>Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated. What’s perhaps surprising is that this view is not so far off from one within the US defense establishment, where a growing body of research explores how memes can be used to win wars.
>This recent election proved that memes, some of which have been funded by politically motivated millionaires and foreign governments, can be potent weapons, but they pose a particular challenge to a superpower like the United States.
>spending taxpayer money studying memes I don't usually say this, but the US military budget is too big.
Ian Ward
better than drone-strikes for sure m8
Gavin Kelly
>using a bad shop of a dying game I thought I could trust Motherboard
Kayden Walker
>one day you too can be Lt. General of the department of Memetic warfare.
Austin Morales
wow. this is it. MGS has been memed into reality. 10-20 years and military will build a giant bipedal mecha robot. screencap this.
Jonathan Nguyen
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Bureau of Memetic Warfare, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 30,000 confirmed triggerings. I am trained in gorilla shitposting and I’m the top memester in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with rare pepes. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Meme Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, cuck.
Jordan Long
>PhD memetic warfare
Asher Nguyen
>I won't paste the whole article
Why not? Archive link it or screenshot the entire page.
> thoughts
Nothing new about this other than the name. Propaganda has been the big game since WWII, it ties into psyops and media manipulation, narrative control, astroturf, all developments in opinion manufacturing that's happened up to the present day.
Memes are just the modern equivalent of a leaflet drop.
Ryder Kelly
don't you know by now that the military uses "studying" as a euphemism for "engaging in", "research project" for "shit we already have", and "observing" for "going to war with", etc.? congrats u trolled alongside people in the government
Thomas Clark
>This recent election proved that memes, some of which have been funded by politically motivated millionaires and foreign governments
Adrian Gomez
i mean... if the military is repping digits
who am i to oppose?
Brody Perez
We are the culture warfare masters now.
Thomas Baker
They're talking about how CTR was funded by Saudi Arabian money.
Camden Edwards
this is literally what Macross is about...
PROTOCULTURE
Luke Adams
CTR was a gigantic failure run by a perpatual loser
why would they study that?
Joshua Cook
...
Jonathan Butler
>literally just dehumanizing the enemy and morale boosters
Andrew Thompson
I thought we already knew this?
Isaac Evans
Rofl i get your reference because i grew up in the 80s sweet vf1 on the way
Elijah Torres
...
William Baker
OP is a slowpoke and a faggot.
Quit acting like this is news. This is old shit. You keep bringing this up to a lot of salty grizzled veterans of the Great Meme War you dumb ass.
>not asking for a meme budget increase if everyone in the US were taxed just one extra penny we'd have some pretty sweet memes youtube.com/watch?v=lp8qUeEHPZ0
Cameron Adams
>tfw all those hours spent mastering the dank memes might pay off into a well paying military carreer
Adrian Young
> I could've bilked the Army out of precious tax dollars with my shitposting
Fug how do I become a contractor?
Eli Mitchell
Military will embed destructive payloads inside images and use exploits to execute the payload. Memes will be the vehicle.
Thomas Sanchez
Wars are won and lost in peoples minds.
The US spends a SHITTON on propaganda and propaganda research. They constantly manipluate social media, mainstream media, really everything in an attempt to improve US morale and hurt enemy morale.
Memes are crude art, I'm reminded of graffiti, which spread ideas, memes. They're so plentiful on Sup Forums because Sup Forums is an unusually transistory place. To keep a thought pervading here over time, you have to get other people to say the same thought. Argumentation is one way to do that, but an arguably much more effective way is memes. Thus Sup Forums is infamous for being a wellspring of nothing but the freshest memes due to the high population and high darwinian pressure on memes.
Sup Forums even has a few mechanisms to ensure quality of memes, like declaring memes "forced", claiming they did not grow organically, but via somebody spamming them until people started repeating it.
Sup Forums is the bathroom door of the internet. A place that is usually crude, sometimes covered in shit, but has moments of deep insight.
Carson Powell
Have you guys thought about how everything really comes down to iteration -- creativity, civilization, philosophy, technology, etc.? Everything comes from iteration. So maybe there's this single 'core' pattern and Everything is the result of its iteration.
Jeremiah Scott
The medium is the message and right now the medium is memes.
Blake King
>Trump won the election with meme magic >people are starting to notice the power of memes as propaganda tools yeah no shit
James Reed
>I won't paste the whole article
>being this desperate for a couple of clicks.
kys
Levi Cox
>they're already taking Sup Forums's ideas and strategys
>your face on their big computer someday and you will be treated as some kind of senior agent despite zero training in central intelligence work
w-what timeline is this? i-i-im literally shaking right now
Sebastian White
Quality post
Julian Scott
where do I sign up?
I have a phd in this shit
Benjamin Reed
How the fuck does a bathroom door have moments of insight you retard?
I was on mobile and it's annoying to do it. I don't write for fucking motherboard you syrup nigger.
Joshua Diaz
Witnessed.
