Aidan Walker

or maybe im delulu. idk

Thank you so much!! Means a lot to hear, and you give me hope as well

was this how y'all felt about obama? like for real... the feeling that we're in the story, rather than at its end or epilogue. people who look like me and friends I love fist-bumping, hugging, walking proud in the streets, all kinds. got me libbed out heavy
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YouTube video by The Back Room with Andy Ostroy Aidan Walker on Bill Maher, Memes and More!

Watch the full video with @aidanwalker.bsky.social in THE BACK ROOM. We talk Bill Maher, memes and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnT0...

I meant it more rhetorically, i didnt do any specific study! But it’s based off an essay adam aleksic wrote on substack where he delved into the phenomenon and classified reels

Did you catch his epic appearance recently on Real Time with Bill Maher? Writer, creator and internet culture researcher @aidanwalker.bsky.social's in THE BACK ROOM talking memes, Maher and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

@harpers.bsky.social a question

i am going to write a letter to the editor of Harper’s magazine about Gooning

last winter: eye of rah, bought a property in egypt, chopped chin

this summer; eeffoc, adrian, barbershop haircut, etc.

now: burger in vegas.

i hazard the prediction that we’ll see new standard collage elements emerge to go with that burger clip, seems to be how these edit trends work

the last time i wrote about gooning — spring of 2024. On a rainy afternoon in richmond, VA visiting a friend. Was on a deadline to get an explainer for the term “gooncave” posted to know your meme dot com by 5:30 pm. remember eating chicken tikka masala later that night. core memory.

have consulted the group chat and it looks like i gotta write something about gooning because print media has gotten a piece of story very well, but the depths still demand to be plumbed

one cause of the bothsidesism we still see, even today, is the left isn’t really foreign to the center like the right is.

when they get mild opposition from the left it hurts more because it’s in a language they understand, from the kind of people they respect, so it leaves a deeper impression

Vote on Today's Poll: https://www.smerconish.com/daily-poll/ Subscribe to The Smerconish.com Daily Newsletter: https://loom.ly/8oqcf-0 Are the Kids Alright? Aidan Walker joins The Mingle Project with Michael Smerconish (Ep 5)

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the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

and then i went home. the whole thing feels like a fever dream as i remember it now. whenever you see a swan, particularly when you do not expect to see one, it is some kind of sign from the universe. what it portends we cannot often know. and that, my friends, may be the point

now, one swan already — a big deal! but then, from the other side of the bridge’s great feet sunk in the flowing water, i saw three more emerge! Four swans! I was essentially blackout at the time. I gripped the stone bannister, gleeful

one night, while on a stroll, when i lived in paris, i observed a swan swimming in the river at night. it was a cold fall night. i was alone — always a beautiful feeling to find yourself, for just a second, alone in a big city.

nothing like looking at moving water while one is melancholy. this is what it’s all about, a good feeling

Meme Expert Aidan Walker Gives Brutal Brushback To Bill Maher Over Transgender Kids Rant Bill Maher got defensive when young guest Aidan Walker issued a brutal rejoinder to his pointed interrogation about transgender acceptance in schools.

yes bestie it went weird but good?

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chat, i have negative canthal tilt

Phrenology reply guy on twitter looked at my head shape when i was on bill maher and really went “physiognomy check failed, not listening to a word he’ll say”

internet is a great place

it is all about the simple joys: herringbone sidewalks paved with brick, the smell of wood fire, the precisely-chosen typeface on an esoteric shitpost

thank you so much!

Isaac Chotiner is an american hero

memory is a contest why memes matter, especially now

memory is a contest -- rambles about the difficulty of internet archival work and the deficiency of progress narratives to explain history open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social

Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post | KQED What is a “groyper?” The term began trending on Google in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk, the right-wing podcaster and Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot last Wednesday during...

we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent

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thank you Jake! hope you are well

YouTube video by Aidan Walker the assassination was a s**tpost

here it is on YouTube:
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