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“Stickbugged” - The new Rick Rolled
5 years ago
Today, I want to rant a little about memes.
Back in the day, there was a meme called Rick Rolling. Most probably know it, but the gist was instead of linking to a site or video, you’d like to “Never going to give you up”. Recently, the meme “stickbugged” seems to have replaced it.
But I’m not here to rant about cyclical memes. What interests me about stickbugged is watching it evolve in real time. I’ve seen various attempts to make a rickroll replacement. Such as cutting to a video of dancing battle droids from Star Wars with the caption “You got Roger Rogered”, cutting to a Toyota Corolla advert with “You got corolla’d”, I even remember some friends of a friend discussing plans to make the Thomas the Tank Engine intro a bait and switch meme. Obviously non of those gained any traction, but “stickbugged” seemed to have stuck, at least now.
To me, a meme has to be organic, but if stickbugged is as cynical as the previously attempts I doubt it will last more than a month or 2.
The problem with bait and switch memes is they're hard to use effectively. Either the person has to be asking for something they shouldn’t, or be incredibly lazy. Posting a cat video with a cat in the thumbnail in a funny animal videos thread isn’t really a joke. It’s like those fake game announcements where they say “Bethesda announced Fallout 5! ...April fools!” even though it’s August. Nothing about that statement is unreasonable, so there’s nothing stupid about “falling for it”.
Back in the day, there was a meme called Rick Rolling. Most probably know it, but the gist was instead of linking to a site or video, you’d like to “Never going to give you up”. Recently, the meme “stickbugged” seems to have replaced it.
But I’m not here to rant about cyclical memes. What interests me about stickbugged is watching it evolve in real time. I’ve seen various attempts to make a rickroll replacement. Such as cutting to a video of dancing battle droids from Star Wars with the caption “You got Roger Rogered”, cutting to a Toyota Corolla advert with “You got corolla’d”, I even remember some friends of a friend discussing plans to make the Thomas the Tank Engine intro a bait and switch meme. Obviously non of those gained any traction, but “stickbugged” seemed to have stuck, at least now.
To me, a meme has to be organic, but if stickbugged is as cynical as the previously attempts I doubt it will last more than a month or 2.
The problem with bait and switch memes is they're hard to use effectively. Either the person has to be asking for something they shouldn’t, or be incredibly lazy. Posting a cat video with a cat in the thumbnail in a funny animal videos thread isn’t really a joke. It’s like those fake game announcements where they say “Bethesda announced Fallout 5! ...April fools!” even though it’s August. Nothing about that statement is unreasonable, so there’s nothing stupid about “falling for it”.
personally I wath the stick bugged videos just for that, cause it's fun to watch x3