Honestly though, I believe you.
Robert Parker
The next generation of shills is already here, bros. And they're evolving fast
Justin Butler
You got Sup Forums to respond about a Vice article. Nice work!
Adam Sanders
It's nearly impossible to catch somebody writing something on a bathroom stall door. It's the one place outside the internet people are the most frank and honest. The vast majority of people that write on bathroom doors are user.
The bathroom stall door was the predecessor to Sup Forums.
To be honest they need to establish a Federal Dept. of Memes
Benjamin Mitchell
>ruined
user if they start fighting with memes we've won That's all that matters. They'll finally recognize the Meme war. It's literally happening.
Anthony Butler
Sorry guy but you aren't seeing the endgame here. Even just for this year. 2017 is the year of Jewpremacy.
Connor Myers
yeah honestly I mighta enlisted had I known this was going to be an opening field. I shitpost for free, when I could be getting gibmedats
Jason Anderson
Kek was not the first. Other, older expressions of Me-me as divine exist as far back as Sumeria and the deity Enki. Still more ancient, preliterate memes doubtless lurk in cave paintings, forever meaningless without context.
If you can wake one sleeping god, why not another?
Aiden James
Under rated and truthful.
Julian Moore
> Meme warfare > Not understanding that the Nation/religion/ideology IS the meme > Not understanding why there are so many pseudo-racists, nationalist, authoritarian, rationalists kicking around > Structure has been compromised
What are they fighting for? What is there to meme?
All we are seeing is the implosion of the Californian empire and its retarded ideology of vapid consumerism and psychosis-as-culture.
Julian Baker
No good men will be in control of these memes. This is not a question of should but should not. If the means to make memes gets out they, who I will refrain from speaking off, will abuse their power. This is not just Hiroshima. A few hundred thousand casualties of memetic warfare. This an entire change to the battle field. We simply cannot allow this. Memes are not weapons of lords bit common men. We have our fire, do not let them take it from us.
Grayson Wright
Not gonna lie, former Trump voter here and it's hilarious watching him crash and burn but seriously we can't let this guy get the nuclear codes.
Luke Scott
The government is paying some lazy bastard right now to roll for digits over and over
Cooper Moore
They're probably developing technology to make unholy gets.
Isaac Morgan
Someone is paying the guy who posted above you to do that, too.
Nathan Thomas
With a picture like that, you could be farming for (You)s and finding expert digit rollers to recruit.
Machine and Ruins
Levi Mitchell
KEK
Levi Robinson
this guy gets it
>Wars are won and lost in peoples minds. >The US spends a SHITTON on propaganda and propaganda research. nonsense and all useless. check 5:25 youtube.com/watch?v=I-eVbJbgUpE
doc related is also the reason why if US decides to go to war with Iran they will lose badly, this generation doesn't take things seriously. propaganda/memes won't help.
Carson Evans
The will of kek is strong with this post, giant mech battles are the way of the future
Christian Carter
yeah kojima is actually more brilliant than initially thought.
Jackson Rodriguez
KEK
Jordan Edwards
Yeah but you could apply to be the person who studies them and get payed. More money for the project brother More money for the project
Anthony Ward
Were memes a mistake?
Jaxson Diaz
I've memed so long I forgot who I was. What has happened to the world that the military is using memes
Wake me up
William Young
human is god tier orc a shit
Lincoln Reed
>memes funded by foreign governments They just don't get it do they. Meme-smiths can't be bought or paid for, no amount of cash will produce quality memes.
Grayson Reyes
It looks like they miss the the real power of memetics. It is chaos magic, not just fancy propaganda.
Shadilay, praise kek pbuh
Luke Cook
>If anal is anything like pooping, then I'm gay
Guess if I saw this on Sup Forums or in a bathroom stall
Ryder Clark
US goes to war with Iran. Iran nukes Israel. Israel nukes Iran. We Win.
Praise Kek (pbuh)
Carter Diaz
The future is going to be something like MGS x Deus Ex. Wew
Robert James
>vice
That's how you know this is horseshit
>foreign governments
Lefty cunts still pushing their muh evil Russians memes
For the record, all the memes I created during the great meme war were done for free.
Oliver Flores
No it's not. It's just another form of advertising, no magic is involved
Memes operate on the same principals as advertising, and ads themselves are the original memes
Great advertising is truly the last form of true magic
Carson Martin
Die You Blasphemer. Your memes are nothing but jingles.
Praise Kek (pbuh)
Carter Foster
>being this cucked
Advertising is a meme, pleb. The old gods will have little patience for your foolish arrogance.
Jason Gutierrez
I remember joking about it a few years ago but fuck, this is actually becoming real. In 10 years or so memes will be a part of academic discourse, like literature.
>mfw all of us here will be tenured professors of meme studies or government contracted meme consultants with seven figure salaries >mfw my vintage collection of 2008 Sup Forums reaction images will go for thousands of dollars in private auctions
