The Meme-ening
What… is… up, YouTube? It is Sunset Shimmer coming to you live from isolation. The walls are closing in, my patience is wearing thin, and the only thing keeping me from starting a prank war with Twilight is my crippling fear that she will go full mad scientist on me.
Today we’re going to be looking at some more memes because you junkies all liked your dopamine fix last time and I’m an enabler. But before we take the plunge into cheap laughs and my boredom-fueled attempts at standup, I’ve got a couple bits of housekeeping.
First, I heard some of you had problems with the video quality last time – memes uploading badly and not displaying properly. Meaning that I, your trusted purveyor of laughs, have failed to deliver on my promises of hilarity. For this grave sin, I can only say:
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
In the future I’ll try to be better about making sure they upload properly but, in case I miss something, I’ll link the memes in multiple ways and post the links in the description.
Second, I mentioned Twilight’s deep dive into philosophy last video. Well, that dive has gone so deep that she’s now looking to drag some of you under the surface with her, down into the depths of wisdom like some sort of scholarly siren.
*muffled outrage*
Speak up, Twilight. The mic can’t pick up your melodrama from the other room.
How am I the melodramatic one? You’re the one saying I’m going to drown people in knowledge!
Well, how would you characterize it?
I’m going to provide practical tips about applied philosophy in the hopes that people may find something truly edifying in the midst of this enforced downtime. After all, if we can’t change our circumstances, we can at least improve how we deal with them.
That good thinky job, friend. You do smart thing. Me talk memes now.
Oh, please! You’re as much an intellectual as I am!
Me not know what ant-lick-tool mean. Me talk memes now.
Ugh! You’re impossible!
And you make it too easy.
*unintelligible annoyance*
Would it make you feel better if I promised to post links to your videos when they come out?
… slightly.
Good. Twi friend happy now. Me talk memes.
*disgruntled muttering*
Heh heh! I am so going to pay for that later.
But, that’s future Sunset Shimmer’s problem! Let’s get this meme train a-rollin’! Choo Choo!
And we’re starting off strong with some good old Star Wars humor.
I’m actually pretty impressed with this meme. Solid shot of Darth Dad from the best Star Wars movie, undertones of dark humor without being overbearing, enough bullet points to make the joke without having so many that it becomes tired, and keeping a good black-and-white motif with background and lettering that match the Sith-Ski-Trip-to-Hoth picture.
My only real complaint is that it could stand to have a closing phrase to bring it home. As it stands, it just sorta drops off.
I don’t know. Small thing and maybe it’s just me. Still, 7 out of 10, would chuckle again.
Keeping with the movie theme, next up is Spider Man.
Heh heh. Yeah, it’s all fun and games until something reminds you of your mortality, isn’t it.
Sidebar that has nothing to do with Crappybeervirus: can we all take a moment to appreciate that Tom Holland is the best cinematic Peter Parker? And I say that even though I didn’t like Far From Home that much.
It wasn’t bad, I just didn’t think it was on Homecoming’s level. I didn’t really like Endgame either.
But, that’s just my opinion. Don’t start a… civil war in the comments section.
Eh? Eh? Get it… ’cause it’s… it’s a civil war… like the Marvel movie of the same name that…
…
I’ll show myself out.
*chair scraping*
Wait, I can’t go anywhere…
*reverse chair scraping*
I guess you’re stuck with me! Next meme!
Hah! Awesome! I wonder if that would hold up in court? I mean if you had the right—
… wait…
… I think I know that guy on the left…
Is that AJ’s Uncle Crabapple?
Hold on, I need to make a quick text…
…
While I’m making you wait, kind of a cool story I heard from one of my friends: apparently, there’s a distillery that’s making hand sanitizer and giving it out for free.
So that’s neat.
Anyway, next meme!
…
Okay, I could talk about how that’s kinda meta, given the content I’m producing here, but I’m more distracted by the fact that the metronome isn’t centered on the screen.
…
I’m gonna move on before Twilight wanders in and has an OCD fit.
*laughs*
Okay, gambling for toilet paper and hand-sanitizer. That’s pretty good.
You know, looking at this, I’m not sure if it’s staged or not.
Like, it’s probably staged, but I could honestly see it going either way.
Ah, well, it’s funny regardless.
Couple more and we’ll call it a day.
*chuckles*
Okay, so the hyperlink to this one looks like it's gonna give me problems, so I'll just read the text to be safe. It's a picture of a roll of toilet paper and it says, "If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14 day quarantine, you probably should've been seeing a doctor long before COVID-19."
Yeah, one my history profs has Crohn’s, so he actually needs toilet paper in bulk, and in one of his emails he said, “If any o’ ya’ll are the sons o’ guns buying up all the toilet paper every time I hit the stores, and I catch you doing it, I’ll fail you so hard even your science grades will drop.”
I don’t think he was kidding.
