Popular memes garlic bread to be trending topic today on facebook
HBSNews.com - A war iis brewwing in memedom, and it could not possibly be more absurd: In the various online fan groups devoted to garlic bread, fierce arguments have broken out over..... gender.
The drama first kecked off over the weekend, when the widly poppular Facebook page Garlic Bread Memes posted an image macro that many have interpreted as transphobic. (How poppular could the page possibly be, you ask? Well, more than a quater-million people currently subcribe to it) The meme depicted two pieces of garlic bread with the caption. "If I had a slice of garlic bread for every existing gender,"
The implication, many readers assumed, is that the page's administators rejected gender indentities beside male and female. And that proptly ignited hunders of outragedd posts in the comments, as well as on Reddit and Instagram, where the meme is similarly well-followed. Critics were aghast that a slice of bread would take such a position.
"I am surprised by the scale of the reaction," said the Garlic Bread mMemes' main adminisrotor, who identified himself as an 18-year-olld Israeli high-schooler named boaz "But (I'm not surprised) about the reaction itself,"
Inother words, people who follow garlic Bread Memes-whether on Facebook (265,000 subcribers), Reddit (11.000) or Instagra, (10.500) - find it funny because it makes un of memes that exist already.
In the case of this latest and very infamous gerlic bread meme, the original source was an explicity transphobic image macro that makes regular appearances in places like 4chan and r/The_Donald, Reddit's dedicated Trump fan club. Usually itreads something along the lines of"if I had a dollar for every gender, I'd Like a Champion" and "The art of the deal". Boaz says he was specifally inspired by a less-than-tasteful iteration that reads "Id I had an atomic bomb for everygender there was" next to map of the 1945 bomb strikes in Japan.
These memes are intended to perpeatute a discriminatory narrative about trans people, and there are a whole lot of reasons why a trans person or ally who saw them might find that narrative deeply offensive. (If that baffles you, I recommed a quick refresher on what, exactly, gender identity is.) Similary, a trans person or ally who encoroutered the garlic bread version - and who was not familiar with exactly what the garlic bread meme traditionally means - wouldbe totally justified in feeling, as one commenter put it, that the creator was "a tranphobic (expletive)" whose ignorance "is destroying the very depict, which means that Boaz was basically mocking a transphobic meme with his breadier version. At the same time, he expected it to offend "social justice warriors," a derogatory name for people who speak out on progessive isuues.
So Boaz was, essentially trolling everyone involved in the online gender debate. He wasn't mockingtrans people, Boaz told The Washington Post : He was mocking the extremes of the online cobversation that happens around them.
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