the “___ change my mind” guy sitting at a desk is Steven Crowder who is literally a deep conservative “comedian” and the biggest transphobe of 2018 so can we NOT use that meme anymore thanks. he literally calls trans people tr**** in some of his videos and refers to caitlyn jenner (I may not like her but Christ) as a transgender f@scist because she transitioned and refers to her transitioning as “going full #sjw.” this meme is cancelled and not funny. use google if you don’t believe me. bye
yeah actually i did some research (googling. i googled) and this is what the the original image was: (as opposed to what i first saw it as and what other might have, and had assumed that was the real one)
he does stuff like that a lot;
so yeah Yikes.
Shit, I just looked him up as well.
Fucking YIKES, meme cancelled.
FYI. Don’t reblog or make any more memes from this guy. Fucking creep.
I’ve known this was Steven Crowder from the start and I’ve known who Steven Crowder is for probably more than 5 years, I thought most people knew who he was and just memed him anyways. First time I saw this meme I was sceptical and asked the person who reblogged it if they knew who it was, and they knew who it was. I don’t see this meme as a meme that celebrates Steven Crowder or gives him a platform. I always saw this meme as satire. He looks ridiculously smug and arrogant sitting in public, sipping coffee as he’s flagging a banner with the only intent to provoke people around him.
Furthermore some of the earliest forms of this meme are very clear about being satire, I checked the twitter users of the people who made them and they don’t seem to be on board with Steven Crowders politics.
This includes images like;
And this one;
It’s like when people was making a meme out of Richard Spencer, syncing him getting punched in the face to music and stuff.
At this point the meme has evolved further though, the most common version of this meme I’ve seen is “X is a precious baby, change my mind”, X being a character that OP loves ofc. Or some kind of variation of that, usually relating to fandom that reflects OPs opinion. I don’t think that as much means that the creators of these memes are saying that Crowders reasoning is correct because they’re using it the same way he does(when the sign reflects what the person who wrote the sign believes), it’s more like it delegitimizes his strategy and the power of this image because it’s been devalued from provocative political strategy to “i love pikachu bitch fukin fight me”.
On top of that, I wanna note that many people put their subjective views as the caption for these images and the reason why this meme is funny(at least to some) is because ‘change my mind’ is obviously not something they ever mean. It may SAY “change my mind”, but since when has OP ever meant that someone should attempt it, or even consider actually changing their minds? It’s because he doesn’t mean it when he wrote it in the first place and so in a sense these meme calls him out for being intelllectually dishonest and just another troll.
I don’t think this meme is cancelled. I don’t see the harm in spreading this image with different captions but I DO think people should know who this man is, I thought he was a bit more well known than that. But I think most of all, it’s important to point out, I’ve never ever really seen a rightwing version of this meme and I think it’s for all the reasons explained in this post, no rightwing person would spread a meme that makes Crowder look like a fucking clown(because he himself, from the start is making himself look like a fucking clown).
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Why would you stop?
Meme even harder you cowards and deprive the original picture of any meaning.
I don’t get y’all. The way the meme is used goes against anything that asshole wants, so go fucking abuse photoshop.
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