The Memes of the Week: August 5th, 2019

This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. Yes, it is time again for the Memes of the Week.

Coming off a brutal weekend that had two mass shootings, Twitter feverishly rallied around 30-50 Feral Hogs in one of the best collective meme days in recent memory. Then, Pokémon turned Weezing into Doug Dimmadome (owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome), gamers rose up to defend their passion, and a dude in a green shirt laughing at a Trump supporter became a brief hero of the timeline. This week desperately needed good memes, and the internet delivered.

30-50 Feral Hogs

Occasionally, a beautiful thing will happen on Twitter where the entire timeline rallies around one beautifully bad tweet and fires off hundreds of terrific jokes, leading to a shooting star effect where a meme burns brightly and awesomely for a short while before quickly flaming out. On Monday, following two consecutive days of devastating mass shootings, a conservative defended his right to own assault rifles by stating that he would need them to combat the "30-50 feral hogs" that surround his children "3-5 minutes" after they go out to play.

The tweet is the platonic ideal of a Twitter meme, as Twitter users latched on to the bizarre counterpoint and loved the phrase "30-50 feral hogs," which is the "cellar door" of Twitter phrases. What followed was one of the best days on Twitter in recent memory, as the site was flooded with incredible jokes about 30-50 Feral Hogs, many of which took the form of song parodies. I've had "I would kill 50 Feral Hogs / and I would kill 30-50 more / just to be the man who killed a hundred hogs now lain dead on my floor" stuck in my head all week.

Where Y'all Sitting

Fandom Twitter began participating in yet another "choose your fav"-type game this week in the Where Y'all Sitting meme, which puts members of a certain subculture at tables in a cafeteria and asks that subculture's fans where they'd sit. Like most fandom memes, it started in the K-Pop fandom and soon spread to hyper-specific subcultures like underground emo, Disney Channel original movies, and Hot Ones guests. As far as fandom memes go, it's not the most original, but it is an entertaining new spin on the endless fan debate games.

#VideoGamesAreNotToBlame

After the two mass shootings over the weekend, a familiar fuddy-duddy talking point blaming violence on video games was yet again trotted out into the national discourse, this time by the President, who apparently has never played Journey. This led to gamers rising up and starting the hashtag "#VideoGamesAreNotToBlame," which mocked the idea that video games directly cause mass shootings. Many of the posts shared memes showing the absurdity of imagining, say, Candy Crush leading to the mass murder of dozens. There is certainly a root cause to mass shootings to be addressed, but most sane people can agree that video games are not the problem.

Green Shirt Guy

On Tuesday, a video of a Trump supporter interrupting a Tuscon, Arizona meeting on becoming a sanctuary city went viral thanks to a dude in a green shirt just cracking the eff up at the impotent rage of the protestor.

The green-shirted chortler quickly became a hero for people exasperated with the state of America's political discourse. The man, Alex Kack, later reported he was at the event to defend Tuscon becoming a sanctuary city for immigrants. Here's hoping he's not milkshake ducked!

Galarian Weezing

A Pokémon trailer is always a goldmine for memes, and the Pokémon team outdid themselves this week with Galarian Weezing, a Weezing variant that appears to be just Weezing with a giant frickin top hat.

The Pokémon has a similar flair as Sun and Moon_'s Alolan Exeggutor, which also became a Very Long Boy in those games. Fans were quick to point out that Weezing resembled Doug Dimmadone (owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome) from "_The Fairly Oddparents":/memes/subcultures/the-fairly-oddparents, and well, take a look for yourself: