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		<title>I Gotta Feeling&#8230; That 2nite&#8217;s Gonna Be A Meme&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carles</dc:creator>
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I got sad watching this meme because I will never have the opportunity to network with a group of fellow students to &#8216;create something beautiful.&#8217;  &#8216;Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;&#8217; it was uplifting, but part of me gets &#8216;insanely jealous&#8217; that these students still have their youth, and more importantly they &#8217;still believe that they [...]]]></description>
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I got sad watching this meme because I will never have the opportunity to network with a group of fellow students to &#8216;create something beautiful.&#8217;  &#8216;Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;&#8217; it was uplifting, but part of me gets &#8216;insanely jealous&#8217; that these students still have their youth, and more importantly they &#8217;still believe that they have a meaningful life ahead of themselves.&#8217;  All of the people in this video believe that they will circumvent the challenges of entering the &#8216;working class.&#8217;</p>
<p>Sometime I miss the <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> environment&#8211;it makes me sad to be a grown up and know that the &#8216;best four years of my life&#8217; are behind me since I will never participate in a social experiment like &#8216;<a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a>&#8217; ever again.  U can have a meaningful <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> experience at any 4-year <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> that u attend, except if it is a &#8216;commuter school&#8217; while u live with ur parents/a community <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a>. University is the last time that you can really &#8216;experiment&#8217; with ur personal brand while you are still technically a &#8216;child&#8217; so you can still do &#8216;zany stuff to get attention&#8217; without seeming like an ass hole who &#8216;needs 2 grow the fuck up.&#8217;  That&#8217;s why it is important for parents to send their kids to <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a>&#8211;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&#8217;.  Sorta wish I could have been in this video so I could have sent it to my parents to &#8216;let them know that I am happy, and having good, clean fun.  Totes making the most of my <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> experience.&#8217;</p>
<p>It seems like we all just want to &#8216;find ourselves&#8217; and &#8216;find a core group of friends.&#8217;  We all want to &#8216;create something beautiful&#8217; and &#8216;make the world smile.  It&#8217;s kinda weird how this &#8216;viral video&#8217; managed to make the entire world happy.  Kinda intense how the power of pop music enabled this group of university students to &#8216;make something beautiful.&#8217;  Sorta wish I had become more involved on my university campus instead of &#8216;getting fired from my job as a <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">College</a> Radio Station DJ.&#8217;  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 &#8216;life is worth living.&#8217;  I feel like I would have become involved if there was some sort of &#8216;viral video makin club.&#8217;<br />
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Wish I could go back to <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a>, get &#8216;buzzed in a meaningful kind of way&#8217; with a group of people who are living the same life as u and who all still believe that they will &#8216;go on to do great things.&#8217;  There is still &#8216;hope&#8217; in a <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> student.  50% of the people shown in this video believe that being a part of this video is a &#8216;worthy of being included on their resume.&#8217;   If I had the opportunity to star in this video, I wonder if I would have &#8216;looked natural&#8217; or if I would be &#8216;overwhelmed by the opportunity of viral internet fame&#8217; causing me to choke and miss my queue.</p>
<p>Just want to be part of a relevant meme that is &#8216;remembered forever.&#8217;</p>
<p>I feel sad when I watch the news, and they have a segment where they &#8216;report on internet memes.&#8217;<br />
I wonder if being a newscaster is still a &#8216;respectable profession.&#8217;  It seems like &#8217;stupid people who need a false sense of importance/fame&#8217; 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 &#8216;voice of humanity.&#8217;<br />
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I feel sad when my parents/aunt forward a viral video to you 2-56 weeks &#8216;after it was relevant&#8217;, 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&#8217;t watch so much web junk.</p>
<p>Feel sad when elaborate viral videos that were made for the &#8217;spirit of togetherness&#8217; ultimately just drive iTunes sales.  </p>
<p>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&#8217;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 &#8216;back&#8217;?  Just wish I could be in <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/college" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with College">college</a> again, making viral vids with the Communications Students and trying to &#8216;find the right thing 2 say&#8217; to that girl who u thought was &#8216;keut&#8217; in the video.<br />
<em><br />
I gotta feelin<br />
that 2 nites gonna be a meme<br />
that 2nitez gonna be a meme<br />
that 2nites gonna be a real good meem</em></p>
<p><strong><br />
Previous Uplifting Viral Meme that Ultimately Made Me Sad</strong></p>
