Can our Late-Night hosts pull the fangs of the Facebook beast with this meme?
Like many people, I look to the lineup of late night comedy/variety shows and their hosts to provide much-needed laughs, commentary and perspective.
I am grateful to all those folks, their writers, their production teams and their networks for ongoing efforts to find creative ways to keep that content coming even when they don't have access to the studios and the audiences. MUCH thanks, all of you.
And I am VERY grateful to the DUers who conscientiously post links and videos to the V&M forum so I can start my morning with a little dose of wry chuckling and helpful context. You know who you are. Your contribution does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. Special thanks for posting stuff from Sam Bee, from Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and their teams. Y'all rock. Having those posts available here means a lot to me and the DH.
So this morning, I was watching Colbert's latest post, and something struck me...
I didn't notice it the first time, but the second time, my ears pricked. Can't remember the exact wording, but it was meme-ish, and to the effect of asserting something patently ridiculous and then solemnly attributing it to Facebook.
Just tucked in there, unobtrusive but effective. And, as I said, meme-like.
I suspect we're seeing the long-tail beginning of what might become a much bigger and quite effective takedown of Facebook as any kind of information source, pounding away at making its irrelevance, inaccuracy, stupidity, pandering to the lowest whatever, clickbaity, trollery obvious to everyone via meme-ification.
Of course, everyone knows that no one pays attention to stupid stuff they find on the Internet. I saw that on Facebook.
slyly,
Bright