im so sorry but that’s unfortunately really funny

@lisxdumbr excuse me as I borrow your tag for a moment, cause we're onto something.

Rent-lowering gunshots aside, I think this highlights a pretty fundamental quality to tumblr memes, which is they're meant to be fun, not funny.

Most Goncharov content aren't funny. They don't make you laugh as an audience. In fact, there's some serious and awe inspiring quality fanarts, music, fanfics, and analysis on a non-existing flim. It's not about making the funniest joke, it's about having fun making the joke.

Tumblr memes aren't meant to entertain a passive audience. The entertainment value is in the participation. And this quality is present in a lot of long-form tumblr memes. Colour theory, urban gothic (short lived but glorious), hawkeye initiative (short lived but glorious), making shitpost arguments into shakespeare, @theshitpostcalligrapher (excuse the tag) and other shitpost calligraphy. A lot of these memes are about taking silly things seriously. And even passively reblogging these memes are about participation. "I can take this seriously too." Or, in Goncharov's case, "yeah I'll help collectively gaslight the internet".

Another big part about sharing it isn't about how funny the joke is, but how impress you are with the effort. As an audience you can feel the love artists/musicians/writers put into their Goncharov fanwork, and can't help but have respect.

This same logic goes for how coffeeshop fics are fun to write, but they aren't funny. The charm for the reader is that someone loved these characters as much as you did.

In contrast, when you look at viral tweets, they're often one-shots. They're very funny and witty but you don't tend to get the same degree of repetition and variations. Because twitter is built for consumption and snappier participation, and the increasingly algorithm-driven navigation makes content more competitive, which means quality lies in individual tweets, and not in the whole phenomenon.

tldr; Tumblr memes/jokes are about how fun they are to make/share. Twitter jokes are about how fun they are to consume.

"I wished very much to call upon you yesterday," said he, "but [a paragraph worth of excuses] But tomorrow I think I shall certainly be able to call in Berkeley Street, and be introduced to your friend Mrs. Jennings. I understand she is a woman of very good fortune. And the Middletons too, you must introduce me to THEM. As my mother-in-law's relations, I shall be happy to show them every respect. They are excellent neighbours to you in the country, I understand."

bRUH you don't give a single fuck about your mother in law let alone be respectful to her Mr. I Will Not Fulfil The Promise I Made My DYING Father To Provide For His Wife And Daughters

you just want good connections

"I am extremely glad to hear it, upon my word; extremely glad indeed. But so it ought to be; they are people of large fortune, they are related to you, and every civility and accommodation that can serve to make your situation pleasant might be reasonably expected."

someone hold me I'm fighting this dude

like cOME ON. THE AUDACITY

SAYS LITERALLY THEIR CLOSEST RELATION WHO IS ALSO VERY MUCH RICH BUT THAT DID NOTHING FOR THEM BREAKING THE PROMISE HE MADE TO HIS DYING FATHER

Elinor did feel a little ashamed of her brother

AS YOU SHOULD QUEEN

I feel capable of unspeakable violence rn

"Where is the green-house to be?"

"Upon the knoll behind the house. The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it.

he did not just say he cut the trees. I did not just read that

look I'm not Marianne's biggest fan but I hope she never learns of this because girlie is not in the right headspace to learn that her beloved trees have been cut down

I’m so upset I made a meme

It's the last time mathematicians are allowed to sit together

no because we (friend group of like 6 mathematicians) have this problem too it’s not even funny once while on a trip we started a math jar but eventually stopped because we kept slipping

him

lore drop on the boy because I have 20 minutes to kill

okay so. I doodle in class. like a lot. often it's my little doodle oc but I might be persuaded to draw memes about what's going on in class too

so as you may expect this all started as a meme

basically our linear algebra teacher (cirici rip she didn't die she just left us last year to teach a master so she's dead to us but also cirici <3) aNYWAYS. she introduced us to ✨el puto dual✨ and la aplicació dual which is often identified as wof (you are composing f which goes from one vector space to another and w which goes from a vector space to its field) and of course past me couldn't resist drawing a very silly dog barking

which of course I kept on drawing every single time it got mentioned in class, I even sneaked some on the board after class was over

and then. it happened. what solidified my love for this very silly doodle. that same teacher had us make a video explaining some part of what we'd covered in class

and of course your guy here chose el dual just so I could make my teacher look at the fucking dog

(she also had a quote along the lines "the dual function eats vectors and shits numbers" and you know I just had to animate the dog shitting)

so i did

it was a three minute video with some animation thrown in there. she loved it so much she made cups with my drawings on them (with my permission) to give as prizes (we voted for the best videos in different categories) (i won one and have my own cup and I love it so much)

needless to say I kept drawing the damn dog. it's just a quick dumb doodle look at his face he has no thoughts I love him so much

so yeah I was very excited when my current geometry teacher mentioned wof

can’t reblog the post about it with the videos but here

screengrabs from the dual video and two scenes I made my linear algebra teacher watch with her own two eyes

links to the posts with the funny stuff

haha get flattened idiot

eats and shits

anchorage lol

repeat urgent request more diphtheria antitoxin lol

nome in grave danger lol

please help lol