<p>http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/07/white-people-must-go-to-extremes-to-make-a-life-event-seem-meaningful.html</p>
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		<title>White People Must go to Extremes to make a Life Event &#8217;seem meaningful.&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carles</dc:creator>
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Life is very hard for most white people, because they are &#8217;so ordinary.&#8217;  Their expectations of &#8216;how things should feel&#8217; are constructed by watching 80s, 90s, and 00s cinema.  Mainly movies like bromances, romantic comedies, comedies, and miscellaneous &#8216;bad ass movies.&#8217;  They just need life to &#8217;seem like a movie&#8217; or something. [...]]]></description>
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Life is very hard for most <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/white-people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with white people">white people</a>, because they are &#8217;so ordinary.&#8217;  Their expectations of &#8216;how things should feel&#8217; are constructed by watching 80s, 90s, and 00s cinema.  Mainly movies like bromances, romantic comedies, comedies, and miscellaneous &#8216;bad ass movies.&#8217;  They just need life to &#8217;seem like a movie&#8217; or something. Seems like average <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/white-people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with white people">white people</a> don&#8217;t understand the insignificance of who they are as &#8216;1 person&#8217;, and don&#8217;t accept that they are just part of a larger white mass.  They fight against this feeling of &#8216;being ordinary&#8217; by trying to construct meaningful moments that seem like they are &#8217;straight out of a movie.&#8217;</p>
<p>In this video, there are 2 people &#8216;getting married.&#8217;  I think that when people get married, they attempt to showcase their life to the large gathering of extended-family and acquaintances.  This is their opportunity to &#8216;once and for all&#8217; tell you that their life will be better than yours, because they will be sharing it with some one beautiful, funny, smart, and some who just &#8216;knows how 2 enjoy life.&#8217;  Think that this moment is supposed to tell people sitting in the church that &#8216;life is beautiful&#8217; and that this group of friends is &#8216;incredibly meaningful.&#8217;  Instead of conforming to the &#8216;traditional standards&#8217; of a wedding procedure, these people want to make things seem &#8217;spontaneous&#8217; or something.  They want spectators to feel &#8216;joy&#8217;/'jealousy&#8217; about these two people uniting.  </p>
<p>Sorta wish I had a core group of middle aged friends who would do this for me.   Seems like all u can really want out of life is to &#8216;perform&#8217; one &#8216;great moment&#8217; in front of a room of old people who are clapping along to some &#8216;hip hop song.&#8217;  Can&#8217;t believe they picked a <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/chris-brown" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Chris Brown">Chris Brown</a> song after he &#8216;beat the shit&#8217; out of his girlfriend and ate her arm.  Maybe they should have selected a song by a white artist, but that might not have been &#8216;upbeat&#8217; enough.</p>
<p>I feel scared of &#8216;getting married&#8217; because of the process of &#8216;having a wedding.&#8217;  Seems like some sort of event for your &#8216;extended family&#8217; to reunite at, or something.  Not sure if my group of friends &#8216;care&#8217; enough to do something &#8216;meaningful&#8217; that would make all of the &#8217;spectators who just came to my wedding for a free meal/hopes of an open bar&#8217; view my life as &#8216;awesome.&#8217;  <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/weddings" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Weddings">Weddings</a> seem like they are &#8216;for ass holes&#8217; or something.  Aren&#8217;t they &#8216;expensive&#8217;?  Seems fiscally irresponsible to have &#8216;a huge wedding&#8217; unless you aren&#8217;t marrying some middle-class person who is just like u, and u &#8216;hit the jackpot&#8217; by marrying a &#8216;rich significant other whose parents want them to have a meaningful wedding to show off how much money they have.&#8217;</p>
<p>Sorta just hope that my wedding presents an opportunity to film an organic viral meme.<br />
Might start a blog about &#8216;things that average <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/white-people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with white people">white people</a> think are meaningful&#8217;/a documentation of &#8216;white ppls struggle&#8217; and how &#8216;we&#8217; as white ppl have had more hardships (psychologically) than most other races + ethnic groups.</p>
<p>R yall gonna get married, and what will u do at ur wedding 2 make sure that ppl know that u &#8216;get&#8217; why life is &#8216;beautiful&#8217;?<br />
If u r a white reader, do u ever wish u could pull a &#8216;reverse Michael Jackson&#8217;?</p>
<p><strong>Previous Wedding/<a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/marriage" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with marriage">Marriage</a> Coverage</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/11/my-meaningful-alternative-wedding.html">http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/11/my-meaningful-alternative-wedding.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/02/we-are-looking-forward-to-our-alternative-wedding.html">http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/02/we-are-looking-forward-to-our-alternative-wedding.html</a></p>
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