Me: This is just clickbait from a week ago. Me to Me: Make an FPP!

November 30, 2016 5:00 PM

Evil Kermit: The Perfect Meme For Our Terrible Times. More Evil Kermit Memes Not related to Bert is Evil.
posted by Mchelly (14 comments total)

Me: this seems a little thin, flag it and move on
Me to me: leave a snarky comment instead
posted by not the fingers, not the fingers at 5:14 PM on November 30, 2016 [28 favorites]

One of those links is to Cosmopolitan, of all places...

...but that's none of my business. ☕️🐸
posted by azpenguin at 5:27 PM on November 30, 2016 [12 favorites]

Ha! My daughter showed me these, like, a week and a half ago. I've got an EDGE.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 5:38 PM on November 30, 2016 [5 favorites]

Internet, you are bad and should feel bad.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:39 PM on November 30, 2016

Me: Some of these are sort of funny.
Me to me: Post a three paragraph rant about how this will end up being used by racist idiots, just like the Kermit Lipton meme, and how Jim Henson would be made sick to see his character used in such a way.
posted by codacorolla at 6:07 PM on November 30, 2016 [5 favorites]

Lipton Kermit meme acquired the phrase "... but that's none of my business." Which made a perfect match for people who really wanted to voice their crap opinions on things that are none of their business.

This one is more about the internal struggle to do good in face of temptation to do evil, which I don't think is something racist meme-makers can identify with.
posted by RobotHero at 7:00 PM on November 30, 2016 [6 favorites]

RobotHero is right on. Appropriation has limits. Like republican stand-up. Now...what can be done about the senseless Pepe casualty?
posted by lazycomputerkids at 7:18 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

As the Lipton meme has gotten older, I have noticed that people are now cramming whole paragraphs of their political opinions in the upper half. But that, indeed, is none of my business.

This one's still enough to make me smile, at least until the pepe people ruin it the way they ruin everything.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:29 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

This one is pretty good.
posted by EarBucket at 7:43 PM on November 30, 2016 [4 favorites]

This one is pretty good.

If you're appropriating Kermit for a partisan argument, it is.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 8:05 PM on November 30, 2016

me, an evil kermit: *flatulence*
posted by fleacircus at 10:25 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

The Trump one does show I may have underestimated how far the meme could mutate. I had only seen the "me to me" versions which requires you're talking about your own thoughts.
posted by RobotHero at 2:51 PM on December 1, 2016

Is this the next iteration of that "Tea Lizard" that the kids were all excited about? They were talking about it on Good Morning America a few months ago...
posted by theorique at 6:26 PM on December 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Jim Henson would be made sick to see his character used in such a way

Me: The Muppets were hugely important to your childhood so it's always going to be too soon to make a Jim Henson illness joke.

Me to me: Is it?
posted by MCMikeNamara at 8:34 PM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]