• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Somehow I find the photo of a muscle guy with no clothes insulting for an “office” story.
    It is just so disconnected from each other?

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        8 days ago

        Maybe, but I seriously doubt most office people find a ribbed extreme muscle guy representative of office workers. And especially not the women.

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          8 days ago

          It’s not about representation, it’s a symbol for being cool, visually unrelated to the person you’re calling a chad. And it’s intentionally extreme.

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        8 days ago

        And? Does that make it better or worse? Personally I don’t give a shit that he is a meme guy I knew that, but he is not the right meme guy for this sort of meme IMO.

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            7 days ago

            That’s mostly true, except memes are ideas, more specifically ideas that spread by being repeated or more accurately by imitation.
            I read the book where Richard Dawkins coined the term.
            A key feature about a true meme is that it can evolve, which could be said to have been the case here if the meme had been changed. to use the drawing u/Appoxo made for me.

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          8 days ago

          It’s a story about workers flexing their strength against the boss and having the boss back down. It seems to fit just fine to me.

          I can’t possibly imagine why you seem to be so offended over all this.

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            8 days ago

            Except it’s not really malicious compliance, it’s just compliance.
            Not a single muscle was flexed.

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              8 days ago

              Its not malicious compliance to hang up on a customer in the middle of a call, or ignore other customers calling during business hours because your boss mandates you take lunch at an exact time? Whatever you say, buddy.