in theory. This is because Meme Man is incorrect in a way that perfectly symbolizes the ways in which Meme Man is incorrect. Both the thing and the symbol of the thing are in the same object, but also it is not an object that is meant to be symbolic. A self-mocking, symbolic not-symbol. Infinitely recursive. Self-referential. Irreverent. "Meta".

It is both the recursive aspect of a work and the self-mocking aspect of a work which cause it to be Surreal. Simply making fun of yourself is not sufficient. There must also be recursion. The infinitely-recursive and self-referential nature of surrealism, the seeming lack of philosophical separation between object and symbol, is what Salvador Dali was referring to that time when a reporter asked "What is surrealism?", to which Dali responded "I am surrealism!"

Surrealism is not merely the core essence of internet culture and humor, as people tend to say. Internet culture IS surrealism, and the internet people ARE surrealism, like Dali was.

In this work, we see yet another iteration of this recursive pattern. This Meme Man. It is a re-telling of an old and familiar joke. Everyone has heard the joke a thousand times, yet it never stops being funny, its variants becoming a sub-genre in their own right.

It is not merely a tracing of the Meme Man. The artist has their own patterns of errors which they want to mock. This new Meme Man is drawn quickly and haphazardly from memory, using an inferior soft-ware such as Paint, so as to capture the artist's particular set of imperfections in crisp detail. This is correct. Something of the personality of the artist is captured. And since the same motif is being used as everyone else, the mind ignores the motif, and the personality of the artist is viewed directly.

Perfection. A completely successful execution of the Meme Man concept.

Saved.

>>56674

Nah, man, this one is actually legit, though it was not at all intended to be. Like all legit surreal art. I like the Meme Man meme, and this picture. I provide an explanation here:

>>56672

What do you think?

>>56677

>Meme Man is incorrect in a way that perfectly symbolizes the ways in which Meme Man is incorrect.

This sentence is incoherent.

>>56682

My dear friend, I am not complaining at all.

If you look just a little bit more closely, you will see that the enemy is paying a very expensive, legitimate artist to draw these Wojaks. The West Taiwanese have finally learned that shit art from Fiverr is completely worthless, and you have to pay exhorbitantly to get an art product that has any utility at all. West Taiwanese bureaucrats heat their offices by burning bank bands of United States currency. They would totally do this.

Hiring cheap and incompetent people tends to result in a snowballing concatenation of expensive problems which ought to be mathematically and physically impossible. It is like incompetence is a separate force of nature, a sort of new gravity, that ignores the laws of normal physics. Leftists, including leftists doing work on Fiverr, have become so astoundingly incompetent in recent years, like black holes of incompetence, that having a *cheap* leftist touch anything within 100 feet of what you are doing has become an unacceptable existential risk.

Never underestimate the damage that can be done by a single incompetent person. There is not an upper limit on that number.

I suspect the artist is a degreed art professor. Notice that the artist calls these works "Gems" and such when he or she bumps them. In this way, the artist communicates their indignation at applying their decades of study and their masterful skill to such a demeaning and unworthy project. It looks "unskilled" to the untrained eye, but the artist is deftly mimicking the patterns in a particular variety of unskilled art to produce a targeted result. I can do the same thing in music or in writing. Only virtuosos can do this.

I bet each one of these Wojaks cost the West Taiwanese at least $1000, and like $100 per bump post. Considering the fact that the artist has demonstrated an *unusually* sophisticated understanding of Surrealism and Art Criticism in the depiction of Meme Man above, it is possible that the fee is $10,000 per Wojak and $1000 per bump post. West Taiwan has infinite money from our perspective as individuals. It would be nothing. Like buying a box of french fries.

So, I am using this opportunity to hijack their stupid and wasteful Commie project and make it promote Capitalism instead, while hopefully also recruiting a skilled operative away from the enemy. My geniusy plan is the clever ruse of promoting Capitalism (in SAGE form, of course) in the comments.

Finally, as an aside, memes are not spam. Memes are in-jokes. Spam is spam. Placing an equals sign between any two arbitrary words is not an argument. Get it right.

>>56683

I am a computer programmer. I eat recursion for breakfast(breakfast){ }. Like all good computer programmers, I love, and get, Surrealism. Discussions involving mathematical recursion always look completely incoherent to the untrained. I AM A GENIUS! Your complaint is like telling Einstein that he doesn't know anything because everything on the chalkboard looks like gibberish.

Recursion is a specialized concept, and working with it is not intuituve. It is fine, normal, and expected that most people are not comfortable with it. I would have to give you 3 or 6 "credit-hours" of university instruction in elementary programming to explain the concept (and requisite concepts) to you. The best I can do is simply refer you to the Wikipedia article.

Unless you would like to take an introductory programming class, please simply trust that I know what I am talking about.

gemerino

gemerino

Oh yea, this one was fine. Bump.

Dis one still fine.