Either way folks, please don’t clear out the shelves. Other people need stuff too.
The country doesn’t have food shortages, or toilet paper shortages, or shortages of most basic household items. We just have people creating artificial scarcity by panicking.
Soap-box moment over. Last meme!
Okay, that’s pretty funny. I can’t say I’ve experienced this very often, primarily because Twilight is an awesome chef who finds cooking relaxing.
That and I’m the sort of person who feels zero shame about her best friend cooking most nights.
Maybe that makes me a bad person but, hey, I help with the groceries and it beats ramen cups.
However, there was one night where Twilight was too dog-tired to cook and she reeeeeaally wanted lasagna. And the last time I tried to make pasta I almost burnt the kitchen down. So we ordered out.
When the guy got here it turned into this weird prisoner-exchange-simulator. Twilight yelled “That’s far enough!” when he got within ten feet of the door, ordered him to open the box and “show her the goods,” then to “leave the box on the ground and back away slowly.” At which point she paid him on Paypal and sent him on his way.
I’ll be honest, I’m kinda disappointed she didn’t just yeet a roll of $5s at his head, but that probably wouldn’t have been very sanitary.
Anyway, friends, that’s it for today. Be sure to like, share, and subscribe. Slap that notification bell so you never miss an upload and let me know what else you’d like to see.
Stay sane and stay healthy! We meme again soon!
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I mean different chapters that showcase different videos the rest of the cast are making.
I could see Pinkie Pie making Mark River-esque videos about how she makes her party boxes work.
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In that case, yes, there will be other videos from other cast members. Sunset teased Twilight's in this chapter (Twi's will be less comedy and more life advice). Most of the others will be comedy too, but there may be some other things thrown into the mix.
Twilight is terribly easy to tease.
Only the penultimate image failed to go up, as you expected.
Delightful stuff throughout. I have to wonder if Fluttershy is just streaming soothing footage of cute animals... and how many times Zephyr Breeze has intruded on it.
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I didn't know about the turbo-encabulator before today. Now that you have so graciously educated me, I can only conclude that Twilight missed the satire and built a working one, thus defying both physics and comedy.
It's Meme Time
It's Meme Time
Gather all your friends, it's Meme Time
It's Meme Time
It's Meme Time
The only cure for sadness
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That's awesome and entirely appropriate for this content. Thank you for brightening my day.
Sunset/Antiquarian, you HERETIC (?)
Gotta agree on Tom Holland being the best Peter Parker/Spider-Man, though.
And the non-centered metronome is driving me fucking nuts.
I'm enjoying this format so far! Really looking forward to what you come up with for the other characters!
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Sunset happens to think that there were a lot of plot holes and that some characters really got shafted (especially Starlord). She thinks Tony and Cap were well handled, but the rest of the movie didn't really do it for her. As to whether or not her views align with mine... I plead the Fifth.
Are you continuing to take media/meme submissions for future chapters?
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Actually, up to this point I've just been hunting stuff down myself, partially because (though it doesn't look like it) there's a deliberateness to the memes I pick - they're to set up for future... I hesitate to say 'plot points', but 'story events' would probably work. If you've got something funny, feel free to PM me with the link; I just may not use it if it doesn't fit the tone of that chapter. I also won't use anything that would exceed the story's filter or that I can't think of something funny to say about it.
The fun continues, and I am enjoying it a lot. XD
Even if I got quite distracted by Sunset stating that she didn't like Far From Home that much. That's the movie that made me finally buy Tom Holland as Spider-Man! XD
This is pretty fun, and a big improvement over the last chapter! I really like the banter between Sunset and Twilight, and the specific talk about the cast, since the meme review themselves mostly feel like you (the author) are reviewing the memes, as opposed to Sunset herself.
Still fun though, I'm looking forward to whatever comes next
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Thank you. In future chapters, I'll be spending a lot more time on the banter and such, since that's more of the characterization I'm looking for. This format is an interesting challenge for me to write in - conveying characterization from this one-off perspective without it just being me using the character as a mouthpiece is oddly difficult at times, but I'm having fun figuring it out. Hope you continue to enjoy!
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I'm looking forward to it!
This was fun! I'm glad I waited until there were some more chapters to read. It was good to see Twilight too, though her text was a little hard to tell was hers at first. In the future, one of the good ways to distinguish dialogue in stories with unconventional formatting is to use colored text. The laid back feeling you give Sunset's reviews here feel a lot like Ty Turner's meme reviews, both in the meme selection (they're all pretty wholesome or concentrated around a single topic) and the friend-of-everyone tone and chill Sunny has.
...then again, I don't usually watch too many meme reviews. Maybe my pool to judge from is just really small.
This is awesome! I love how random people have used the isolation to try, and in many cases succeed, at new skills. You captured that perfectly here.
The upside to your marking this story complete is that now I know about it.
It's missing "Throws evil autocratic politicians into giant chasms."