I got sad watching this meme because I will never have the opportunity to network with a group of fellow students to ‘create something beautiful.’ ‘Don’t get me wrong…’ it was uplifting, but part of me gets ‘insanely jealous’ that these students still have their youth, and more importantly they ’still believe that they have a meaningful life ahead of themselves.’ All of the people in this video believe that they will circumvent the challenges of entering the ‘working class.’
Sometime I miss the college environment–it makes me sad to be a grown up and know that the ‘best four years of my life’ are behind me since I will never participate in a social experiment like ‘college’ ever again. U can have a meaningful college experience at any 4-year college that u attend, except if it is a ‘commuter school’ while u live with ur parents/a community college. University is the last time that you can really ‘experiment’ with ur personal brand while you are still technically a ‘child’ so you can still do ‘zany stuff to get attention’ without seeming like an ass hole who ‘needs 2 grow the fuck up.’ That’s why it is important for parents to send their kids to college–not to learn a functional skill, but so that they will have 4 chill years where they got to exist in the last meaningful social context of their lives’. Sorta wish I could have been in this video so I could have sent it to my parents to ‘let them know that I am happy, and having good, clean fun. Totes making the most of my college experience.’
It seems like we all just want to ‘find ourselves’ and ‘find a core group of friends.’ We all want to ‘create something beautiful’ and ‘make the world smile. It’s kinda weird how this ‘viral video’ managed to make the entire world happy. Kinda intense how the power of pop music enabled this group of university students to ‘make something beautiful.’ Sorta wish I had become more involved on my university campus instead of ‘getting fired from my job as a College Radio Station DJ.’ Feel like if I had gone to this University in the radical part of Canada (Quebec), then maybe I would have found more ppl like me to remind me that ‘life is worth living.’ I feel like I would have become involved if there was some sort of ‘viral video makin club.’
Wish I could go back to college, get ‘buzzed in a meaningful kind of way’ with a group of people who are living the same life as u and who all still believe that they will ‘go on to do great things.’ There is still ‘hope’ in a college student. 50% of the people shown in this video believe that being a part of this video is a ‘worthy of being included on their resume.’ If I had the opportunity to star in this video, I wonder if I would have ‘looked natural’ or if I would be ‘overwhelmed by the opportunity of viral internet fame’ causing me to choke and miss my queue.
Just want to be part of a relevant meme that is ‘remembered forever.’
I feel sad when I watch the news, and they have a segment where they ‘report on internet memes.’
I wonder if being a newscaster is still a ‘respectable profession.’ It seems like ’stupid people who need a false sense of importance/fame’ would want to be a newscaster. Feel sad for local news ppl and off-peak hour 24 hour news bros. I feel like they are trying to hard to be some sort of ‘voice of humanity.’
I feel sad when my parents/aunt forward a viral video to you 2-56 weeks ‘after it was relevant’, and their sense of delight in the opportunity to share makes u feel ashamed of ur position on the front lines of modern internet culture. It makes me want to stop paying my youtube bill so that I won’t watch so much web junk.
Feel sad when elaborate viral videos that were made for the ’spirit of togetherness’ ultimately just drive iTunes sales.
Really bummed out. Seems like I am such a spectator and I am not doing anything to make more memes that inspire the world. Even if I made art/memes, it doesn’t even matter since people would just watch them, link them, then forget about me. I want to make something that lasts forever. What if the internet stops working? Will books + film be ‘back’? Just wish I could be in college again, making viral vids with the Communications Students and trying to ‘find the right thing 2 say’ to that girl who u thought was ‘keut’ in the video.
I gotta feelin
that 2 nites gonna be a meme
that 2nitez gonna be a meme
that 2nites gonna be a real good meem
Previous Uplifting Viral Meme that Ultimately Made Me Sad
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/07/white-people-must-go-to-extremes-to-make-a-life-event-seem-meaningful.html
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Post alt butts
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“meme” is the new “information superhighway” (via mondo 2000).
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wish i was a closet college bro that wore
saddals errday.
just 2 holla at soroar bitches
shout out to the westbank yamika boyz
moz
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tav
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CHBBY GRL KRTWHEEL FTW :38
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i go to a large university in an authentic city, but I really haven’t made any friends there, so no core group of college bros
all of my friends I have now I knew when I was high school age as most of them also migrated to the closest authentic city
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‘Sweet’ post.
