Endless Thread - Coming October 1st... MEMES!

Episode Date: September 23, 2021

On October 1st, Endless Thread is back. We're kicking things off with a deep exploration into something that has changed lives, politics, and the way we interact online and IRL... memes!

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Catapulted my black ass into orbit. Fast. Already, over 5 million people have viewed it. Overnight, I became famous. And my brain is just like, pooh. A lot of the stories behind pop culture. My famous meme picture is Bad Luck Brian. The overly attached girlfriend.

Scumbag Steve. Luke Crywalker. And I'm also the disaster girl meme. Big Man Tarun, the king of the internet. It just was called woman yelling at cat. Get misunderstood or twisted, or just, We're just lost. I was like, just literally wanted to disappear.

Because I was like, oh, this is something I haven't really talked about. This could get me killed. You know, this is not just reality, TV, drama. This is my real life. It's such a fundamental misreading of the character that that appalls me. I was like, oh, but I'm famous when I was like eight or ten. Don't feel bad for me. All right? You're not going to make us look like assholes, right?

Endless thread is back. Kicking off our new season of episodes with a deep. deep exploration of something that has changed lives, politics, and the way we interact online and IRL. Memes. Wow. That sounds like a lot of fun. We're doing it for the noobs.

And the meme lords. And we're looking at the whole spectrum. From the esoteric... Kind of hidden in the corner is a little drawing. And under it says Kilroy was here. To the inescapable. Because I am the Rick and Rick Rowling, so that is a bit weird. This season, we're diving deep into a weird, wide.

world made possible by the World Wide Web, and we're telling the untold histories of the countless images that we use to crack jokes. Hack elections and share the simple, surprisingly deep truths about human connection and our modern existence. From their lips, to your ears. Endless Threads meme season, dropping October 1st. If you don't subscribe, you know what I'm going to do.

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