What I'm saying is that the people who claim that trump won or that hillary lost because of memes, are ridiculous. Memes had nothing to do with it.B1rd wrote:
You obviously have zero grasp on the relevance internet has in our culture. This it isn't the early 2000s.
And saying that people saw Trump as a joke because of memes is ridiculous. The only people who think that were sjw who think pepe is a hate symbol of white supremacy.
Ted Cruz didn't lose because people started spamming that he is the zodiac Killer. Trump didn't win because people on 4chan were spamming "he's gonna build a wall and make mexico pay for it"-memes.
The largest part of the voting population doesn't even know what 4chan is, and yet they claim to be influential? The internet has relevance for a small part of the population, namely the people that spend more time online than they spend outside. For everyone else? They use the internet to communicate with their circle of friends and acquaintances of facebook, or use it to read newspages (which are mostly controlled by classical media companies). But opinions formed by reading newspages might as well be attributed to classical media, as "the internet" usually tries to separate itself from newspages or any form of modern/classical media as hard as it can. It's supposed to be decentralized after all.
Most of the people in legal voting age probably don't even know what pepe is, so how could someone possibly claim that anything spawned by 4chan has any semblance of importance in the real world? It doesn't. It's fucking irrelevant. And that's why I'm laughing at them, because they want to believe that they have impact soooo badly. Yes, most parts of the internet are irrelevant. Anonymous message boards where a bunch of degenerates circlejerk their meaningless opinions up are probably among the most irrelevant places online.
"Don't mess with the internet" is one of the most laughable catchphrases I've ever heard.