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I bet the bro dressed as a woman is a real class clown. there must have been several high fives after the video was done.
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yo is this the new trailer for “where the wild things are”
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imeem
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Only in Canada.
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11st
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NNNNNEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDSSSSS!!!
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hey carles cheer up ur entire life is ahead of u if u stay off the bad drugs from now on unless its just at music festivals or rlly good parties with ur closest friends and a few new ones
that goes for yall as well
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wish oprah would have been mentioned
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I tried to make a similar video 2 years ago but since I go to a Community College everyone was sad looking, old, and fat… Everyone really likes The BEP’s they just did not like Re-mixes. The Ethnic folks at the CC were not into hip things. I got halfway done then I felt sad so I threw the VHS tape away :(
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any stanford brosy/hoesies here?
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@ first video
school for ugliezzz?
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o look no cut video actors shooting singing nerd pros
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gordons gin, tequilaz, and flavo vodka shots in student union make this college experience seem way more authentic. why am i even enrolled in this shitty commuter college? want to go to school with campus in urban setting. these people seem so in touch with themselves. can u imagine being in a club n hearing a dj drop this tune? gives me the tingles.
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GR8 P0ST CRLS. S000 GLAD IM IN COLLEGE
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They are from MTL, from UQAM Univ.
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oh carles, you speak the truth. i’m just waiting for that cutoff point when ppl stop being “recent college gradz” and begin to maybe grow up. 2 years after graduation? discuss.
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too bad i’m in a community college, where there’s zero campus life and nobody gives a fuck about you. FML
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//////////Reply by levo
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
@steve, I think you are on the wrong blog…
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//////////Reply by house dressing
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
@levo, wow thats some harsh judgement coming from a guy who has no understanding of steve’s socioeconomic background…i guess to you being ‘alt’ has only to do with circumstance. shallow….
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//////////Reply by Dr. Yo
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 11:04 pm
@house dressing, SHALLOW?
’still believe that they have a meaningful life ahead of themselves.’
fuck.
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is the whole concept of needing a ‘meaningful life’ a meme in itself?
whoever said life had to be meaningful? isn’t meaning just whatever value we attach to our perceptions of the present moment, despite their inevitable change?
seems pretty ‘wack’ to me to get wrapped up in ‘man’s search for meaning’ [via needing a reason not to 'off myself']
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@mishimabro, im with u bro. except life is meaningful.
‘praise jesus/allah/cartoons of mahummad’.
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//////////Reply by remixes are better
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
@mishimabro, like what you said. life isn’t meaningful. carles, you will be remembered for approximately 1,400 blog years after your last post. relatively long for today’s standards.
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grose
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<3 college
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“you’ve gotta love a song with ‘mazel tov’ in it”
too true mr. reporter man, too true.
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rly don’t like thinking about the ‘premiere’ of that vid, all of them in 1 gymnasium cackling and screamin’ out (”OHHHHHHHH”/high fives) and everyone cheering 4 themselves at the end, but maybe that’s saying something about me (that i’m hateful).
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It makes me sad too Carles, I wish I could find fucking awful B.E.P songs to be meaningful and join in with everyone having a meaningful time dancing and singing it. BUT I have to spend my time looking on the internet for meaning in obscure alt tracks to inflate my own ego. Sometimes I wish I was more mainstream. Sucks.
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//////////Reply by house dressing
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
@yet, so true bro. i admit that i enjoy the song though…but the BEP’s are still really shitty…i just tell myself that shitty mainstream artists are thrown a good tune every now and then and that i can’t hate myself for appreciating the small amount of decent shit that exists in mainstream society.
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sry but, ‘meaningful life’ doesn’t exist in music vids.
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I feel sad when my HRO/carlesforward a viral video to you 2-56 weeks ‘after it was relevant’
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but maybe that’s because I live in Montreal and these assholes have been all over the news a few weeks ago.
damn.
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//////////Reply by yayayay
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
@bro, u r sew alt
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I think the answer is to create your own art.
