Instead of photos with jokey captions, these pages burst with shitposts clashing familiar photos and drawings with one another, text with zany typefaces, exaggerated color palettes, and messages speaking to the hazy lyrics of Cocteau Twins or the temptations of Super Mario 64.Ī post shared by kate bush 420 ♫♪ meme pages can be great outlets for users still figuring out their identities, Instagram itself hasn’t always been a safe space.
Yet they’ve crafted an online subculture built on riffing on and combining existing meme formats to create something wholly new. Yet the most interesting meme pages are nothing like those glossy moneymakers: They aren’t verified, don’t post as consistently, and have far fewer followers (at most hundreds of thousands, but more often half that). Both the pages and their owners have scored online fame, profiles in major publications, ad sponsorship, and even TV recognition. The biggest and longest-lasting of such accounts- most notoriously, Fuckjerry-have spent years churning out text-based images, both stolen and original, to their millions of followers. A post shared by ʙᴏɴɢ pages aren’t new, of course.
