Observations I had:

  1. DEATH TO THE MPLA meme

refers to a clip from the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in which military leader Jonas Savimbi rallies his troops against the MPLA…

it became a meme 3 years ago, and the whole “meme” is having a screenshot of the clip in the middle of random videos… that’s the meme, just having a hidden dude that screams death to the MPLA in random videos.

  1. The Russian sleep experiment, I’m sure most of the people heard of it, basically it was this story of Soviet scientists torturing war prisoners through not making them sleep and using gas on them until they became barely human and were promised freedom if they survived… the story is obviously false and originates from a 2010s creepy pasta post, the story got extremely popularized that it even got made into short films, what makes me believe it’s a psyop is that it serves as a counter point to Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay, it’s also conveniently called “Russian sleep experiment” and not “Soviet sleep experiment”, it’s a lie protected by “it’s actually made in creepy pasta so it’s just a horror story not propaganda”.
  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tide Pods. I watch a lot of meme videos, partly because they’re funny (when they aren’t racist) and partly because it’s a good way to see where the mental state of young people is at. So in the weeks leading up to the big Tide Pod controversy of 2018, there were dozens of videos that had memes about Tide Pods being candy or harmless, knowing that kids and stupid adults would be interested in trying them out. Then, the Challenge went viral, the news made a circus out of it and everyone was like “Oh those stupid kids! Worst generation ever.”

    No way it was a coincidence.