• papalonian@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      What about this is boomer slop? It’s a little “enlightened centrist” (if you conflate liberals with the left, which let’s not get started), sure, but most boomers are depicted on the right panel, and at least 2 of the 3 background images are old memes so not slop

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        It isn’t centristic at all. It’s boomer slop because this meme style is the exact same stuff you’d find on a boomer facebook group or something. Especially with the angry woke SJW stereotype picture.

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          Agree to disagree I suppose. When I think of “boomer Facebook group” I don’t think of them casually criticizing the police state or militaristic profiteering, and when I think of “slop” I think of things that are lazily generated by AI.

          I don’t see how you can say it isn’t at least trying to be a centrist meme when “liberals think x, conservatives think y, they’re both wrong and I’m a genius because I think z” is the oldest centrist meme template in the book

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            “The imperial core shouldn’t be getting any treats paid for by war crimes” is a pretty leftist take though, not a centrist one. I would imagine a centrist being more like “We should distribute money between those two while continuing to do war crimes.”.

            I agree with your first paragraph as well, I’m just talking about the meme’s style. Slop doesn’t really need to be AI, just has to be really low quality.