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//////////Reply by spacebrain
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
@RJC, breaking buzzband “be ur own art”
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
@spacebrain, be ur own pet
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//////////Reply by spacebrain
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
@bbbbb, will u be my pet
//////////Reply by kim jong kill
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@bbbbb, i b ur pet after i fuck ur mom deep in the asshole.
that was fucking stupid I hate college
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thot i spotted dat asher roth bro in that vid
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h8 commuter college
i went to a pretty nerdy/male computer sciency school (not a cs major) bcuz they gave me a free ride, and then when i lost my scholarship i moved back home and attended a commuter college. even tho the student body here is 51% babes, there is no real school party scene outside of greek life so thers not as much fun times 2 b had
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//////////Reply by chester
//////////Posted September 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
@chester,
@ “living on campus” college the social scene on requires u 2 b able 2 show up and drink other ppls beer, here u gotta have a job 2 have a life
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FUCK
SUM OF MY FRIENDS ARE IN THE VID
think they have more fun/meaningful studies than me.
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i m not a meme
sad
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Too bad college is also the place for people to ‘find their emotional and psychological problems.’ Not sure if ‘going nuts’ is caused by intense small libby arts environment or jus ‘growin up.’
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time for a crls video meme?
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i’m sick of college. feel like every1 here is too busy developing their personal brands to actually be authentic. can’t wait till may 2k10.
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actually, I think enjoy my life a lot more after leaving that “false sense of hope” that you call college in your post. life is better after, and I really don’t miss it, but I appreciate the experience. I would hate to feel like I need to be missing out on something I was already a part of, I feel like people that fall into that feeling have lost their sense of imagination.
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i love reading comments on yewtewbies.
‘Thank you so much for this video. It gave me the best feeling to see all those ppl loving life. I can’t wait to do my grad studies in Quebec! Thanks for the smiles :) BRILLIANT job! You ROCK!!!’
jelis cuz im here ‘h8ing life’.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 am
@riiiiot, lol ys
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pop culture’s russian ark
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//////////Reply by fernando
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 12:53 am
@fernando, i’m still watching it, have done it many times, i quite like it.
carles, although i think you raise important points on individual’s sense of relevancy you fail to place them in the context of a capitalist society that promotes youth.
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//////////Reply by spacebrain
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 9:51 am
@fernando, yes
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Sum hawt alts up in there, think i might hav 2 go there
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More and more and more you depress the shit out of me.
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//////////Reply by skybeard
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:15 am
@sad now thanks.,
get used to it. heavy facts of life, bro.
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True sweet words. College was good and I’m still feelin it. Only now I got the cashflow as well.
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//////////Reply by spacebrain
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 9:51 am
@Delicious, tell us more about urself
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carles,
the “BBC writes shitty blurb about Neon Indian” link was actually a Guardian article about Neon Indian. two entirely different entities, buddy.
also, kind of sickening to see the Guardian using your term, “chillwave,” non-ironically.
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yeah, fuck newscasters. my ex-girlfriend is one, and she is really just a failed actress/girl who needs a lot of attention. I feel like my chosen profession (”information professional”) is a lot more auth and lets me surf discogs.com and mp3 blogs while I’m “writing a report”.
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carles.just bury this post already.
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Feel proud to be a French Canadian from Montreal now. Thanks Carles.
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I was jealous of the video until i saw that theyre from Quebec…. lol. not any more. AMERICA FUCKYA!
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omg this is from my home city montreal, quebec! so so sorry for this, guys. The good thing about that campus, thought is that it’s right in the middle of the city’s red light district, so this is where, in my alt tween and teens days, we would find ’stuff to smoke’ so that we would feel even more alt
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thats why you gotta do what i did, and spend your 18-21 fucking around having a good time, and then decide to go to college late so you can be older than everyone and fuck all the hot girls
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ZOMGGGZZZ!!! I’m on Hipster Runoffs! I’ve finally “made it”. [via utubezdotcom]
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makes me want 2 b in college so bad :(
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college musical
we’re all in this together v 2.0
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Jesus Christ Canadians are lame!
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Romanticism > Postmodernism
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Man you are all just haters…But this must be important enough for you all to comment on it, so stop hating! Enjoy others
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This has to be my fav post of all time for some reason
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